My London: Notting Hill residents paint houses black to put off 'rude' influencers.
Johnny Nice Painter out off of The fast Show having one of his episodes triggered by the colour black.
JOHNNY.
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Strongly Team ETTA, and often very early because I'll factor in the threat of public transport cancellations. This is what lounge access is for, relaxing with a drink knowing you're not going to have to run for a gate or miss your flight entirely...
Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz
In the market for eating and drinking tips for Köln / Cologne, if anyone should have any experience of the city they would like to share! Intend to drink more than my fair share of Kölsch while there...
My wife grew up in Santa Clara, a host city. Family still in that part of the world. For years we had planned to go for the World Cup this summer, to be part of it, experience the magic. But we're not going, and this piece pretty much sums up why...
The reporter in me is definitely saying bag the picture first, then drop the whole 'off you pop' thing...
An advert from the latest issue for "The Bootleg Betjeman" - The UK's foremost poet laureate tribute act. With special guest support from "Fraud Byron"
From the latest issue (sorry no refunds). shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs
As hoped, this week's @folkestonedispatch.substack.com is flying in terms of readers already this morning. I'd been trying for this interview and a look inside a treasured community asset for some time, so it's rewarding to see it going well
In this week's newsletter we go inside the Folkestone Sports Centre to hear about progress towards reopening this summer - and see the recent shocking damage done by trespassers...
Sunshine of the last few days banished, slight chill in the air, must mean I'm off to watch county championship cricket. Ah, the good old 'summer' game...
Goodbye, Lenin! remake but it's just using twitter dot com and Times columns to convince Westminster right wingers the Tory party is still alive.
🏆 In this week's newsletter @fifc.bsky.social chairman Josh Healey tells us 'nothing will beat this feeling' after the team's title win...
🏆 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 🏆
#fifc | 🟠⚫️
My wife is from Santa Clara, a host city, and for years we planned to be there for the World Cup. A combination of ticket prices and ICE made us decide to stay in the UK. As DJT would say, sad...
Let the sun come out, please...
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
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Tell me you know nothing about the Middle Ages without telling me that you know nothing about the Middle Ages.
In this week's newsletter we look at the action being taken to try to turn around our under-performing NHS trust...
The Brexit wars really were the lobby's Stalingrad front. All that trauma, and for what?
Tricky times for the content creators, life coaches and right wing journalists who left Britain shrieking claims that it was becoming an authoritarian state
I am a hack, rather than a 'writer', but there is still only one reliable way to learn and improve: write, write, write some more, then keep writing
In this week's newsletter we hear more about a project aiming to make the town's imposing viaduct a home for graffiti and street art...
Ipswich Town FC on Farage lording it at Portman Road: "no comment"
Norwich City...
(With thanks to @gdunbarap.bsky.social)
Birmingham Live: The 10 things that scare West Midlands people more than World War 3. Picture shows a bewildered senior gentleman with a grey beard and an anorak, standing in an indoor shopping arcade.
Behind the Great Birmingham Live subscriber paywall, so unless we learn otherwise, we’re going to assume that the number one thing is “Paying £4.99 per month to find out the content of this list”.
I thought his mob were usually all 'keep politics out of football' whenever something vaguely progressive is promoted by the sport? Funny old game...
If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause.
Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.
But another wonderful reader took up our offer on annual subs (below) this morning, so I am already up on the deal for the day. And I've had a lovely walk by the sea. So all good...
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Logging on for my traditional Monday procrastination session before I write the entirety of the @folkestonedispatch.substack.com tomorrow in a blind panic. A very comfortable routine...