MichaelLondonSF

On week 2 of the hols I read Virginia Woolf's Diaries 1915-19. It's a good job I had restricted data and internet access as I would have been blooskying the **** out of it 10 times a day. I came to VW a sceptic. I am now convinced she was one the great chroniclers of the early 20th C.

I would read a lot more Bylines if they had a simple NO button for cookies. Journalism is great but not your cookie essay

Giving up driving is hard for some people but you shouldn’t be behind the wheel if your eyesight isn’t good enough. Making eye tests compulsory would be the right thing to do.

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When Irish Workers began a Boycott of South African Goods ... it wasn't Popular Worldwide ... but more and More US and EU Citizens saw how Apartheid could be Defeated

Boycott is an Irish invention and it always always Works !

Back at my desk, did any housing news occur in the last two weeks? 👀

With the media finally mentioning air-to-air heat pumps, prevalent in Europe and the rest of the world, can it also please mention that the most widespread type of windows in Europe open inwards, not outwards like standard UK ones, thus enabling external shutters?

Yet another poll
shows massive support
for public ownership

So what stops the government?

The fact that almost every Labour MP
has accepted corrupt bribes
from privatising lobbyists

and doesn't give a sh*t
that we get a worse service
at extra cost
and die younger

meme via @weownit.org.uk

Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why.

See you in the Hague.

Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction
www.dropsitenews.com/p/senior-isr...

A colour photograph of a home on the Branch Hill estate in white painted concrete

Branch Hill Estate, Camden

1974-76

Benson and Forsyth for Camden Borough

www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/branch-hill-...

via Kay Saxon

Apple tree with all limbs broken. Heavy crop

Herefordshire CC planted orchards here on common land but nobody arranged for care/pruning so this apple self-destructed from weight of crop.

Peace to the cottages, war to the landlords – weekly briefing Lindsey German on housing, Labour venality and how anti-imperialism defends itself It’s hard to imagine what goes through the heads of Labour MPs who are supposed to represent working people.

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The first attempt at a leadership for the Independent Labour Party (1893) ‘cockneys unbend & come to Bradford’ The first attempt at a leadership for the Independent Labour Party (1893). ‘cockneys unbend & come to Bradford’ The ILP was formed in Bradford in January 1893 and many of the debates about the …

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From my brave kindred spirit niece Mirabai

"Just got in. Arrested, 10 hours in custody, on bail, condition being mustn’t do it again! 😉 Thanks for your support (and example) xxx"

I couldn't be there with her
but can keep posting
#IOpposeGenocide
#ISupportPalestineAction
until they come for us all

Caption: Heroes. Every single one of them. Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots. Screenshot text says: More than 500 people arrested after Palestine Action protest - with about a half aged 60 and above Some 522 arrests were for displaying a placard in support of a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. As of 9pm on Saturday, the number was put at 466.

Heroes. Every single one of them.

Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.

BREAKING: Police confirm 521 arrested for expressing support for Palestine Action, only half of those who held signs defying the ban on Saturday.

Many hundreds simply walked away at 2pm when the vigil was due to end.

Sign up for the next one - wedonotcomply.org

it's also a mirrored single stair building

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.

This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.

No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.

It's funny to be in love with something for more than twenty years and the love never fades. Will always love seeing true tailors at work. Unfortunately these sorts of small shops continue to disappear.

IG soulsofitaly

Bicycle and Watsonian Child's Sidecar. Berlin (1931)

Transport of London staff face deportation under new visa rules More than 60 employees who came to the UK on skilled worker visas may have to leave the transport body.

It's sickening that TfL workers who gained a skilled worker visa in good faith have had their secure employment removed by the Government at the stroke of a pen.

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Hartlepool Development Corporation rips up the red tape? Ray Casey revisits Hartlepool to report on Hartlepool Development Corporation progress

Ray Casey revisits Hartlepool to report on Hartlepool Development Corporation progress

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

A black bollard with a picture of Charlie Chaplin at the top.

The Charlie Chaplin bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Leading global academics denounce UK's Palestine Action ban The letter, published in the Guardian, was signed by 52 academics including Judith Butler, Tariq Ali, Angela Davis and Naomi Klein

'"We deplore the repressive consequences that this ban has already had, and are especially concerned about the likely impact of Cooper’s ban on universities...

...We therefore applaud the growing campaign of collective defiance that aims to overturn the ban."'

www.middleeasteye.net/news/leading...

Arresting hundreds of peaceful protesters in parliament square today, including a blind man in a wheelchair and an 80 year old woman.

This Labour government is depraved

Congratulations to all who marched were arrested or risked arrest. I feel too old/fragile to come but am there in spirit.

remember when at the start of the russian invasion of ukraine we watched a peaceful protestor being bundled into a black van to god knows where for holding up a blank piece of paper in red square and we were all like 'wow, that's unbelievable'?

starmer was taking notes