Vanessa

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Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

🔴 The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder There were Nazi salutes and ‘White Power’ chants on the streets of Southampton, after the Reform UK leader called for “pure cold rage” in response to Nowak’s death bylinetimes.com/2026/06/03/t...

The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder

There were Nazi salutes and 'White Power' chants on the streets of Southampton, after the Reform UK leader called for "pure cold rage" in response to Nowak's death

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My next book (October 20) is on the Victorian medical detective Joseph Bell. SLEUTH-HOUND is a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice and razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. /1

A black and white photo of Joseph Bell with white hair looking down and reading a book, next to an original illustration of Holmes smoking a pipe.

This is a horrific hate crime. So are all the replies (i am not QTing antisemitism, but you'll find plenty) 'questioning' why 'they have their own ambulances'. Hatzola is pretty similar to St Johns Ambulances, but no one is conspiratorial about that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Four Jewish ambulances set on fire in London in what health secretary calls 'sickening' attack

The attack on the Jewish community ambulance service in north London is being treated as an

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The barriers are finally down! The Bazalgette Embankment next to Blackfriars Bridge is pen, following years of work on the supersewer. For the first time in London's history, it's possible to walk along the north bank from Westminster to Tower without straying more than a few metres from the river.

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Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.