John Lubbock

A huge sign on a new Berkeley homes development saying ‘iconic apartments and penthouses for sale’.

The old pub sign for The Cricketers pub.

Just the two old pub signs left now of The Cricketers, which used to stand behind the Oval cricket ground. Now making way for a huge Berkeley Homes development that will all be bought by rich investors as buy to lets and do nothing to stop the housing crisis.

We need less algorithm and more Al Gore rhythm amirite lads

Very obvious thing would be to build some council houses since the private sector will never get them to 1.5m by 2030. But they won’t do that, because they’re basically Tories economically.

I think it’s a bit gross to use a victim of transphobia to grind your No Phones In Schools axe.

brianna wasn't murdered by social media you piece of shit.

politicians love exploiting grieving parents.

Yeah she’s promoting UKLFI, best to block and move on.

Graham posts a photo of the tube on Facebook with the caption ‘Tell me we’re not fucked by multicultural bollocks. Why are we surrounded by non white people? Just fuck off’

Mike Graham tweets: ‘On Sunday night my Facebook was accessed and a vile message was posted on my page without my knowledge. It contained words that I would never write and an opinion I don't share. As soon as I found out l immediately deleted the post and have taken steps to ensure my cyber security is enhanced. Obviously I am mortified that such a post could have gone out in my name and am now attempting to find out how it could have happened. I am equally very sorry for any distress it has caused to anyone.’

Sentient roast potato Mike Graham claims he was hacked after a racist post appeared on his Facebook page. Seems like someone might have had one too many before getting the train home.

Hahaha UKLFI, don’t come to me with this propaganda nonsense.

It’s clear you’re defending far right football hooligans who want to come and cause trouble so I’m gonna mute you now. Bye.

November 2024 Amsterdam riots - Wikipedia

I think that with political tensions as they are, it's entirely proportionate for UK police to not want another repeat of this incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novembe...

Housing secretary says 'job on the line' over 1.5m housing target Housing secretary tells BBC Panorama widespread scepticism will make hitting target

When Labour ruled out using the public sector to build council houses it was inevitably going to miss the 1.5m target. It has always been an ideological fantasy that the private sector would build the social housing we desperately need. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh damn, wish I'd known about this earlier. I used to work for WMUK.

Tel Aviv soccer derby canceled by police due to ‘violent riots’ | CNN The Tel Aviv soccer derby between Hapoel and Maccabi was canceled on Sunday after what police described as “public disorder and violent riots.”

I would question why you are so keen to defend this kind of violence by Maccabi ultras who have a history of racist attacks when they have come to play in Europe? Their game yesterday in Tel Aviv had to be cancelled due to 'violent riots'. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/20/s...

Notice how quickly we've moved from deporting "illegals" to the idea of deporting any migrant whose face doesn't fit, irrespective of legal status. Next stop: some form of ostracisation for any person whose face doesn't fit, whether they were born here or not?

We're deep in National Front territory

Kent’s Reform UK leader pledges hunt for “cowards” behind video leak “treachery” The Reform UK leader of Kent County Council has messaged her members following the leak of an online meeting, describing the culprits as “cowards”.

Nothing says professionalism like telling Councillors who disagree with your crap plans “…I am afraid you are just going to have to f***ing suck it up” as Reform Kent County Council Cllr Linden Kemkaran did in a meeting

Unfortunately for her film of the meeting was leaked and she’s furious 😂🤣

Yup. And I don't at all buy their argument that 'people will go to black market betting if we close'. Betting should be restricted to lotteries and maybe some highly regulated casinos. Betting should be made much harder to do because it's addictive and has no economic value.

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.

Fantastic. This would be a great thing for the country. Betting shops are nothing but a scam and are terrible for growth because they produce no goods or services. Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s wild how Marilyn Manson still has a career and is still touring tbqh

I saw a poster for it in Bristol last year or earlier this year and like... don't his fans care? I also saw a woman wearing a manson shirt at work as part of a film crew at the Barbican and again... don't they care?

Meanwhile I've just done a journalism MA and there are no jobs available because they're firing people and replacing them with AI. hahaha i love this country.

I propose an immersive 1940s themed dining experience where we bring back the 'British restaurant', where you can exchange your ration card for a choice of meat and two veg, a pie or stew. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...

I think the army background and working for HJS for over 10 years raises some serious questions about his intentions in a matter like this. That's not some random fan, that's a guy with a very specific political agenda.

LBC is awful so I can’t imagine talksport would be anything other than just as bad or worse.

I didn’t say he did, he just poses as the leader of a Jewish supporters’ group, so Sky naturally assumed he was and then had to issue a correction.

Doomed to a lifetime of beans on toast.

There's no more performative or meaningless jingoism than trying to claim you prefer pies to every other type of food in the world.

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

The Book of Dust - Wikipedia

Just realised that the last book of The Book of Dust is coming out on October 23, in 5 days, and it's really brightened my mood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...

Housing campaigners Kwajo Tweneboa and Peter Apps hold packed Brixton Library talk Authors Kwajo Tweneboa and Peter Apps spoke last night to a packed audience at Brixton Library about the housing crisis affecting London and the UK. Apps is the author of the books Homesick and Sho…

Last night I went to a talk by housing campaigners @kwajo.bsky.social and Peter Apps at Brixton Library about the housing crisis in the UK, and wrote about it for @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/10/hous...

Yup. It’s their 75th anniversary.