Tom Usher

What a rotten state of affairs that a teenage girl had thrust upon her the responsibility of being the only adult in the room because actual grown adults refused to recognise her either as a child or, more importantly, as a human being. A sad indictment of a pitiful society.

Genuinely, in a horror type way, would love to see how bad it is with Streeting. The moment he gets genuine scrutiny he will fall apart in a way that I think will make even Starmer look good

'Tottenham Job Centre' (c.1985) by Ted Ellerbeck

(Bruce Castle Museum)
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🎵 'Career Opportunities' by The Clash
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'A late delivery on Shaftesbury Avenue' by Tushar Sabale
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🎵 'London is the Place for Me' by Lord Kitchener
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Good evening! This week's theme is South London.
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'Camberwell Flats by Night' (1983) by David Hepher

(Guildhall Art Gallery)

And of course the boys from Eighteen 86. What good, fan led involvement in the club can generate. Long may it continue

Btw Arsenal fans if you don’t know who the illustrator was behind the tifo yesterday, its Dan Draws, one of the best in the game

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Found this on Reddit but it seems way more than that surely

Genuinely what percentage do you think of an adults life is watching or looking at adverts?

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE What's next for the Green Party? Zack Polanski interview

Lower bills. Tax billionaires.

We're just getting started.

What's next? with @politicsjoe.bsky.social

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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

Just don’t understand the logic of any of these labour cunts but I guess the general point is they’re mostly sociopathic freaks so it generally will be hard to understand them on a human level

Not saying I feel sorry for her but it does seem really weird that she’s signed up to be the fall guy for the absolute worst and hated policies of a already comically hated government

It's funny how for some things owning a £1m+ house In London makes you a out-of-touch wealthy elitist with luxury beliefs and then suddenly when it's tax time they're back to being ordinary salt of the earth folks living in an expensive city

Every time I forget how grotesque this is and every time it stuns me.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky... • 9m The truth politics dare not speak. Part of the reason this is unsolvable for Lab is that it isn't a real issue - it's a euphemism for political discontent. They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn't help, cause it's not what ppl are actually angry about * HK @hkesvani.bsky.social • 10h One of the things that the "immigration debate" in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it's trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

Perhaps one more round of blaming falling living standards and a wrecked public realm on the poor, immigrants and the left will sort it? It never has in the last 45 years but it has to work eventually

Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

Ed Gray the GOAT

Something different for this week's theme: London Soundtracks 🎵.

Paintings paired with a song.
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'Golden Day’, Bar Italia, Frith Street (2011) by Ed Gray
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🎵 'Bar Italia' by Pulp
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'Cab in Dean St' by Jonathan Stewardson
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🎵 'A Rainy Night in Soho' by The Pogues
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Your da on December 25th

Martin Scorsese, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro on location in Nevada for “CASINO” (1995)

🎬 #UniversalPictures

Beth Rigby • @BethRigby • 5h In face of opposition, Mahmood clear in her argument. Said winning this fight more imp to her than a GE "Nothing matters more to me than holding my own country together, not even winning a GE... What's driving the decisions...is fixing this broken system & uniting our country"

Just so: the plan is to lock the cabin doors to keep the passengers out, fly the plane into the ground and then walk out of the wreckage untouched to fancy jobs at Facebook and PWC. And if you don’t like it, fuck you.

Jeffrey’ Epstein was a victim of the male loneliness epidemic. Jeffrey Epstein had men’s mental health.

NYT really put out an article saying that you couldn’t have another Jeffrey Epstein today because men are too isolated and phone addicted

Labour is a “godsend” for Farage says the far-right.

The bit about prison is almost half the article! Does any other chefs personal history get that much attention in a restaurant review

& Eubank vs Benn 1 was more like "These lads might one day fight a real champion, like McCallum or Nunn". They were famous in the UK due to terrestrial TV but neither was top dog at middleweight, it was more a provincial thing for what was then a pretend world title (WBO).

Plus ca change etc. etc.