Philip McDermott

Maybe Your Party can use it as a campaign track.

A flat white in a red cup with an average looking latte art heart.

Getting somewhere in my entirely predictable new hobby. #coffee

I get the issue with homogeneity. But what about the celebration of a local independent business? When do they stop being that and start being evil and greedy and The System?

Question: as a coffee chain how many outlets is good and how many is bad? This story presents 3 as good but 21 as bad. Where is the line?

Upset as four London cafes handed to coffee chain Daisy Green The City of London Corporation has selected an Australian-inspired eatery firm to run four cafes.

I think this is a much subtler story than is being reported…

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Going to go out on a limb and suggest maybe that isn’t an accurate quote from the VC.

Still parsing this sentence, reckon it’ll take me 3-4 years. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

They’ll both be influencing holiday destinations over the next few years…

Very much!

Books 2025, including bagging the @jonnelledge.bsky.social @lewisbaston.bsky.social double 🗺️ 🤓

So chosen because of the way it will prompt those online to say "actually, that is two words".

qed.

I think it can be summarised as: where is the compassion?

London Overground under the underground

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

In case you are wondering, Apple TV remotes *are not* waterproof.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Labour: fascism is fine, but gotta stop those Greens.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Accidentally made Farmer Js for dinner.

You need to cook those chips for longer

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Ed Balls: the Greens taking votes from Labour helps the Tories

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I want to see every Labour politician whose voted for a two child benefit cap, for disability cuts, for the ongoing genocide in Gaza to sell arms to them, I want to see them replaced" #GMB

A sign with a man with his hand out

Absolutely no high fives

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

Finally sitting down on the patio with a stiff drink, a heavy book, and a hot cat.

Very useful for now and also making a note for planning my long runs in the future…

Loving the disclaimer

Apparently the local variety, which is making me slightly more apprehensive about running in the mountains again around here…

Spent today looking at animals at Skopje Zoo instead of looking at the Nasdaq.

That St Paul’s shot is excellent. I’m trying to figure out where you’re standing… Bloomberg Arcade?

Never change, Grauniad.