OK, I'll play. Britain in 1945 was finished - if you think things are bad in 2025, imagine it a thousand times worse and you'll get to 1945. Most of our big towns and cities had significant bomb dama… (View Post)

I'm not quite sure what "totally underdiscussed" means - we talk about it on here on a daily basis. Is it the main topic of conversation on the street? Inasmuch as people complain about the… (View Post)

Has that been confirmed or is that just ill-informed Twitter speculation? There are Palestinian flags in evidence in East Ham but they are on private property such as businesses (we have a coffee sho… (View Post)

Morning all :) Flags, it seems, are never too far away from the top of the agenda. The rule against putting flags on street architecture (and that includes painting St George crosses on mini-roundabo… (View Post)

Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of the attempted coup by the precursors of Putin (too soon?) against Mikhail Gorbachev. (View Post)