Mine is looking around at the faces in the Coach & Horses back in the Jeffrey Bernard days and thinking I really don't want to be here when I'm their age.

You can still catch a service at the Huguenot church in Soho Square.

Well, yes? I mean, I was in Soho on Friday. Obviously I knew it was bullshit.

Soho in the good old days when there were no immigrants ...

Yeah, I learned some new vocabulary from that post that I'd rather not have.

Well the French House, Bar Italia and the Admiral Duncan are all still there within a stone's throw of each other, so I do wonder whether he might have just turned the wrong way at Cambridge Circus and wound up in Seven Dials.

Can you imagine if Myles was around to persecute Musk? Of course you can't, nobody can but the idea haunts me nonetheless.

Also, think about incidence here. It’s a *seller* subsidy. The UK has fiscal capacity constraints and you want to subsidise…existing homeowners? If you wants to subsidise home builders just, you know, subsidise homebuilding! Reason demand doesn’t exist @ prevailing house prices is b/c price is wrong

May's first Tory conference speech after Brexit was the moment I realised that the government had collectively lost its mind.

Oh yes.

The second part of the book includes poems about Dublin, in particular around Ringsend where Mary lived for many years.

There is even a poem about @booksupstairs.bsky.social One of the last times I met Mary was at an @arlenhouse.bsky.social launch in Books Upstairs.