Darryl
@darryl1974.bsky.social
editor, reporter, sub-editor, social media manager, finance manager, HR person, complaints manager, dogsbody at @greenwichwire.bsky.social / greenwichwire.co.uk. Freelance sub-editor elsewhere. Other bits now and then. #cafc #dhfc #fcsp #altona93
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Where is the political movement to reopen a publicly owned Tower Records?
February 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Where is the political movement to reopen a publicly owned Tower Records?
Very pleased with today’s mini-record shop haul
February 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Very pleased with today’s mini-record shop haul
Judging by the crowds in the West End, and the heart-shaped gear on people out having fun, I’d just shift Valentine’s Day to Saturday every year.
February 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Judging by the crowds in the West End, and the heart-shaped gear on people out having fun, I’d just shift Valentine’s Day to Saturday every year.
Enjoying London’s latest attraction: The Vintage Tube Experience (TM)
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Enjoying London’s latest attraction: The Vintage Tube Experience (TM)
The new Bazalgette Embankment is a much smaller space than I expected but it’s a great addition to the riverside. Skateboarders have already claimed it as theirs. 🛹
February 14, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The new Bazalgette Embankment is a much smaller space than I expected but it’s a great addition to the riverside. Skateboarders have already claimed it as theirs. 🛹
Marked February 14th in appropriate fashion at Gunpowder parkrun. Nice place, lovely people and sunshine! 💥☀️ #loveparkrun
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Marked February 14th in appropriate fashion at Gunpowder parkrun. Nice place, lovely people and sunshine! 💥☀️ #loveparkrun
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I'd missed that the government last week ordered the deletion of the site Courtsdesk. It's hard to describe how impossible it is for journalists to find court listings in UK. There's countless hearings I'd send a reporter to... if I knew they were happening. www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/mini...
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting database - Legal Cheek
Blow for open justice
www.legalcheek.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I'd missed that the government last week ordered the deletion of the site Courtsdesk. It's hard to describe how impossible it is for journalists to find court listings in UK. There's countless hearings I'd send a reporter to... if I knew they were happening. www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/mini...
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It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing; a new blog is up. With another racist breaking cover this week we take time to reflect on how fanzines fought the fascists and how we all still need to.
footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/02/12/k...
footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/02/12/k...
Kick It Out
Jim Ratcliffe, a tax dodger living in Monaco who doesn’t speak the language, is the latest in a long line of people in high profile roles who have outed themselves in the most horrific manner with …
footballfanzineculture.blog
February 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing; a new blog is up. With another racist breaking cover this week we take time to reflect on how fanzines fought the fascists and how we all still need to.
footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/02/12/k...
footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/02/12/k...
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Just needs a picture of No10’s corner flag.
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Just needs a picture of No10’s corner flag.
Thought this was a spoof, but no... www.gov.uk/government/n...
The football-ification of everything.
“Wantaway Permanent Secretary issues come-and-get-me plea amid reshuffle turmoil”
“Wantaway Permanent Secretary issues come-and-get-me plea amid reshuffle turmoil”
February 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Thought this was a spoof, but no... www.gov.uk/government/n...
Or you can visit the London Borough of Bexley, which has no dedicated news outlet, where Uncle Clive gets radicalised by Facebook and tries to blow up an ULEZ camera.
A survey taken in August 2025 found that across 206 US counties defined as local news deserts, roughly half of people relied on non-journalistic sources, not news organisations, to get local news localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/0...
With no local news, those in news deserts turn to social media feeds, influencers and gossip
research | Feb 10, 2026
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
February 11, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Or you can visit the London Borough of Bexley, which has no dedicated news outlet, where Uncle Clive gets radicalised by Facebook and tries to blow up an ULEZ camera.
The Panorama documentary about the murders of Kelyan Bokassa and Daejaun Campbell in Woolwich is now on BBC iPlayer. It is a very difficult and upsetting watch, but an important piece of reporting. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Knife Crime: What Happened to Our Boys?
