The 120th Anniversary of Vauxhall Bridge

“The one little trumpet fluff on the bridge of the final theme statement is the dropped stitch in the Persian rug, included by the weaver in acknowledgment that true perfection belongs only to Allah.”

Richard Williams on Miles at 100

“Something unexpected happened yesterday when they announced yet another delay to HS2. I lost interest, because I might be dead before it opens.”

Arf. via Diamond Geezer.

“Someday you’re going to tell your kids that we once used a social network that limited your writing to 500 characters and didn’t allow styling, links or titles. What was it called Daddy? Bluesky. And people thought it was great. Why? They might have been taking drugs.”

via Dave Winer

The Life and Times of Tricky

He’s a one. But WHAT a one.

“The left is a force that must be listened to, rather than swindled all over again”

Owen Jones in The Graun

“There was a designated orgy room, and the ballroom was given a makeover with “garish psychedelic paintings all over the flaking walls”. A photo on the Facebook group, posted by someone called Wavey Gravy, shows a tie-dyed teepee pitched up in the grounds where Miss Morleena had supped on her cold collation.”

Superb read from The Londoner on the old Eel Pie Island Hotel.

London Colosseum: Olympic Park Could Get NBA Basketball Arena

via [Londonist](London Colosseum: Olympic Park Could Get NBA Basketball Arena)

“The season is not even over yet, but already it feels more prolonged than the making of a My Bloody Valentine album.”

Arf. David Marples on what has been a ‘challenging’ season at the World Famous.

‘Build it and they will come’: the hopes new life for former lido will revive Weston-super-Mare

via The Graun

“He does not have a history of left wing activism to bury. He has always sucked up to the rich and powerful, to the privatisers, the weapons manufacturers and the warmongers.”

Socialist Worker on Slimy Streeting

Most commuters don’t trust bike storage at stations, putting them off cycling, new survey finds

via road.cc

Drivers could save £4,000 during fuel crisis by swapping to a cargo bike, new research suggests

via road.cc

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“In the decade of Thatcher from 1980 to 1990, London still built nearly 52,000 council homes. In the decade of Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007, only 280 went up.”

via The Graun

In too deep: Inside the messy, lucrative collapse of a lido empire

Cracking read on the collapse of Fusion, via The Londoner

“Indeed there are seven former Lambeth Labour councillors now sitting as MPs for the party: a number of alumni in the Commons matched only by Manchester city council, which covers double the population. That contingent, and the various other branches of the so-called “Lambeth mafia” that run through the Labour Party and trade union movement, will feel the council’s loss most sharply.”

Come the Glorious Day, Comrades. via, erm, The Times.

AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players

via The Graun

“McSweeney may be gone from Downing Street, but Labour Together’s alumni remain ensconced in high office – Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Communities Secretary Steve Reed among them. Labour Together’s record of law-breaking, deception and harassment of critics and independent journalists is well-known.”

aka Made in Lambeth

via Morning Star