Good morning everyone. Interesting news on the Assange potential plea deal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-69145409 Stella Assange now talks about the legal process that saw Julian Assange lea… (View Post)

Taking the Fifth. This is fun: Sir Winston "Walter Mitty" Churchill. The medals Churchill was not entitled to wear - that he wore. https://youtu.be/s1VCnnCQP3E Mark Felton is a small-s soci… (View Post)

FPT: One of my favourite bloggers at present is Kate Ashbrook, who was a Ramblers' trustee for about 30 years - the kind of Englishwoman who writes about organising ~100 path-check volunteers fo… (View Post)

Yep - I agree it's a can or worms, which I think is why New Labour only went so far. AIUI the Scottish setup has been quite effective, so that is a good, but maybe partial due to population dens… (View Post)

Around that time there were gentrification shifts of WWC from areas such as that around Myddleton Square (essentially City / South End of Islington / Hackney). AIUI when I visited in 1991 some of it … (View Post)