Greengrocers sign with telephone number CLE. 2190
Barbers sign with telephone number CLE. 1969.
Two surviving examples, and next door to each other too.
CLErkenwell >>> 020 7253
Signs most likely installed around four years before all-figure dialling was introduced. And both numbers still in service.
High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds
"We have to ask some questions about whether we want data centres which take up an enormous amount of water, and an enormous amount of electricity, and donβt create very many jobs."
My interview with Polly Billington MP for
@thehousemag.bsky.social π
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
New Green MP Hannah Spencer says more plumbers and plasterers should become MPs in maiden speech
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Exc: BBC World Service faces a real-terms freeze in funding from govt, as part of an agreement close to being struck to pay for the broadcasting platform
Deal, which is in final stages, cd be announced next week, say sources
via @danielthomasldn.bsky.social and me
www.ft.com/content/7daa...
Movie reccomendation if you've not seen it. Somers Town. Amazing Gavin Clark sountrack to boot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1C...
British man arrested in Dubai for βfilming missile attacksβ
Security minister Dan Jarvis calls on Katie Lam to "reflect on her comments". Safe to say they've not gone down well as they're criticised by Dawn Butler immediately afterwards.
The Conservative Party's shadow minister Katie Lam meets a statement in the Commons about the safety of MPs and politicians with criticism of "DEI initiatives in the public sector"
Reform said they were delivering the cheapest fuel in the country
It wasnβt even the cheapest fuel in the countyβ¦. or in a 10 mile radius
This and more in todayβs @TimesDiary
www.thetimes.com/article/817d...
Trump: "The Straits are in great shape"
Less than a week since another rise in stamp prices has been announced, we've just had an hour in Parliament where dozens of MPs have detailed the parlous state of Royal Mail
#CrookedHouse 2 years after it was ordered the world famous pub be rebuilt in its original site, the company that owns the site has been non-compliant in every way. However, one small victory. An order that husband & wife at centre of demolition & arson will still be liable if their co. is dissolved
The Government will get the Courts and Tribunals Bill through second reading tonight, but it will be concerned when even loyal Class of 2024 MPs are signalling they are deeply unhappy about the jury trial changes
From the Commons earlier, do we think Conservative shadow minister Mike Wood was recently snubbed in Costa Coffee by any chance...
Not sure how this will wash in Worcestershire, where council tax has gone up by nearly 9%. "It could have been 10%" is an interesting implicit argument.
Conservative former chancellor Lord Norman Lamont, who was in post during the Black Wednesday ERM crisis, is taking in the exchange from the gallery.
Regular Mel Stride watchers will be disappointed to hear his response to Rachel Reeves today has been typed up, rather than written in broad strokes of colourful felt tips.
Mel Stride calls Britain "too economically risk averse" at the Conservative Spring Conference. Not sure that will chime with voters whose mortgages rose sharply under Liz Truss in 2022
Big concern about the fragmentation or collapse of Iran altogether, especially with Trump backing the Kurds.
Flicked on Question Time to see how the Iran debate went down. Audience are overwhelmingly against joining Trump, and the Economist's Shashank Joshi has been great on the flaws in the US/Israel's action and its potential consequences.
bad news: 3-1 down at half-time
good news: six play-off spots in the championship next season
Completely mad proposal from the Commons to hide the names of MPs staff who have parliamentary passes which could prove invaluable to vested interests looking to buy access to Westminster. Staff members taking hospitality + freebies would no longer be identified.
There's also the bit at the start about "casual visitors spending their whole lives here wondering why they never went home" which captures experiences of the majority of London in one way or another.
Discovered his brilliant Postcard from London episode during Covid. So good in so many ways. Great cameos by Victoria Wood and Alan Coren too.
Sure you could watch Alexander Armstrong hoof his way round India to pay his kids' private school fees, or........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkN3...
The next few years will feature so, so SO many columns and Substacks by people claiming that things were going well and Labour just needed to 'stick with Morgan's plan'.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
