Ashley Giles
@ashleygiles.me
Coffee, cities, tech, beer, cycling.
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(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
🚲☕️🍻🏳️🌈
(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
I’m sat behind a suspected landlord at a cafe and he is using Gemini to explain the Renters Rights Bill
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I’m sat behind a suspected landlord at a cafe and he is using Gemini to explain the Renters Rights Bill
A ‘hate Trump? pay your TV Licence’ campaign could actually do pretty well right now
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A ‘hate Trump? pay your TV Licence’ campaign could actually do pretty well right now
I wrote a really good (imo) reintroduction post for my newsletter but it was based around the premise of it being October but I was too disorganised to get it out and now it’s November
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I wrote a really good (imo) reintroduction post for my newsletter but it was based around the premise of it being October but I was too disorganised to get it out and now it’s November
A bleary eyed first day in Tokyo 🗼🇯🇵
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A bleary eyed first day in Tokyo 🗼🇯🇵
This should be a very easy one for Labour / No 10 comms.
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This should be a very easy one for Labour / No 10 comms.
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Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
Looking forward to the inevitable TF1 dramatisation of this, with France’s equivalent of Sheridan Smith playing Rachida Dati x
Louvre closed after robbery, French culture minister says
Louvre closed after robbery, French culture minister says
Rachida Dati announces robbery had taken place at world’s most-visited museum
The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, has suddenly closed for the day after the French culture minister said there had a been a robbery.
“A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Rachida Dati wrote on social media. She used the French word braquage, which can mean robbery or hold-up. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Looking forward to the inevitable TF1 dramatisation of this, with France’s equivalent of Sheridan Smith playing Rachida Dati x
One top tip for waking up at 05:00:
if you grind your coffee beans, make sure you do it the evening before so you don’t have to wake everyone up doing it pre-sunrise
if you grind your coffee beans, make sure you do it the evening before so you don’t have to wake everyone up doing it pre-sunrise
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
One top tip for waking up at 05:00:
if you grind your coffee beans, make sure you do it the evening before so you don’t have to wake everyone up doing it pre-sunrise
if you grind your coffee beans, make sure you do it the evening before so you don’t have to wake everyone up doing it pre-sunrise
I have woken up at 05:00, made some coffee and done some reading like the books tell me to. Now what?
October 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I have woken up at 05:00, made some coffee and done some reading like the books tell me to. Now what?
Not even a fan of golf, but watching the Ryder Cup tonight 😮💨
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not even a fan of golf, but watching the Ryder Cup tonight 😮💨
Gaby for No.10 head of comms!!!!
It’s targeting Reform-y areas & might well be part of an answer to Reform, but billing it as ‘we’re doing it to beat Reform’ sounds cynical. The message should be as Kirsty says joyful - ‘strong communities are good, we want people to have happier lives, feel like they belong, know their neighbours’
September 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Gaby for No.10 head of comms!!!!
Coming to a sad realisation: my teeth and gums simply can’t cope with East London coffee shop sourdough
September 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Coming to a sad realisation: my teeth and gums simply can’t cope with East London coffee shop sourdough
Long overdue purchase of this beautiful book about the East End via @pagesofhackney.bsky.social today!
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Long overdue purchase of this beautiful book about the East End via @pagesofhackney.bsky.social today!
Reposted by Ashley Giles
Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.
Always fun to attempt debate with a TERF. The usual response…
September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Always fun to attempt debate with a TERF. The usual response…
Reposted by Ashley Giles
Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
Reposted by Ashley Giles
The kids, as they often are, are all right
September 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The kids, as they often are, are all right
The best time to scrap it was 5th July 2024, and then on all of the days since. The next best time is now.
Glad they’re finally seeing sense.
Glad they’re finally seeing sense.
Child Poverty Task Force will recommend scrapping the two child limit according to The Times. But publication is being delayed and no clarity over whether Government will accept the recommendation even though it's coming from two cabinet ministers.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cabinet ministers to recommend lifting two-child benefit cap
Starmer to be urged by taskforce before the budget to make the change — but it will cost £3bn a year when Rachel Reeves is trying to plug a spending gap
www.thetimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The best time to scrap it was 5th July 2024, and then on all of the days since. The next best time is now.
Glad they’re finally seeing sense.
Glad they’re finally seeing sense.
Where is Sandi Thom and does she now wish she was whatever the 2006 equivalent of a punk rocker (with flowers in her hair) is?
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Where is Sandi Thom and does she now wish she was whatever the 2006 equivalent of a punk rocker (with flowers in her hair) is?
September 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Disappointed to find Rachel Reeves isn’t in fact being photographed near to a *very large* scotch egg here
September 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Disappointed to find Rachel Reeves isn’t in fact being photographed near to a *very large* scotch egg here
Clean under your AeroPress seals, people 😬
September 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Clean under your AeroPress seals, people 😬