Reporter Frankie McCamley traces the lives of two teenage boys who were murdered in south London, and follows the mothers who are left behind and now want answers about what happened to them.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
The Panorama documentary about the murders of Kelyan Bokassa and Daejaun Campbell in Woolwich is now on BBC iPlayer. It is a very difficult and upsetting watch, but an important piece of reporting. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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"Hobbs brings up Putney a lot during our interview, with the kind of tone I imagine Vietnam War veterans use to talk about the Tet offensive."
Since 2014, London's buses have lost a quarter of their passengers. What happened? And how is Putney to blame?
Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's deep dive
Since 2014, London's buses have lost a quarter of their passengers. What happened? And how is Putney to blame?
Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's deep dive
The big bus bust: How TfL lost a quarter of its passengers
London's once world-beating bus network has been in decline for a decade. Can a new plan turn things around?
www.the-londoner.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 9:24 AM
"Hobbs brings up Putney a lot during our interview, with the kind of tone I imagine Vietnam War veterans use to talk about the Tet offensive."
Since 2014, London's buses have lost a quarter of their passengers. What happened? And how is Putney to blame?
Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's deep dive
Since 2014, London's buses have lost a quarter of their passengers. What happened? And how is Putney to blame?
Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's deep dive
Influencers have learned fast from the rest of the industry, sadly.
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Influencers have learned fast from the rest of the industry, sadly.
Went to Essex to watch Dulwich Hamlet lose 2-1 to Aveley. Didn’t meet Phenomenal Phil, sadly.
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Went to Essex to watch Dulwich Hamlet lose 2-1 to Aveley. Didn’t meet Phenomenal Phil, sadly.
This reminds me that I had a glass of Stella when I was in Brussels the other week, out of curiosity, and it was really nice!
BREWERS' SWOOP Fancy a pint of expensive but watery beer? My piece in the latest Private Eye. #BskyBeer
February 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This reminds me that I had a glass of Stella when I was in Brussels the other week, out of curiosity, and it was really nice!
I always keep meaning to take a picture of this because this display dated so quickly: the Independent in print, the financial crisis and Gordon Brown, the Telegraph before it went barmy.
Just paying my respects at the Greenwich Peninsula WH Smith’s Shrine to 2008.
February 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I always keep meaning to take a picture of this because this display dated so quickly: the Independent in print, the financial crisis and Gordon Brown, the Telegraph before it went barmy.
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Just paying my respects at the Greenwich Peninsula WH Smith’s Shrine to 2008.
February 7, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Just paying my respects at the Greenwich Peninsula WH Smith’s Shrine to 2008.
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What the fuck is going on?
February 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM
What the fuck is going on?
Omnigov was the agency that helped to bail out a lot of corporate local news outlets during the pandemic with a special series of wraparound ads, but declined to offer the same to independents.
UPDATE: I've had a response from the Cabinet Office!
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
February 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Omnigov was the agency that helped to bail out a lot of corporate local news outlets during the pandemic with a special series of wraparound ads, but declined to offer the same to independents.
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🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Maybe it's having the BBC Concert Orchestra alongside, but this doesn't half sound like Pulp having another crack at a James Bond theme. (thanks @brokenbiros.bsky.social for reminding me that these sessions are up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShOj...
Pulp - Hymn Of The North (Radio 2 Piano Room)
YouTube video by BBC Music
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Maybe it's having the BBC Concert Orchestra alongside, but this doesn't half sound like Pulp having another crack at a James Bond theme. (thanks @brokenbiros.bsky.social for reminding me that these sessions are up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShOj...
He's toast, isn't he? (you can stick this first-class analysis on your live blogs without charge, media outlets) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Starmer apologises to Epstein victims for appointing Mandelson and 'believing his lies' - follow live
The Conservatives and Lib Dems call for a confidence vote in the prime minister, who is under pressure for making Lord Mandelson US ambassador in 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
He's toast, isn't he? (you can stick this first-class analysis on your live blogs without charge, media outlets) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
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that street sign is weirdly small, uses the typeface of London Borough of Southwark and the curved chamfers of the City of Liverpool, with a Hastings postcode. In short it’s making my foot itch.
February 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
that street sign is weirdly small, uses the typeface of London Borough of Southwark and the curved chamfers of the City of Liverpool, with a Hastings postcode. In short it’s making my foot itch.