Harry Taylor

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.

YouTube video by Justin Tyme Clive James - Postcard from Bombay (Part 1 of 5)

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'.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

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!

Our electoral model is predicting a chaotic set of results: • Labour to lose at least 1 in 3 councillors. • Labour to lose control of at least 11 local authorities. • 10 local authorities to have no majority party (No Overall Control). • Reform to control at least 3 local authorities. • 9 local authorities controlled with majorities of fewer than 10.

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. 04/03/2026. London, UK. Photo by Simon Lamrock.

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 The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr proclaiming his dream

‘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 Watchdog upholds complaint it breached code with article about impact of VAT on a family that did not exist The Telegraph has been reprimanded by a press standards watchdog after it published an entirely fabricated story about a wealthy banker complaining of the impact of school fee increases. Ian Fraser, a freelance journalist and author, complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) that the Telegraph had breached the editors’ code of practice in an article headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays.” Continue reading...

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.

Businessmen ‘funding terrorist groups and aiding Iran’s military’ make millions off Dubai properties At least 19 people who are sanctioned by the US for financing Hezbollah and Hamas have purchased £55 million of luxury apartments in the Gulf state

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...

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

David Cameron, 2011: “I am not a naive neocon who thinks you can drop democracy out of an aeroplane at ten thousand feet.”
Kemi Badenoch, 2026: “The only reason not to back this war without caveat is if you’re looking to get support from the Mozzies!”

GBNews presenter being told she’s not British.

Comparing fuel pumps to electric vehicle public chargers

There are now almost twice as many public electric car charging points in the UK as there are petrol/diesel fuel pumps, a government analysis has found.

Obviously it's not a perfect like-for-like comparison given recharging/fuelling times, but symbolically important.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

John Curtice is now reporting that this is the Conservative's worst performance in a by-election in the party's history...

399 constituencies would switch Labour > Green on this vote swing if repeated in a general election. (John Curtice on BBC)

Seismic. Stunningly so, and now Starmer faces multiple very difficult questions

If the Greens do win in Gorton and Denton, there will be a *lot* of Labour MPs looking nervously over their shoulder, and imploring Starmer and No 10 to show a bit of political leg to all those voters peeling off from the left.

Labour Accused Of By-Election Dirty Tricks Over 'Fictitious' Tactical Voting Group A leaflet sent out on the eve of the crunch poll has sparked a furious backlash.

Labour embroiled in dirty tricks row after a fake “Tactical Choice” non-existent organisation urged Gorton voters to back Starmer’s party

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Slightly surreal moment in the Commons as Speaker Lindsay Hoyle confirms he was the person who passed the Met a tip that Peter Mandelson was a flight risk, prompting his arrest this week.

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Some late breaking news - New Zealand would also back removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession, a spokesman for PM Christopher Luxon has said.

Only 12 other Commonwealth realms to go…