Pete Williams

I went back in 2002 and encountered actual riot police, the most violent bar fight I’ve ever seen (at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon, no less) and a man dressed as a clown standing motionless in a youth hostel locker room. Fucking great holiday, no notes.

When I was there my favourite was on the church (Forgive-a-bull).

Plastic air vent cover and a bottle of bourbon. I like to keep Bezos guessing.

I'd always assumed he was coked to the eyeballs but the reports seem to be saying that he was sober and just... got really agitated by all the people so he started running them over? It makes no sense.

Horrifying.

Fishing will be one of the things they've arbitrarily decided are Male and Right Wing coded so at it's just another weird signifier that they have to display.

Same, although because Diane Abbott is my MP the whole debate is entirely theoretical as my vote counts for nothing.

So yes, the schadenfreude is fun but really this just illustrates that the Reform councils are stuck making the same shitty choices as every other local authority.

And he was just firing talking points at us: the Greens want to abolish landlords! The Greens don't know what a woman is! It was all a bit unseemly, tbh.

Our Hackney Labour councillor actually knocked on our door the other day, which shows how skittish they are because no one ever gets up the nerve to canvas our block.

Steady!

We could definitely get "Society is a Christmas movie" off the ground.

(Quite glad I proofread this because for some reason my phone autocorrected Sauna to Asian 😳)

The idea of sitting in a sauna with all your clothes on is fucking mad. My own sauna experience is very limited but it was a) same sex and b) towels on, which seems like a sensible compromise for shy English people.

My boy (aged 2) adores the Lion King remake but won’t watch the original. He just loves the animals, and as far as he’s concerned the CGI ones are real and the line animation ones are bullshit. Mind you, his tastes are entirely arbitrary so who knows what he’ll be into in future.

It’s such a pointless retread of the original that the screenwriters weren’t allowed to have a writing credit on it because it was too similar.

Oh, the Omen remake is hilariously shit. Pictured: a shot of “London” and the translation of the obviously Czech sign on the building.

Spitalfields?

A London stink pipe.

I love a stink pipe, me. Here’s the one near Highbury & Islington tube station.

I’ve been watching Band Of Brothers and most of the 101st Airborne is played by British people. Simon Pegg! Tom Hardy! One of the blokes from Green Street! The list goes on!

There’s a pair of twin boys at my lad’s nursery and their mum is French, so maybe the new French diaspora is starting in Hackney. Also they’re called Louis and Henry, which is a fun Easter egg for people who used to smoke weed in the nineties.

I cursed the telly when they came on BBC Breakfast this morning. She was saying they were doing this so “future generations” wouldn’t be caught out the same way. Which is unlikely, because future generations won’t be able to cowing retire at all.

I remember about five years ago hearing @sturdyalex.bsky.social on a podcast offer Starmer voice coaching. It would have been a good idea!

If those thongs have ever been washed I’ll buy a hat to eat.

These are the correct takes.

You did this!

Just own up and admit you hate Mary Wollstonecraft.

What a balloon.

And why they keep dedicating whole news sections to how they’re planning to nuke us first.

By the first line of paragraph four I was going "you've accidentally gone through departures and you're trying to get on the Piccadilly line, aren't you? You tit." Dublin is welcome to him.