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Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · last wk.

When will it end.

Je suis un député dans le parlement de Royaume Uni J'ai avais incandescence

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · last wk.

He's done it again.

"Bring me the MP for Croydon South."

Perry's plan: More borrowing. More debt. And £58m more cuts insidecroydon.com/2026/07/26/p...

Perry’s plan: More borrowing. More debt. And £58m more cuts

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Reports sneaked out ahead of next Wednesday’s council cabinet meeting talk of ‘difficult decisions’, after residents have already suffered six years of the cons…

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Philp all at sea as he claims French shot at him in the Channel insidecroydon.com/2026/07/28/p...

Philp all at sea as he claims French shot at him in the Channel

The French navy appears to have come up with a novel way of dealing with small boats in the English Channel: shoot at them. Or, at least, get a matelot to fire a gun somewhere in the general vicini…

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Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · last wk.

No surprise.

Chris Philp (Shadow Home Secretary) has now, finally, deleted this video. It contained a number of (obviously) false claims based on his "research" which (deliberately or through incompetence) misinterpreted Home Office visa data. x.com/CPhilpOffici...

Perry's cycle lane sabotage looks to cost Croydon another £7m insidecroydon.com/2026/07/25/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @londoncycling.bsky.social @london.gov.uk @londoncentric.media

Perry’s cycle lane sabotage looks to cost Croydon another £7m

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on how the council kept secret another devastating ruling over the Tory Mayor’s bungling over the borough’s roads Not conte…

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Coming to a podcast platform near you very soon: our latest Croydon Insider, complete with lavender, poetry, terrorism and Westfield. Check out our Patreon page for more: patreon.com/insidecroydon

A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Formidably erudite, compellingly argued, and dryly humorous, Contested Commons will change the way you think about the politics of space, the "myth of the commons", and the history of England since the eighteenth century: MATTHEW KELLy, author of The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
"Starting with Kennington Common, and ranging from Steeple Bumpstead to Sheffield, Stonehenge and Brixton, and with a cast that includes ramblers, ranters, revolutionaries and ravers, this is a superb, sweeping but fine-grained history. It's also a highly necessary, politically urgent reminder of what public space is - places for everyone, owned by everyone, accessible to everyone, whether carefully tended or wild - and what it isn't, the tradition of pseudo-public space that runs from Victorian parks to privatised malls.' OWEN HATHERLEY, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

John Grindrod@grindrod.bsky.social · 2w ago

This

Another one of those weird AI scam messages about promoting my work, this time regurgitating the blurb of an ancient Big Finish Doctor Who short trip I wrote. Next up: effusive praise for my walking along in Croydon Rumbelows in 1987 - and how to optimise that for clicks

MP Jones survives the ins-and-outs of the Burnham reshuffle insidecroydon.com/2026/07/23/m...

MP Jones survives the ins-and-outs of the Burnham reshuffle

WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on the varying fortunes of local MPs and some with notorious connections to Croydon Town Hall in the appointments by the new Prime Minister There was no n…

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Selsdon hotel's new owners clear Croydon planning hurdle insidecroydon.com/2026/07/22/s... #Croydon #Selsdon #Heritage @balhnews.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social

Selsdon hotel’s new owners clear Croydon planning hurdle

Planning consent for the £30million refurbishment project for the Selsdon Park Hotel has been rubber-stamped by Croydon Council. What is little more than administrative approval by the planning aut…

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Archbishop Tenison's still struggling to find replacement Head insidecroydon.com/2026/07/22/a... #Croydon #Education @schoolsweek.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social

Archbishop Tenison’s still struggling to find replacement Head

EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s last senior school to have survived academisation has spent the past six months recruiting for a new headteacher, without success. By our education correspondent, GENE BR…

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · last mo.

Great article. Although my Greandfather would never put Blacksmith and Farrier in the same sentence. A Farrier and a Blacksmith are not the same trade he would forcefully remind me. We had both trades in the family. londonist.com/london/featu...

The Croydon Blacksmiths That's Been Here Since 1740

A history of horseshoes, munitions, machinery and gates.

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Lost logos of the London Boroughs: Croydon

Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Useful update if you use Croydon flyover.

Just visited another structure that is part of TfL’s bid for the government’s Structures Fund: the Croydon flyover. Speed limit down from 40 to 30 mph. If no action to repair it, then weight restrictions within four years. Can see that (salty) water is seeping through the structure.

Underside of Croydon flyover - space used as a car park. Pair of concrete y shaped pillars holding up a slab that runs across the underside of the bridge deck. Multiple reinforced concrete beams forming the deck supported regularly spaced pairs of Y shaped columns topped by a slab.

Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 3w ago

'The saddest news about Croydon town centre since the riots' insidecroydon.com/2026/07/15/t... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Westfield @theguardian.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social

‘The saddest news about Croydon town centre since the riots’

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Local MP and Fairfield ward councillors urge developers to make good on their long-standing promises to regenerate the town centre. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES MP Sarah Jones toda…

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Ipsos in the UK@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Note to the BBC

3 in 4 Brits (74%) state that the parliamentary standards commissioner should be investigating whether Nigel Farage leader broke parliamentary rules 🚫 73% say investigation should continue even if Farage wins the Clacton by-election 👉 https://tinyurl.com/5n8er7mc

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3w ago

Important that the Green Party holds Labour to account.

If you're worried about our future - Andy Burnham is very clearly signalling nothing will change. But we can still turn this around with the Green Party getting even bigger. No new oil & gas so we can all have a liveable future. We need your help. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Burnham to announce plans for new north sea oil and gas drilling

'The saddest news about Croydon town centre since the riots' insidecroydon.com/2026/07/15/t...

‘The saddest news about Croydon town centre since the riots’

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Jack Kennedy@jackkennedy.ie · 3w ago

Yup...

Starmer setting aside time on his last day as PM (and possibly even timing his departure overall) so that his last act would be to attend England's World Cup Final, only for England to not make it so he just like...has a free day now, is the most Starmer thing to ever happen

'The saddest news about Croydon town centre since the riots' insidecroydon.com/2026/07/15/t...

‘The saddest news about Croydon town centre since the riots’

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