The gulf between what London is actually like & how it is portrayed by terminally online, self-styled ‘patriots’ & their political heroes is absolutely incredible. I wonder how much it has to do with the city repeatedly electing a Muslim mayor…

www.timeout.com/london/news/...

A GOOD FRIDAY! 🐣
Great to be out this morning in Holloway Ward. Thanks to all who share their time with us on Loraine Estate ❤️🙏

@clairezammit.bsky.social @joepeck.co.uk #NurullahTuran #clarejeapes @jasonjackson.bsky.social @clarkaw.bsky.social
#islingtonsouth #islington #holloway #loraineestate

As that we're all talking steel - here's a video of some steel being made (this is at Liberty's electric arc furnace in Rotherham) 🧨🔥

Steel is not a relic of the past - it's the backbone of a modern industrial economy.

But with jobs at risk, the industry is on its knees.

In a guest blog, Advisory Board member
@clarkaw.bsky.social sets out what a serious UK steel revival would take.
www.goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk/news/steel-i...

This is quite a way to do HR - two million US federal employees have been offered redundancy simply by sending a one word email, “resign”

Wonder if we’ll get apologies from journalists who confidently called this wrong?

Trying something a bit different, enjoyed a gig by @jimmoray.bsky.social at Walthamstow Folk Club last night - my first time there

SUNNY SESSION IN ST MARY’S & ST JAMES
Great to have so many of us knocking on doors this morning. A real pleasure to chat to local residents and discuss the matters of the day and more! @joepeck.co.uk
@nickwayne1.bsky.social @heathernstaff.bsky.social #islingtonsouth #islington

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

Are closer ties with the EU really an electoral minefield? Perhaps not, according to research by the @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social. Good piece by Praful Nargund. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Listening to a debate about climate change at @thefabians.bsky.social conference under the watchful eye of Dick Whittington

So despite all the fuss and noise, new data shows that the ULEZ expansion hasn’t hurt high street spending - it’s just helped clean up London’s air 💚

www.centreforcities.org/blog/ulez-ex...

The gap between public and private sector pension provision is just mind blowing.

“Ridiculous, ill-informed and fuelling conspiracy theories.” Yep, that’s much of Westminster’s political “journalism” these days. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

We seem to be nationalising the existing railway but privatising a new one…

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

well said, Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Conclave is a pretty good film except for one or two moments of melodrama that had people in the cinema sniggering