#CrookedHouse 2 years after it was ordered the world famous pub be rebuilt in its original site, the company that owns the site has been non-compliant in every way. However, one small victory. An order that husband & wife at centre of demolition & arson will still be liable if their co. is dissolved
The Government will get the Courts and Tribunals Bill through second reading tonight, but it will be concerned when even loyal Class of 2024 MPs are signalling they are deeply unhappy about the jury trial changes
From the Commons earlier, do we think Conservative shadow minister Mike Wood was recently snubbed in Costa Coffee by any chance...
Not sure how this will wash in Worcestershire, where council tax has gone up by nearly 9%. "It could have been 10%" is an interesting implicit argument.
Conservative former chancellor Lord Norman Lamont, who was in post during the Black Wednesday ERM crisis, is taking in the exchange from the gallery.
Regular Mel Stride watchers will be disappointed to hear his response to Rachel Reeves today has been typed up, rather than written in broad strokes of colourful felt tips.
Mel Stride calls Britain "too economically risk averse" at the Conservative Spring Conference. Not sure that will chime with voters whose mortgages rose sharply under Liz Truss in 2022
Big concern about the fragmentation or collapse of Iran altogether, especially with Trump backing the Kurds.
Flicked on Question Time to see how the Iran debate went down. Audience are overwhelmingly against joining Trump, and the Economist's Shashank Joshi has been great on the flaws in the US/Israel's action and its potential consequences.
bad news: 3-1 down at half-time
good news: six play-off spots in the championship next season
Completely mad proposal from the Commons to hide the names of MPs staff who have parliamentary passes which could prove invaluable to vested interests looking to buy access to Westminster. Staff members taking hospitality + freebies would no longer be identified.
There's also the bit at the start about "casual visitors spending their whole lives here wondering why they never went home" which captures experiences of the majority of London in one way or another.
Discovered his brilliant Postcard from London episode during Covid. So good in so many ways. Great cameos by Victoria Wood and Alan Coren too.
Sure you could watch Alexander Armstrong hoof his way round India to pay his kids' private school fees, or........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkN3...
The next few years will feature so, so SO many columns and Substacks by people claiming that things were going well and Labour just needed to 'stick with Morgan's plan'.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The wooden overhangs on the roof on the platform adds to the toy station effect. The fact that now and again you'll have a steam train on the London-bound platform is also a bonus!
London local election predictions. campaigns.cavendishconsulting.com/hubfs/London...
Suspect it won't end up like this, but the idea of Camden going into No Overall Control is speaks volumes, given their massive majority.
Clock tower? What clock tower?
St Pancras Clock Tower shrouded in morning fog.
#photography #fog #weather #london
Sir Robin Wales, longterm Labour leader of Newham council, has defected to Reform UK.
‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it
Telegraph censured for fabricated story of banker’s struggle to pay school fees
If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.
I count five flourescent colours of pen on Stride's notes. It's almost like protest art that belongs in the Tate Britain.
Safe to say Mel Stride is not having a good time responding to Rachel Reeves' spring statement. His first five minutes of indignation drowned out by Labour MPs. Even his felt tip pen notes can't save him.
The implicit argument of so much of this stuff is that there is no legitimate role for Muslims in public life.
Anyway, read a selection of mine and @georgegreenwood.bsky.social's investigations into the Definitely Not Geopolitical Dubai property market here:
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
