They var’d the var. But who will var the var varers?

That thing where teenagers queue outside a shop you’ve never heard of for limited edition shoes. That, but it’s for the 30something middle classes and the new Aldi that’s opened in Leytonstone today. Madness in here.

something about creating a blackhole in united's midfield amiright

having fun today imagining an American remake of Peep Show that ran for 201 episodes and transformed into something completely saccharine and of itself the same way The Office did

Good question, why *don't* people who feel utterly cheated by society, as the social contract splinters around them, get as peeved about fly tipping and speakerphones as me in my £700k semi

Is this a bit?

Simply impossible to reconcile low birth rate data with the scenes across the low traffic neighbourhoods of Waltham Forest last night.

Voxpops are fine, good even, if used proportionally to colourise viewpoints behind polling data.

From a geopolitical perspective, it’s a minor question, but one that’s interesting to us Hungarian journalists: if Trump wins, would Viktor Orbán stop accusing us of being American agents or CIA spies? And if so, what would we become then? Deep-cover agents of Luxembourg?

Very distressing scenes this morning

“We’re making improvements” - thames water for the past 24hrs in Leytonstone

Not that I want to blame everything on Covid but I do feel like people being locked into their own small circles for the best part of two years just did to hell with public etiquette in general but the cinema is where it’s most obvious

Four RAF typhoons (per FlightRadar24) are currently flying in formation high over London. Four more flew over about 15 mins ago. Probably happens all the time (?) but still a striking sight especially In These Times.

Upturned cars ablaze in E11 this morning, women clutching babies run screaming through the street, a payphone receiver swings dial tone blaring... hot-dinners.com/2025020413910/…

Coming over here, ousting our indigenous drug lords dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

At the anti-AfD protest outside the party's venue in north Berlin, demonstrators just fired up a 1960s-era 110db "catastrophe siren." Built for warning of nuke attack, the siren was sounded as a "warning about the outcome of fascism in Germany," organizer Stefan Pelzer tells me

Briefly returning here to lament that no one went with the headline "Tackle of Hastings"

But make sure you don't use your hosepipes