But, you know , don’t believe everything they say, mayor!

I do understand (if not forgive) Sadiq Khan‘s occasional cop-shagging social media posts, since London is starkly divided into
-people who think the Met is completely useless and should have more 💰 & powers
-people who think the Met is completely useless and should be defunded/dismantled

…and the (friendless, falling apart) Met Police will jump on any bandwagon that looks like they’re “effectively fighting crime“.

But it’s clear a lot of shoplifting is about basic need, or supplementing basic foodbank fare, in a cost-of-living crisis encouraged by price-gouging supermarkets.

-the young couple, the day before Easter, who paid for their regular weekly shop (under £40) but grabbed a small box of chocolates, value £5.

Tescos would love you to think this is “organised shoplifting gangs”…

Through my dad’s many medical and surgical interventions, every time things were tough he cheerfully said “still, it’s better than the alternative“.

My favourite discourse is when someone points at a poll and says "do you really think that the most racist THIRTY PERCENT of committed UK voters could POSSIBLY be racist" like it's some kind of gotcha. Yes of course they are FFS just look around you

He nearly killed her, as in she almost died. Then he became a lovable buffoon swearing at the microwave or whatever. Great journalism, @theguardian.com

“Loro” is fine and some people use schwa in writing- “bellə”

I’m quite shaken by the revisiting. Supermarket trips as adventures, phone calls about sickness and death in the peripheries of my circle, time looping and expanding in frightening ways.
My takeaway is, I think, how incredibly important the work novelists do is.