Labour’s internal polling/turnout projections must be quite a way from the published polls if Wes is tweeting shit like this

It's a real shame no one has built a Lord of the Rings-themed version of the Eflteling in Warwickshire, complete with Hobbit houses to stay in.

London goes to the polls tomorrow, so another chance to plug my manifesto edwest.co.uk/p/make-london-…

Thanks to the person who flagged to me that this individual is, and I quote, “a paid instructor & PhD candidate at Columbia studying ‘theories of the imagination & poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens’.”

Of course they are.

This was good. Need to read the book twitter.com/Policy_Exchang…

Had to check this and it's actually real twitter.com/avighnash/stat…

Awful. As Ben Cobley says, British Railways the best twitter.com/edhodgsoned/st…

There was a Japanese terrorist group in post-war Brazil

This is an excellent read.

Now confirmed with data. Forbes surveyed managers with hiring authority. When asked whether more/less likely to hire vs 5 years ago:
Ivy League: 7% more likely; 33% say less likely
Public univs: 42% more likely; 5% less likely
Selective privates: 37% more likely; 5% less likely

The Westbury Estate (left) has to be one of the most depressing things to look at in London. But these (right) aren't even one mile away.

We should copy and paste the latter many times over the former to give the people who live there an enormous boost to their quality of life.

In 1854, so 170 years ago:

- Liverpool had more inhabitants than Moscow
- Manchester was larger than Madrid
- Leeds was larger than Milan
- Birmingham was larger than Rome
- Dundee was larger than Valencia
- Bath was larger than Frankfurt
- and Paisley larger than Athens

Jordan, the Little Kingdom in a tough neighbourhood edwest.co.uk/p/my-desert-my…

👍 twitter.com/standuptowoke/…

The situation has actually been a bit more complex. Up until the 1920s, the TFR of London was higher than that of all of France. Urbanization is one factor, but the fertility difference between London and Paris in the past was even greater than between the UK and France.

What are good books to read about Cornwall? Mainly history but not just history

Today’s post, on Anglo-Arab friendship of old (and sort of what I did on my holidays) edwest.co.uk/p/my-desert-my…

Nick Hornby is now on substack nickhornby.substack.com