Winning design chosen for Clapham railway bridge makeover

I preferred the old Welcome to Wankerville, tbh.

“The Starmer Labour leadership has banned Labour councillors from cooperating with the Greens. Even without that, Lambeth’s ultra-Blairite-controlled Labour group were unlikely to collaborate with Lambeth’s leftish Greens.”

via Worker’s Liberty

The Prime Minister’s estate at Chequers and the footpath that wouldn’t die

via IanVisits

Omar Richards remains a Nottingham Forest player. Despite not playing a game for the club

BONKERS

Drivers kill five people every day. Cyclists hardly kill anybody

via road.cc

“An empowered working class can offer an alternative. Soon, it must.”

Morning Star on how to defeat the far right.

The silent city: How London’s ghost districts are hollowing out the capital

Far Out Magazine on the Nine Elms ghost town.

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