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
Full Budget now out, small print fans www.gov.uk/government/c...
Budget 2025
The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented her Budget 2025 to Parliament on Wednesday 26 November.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Full Budget now out, small print fans www.gov.uk/government/c...
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
Sad news. The Longest Crawl (mentioned on a recent @deserterblog.bsky.social podcast) is a terrific read, particularly when describing what happens after getting a car boot-full of freebies from a pork scratchings factory…
I wrote an obituary for my friend Ian Marchant, despite his resistance to ever being contained. I miss him.
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Ian Marchant obituary
Writer, performer and broadcaster with a talent for being interested in everything and a particular fascination with British counterculture
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November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sad news. The Longest Crawl (mentioned on a recent @deserterblog.bsky.social podcast) is a terrific read, particularly when describing what happens after getting a car boot-full of freebies from a pork scratchings factory…
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This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?
So my dad is home and on the mend after 61 days in hospital following a stroke. I am very glad, but it feels a bit odd now I am no longer doing daily trips down to the far end of Dartford.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So my dad is home and on the mend after 61 days in hospital following a stroke. I am very glad, but it feels a bit odd now I am no longer doing daily trips down to the far end of Dartford.
Yay! The Dodo is ace.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Yay! The Dodo is ace.
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Maybe not the main point, but perhaps Ofcom should think a bit harder about YouTube.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Maybe not the main point, but perhaps Ofcom should think a bit harder about YouTube.
Lovely to see @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social in this (I may have been contributing to the accents).
BLOG POST: “London is a uniquely stimulating place, especially if you’re interested in beer, and we found ourselves fired up with lots of thoughts and ideas...” 🍺🍻
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10 observations from a long weekend in London | Boak & Bailey
We’ve just spent a few days in London stomping our way through the West, the East and the South, stopping to look at pubs and drink a few beers along the way.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Lovely to see @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social in this (I may have been contributing to the accents).
Nobody in Scotland’s getting any work done tomorrow, are they? Cracking stuff. #thefootball
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nobody in Scotland’s getting any work done tomorrow, are they? Cracking stuff. #thefootball
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Imagine your kids asking what you did in the face of the rise of fascism and you can’t even tell them that you stopped using a website. Pathetic.
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Imagine your kids asking what you did in the face of the rise of fascism and you can’t even tell them that you stopped using a website. Pathetic.
Despite the two billion quid blown on a new road tunnel on the way, it’s still one bus and two tubes to get to Leytonstone, which is as exotic as it gets for me at the moment.
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Despite the two billion quid blown on a new road tunnel on the way, it’s still one bus and two tubes to get to Leytonstone, which is as exotic as it gets for me at the moment.
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35 years ago in November 1990, PSB released “Being boring” as the 2nd single from their 4th studio album, “Behaviour”. The song was inspired by a party invitation from Neil’s Newcastle days which quoted Zelda Fitzgerald’s line “She was never bored, mainly because she was never boring”.
#PetShopBoys
#PetShopBoys
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
35 years ago in November 1990, PSB released “Being boring” as the 2nd single from their 4th studio album, “Behaviour”. The song was inspired by a party invitation from Neil’s Newcastle days which quoted Zelda Fitzgerald’s line “She was never bored, mainly because she was never boring”.
#PetShopBoys
#PetShopBoys
Nice of some PR people to send pictures of scantily-clad women to @greenwichwire.bsky.social - every little boost helps right now - but on what planet they think a site that covers Greenwich issues would be interested in a Battersea burlesque show, heaven alone knows.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nice of some PR people to send pictures of scantily-clad women to @greenwichwire.bsky.social - every little boost helps right now - but on what planet they think a site that covers Greenwich issues would be interested in a Battersea burlesque show, heaven alone knows.
I'm reminded of Boris Johnson's attempts to glue pollution to roads...
Why is Lewisham rolling out unproven expensive 'tech'? Filters built in roads to suck out car pollution, by a one man shop, w/o scientific evidence
Excellent story from @dorothystein.bsky.social on @salamandernews.org
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#greenwashing #pollution #lewisham
Excellent story from @dorothystein.bsky.social on @salamandernews.org
www.salamandernews.org/unproven-unb...
#greenwashing #pollution #lewisham
Unproven and "unbelievable": why is Lewisham rolling out Roadvent?
The council plan to install the innovation at a highly polluted site near a school or nursery, but Salamander found no real-world evidence that it works.
www.salamandernews.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I'm reminded of Boris Johnson's attempts to glue pollution to roads...
One way to avoid Ulez in Eltham, I guess.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
One way to avoid Ulez in Eltham, I guess.
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A game I rarely tire of: comparing the anti-BBC opinion in certain newspapers with the TV recommendations in those same newspapers. Sometimes it comes together so perfectly.
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A game I rarely tire of: comparing the anti-BBC opinion in certain newspapers with the TV recommendations in those same newspapers. Sometimes it comes together so perfectly.
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Deep respect to the Jehovah’s Witnesses insisting on sticking to their regular patch despite the somewhat incongruous popup display that’s now backing them 🤘🦇
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Deep respect to the Jehovah’s Witnesses insisting on sticking to their regular patch despite the somewhat incongruous popup display that’s now backing them 🤘🦇
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I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
We lost Tom Barry (“Boris Watch” from the other place) ten years ago today. I should go to the pub with copies of Private Eye and Modern Railways in his honour.
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Some thoughts on the passing of Tom Barry (@BorisWatch).
I shouldn’t be writing about the passing of someone just a few months older than me. My first feeling when I heard about the death of Tom…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We lost Tom Barry (“Boris Watch” from the other place) ten years ago today. I should go to the pub with copies of Private Eye and Modern Railways in his honour.
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Took a photo of a sunset in Southend-on-Sea and accidentally got Canary Wharf and the Shard in London making a cameo. You can't see them with the (my) naked eye.
October 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Took a photo of a sunset in Southend-on-Sea and accidentally got Canary Wharf and the Shard in London making a cameo. You can't see them with the (my) naked eye.
There should be a prize* for anyone who marks #crispsandwichday at both @theshirkersrest.bsky.social and @thedodomicropub.bsky.social.
(*a packet of crisps, obviously)
(*a packet of crisps, obviously)
We’re celebrating Crisp Sandwich Day today with a Crisp Sandwich Station!
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There should be a prize* for anyone who marks #crispsandwichday at both @theshirkersrest.bsky.social and @thedodomicropub.bsky.social.
(*a packet of crisps, obviously)
(*a packet of crisps, obviously)
New Greenwich pub incoming! New shop incoming! (Spot the arguably untrue claim.).
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New Greenwich pub incoming! New shop incoming! (Spot the arguably untrue claim.).