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London-based writer. Often climbing.

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  • I mean, I also remember 'the news' telling the truth. The question isn't 'Does the news always tell the truth?' (No), but 'What are the actual facts in this case?'

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  • What is your favourite song in another language?

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  • I like a lot of Brazilian music, so I'd pick something Portuguese. 'Tropicalia', by Caetano Veloso, 'Parabolicamara' by Gilberto Gil, or 'Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser', by Milton Nascimento are all fantastic.

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  • No.

    This is almost definitely correct.

    I do think it leaked from a lab in Wuhan, but not that it was on purpose.

    This, however, is possible, but probably false. The consensus among virologists is that the virus crossed to humans at the Wuhan animal market, not the lab. As I say, it's possible and scientists are still looking into it. We don't know the exact mechanism by which the virus first infected humans, but the market is more likely.

  • Met Office issues Red Warning for Extreme Heat for record third consecutive day

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  • There'd be a shit ton of heatwaves called Donald. Actually, we should do that: Donald, Donald Jr., Donald III...

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    Labour up SIX POINTS in first poll since Starmer announced his departure - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

    leftfootforward.org /2026/06/labour-up-six-points-in-first-poll-since-starmer-announced-his-departure/

  • London mayor unveils capital’s first heat plan as city swelters under rare red alert

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  • Usual bumf from the Greens about how it doesn't go far enough (notably with no specifics there) but nothing to actually argue with in the plan!

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    Met Office issues Red Warning for Extreme Heat for record third consecutive day

    www.metoffice.gov.uk /about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2026/met-office-issues-red-warning-for-extreme-heat-for-record-third-consecutive-day
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    Cars don't just cause climate change – they make our streets hotter today

    www.lowtraffichackney.org /latest-news/cars-dont-just-cause-climate-change-they-make-our-streets-hotter-today
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    Cars don't just cause climate change – they make our streets hotter today

    www.lowtraffichackney.org /latest-news/cars-dont-just-cause-climate-change-they-make-our-streets-hotter-today
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    Cars don't just cause climate change – they make our streets hotter today

    www.lowtraffichackney.org /latest-news/cars-dont-just-cause-climate-change-they-make-our-streets-hotter-today
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    Estimated toxic air-related deaths drop by 40% in London

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/czj8v7z1njgo

  • Nigel Farage: I can spend £5m gift on Ferraris or bet on horses if I want

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  • Nigel, this is your lawyer. I'm advising you to keep saying this shit.

  • Wes Streeting announces his support for Andy Burnham

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  • Lots of rumours going around but nothing confirmed yet.

    I really don't think it will be her. She's very unpopular with the members, has no economic background and has very little treasury experience (briefly a shadow junior treasury minister, but that's it). There are half a dozen or so choices that would be obviously better.

  • Wes Streeting announces his support for Andy Burnham

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  • I've been gritting my teeth and staying a member of the party just to vote against him in the leadership contest. Now, it was all for nothing.

  • Wes Streeting announces his support for Andy Burnham

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  • I assume it's a done deal, but probably Chancellor, maybe Home Secretary.

  • There's a heatwave forecast for much of the UK this week, so here's the NHS page on symptoms of dehydration

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  • Whoa.

  • Starmer announces resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour party

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  • He says he's backing Burnham. Coronation time for the King in the North.

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    Wes Streeting announces his support for Andy Burnham

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    There's a heatwave forecast for much of the UK this week, so here's the NHS page on symptoms of dehydration

    www.nhs.uk /conditions/dehydration/
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    Makerfield By-Election Result: How Voters Rejected Nigel Farage's Politics of 'Pure Cold Rage'

    bylinetimes.com /2026/06/19/makerfield-by-election-result-how-voters-rejected-nigel-farages-politics-of-pure-cold-rage/

  • Do you have any common recipes from other countries that sounded completely weird to you when you first heard of them?

