Tony Banks

Here’s the last Menu - from 2015 - of a much loved Soho & West End fixture, THE STOCKPOT on Old Compton Street.

Whenever I walk past where once it was I still check to see if it’s miraculously reappeared.

Miss the place.

Farage under pressure to explain tax arrangements in Clacton house purchase The Reform UK leader said last year he had bought a home in his Essex constituency, but it was later reported that his partner had actually made the purchase.

Farage under pressure to explain tax arrangements in Clacton house purchase

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I think the key fact may well be that the media, unlike with Rayner, are the ones who do not care. Never mind his supporters.

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

And there you go. Who’s next, I wonder? The attack lines will already have been worked out.

If they succeed in hounding Rayner out, they (the media) will then only move into the next target.

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According to anecdotal reports, the new in-fashion insult heard around schools and playgrounds is: "Your dad shouts at hotels!" 😮😆 ~AA

Back up to London again, and again I have forgotten my stab vest. What am I like?

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Check last weekend’s newspapers

Take a wild guess.

Well, according to the papers, Angela Rayner is a much worse person than Lucy Connolly.

Young people don't 'want' to go private, they are being encouraged to believe they should go private as the NHS is apparently appalling after 14 years of deliberate underfunding by a government that want to privatise it.

My advice to those young people then would be to not grow old.

Ducklings swarm perceiving the guardian as a safety instinct.

In the George pub in Soho. Not wearing a stab vest. Utterly reckless.

Much as I think Palace missed a beat or two in this case, they're bang on the money (ha!) here: “Multi-club structures hide behind the charade of a ‘blind trust’ while clubs such as ours, who have no connection to another club whatsoever, are prevented from playing in the same competition".

The possible Cure.

Present mood

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Hello. I am an expendable character in an action film. If you shoot me with a regular gun I will scream in pain before I die. But if you shoot me with a silencer I will - obligingly - just let out a quiet gasp.

Why are young women increasingly left-wing? And how it could change politics

I wrote about this a while ago, as @samfreedman.bsky.social kindly acknowledges, and it's great to see a bit more detail unpacked here: still struck that nobody's got all the answers samf.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...