Nick Beall

I've had to manually disaggregate the bits of history I picked from Age of Empires 2 from the actual history I studied in school....

Also see when the proposal for Crossrail 2 threatened Balham Waitrose!

Happy Tram day to all those celebrating.

Is there a club for sleep-deprived nursery obsessives that one can join? Counting down the days until September and I go down to one child at nursery.

Photo caption: A pink Lamborghini-branded pedicab illegally parked on Westminster Bridge. It is not known whether this pedicab is an officially-licensed Lamborghini product.

Outstanding caption in the latest @londoncentric.media newsletter about London's murky pedicab industry....

www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-pe...

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do you think he ever played world of warcraft?

I like that her children are mentioned in the intro but then go completely missing.

I think 40 (coincidentally I am approaching 36)

Also and I fear I'm getting on my hobby horse, it seems likely it will be largely built via private finance, so what's not to like?

Also one of the strong benefits is a more reliable connection to channel ports for businesses north of London....

I've been wondering about this since I read the piece (which is genuinely crackers)

Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

I've subscribed to London Centric and you should too!

Text: So, in many ways, Rupert Lowe giving remarkably unhelpful interviews to newspapers is just what we should expect to happen. It’s the same old set of criticisms that Farage has attracted from within his parties: he doesn’t have what it takes to expand appeal, he is too dictatorial, the party needs to be more open to its right flank. Frankly, I don’t think Rupert Lowe is going to be any more successful than Gerard Batten, Patrick O’Flynn, Douglas Carswell, Robert Kilroy-Silk or any of the other politicians who thought they knew how to better steer the ship. (That it was a struggle to remember some of those names tells its own story.)

Enjoyed this blast from the past list of former Farage challengers from @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter this morning.

To rearm, we must ban artificial lawns.

please!

Text: On the grid: Meanwhile, Angela Rayner has announced a new £1.5 billion “plan for neighborhoods” fund for 75 deprived areas across Britain. Communities including Darlington, Scarborough and Great Yarmouth will be handed £20 million to invest in things like youth clubs and cultural venues. Rayner said the plan “puts local people in the driving seat of their potential, having control of where the Whitehall cash goes.” The Mirror’s Ashley Cowburn has more. Tory response: Shadow MHCLG Secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: “Labour erased the phrase ‘levelling up’ from government and instead of delivering for local communities are now spending taxpayer cash on wasteful pet projects this country can’t afford.”

I know people are distracted by other things but this is a very curious response in Politico from the Shadow MHCLG team given that the Plan for Neighbourhoods is a remodelled version of the Long-Term Plan for Towns launched under the last government. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Keir Starmer: "We are at a crossroads in history. This is not a moment for more talk, it is time to act, time to step up and lead and unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace."

I'm sorry, but I hate these scumbags so much.

Yes, definitely not trying to suggest it is a good strategy.

Trump talks MMA and golf in podcast push for young male voters There's a huge gender divide in this election but will the young men Trump is courting go out and vote for him?

He did a lot of podcast appearances last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's a very Donald Trump esque media strategy isn't it.

Agree entirely with Stephen, I think it's also quite telling that that's the metric she reaches for.

Sigh so quins

Peña is phenomenal

Quins have been very Quinsy so far..

It's going to be a cracker!

One of my longest and more sincerely held views is that politicians themselves should stay off Twitter/Bluesky and leave it to their staff.....

The details of the 2025/26 PH grant allocations are now available, including the £200m uplift announced first thing this morning.

However, the grant value is still 26% lower per person in real terms than 2015/16.

Short 🧵 on why today's uplift is important and why it needs to be just the start. 1/