Malcolm Bacchus
@MalcolmBacchus
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Chartered Accountant, Small Business Adviser, Community Activist, passionate (South) Londoner and Local Historian. Also @BaccmaConsult for (generally) work.
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@GameBoiiSav
They've also found the phrase "boil the kettle". I know it is a perfectly good English hypallage but, as a once-scientist, it always wants to make me scream: "please don't boil the kettle: boil the water in the kettle". Kettles boil at around 2,800 K.
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@tonypatt2000
On the other hand, you could thank all the tax payers who paid for it. Without their earnings in a wealthy economy that wouldn't have happened. So you should vote for which ever creates the wealthier economy, not which gives away the most freebies. Up to you though which that is.
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@PutneyFleur
Sadiq Khan is retweeting a tweet which repeats the wording of a newspaper article which is written from a press release from his own PR department about a report written by his own staff. None of which has any critical analysis at all. Did the Guardian or the MP read the report?
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@JenWilliams_FT
Sorry but Manchester Council has a policy against converting buildings into multi-storey carp arks.
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@tonypatt2000
Oh yet another person who immediately descends to insults because they don't have any good arguments and can't even discuss something without being rude. There is no point exchanging comments with you and I wouldn't now even if you were capable of answering them. Goodbye.
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@rorymeakin
@createstreets
You can extend a building properly. The developers who wanted to add to a terrace opposite us first went for something in blue glass. We objected and objected and consulted and sat down with the owners and eventually got the extension shown here (the end two are the addition).
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@sianberry
@CarolineRussell
If building on the green belt reduces the overcrowding and poor living standards in inner cities where most of the inhabitants have only a few square feet of green to enjoy and tower blocks are becoming taller and taller, then I'm all building on the rubbishy bits of green belt.
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@PlanningShit
"6. If no flags available on this side of the road, cross the road and bring back a flag, then cross again waving the flag."
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@NoContextBrits
It's not a London thing. It is very English thing. I mean: why would one clap one's hands in a railway carriage as a response to the request of a screaming child? It would be a very odd thing to do.
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@PlanningShit
It's a modern interpretation of the terrace, echoing its features in a sympathetic design but in a manner which fits the need of the 21st century and ensuring a visual demarcation between the old and the new. I know this because I see that wording on every planning application.
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@LoulabellaF
@RichardDawkins
I would teach parts of it under sociology, anthropology, psychology and history. The existence of myths have a cultural interest but their existence also deserves to explained scientifically: there are reasons why we worship myths. It's not really a subject in its own right.
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@LewishamCouncil
Can't any elegant and attractive be built these days? Is it a planning requirement that all new buildings should be out of place eye-sores?
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@PlanningShit
"7. If hit by an automobile, wave flag in order to indicate you surrender. Do not get blood on the flag (cleaning charge $10)."
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@MayorofLondon
So why haven't you done anything about the Underground where apparently particulate levels are 30x as high as in the streets? TfL is wholly within your "power".
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@IconicSettings
@Culture_Crit
The picture shown is of the Crystal Palace in South London. The original Crystal Palace constructed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park was a very different shape. It was meant to be temporary and was relocated, along with the exhibits, to South London and re-designed.
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@timryley1
If the choice is between cancelling Christmas celebrations or having another month of lockdown to pay for it - I'd go for cancelling Christmas celebrations every time.
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@MayorofLondon
Interesting. Do you have the statistics to back this up? How is pay autocorrected?
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@Culture_Crit
The proems started when architects started to use computers to design buildings rather than sketching them out in pen and ink. All that could be done were square blocky things and they were easy to draw with a mouse. Try drawing a Corinthian column on a PC or Mac and you'll see.
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@ewencadenmoore
@yourcroydon
@CroydonGuardian
@secretloLondon
@PRoettgers
@rocking_bob
A sad reflection, at least as far as I concerned, as to how the world has changed. The few remaining London Lidos are hugely popular and thank goodness they survived.
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@MikeyCycling
I'm sure I could report as many cyclists if they had registration numbers. Three, one doing wheelies, all on the pavement narrowly avoided a lady with a white stick near Lewisham Hospital yesterday. Wish I could have got my phone out quickly enough to film it to show you.
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@jamesjhistory
@ajcdeane
The end of The Dambusters for me.
After an almost endless night...
"Why don't you turn in. Gibbo?"
"I've got some letters to write."
