How do we create a social web using just the web?

We don’t. Tell It Like It Is, Dave Winer.

Brooks digs up “forgotten” leather, and turns it into limited run of £330 “exceedingly rare and unrepeatable” saddles

TOUCH THE LEATHER

Vauxhall Could Get One Of The UK’s Tallest Residential Buildings

I’ve long since lost track of the new towers around the VNEB cluster. I rather like them as a spectacle. London is nothing if it stands still. The fight against global capital was lost decades ago. This doesn’t mean that developers should be given a free ride - or Lambeth, for that matter. But if you can’t stop this endless march of capitalism, then at least try and appreciate how London never stands still. This is a good thing.

“Our political system suffered a massive virtual oil spill thanks to Twitter, which we have yet to begin to clean up”

Dave Winer on Thanksgiving.

City Ground honours heroes of ’79 as Dyche’s rejuvenated Forest march on

The Morning Star’s Tricky Tree Correspondent has been busy again.

No change to Cycle to Work Scheme in Budget, Treasury confirms — despite reports spending cap would be introduced

And so wtf was that all about?

Hudson-Odoi says Dyche has ‘reconnected’ Forest squad

A further update from the Morning Star’s Tricky Tree correspondent.

RSS 2.0, the antidote to enshitification

London’s cycling trips hit 1.5 million a day as ridership surges 43% since 2019

Chapeau!

RideLondon cycling event boss resigns from board after careless driving conviction for seriously injuring cyclist

Good.

Five ways we can fire up Your Party

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

“If the left cannot remember that movements are built on what people have in common rather than what divides them, this will be another in a long line of wasted opportunities. "

Built it or burn it, Comrades

“MPs should no longer have to be all things to all people. Instead, they should be able to represent the interests of their constituents by delivering on their core roles of parliamentary scrutiny, debate, policy making and legislating.”

What a load of hairy old bollocks. They Work For Us, etc.

Art Deco: The Golden Age of Poster Design exhibition at the London Transport Museum

Why aren’t London’s lethal junctions being fixed faster? Transport chiefs happy with “acceptable” number of crashes to avoid impacting bus times, cycling campaigners say – as “people keep dying”

Nottingham Forest thrash lacklustre Liverpool at Anfield

From the Morning Star’s Tricky Tree Correspondent.

A rupture with the system?

“While the Greens have won popularity for their call for a wealth tax, it’s unclear whether they’d be willing to break with the most powerful forces of capitalism”

LCC has updated the Dangerous Junctions map for 2025

I’m really surprised that the Coldharbour Lane / Atlantic Road death trap doesn’t feature.

“Given question of government use of X has come up again, I’d like to make the argument for the creation of micro.blog.gov.uk”

Richard Pope on the use of X in government

New poll puts Greens in SECOND ahead of Labour and Tories

Shit the bed.

“The ideology of Labourism – which holds that the Labour Party is the only route to any progressive change – has long kept British socialists shackled to a party that, for most of its history, and especially since its Blairite takeover, has worked tirelessly against their aims.”

#WhyNotJoinTheLabourParty, etc

Or Your Party.

Long-awaited Vuelta a España return to Canary Islands in 2026 cancelled due to alleged lack of clarity over Israel team