What a great pub to work in. Ye Cracke #PlatinumJubilee decorations pics by joseph ainscough

There’s something quite powerful about Her Majesty the Queen taking tea with a Peruvian refugee who did not come to the U.K. by a legal route & who would today be in a detention centre awaiting a one way flight to Rwanda #platinumjubliee

This long LONG weekend has been really a feast of ‘boot 100 ways’ ‘nose to tail boot eating’ ‘classic boot recipes we all know and love’ ‘boot street food vans’ ‘light summer boot meals’ ‘10 course boot tasting menu’

For those who’d rather want to read what Maitlis had to say, Prospect has been so kind to publish her brilliant lecture in full. (and btw, thanks for quoting me, emily m) prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/we-ha…

If a price cap is rising by 80% then we need to stop calling it a price cap Nothing is being capped here ffs

a swat team riding bumper cars

"Britain’s problems are not fixable by a clever tax trick that will bring down inflation or new policies on law and order, but by fundamentally reimagining how business is regulated, and how wealth is accumulated and distributed."

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Mourn addiction

I know, let's queue up for 24h to celebrate this shit.

Britain ranks poorly against other developed nations when it comes to the amount of social security it provides people in need. By poorly I mean, the worst in the OECD. We aren't the benefit utopia the right make us out to be, not even close.

I wrote this article about Grenfell, the UK construction industry, value-engineering and snagging videos on TikTok — a reflection on what is broken with systems of procurement, construction and contract tendering in this country

Why with Truss the Brexit magical thinking might now finally come to an end. It’s time to return to reality. V good analysis by ⁦Jonathan Freedland⁩ . theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Warum das dramatische Scheitern von Truss der Anfang einer britischen Zeitenwende sein könnte. Meine Analyse für die ⁦tagesschau⁩ 👇👇 tagesschau.de/ausland/europa…

The problem with the UK Tory party is not the personal defects of the captain. The problem is that you’re not eligible for the captaincy unless you agree it was a brilliant idea to scupper the ship in 2016- and can convincingly act baffled why it has been sinking ever since

went to check out battersea power station station with friends and let me tell you the most interesting part was this display that, if you just pass by, can look perfectly normal

The Stable Diffusion Discord has a channel devoted to spectacular failures and it’s full of gems

The Tory Party

At least the crowds Trump lied about were bigger than 100.