Last night I went out in Soho. Enjoyed beer from a seated position. Was not robbed in the street. #london #soho

My kitten disapproves of me re-reading John le Carré.

Channel 4 News has removed from its Substack an item published there yesterday. Bit of an insight into how one Big Media organisation is responding to the bleak overnight news about Jason Arday.

Three musicians I saw perform in the very parched grounds of Kensington Palace yesterday afternoon. More on them and my excursion coming up in On London Extra later today.

This from BBC website. Apparently Binface and Essex Police are part of that "establishment" plot against Farage. But I'm most struck by the self-important humourlessness of his remarks about his fellow candidates. Can't take a joke, eh, "Nige", "mate" man of the people and all that?

Men Behaving Authentically.

Instructive: The Telegraph draws a line.

Sometimes I feel very old indeed.

This was never going interest me anyway. But starting an email with not one but two sentences that aren't questions ending with question marks was absolutely the end.

Only half? Is that a larger or a smaller percentage of other types of cyclists who also ignore red lights? There's a bunch of issues about street behaviour and environments that the capital needs to address, and this is one of them.

In the London context, I've heard politicians pledge to end rough sleeping before. It's a noble objective, but very, very hard to achieve because it isn't only about housing. I've also heard national leaders pledge to move power out of Whitehall before - Boris Johnson in 2019 remains a good example.

This may be misleading. When I met him there during the pandemic, current owner did not plan to "redevelop" the market in sense of knocking it down and replacing it and abandonment of the (separate) proposed tower scheme was not due to "community" opposition. It was far more complicated than that.

Public prefers Binface to Farage, shock. Just in from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social

Even his fans in "the Establishment" think "Nige" has made a fool of himself. #farage

There's an awful lot of #London going on in this photo, which I took about two hours ago. And you can't even make out the plane passing overhead. Or hear the soundscape blend of church bells and construction dim.

New @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social poll finds that twice as many Britons think Nigel Farage would do a bad job as Prime Minister as think he would do a good one. And he claims to be the voice of "the people".

Sadiq Khan on the 10th anniversary of the EU Referendum. #Brexit

Apparently, Nigel Farage MP, who for over 20 years was a member of the European Parliament, is *not* a "professional politician".

Just found this little beauty from 2017.

Sadiq Khan statement after Keir Starmer resignation.

Just in from City Hall #london

Pop quiz. Do I need to get specific? #london

Where am I? Clue. It’s in Southwark.

The bell and the Eye. Right now. #London

Confirmation that there is no level to which this turd will not sink. #Farage

Jargon alert.

The Standard has recently cut staff numbers again. Here's a headline and an editorial decision - to cover Farage bragging to a radio presenter about becoming PM - that perhaps illustrates the impact. #london

Yes, it's only a subhead but I wish @newstatesman1913.bsky.social had not characterised Burnham's parliamentary ambitions as a "march on the south". The south - meaning London - is *not* the nation's enemy in need of conquering in the national interest. On the contrary.

True. So piss off.

Here's how #Lambeth Greens explained their abandonment of their manifesto aim to get rid of the Council's Leader & Cabinet governance model and replace it with the Committee System set-up.