Holy Quack! Duck Tours Are Returning To London

And if they’re anything like the old yellow duck predecessors, they’re a right pain for any passing cyclists.

We Asked This MP If He Really Wanted to Be in Your Party. Then He Quit

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The Inside Story of How the Green Party Turned Red

“It was really heavy going at times. We were angry; we were trying to say things in a way that was confrontational and shocking to get a reaction. And we definitely did.”

Eve Libertine looks back - and forward - on Crass

Speaking of which…

New album from The Steve Ignorant Band – Crass Songs live in Barcelona

“No 10 has gone into full bunker mode, turning on their most loyal cabinet members for absolutely no reason. A circular firing squad won’t help the government out of the hole we’re in.”

Jerk circle, more like.

Near Miss of the Day 940: “Do you always scream when a bus passes you?”

“Alternatives like Signal, Wire, and Element prove that secure communication doesn’t require monetising our attention. They’re no harder to use. The challenge lies in convincing your social circle to move with you. The real choice sits between convenience and conscience, between what’s easy and what’s ethical.”

Documentally on Meta’s Big Brother

In Pictures: London’s Lesser-Known Art Deco Gems

One day I will get to live and own the dream.

Yeah, right.

Jetpack Tools Every Blogger Should Be Using in 2025/2026

Sunday morning listening: Nobukazu Takemura’s mixtape, via the always wonderful #latejunction

Are “mind-altering” shoes the next big performance gain in cycling?

Don’t be a daft twat.

Labour’s Dirty Secrets

The left can beat Reform if it embraces class conflict

Don’t compromise - FIGHT!

Racism ‘baked into the institutional design’ of Metropolitan Police, review finds

No shit, Constable.

The Green surge is about to break Labour

GOOD.

The Game at the Centre of the UK’s Culture War

“It’s ticking the climate box. But did anyone ask for this?” Furious drivers slam “waste of money” £22.5m cycle lane plans and claim they’re being “mugged off” by council

This is what we’re up against.

“As Nuno toils at West Ham and Forest contemplate a relegation fight, do he and Evangelos Marinakis secretly wish they could have settled their differences?”

No shit.

“If it saves the life of a child then it is worth it”: Cycle lane under fire over £500,000 “safety improvements”, but councillors defend scheme which has reportedly boosted bike use by 41%

“I am committed to getting around the silos of the owners of social media, and making it possible for developers and users to build their own networks with their own rules, and not have to wait for corporate programmers to give them the tools, we need to be able to make them for ourselves.”

Dave Winer on big tech and silos. Wise words.

“Cities, by contrast, are messy places: places of fluidity and freedom and possibility, places of chaos and collaboration and conflict. And sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, but we embrace them nonetheless because in their forced intimacy, in their inexorable flow of ideas and influences and cuisines, they are the fullest expression of what it is to be human”

Wonderful words from Jonathan Liew.

Bike lanes crucial to preventing cycling near misses, major new study suggests

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Zack Polanski Has Pledged to Legalise Drugs. So Should All Leftwing Leaders