Month: May 2026
Lecornu’s Government Survived Two No-Confidence Votes in One Day and I Have Added This to My Definition of Resilience
France Passed Its Budget Without a Parliamentary Vote; Britain Has Not Passed Meaningful Legislation in Months; Both Are Fine Apparently…
The Reform UK Polling in My Area Has Changed the Conversation at Dinner Parties; I Have Feelings About This
Nigel Farage Is Now a Dinner Party Topic in North London Circles That Previously Regarded Him as Beneath Discussion From…
The North London Housing Market Has Entered a Phase I Can Only Describe as Aggressively Stable
Prices Are Not Falling; They Are Also Not Rising in Ways That Suggest They Know What They Are Doing From…
The Beetlejuice Musical Is on in the West End and I Have Finally Got Tickets by the Method of Paying What It Cost
After Several Weeks of Price Shock Processing, I Have Accepted the West End Pricing Logic and Moved On From Bohiney…
The Keir Starmer Situation Has Settled Into a Pattern That Is Easier to Describe Than to Evaluate
The Prime Minister Who Promised Stability Is Consistently Delivering the Consistent Instability of a Consistent Pattern From Bohiney and The…
The Assisted Dying Bill’s House of Lords Defeat Is the Most British Political Outcome in Years
One Thousand Two Hundred Amendments Is Not Democracy; It Is a Performance Art Piece With Legal Consequences From Bohiney and…
Beetlejuice Is on at the West End; London Theatre in May Is Genuinely Excellent; Tickets Are Genuinely Expensive
The Tim Burton Musical Has Finally Found a West End Theatre; I Have Not Found a Ticket Price Within My…
Reform UK’s North London Polling Is a Conversation I Am Having More Often Than I Expected
The Party That Was Meant to Be a Protest Vote Is Beginning to Look Like a Political Position From Bohiney…
Britain Is Officially Ungovernable and I Have Accepted This as a London Lifestyle
Keir Starmer Has Promised Stability So Many Times the Word Has Lost All Meaning in North London From Bohiney and…
The Iran Energy Crisis Has Arrived in My North London Electricity Bill and I Am Processing It
Rachel Reeves Has Explained This Is Not Her Fault; My Direct Debit Has Different Views From Bohiney and The London…