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@willnorman
@cityoflondon
Was there really much of a problem before? I walked through the City almost every day for 25 years, pre-covid when the City was much busier, and never had a problem. Isn't it more to do with making it more difficult for cars rather than easier for pedestrians?
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@MayorofLondon
Done it again: criticising the past actions of the government for your own political gain. No wonder they won't talk to you. The irresponsible people were Londoners not following the government's advice but I suspect you won't say that because you want then to vote for you.
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@MayorofLondon
@guyverhofstadt
Providing that there is also a cast iron guarantee that British citizens can stay in EU countries with the same rights as they currently have. We need certainty on this from from M. Bernier at the same time. Was this discussed?
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Just a reminder: Nunhead Cemetery, one of the great Victorian London cemeteries, has an open day tomorrow, Saturday, 21 May 11:00-17:00. With lots of interesting things to do including cemetery tours. Aren't you just dying to come along and see?
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@NicholasHellen
@OxLivSts
@ReconnectingOx
@createstreets
How odd. If you want to 15 minute neighbourhoods and promote walking, it is the journeys WITHIN the 15 minute zones you want to penalise, not those that go outside them! Seems to be disconnecting Oxford not reconnecting it. Totally glad now I no longer live there.
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@PlanningShit
Love how they have managed to fit square windows into a curved bay. There ought to be some sort of punishment for doing that. Imprisonment would be a start
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@roadcc
Can we have registration plates for cyclists too please, so I can report close passes by cyclists on pedestrians?
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@NaughtyNemanja_
@GameBoiiSav
Used too often it is the sort of phrase that can lead to divorce. A related one is to reply to the statement "I'm just going to put the kettle on" with "It won't suit you".
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@PaterPracticus
@MrTimDunn
I have the following dated maps to hand:
1886. St James
1908. St James
1926. St James'
1932. St James
1933. St James
1944. St James
1952. St James's
1959. St James
1962. St James'
1974. St James
1994. St James's
1999. St James's
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@MayorofLondon
It's the appalling use of selective statistics in this way that makes me think that Rishi Sunak is right about the need to teach maths. The current ULEZ was introduced, older cars & car ownership is reducing but there's an increase in childhood asthma admissions to hospital ...
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@Daniel_Sugarman
And if she went to jail, she'd still lose the dog. For some reason, it reminds me of the logic in one of The Goon Shows: "Your money or your life?" "Take my life, I'll need my money when I'm older."
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@SoVeryBritish
Great thing about no longer having children at home: you can ignore Christmas and Christmas shopping and read all the other tweets in this thread and think "How lucky I am to miss all that."
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@katehelencarter
I don't know. We certainly weren't allowed to run around noisily in parks when I was at school 50 odd years ago. We were even given detention for being noisy in the street if we were in school uniform. Maybe teachers have got less control than they used to have?
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@DominicBuxton
@TheMurkyDepths
Part of the problem is surely the amount of land we've concreted over and built on? Far less open land for water to soak into. We've had masses of rain but the Ravensbourne is at nowhere near the levels it was in pictures taken in the late 19th / early 20th century.
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@PlanningShit
It's dazzle paving. Designed initially during the Great War in order to confuse German pedestrians attempting to torpedo and sink British pavements.
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@pursuitofprog
The
@RSPCA_official
in this instance seems to be acting in exactly the same way as the National Rifle Association does for guns in the US.
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@SadiqKhan
"They are absolutely integral for us to exploit which is why we want to employ them at low wages" is what I think he is saying. Odd view for a Labour mayor.
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@cityoflondon
@TfL
Can we have a picture please of what it will look like on a cold winter day when it is pouring with rain. With people desperately waiting for a bus or a looking around for a taxi which is banned?
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@JoeWalkerUK
@SadiqKhan
There are NO free school meals. They are being paid for by us. No problem with paying for the children of poor people to have a meal but
@sadiqkhan
's policy has pensioners paying for rich children's meals as well. No wonder everybody who can afford to have children love it.
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@MayorofLondon
Can you call for a freeze on landlords' payments such as mortgage interest and maintenance costs as well then please? Otherwise you are being grossly unfair.
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@se1
So that means effectively you have to go 20mph in the middle of the night when nobody else is around and the road is empty. It will make no difference in the day when you can't do more than 20mph at the best of times. Just makes life more difficult not more safe.
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@CyclingLawLDN
Why "incredible"? Accidents happen all the time. It's more incredible that you have never seen one before. And, actually, it's pretty amazing how rare that are.
