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Social researcher. Occasional pedant. Likes: music cinema books allotments travel food drink politics sport...

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That's TOMORROW'S to-do list.

14.02.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Sorry not sorry, yeah?"

13.02.2026 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Er, it's not actually journalism at all, surely?

12.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man holds a sign that says careful now ALT: a man holds a sign that says careful now
12.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But what actually happened? I'm intrigued.

12.02.2026 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Getting shorter all the time then.

12.02.2026 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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12.02.2026 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, Bud Cort...
Sad. I loved Harold And Maude.

12.02.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminds me of when my then teenaged half-sister started saying 'I can't be asked' in a Kevin manner when she couldn't be bothered doing something.

12.02.2026 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If milk has to come from an animal, what about coconut milk? Eh? Come on!

11.02.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And a very entertaining book it is too. (That's MY review.)

11.02.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This song goes off? Like a rancid sausage left too long in the sun?
That's not a banger.

10.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loving Small Prophets. Magical television, in every sense.

10.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I certainly wouldn't be buying a property from Nick
#TraitorsIreland

10.02.2026 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe we could all contribute a song or two a day.

Don't know of any songs about community sentences, electronic monitoring or out of court resolutions but somebody must have been daft enough...

10.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You and wee Georgie should be perfectly placed to produce a criminology-in-popular-music playlist...
Police and thieves
I fought the law
Parchman farm
bankrobber
Folsom prison...
...and anything from Murder Ballads, obviously.

10.02.2026 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How else is one supposed to interpret 'banger'?

10.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah but look how cool it makes you seem... no, really, it does.

10.02.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh get you, mr polyglot!

10.02.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How a TfL rent rise killed off Brixton tube's beloved newsagent's Plus: UCKG gets rapped by regulators, Shoreditch planning chaos and London's first South Indian restaurant

"Few, if any, newsagents in south London hold the same variety of publications as Pritsesh, who stocks everything from highbrow literary criticism to underground fashion magazines."

This is so depressing and pointless.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-a-tfl-re...

09.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ New British Social Attitudes findings published today

Public support for higher taxes and increased public spending has fallen sharply since 2022, while political divisions over the role of the state have widened to levels not previously seen.

Read the full report:
natcen.ac.uk/publications...

10.02.2026 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come on, UK, it's not 'Can I get...?', it's 'Please may I have...?'

#standards

This is the hill that I choose to die on. Along with a few other pedantic hillocks too numerous to mention.

09.02.2026 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are the Olympics dropping the parallel guant slalom? Genuinely exciting. Oh, that's why...

08.02.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weird how these posts never include "I support national legislation to limit gerrymandering"

07.02.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2631    πŸ” 281    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 7

Wait til you get to part 4 with #PhilipBloomfield, later of #TheKrays

08.02.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weird. I don't have children and 90% of my life is meal.prep and laundry.

08.02.2026 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Earth, Hackney
The absolutely most uncomfortable 'seated'venue on the planet.
Atmospheric venue which i will try to appreciate.
Fortunately I am not the complaining type.

07.02.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's Tidal? You down wiv ver kidz

07.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am not aware

07.02.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Well that's quite the recommendation.

07.02.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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