Joshua Gawley

For a while I kept seeing on Instagram reels these “snag checkers” who would go into new-builds before completion and write up a (normally quite long) list of defects to fix

14.10.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Singapore Airlines A380 flying over the River Thames on approach into London Heathrow

A view of Tower Bridge and the City of London, luxuriating in autumnal sunshine

The dome of St Paul’s Cathedral sitting below the upper deck of Tower Bridge

found a nice spot in Bermondsey

30.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Probably a party that doesn’t promise to deport my mum…

22.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is kind of how the sturdier "bags for life" emerged in the UK; government legislation mandated that supermarkets charge for bags, and eventually the supermarkets started making sturdier bags (and upped the price)

27.07.2025 12:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

was going through my 2020 yearbook yesterday and I still can't believe our A-level exams were cancelled

24.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It would never happen but this would be a fantastic piece for a student journalist at, say, Bristol to do (saw quite a few of these types at uni)

20.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

very good post, lots of this tracks with my own experience growing up in the US before moving back to the UK ten years ago

I'm perhaps less optimistic about the US because I fear that the US political situation is going to eat significantly into American economic dynamism

19.07.2025 11:42 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The interior design is at best confused and having ceiling spotlights everywhere is horrendous…

04.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0