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@MayorofLondon
The article says "So why are rents rising? There is a mass exodus of landlords reducing supply, plummeting affordability of properties"
Freezing rents will cause more landlords to sell up. So it will just make the situation worse.
Ths solution is to increase supply.
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@MyLinguaAcademy
"At" and "in" in the example given are both fine. "For" is also fine but relates specifically to the organisation rather than the location. The problem with the question is that "a local hospital" can either mean the place or the organisation.. .
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@CarolineRussell
Good. We need the cabs back. They should never have been banned. For somebody who is getting older and often has to carry a lot of papers, laptop and the like, it is excellent news.
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@MayorofLondon
I have not lost trust in the Fire Brigade and I am not angry. It is sad that there are individuals who let the service down but it cannot be said clearly enough that the Fire Brigade is amazing and full of brave people who risk their lives to save others and their property.
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@Hartley112
@ajcdeane
A man walking into the bar with a roll of green tarmac under his arm. Barman says "We don't like tarmac in here". Man replies "Don't annoy him, he's a dangerous cycle path."
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@HanneyDP
TfL painting it their way of course. You can also read that as "Approximately 75% of congestion on the Capital's roads is the result of not enough road space for the traffic." In which case why reduce the road space further?
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@jerrybo04490764
@jamesjhistory
One of the way spies and escapees were identified was by their looking the wrong way down a road first before crossing. So easy to fall for the inbuilt response.
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@SadiqKhan
@Keir_Starmer
Please stop your party politics. I want a non-party political Mayor of London who just concentrates on the job of running London for all residents regardless of their political persuasion. And critically one that can work with whatever government is in power.
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@SadiqKhan
Emotion is not the best way to decide what is best for London though. Using emotion for political gains is just wrong.
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@ELAdvertiser
@BillEllson
Problem is not the closure of the parks but the tiny flats. The policy of cramming more and more people into London into smaller and smaller spaces is just wrong and the coronavirus has just shown us another reason why this is so. Time for re-thinking that new London Plan.
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@MayorofLondon
They are not free and the
@mayoroflondon
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@MayorofLondon
How much of that is due to the natural replacement of older vehicles with those meeting the newer EU standards? It's not all down to the ULEZ. It would surely be disingenuous to suggest it was.
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@MuirJim
@RobWhiteman
@BBCArabic
A minority of people screaming to defund the BBC and this is the sad result.
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@MayorofLondon
Last night we sent a new year message of love, hope & unity.
And next week ... more strikes.
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@slowbikeiain
Children's freedom has been massively increased thanks to the motor car. As a child I went to countless places and did countless things my parents as children were never able to do thanks to having a car. The same applied to my children. The freedoms were just different.
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@theAliceRoberts
Unfortunately science is very bad at predicting human reactions en masse and economics both of which are factors to be taken into account in politics. I wish science was better at both, but it isn't.
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@darrengrimes_
I had a nearly two year brush with Nat West which eventually resulted in an apology right from the top. It was on a much smaller scale but they made all sorts of blunders which prevented a charity from utilising some of its funds....
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@MayorofLondon
@TfL
"Walking or cycling is often the quickest mode of transport for some journeys" is a great condemnation of public transport or a statement of the bleeding obvious. Cars are often the quickest mode of transport for some journeys as well.
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@SadiqKhan
@LondonLabour
@DannyBeales
Hope you are doing this in your free time although London would be far better off with Mayors who did not side with ANY political party but simply worked for the good of all Londoners.
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@willnorman
Almost all I notice are young, male and white. Hardly an inclusive mode of transport. Oh and one cycling on the pavement on a Lime bike whose details can be presumably be tracked and they can be prosecuted.
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@bswud
An excellent idea. An annual vote in each town for the ugliest building and wide publicity of the result including the name of the owners and architects and the council that permitted it. That could add a good nudge to incremental improvement of some of our town centres.
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@js_simons
Reading alk this thread I wonder why it no longer seems to be the parents responsibilty to bring up their children. It's not the teachers', it's not the state's. If one has children (as I do) it is your responsibility as a parent regardless of what the world throws at you.
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@willnorman
Numbers please not %ages. %ages, as you know, are very misleading. A reduction of 4 to 3 is 25%. Can we also have statistics on how much it has increased journey time and car numbers in London so that we can assess whether this reduction is worthwhile? Costing both as well?
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@OxfordUnion
"Sir Rees-Mogg" is not a title. Come on OUS you can do better than that. That's just embarrassing.
