I’m reading The Long Deep Grudge this May Day and remembering that Management has no right to exist. Let’s make them realise who is truly necessary

We buried my dad yesterday. I got the chance to see all these photos for the first time revealing in his younger years he was a style icon. I’ll be raiding the closet for 90s oversized shirts and coats

“Our problems in this country are not arriving on a beach in Kent from France.
They’re arriving because of the oligarchs and the billionaires that run our society.”

Quote from one of the ROSCO CEOs:
'We welcome the Labour Party's commitment to leverage private capital to help deliver its long-term strategy for rolling stock.'

Until the rolling stock operating companies cease to exist, this isn't full nationalisation. And it won't deliver.

Catering staff working for Rail Gourmet on Eurostar trains are being drastically underpaid compared to their colleagues employed directly by Eurostar.
Today they are striking for Pay Justice ⚖️
📸 RMT picket line at St. Pancras
#EndOutsourcing

Jane and Evelyn

This kind of urban landscape should just be the norm in every European city; chapeau, Nîmes.

the local council in my part of brussels will install a mosaic on the path outside your house for FREE, and I realise that a bunch of people use it to get portraits of their cats

For anyone watching #Defiance on Channel 4 by Rogan Productions Rajesh Thind, here’s a 🧵of some context to understand the groups and events mentioned in more detail and what life was like for Brown and Black people in the 1960s-1980s.

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lol she's gonna be so mad at all of us saying 'thank you,' have we learned nothing?? maybe better to simply to say that we have loved being in this world with you, too, Jane

I haven’t touched this in 13 years but I’ve found myself coming back to it recently as I come to terms with my dad’s sudden death and the birth of my second child.

Beer twitter: does anyone know if Flowers IPA is still brewed and where I can buy some? Asking for a family reason

🥓 SIX BACON FRIES TOTES LEFT 🥓
£7 // All profits go to Save The Children Gaza Appeal

(Announcement about new merch coming soon)
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This Easter Sunday im reading this heartbreaking essay by Zahira Jaser in the FT about the experience of being a Palestinian abroad, watching the destruction of your people.

(Ignore the awful editor’s note)
ft.com/content/ded4cf…

Is this a pint of semi skimmed which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

Slightly singed mini Simnel cakes ready for Easter Sunday