John Speakman

@speakman.bsky.social

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And yet, here we are. I like data and technology, and therefore people and policy. Also I like unfunny jokes and mild snark. Political junkie, I’m afraid. Trying to let that go. Slightly American (or slightly British?). He/him. 📍London

Goodyear blimp over Central London, viewed from Clapham
New York Times headline to a Binyamin Applebaum op-ed: "There Is a Solution to the Housing Crisis, and One City Just Stumbled Into It". Perhaps the headline could just say which city and what the solution is?
Screenshot from today's Guardian: picture of UK Shadow defence secretary captioned "Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge said the Tories are willing to work with Labour to push through welfare cuts to fund more defence spending. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA".
View of London in the rain from the 10th floor, looking north from Clapham with the towers of Nine Elms and Vauxhall in the centre
Man in a red shirt holding a disco ball, walking on the roof towards a ladder propped against a tree
Two skeets, one happening to immediately follow the other in my feed: (a) The Independent posting to say "Paul McCartney says one song has the power to unite Trump's America" followed immediately by the BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (unofficial) skeeting an announcement that Radio 6 is currently playing the Cocteau Twins' "Heaven or Las Vegas"
A screen shot from today's New York Times web site featuring a picture of Charles Hawtrey in drag (all right, I think it's really Susan B. Anthony, who I didn't realise was a Charles Hawtrey lookalike until now) next to a New York Times headline "A list of Everyone Who Could Be in Trump's "Garden of Heroes"
Album cover for B12’s double LP “Time Tourist” (1996)
Detail: "The son's trial is set for May 2026"
Inscription above the door of the Walworth Clinic, Southwark, London (built 1937): “THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE IS THE HIGHEST LAW”
Sign at the edge of the town of Peacehaven, Sussex, UK: “Welcome to Peacehaven, twinned with Epinay-sous-Senart [French flag] and Isernhagen [German flag]
Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe, resplendent with bright purple hair
Empty tables at Gabriel’s Wharf, London SE1, on a rainy Monday
North Wing of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1
Two RVs on Beard Street, Brooklyn, on a winter day