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  • Yeah, I still think of it as a spread, mainly, but it has loads of applications.

  • Do you have any common recipes from other countries that sounded completely weird to you when you first heard of them?

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  • I don't have it on me right now, I'm afraid, but it's in Melissa Thompson's book Motherland, and possibly online somewhere!

  • Do you have any common recipes from other countries that sounded completely weird to you when you first heard of them?

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  • I do this Jamaican-style peanut butter stew, which sounds mad but is delicious.

  • I’m a Sikh MP. Here’s why we should all heed the words of Henry Nowak’s father | Jeevun Sandher

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  • I only mentioned the 999 call as you brought it up.

    Yes, and I brought it up because it's a key piece of evidence. You seem to agree; however, it doesn't demonstrate what you claim it does. Indeed, that's why I brought it up - it supports my point, not yours!

    Before I continue, have you watched the police footage?

    I haven't and I don't intend to. I have read several accounts of what happens in the footage, including the judge's description from the sentencing remarks. As long as those descriptions are accurate to what happened, it won't effect my line of argument that I've not watched it.

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  • I've made several 999 calls, unfortunately, both as a witness and a victim, and I'm fairly sure I mentioned the race of the individuals concerned in all of them. Ask me now what they were wearing and I don't remember in detail: the simplest facts about them, like skin and hair colour, are what come to mind. So, no, I don't imagine it's unusual to focus on that. In fact, I would think that 'a [insert skin colour here] man is attacking me' is quite a common thing to hear on a 999 call! Those are very salient and easily memorable details, and they're the kind of thing you can spot even in poor light conditions or when there's a great deal of confusion.

    In any case, you seem to be conflating the behaviour of the murderer and his brother, who did lie about a racist attack (but no one's denying that), with that of the police, who you're claiming only handcuffed Novak because of that accusation (or only handcuffed Novak because he was white, which is what you would actually need to prove in order to sustain the claim that the police were racist). But, again, there's no reason to believe this, unless you think it is unusual for police to arrive at a scene and handcuff the person who multiple witnesses are pointing at and saying: 'that's the guy who attacked us'. Imagine if the racial aspect of the situation were inverted, or if all three had been the same race. Would the police have behaved differently? I find that doubtful.

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  • Do you think it's unusual for people to describe their attacker when they make a 999 call?

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  • No, because the actual murderer had a witness - in fact the 999 caller - who backed him up. The police believed two witnesses over one, until it became apparent that they were lying. Race was irrelevant to that error.

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    I’m a Sikh MP. Here’s why we should all heed the words of Henry Nowak’s father | Jeevun Sandher

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/jun/04/sikh-mp-heed-henry-nowak-father-far-right-hate-decency
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    Testing London's next-generation Piccadilly line trains

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    'A significant moment': UK's latest floating solar farm powers up at Cheshire quarry

    www.businessgreen.com /news/4530638/significant-moment-uks-floating-solar-farm-powers-cheshire-quarry
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    Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities | Stefan Collini | LRB

    www.lrb.co.uk /the-paper/v48/n10/stefan-collini/squadrons-of-pigs
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    Andy Burnham's door-knock to Downing Street | New Statesman

    www.newstatesman.com /politics/uk-politics/2026/06/andy-burnhams-door-knock-to-downing-street
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    Your Party faction splits to form new party | New Statesman

    www.newstatesman.com /politics/uk-politics/2026/06/your-party-faction-splits-to-form-new-party
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    One in four of us is Disabled. It’s time the UK government heard us | Open Democracy

    www.opendemocracy.net /uk-goverment-fail-disabled-people-kier-starmer-inequalities/
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    What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing

    www.ft.com /content/aa945c97-9e39-4f4f-ade5-28f23c3e29eb
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    The Electoral Risks of Accommodating the Radical Right: Evidence from the British Labour Government | OSF

    osf.io /preprints/socarxiv/zbmp3_v2