How can we speed up bus services in London? Why are the fares so wonky? I talk about this in my new blog post on TfL bus network reform: open.substack.com/pub/divyes…

Greening Up in Camberwell. Next should be reopening the station. The home that the state inflicted upon the recently nationalised railway network in the 1960s was a strategic error but it can & should be reversed.

Canada has always been a football country

GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLL CANADA SCORES BEDLAM AT BMO THIS MATCH IS TIED

THANK GODS CANADA SCORESSSSS

HOW DID THAT NOT GO IN?! Oh my word.

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS SCORE A BLOODY GOAL CANADA

Me

The BBC keeps repeating the idea that Toronto is only a football city because of the World Cup and I’m sorry to say they’ve never been there because what, the GTA is absolutely a football-mad city.

Yaaass Alanis singing the anthem

Why did they choose Michael Buble for the Canada opening game? Where is Nelly Furtado or someone more lively???

Why am I sobbing over this but also yeah, it’s the Canadian dream in one video

Canada’s March to the Match continues to work its way through the Toronto streets toward the stadiums. Beautiful scenes as fans chant and cheer and high five fans who are lining the streets. It’s going to be electric inside the stadium today.

This is what your or your allies housing, schools, and hospitals look like if you don't spend enough money on defence.

Downtown Toronto is abuzz with World Cup fandom and police escorts for the teams. Canada’s opening match opponent Bosnia Herzegovina’s bus is making its way down Yonge street right now. Quite the entourage. One day away now folks.

Take a gaze into the future of Leslieville Station! Construction is underway to bring subway service to the nearly 10,000 people in Riverside and Leslieville who will live within walking distance of the station...(1/2)

The Left blames the rise of populism & race riots ~on false consciousness: "the media", Musk etc. sublimate (correct) anger at "austerity" or "capitalism" towards (incorrect) anger at migrants – that's the default progressive narrative. But boat crossings decades of mass low-skilled migration have become a symbol of state failure, systemic atrophy & broken political economy. If central government can't even stop 50k illegal undocumented arrivals/yr, then how can it be practically expected to "build socialism"? How can we create a "new economy" without weaning our low-waged, low-productivity services model off the import of cheap labour from abroad (which represents hard competition in wages, jobs, housing etc., esp. for people at the lower end of the income/wealth scale)? How can tens of thousands of British citizens suffer the indignity of homelessness while illegal migrants are put up in hotels/council properties/subsidised HMOs by local authorities with no £ to spend on non-discretionary services? There are 3 options now: A) The Labour government ( the wider Left) learn how to talk about these issues in a non-racialised, pragmatic way. Stop the boats, deport foreign criminals, and implement a system of managed, legal, mostly skilled migration based on the immediate needs of labour market & in line with a plan for domestic skills training housing provision. Frame the issues around fairness, control, security & ending free-for-all Deliveroo economics. Normie populism, not ethnic grievance B) A Reform/Reform-Tory coalition wins, plays on a kind of counter-woke politics of quasi-ethnonationalism, applies hard limits to immigration/stops the boats while imposing a private equity/hedge fund/crypto deregulatory bonanzo regime C) Nothing happens, boat crossings continue, social cohesion/the social contract continues to disintegrate & we come to expect the occasional pogrom every summer – the politics of Robinson/Restore gains startling ground...

I know this is going to annoy literally everyone but I'm going to say it anyway: Whether it's Brixton 1981, London 2011, or Belfast 2026; rioters, looters, and arsonists always try to claim noble political motivations for their thuggery. But it is always bollocks. The Brixton riots weren't really about 'racism'. The London riots weren't really about 'austerity'. And the Belfast riots aren't really about 'public safety'. There's a reason this specific kind of lawlessness, thuggery, and arson only takes place in the summer months. Because it's not about politics. It's about adrenaline. It's about fun. It's a form of grotesque entertainment for a specific type of dimwit with a high propensity to violence. Don't defend the dimwits who are literally torching their communities for laugh. Who are picking fights as a form of entertainment. Who are no more righteous in their anger than your common or garden playground bully. Up with this we must not put. From left nor from right. It's the same low IQ, temperamentally violent bullshit every single time.

RT @MayorofLondon: Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and compla…