Transphobia is not a vote winner. All of KJK’s lot lost their deposits. Joanna Cherry lost. Miriam Cates lost. Jackie Doyle-Price lost. Therese Coffey lost. Jacob Rees-Mogg lost. Gillian Keegan lost. Streeting only held on by 500 votes.

Hate to give credit to doctors, but this seems very positive news

reading anti-oedipus at the psych ward and shaking my head at the doctors whenever they walk by so they know i don’t agree with psychiatry as an institution

My intuition is that people in this situation ~50 years ago would have taken on a lodger, but this just doesn't seem to exist any more. Did it ever exist? Were there changes in legislation that make it unfeasible now? Is it some social change?

that list of UK growth priorities in full by Ben Cheadlehulme, Age 31½ 1) industrial energy prices 2) change civil service application process and increase grade 6 salaries to £1,000,000 3) give me a townhouse in chelsea like what uncle monty used to have 4) more steel mills idk

Have discovered the best drink on gods green earth: Juice of 1 lime, about 2/3rds of that amount of maple syrup, soda water and ice. Yum!

Some interesting stuff in the devolution white paper - some really encouraging rhetoric, but ultimately a lot of words to abolish then immediately reinvent county councils

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A for Afghanistan! Myhan restaurant in Highbury - highly recommended! Not knowingly had Afghan food before and really enjoyed this - lamb chops especially were excellent, and the lamb trotter stew was lovely with the breads