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@StuartBroadbent
@AvantiWestCoast
Ah, the window seat and lunch on a train. Things are so much better these days .
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@PlanningShit
If you put it on the road though, I am sure it would reduce speeding. Probably increase the number of crashes but definitely reduce speeding.
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@RachaelKrishna
From my favourite old architectural book: The Principles of Planning Buildings by Perry L Marks 1927. The accompanying text includes pointing out that chairs are better than benches and a separate store is preferable. Love the fact that this one has a billiard room.
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@emilyhewertson
I'm incredibly pleased about it if it stops the increase in cases otherwise we will be back to lockdowns. First time around the Government was accused of not doing enough early enough.
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@EthicsInBricks
And yet whenever a Government does it, rather than applauding them, the media and opposition parties start yelling "u-turn". Thereby making it harder for those okay changes of opinion to be taken in future.
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1949 Pan paperback edition of Summer Lightning. Definitely worth including in a list of the Hundred Best Books Called Summer Lightning.
@PGWodehouseUK
@HonoriaPlum
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@MayorofLondon
New cycleways, if on the main roads, will slow down traffic once we are all back to work. Come the bad weather the cycle lanes will be empty. This is not a revolution, it is a short term effect being exploited by a minority cycling lobby with whom the mayor seems to be in love.
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@C_W_Yapp
@theoldbuilding
Partly, although if there was the demand I am sure a lot of nice carving could be done by robotic systems straight from the architects' computers. Part of the problem is obsolence. Buildings are built for a short life, not the 100s of years' life they used to be.
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@MayorofLondon
So how does that square with your report yesterday which says that you will be promoting overseas tourism to London? Have you secret fossil fuel free plane somewhere?
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@MayorofLondon
Except only around half the people on the underground are wearing masks and, whilst you have the powers to stop them travelling, everybody whether wearing one or not is allowed on without any challenge.
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@WeAreCyclingUK
We're counting down the days until life becomes just a little bit more unbearable.
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@standardnews
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
Their perspective is part of that history. It may not be the history you (or others like) but it is history. We can add to that history but should never, ever seek to erase or destroy it.
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@leonardocarella
@TheMurkyDepths
I'm less interested in their university than the subjects they studied and what they did in business before becoming an MP. Let's have somebody who did a science degree and founded a successful business NOT a classics, PPE or history degree and then straight into politics.
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I know we want a green borough but is this what is meant? Been pleading for months for you to remove all the duck weed but nothing has ever happened. We even volunteered to help.
@LewishamCouncil
@GlendaleLew
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@lccmunicipal
Do you know much about the restuarants the LCC started after the second world war? This is the one in Deptford...
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@VincentStops
@willnorman
@DaveHill
@SebDance
@SadiqKhan
As a pedestrian I have asked on a number of occasions how much money has been spent on pedestrian needs (particularly older or disabled pedestrians who may not or cannot cycle); particularly as regards the provision of benches and public lavatories.
@willnorman
never answers...
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@Galarneau27
@Culture_Crit
Society absolutely needs to be prepared to spend money on beauty. Life in a dull depressing environment isn't life, it's drudgery. It's the "Metropolis", "1984" view of life. No wonder mental health issues, worry and angst are on the increase. Have beautiful things.
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@SadiqKhan
Please give up political campaigning whilst you are Mayor of London. It does London no good at all that you continue to attack the Government.
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@nationaltrust
No. What I want to do is have tea AFTER I have been around the property. This is often impossible as the tea rooms seem to close half an hour before the property rather than half and hour afterwards which would be far more sensible.
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@willem_de_waard
@JustPlaneNews
@McDonaldsUKNews
@Treesforstreets
@haringeycouncil
@mikehakata
@ContactHaringey
@CatherineWest1
@BBCLondonNews
@TheTreeCouncil
No. McDonalds do vegetarian foods. But is is another excellent reason to boycott McDonalds (and their ilk) and to cook your own meals in your own home to your own taste or ethical preference.
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@MayorofLondon
I hated it. I would have preferred none of that music (most of which sounded the same) and no messaging. I would have much preferred listening to the fireworks. If we hadn't been watching at a neighbour's house I woukd have turned the sound off.
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@MayorofLondon
I think it would only be right to point out that it was the police themselves that made the referral in order that it was dealt with properly transparently and fairly. I hope you made that point in your interview and didn't imply that anybody else referred the matter.
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@SadiqKhan
@LabourList
Hardly. The result show that the Conservatives are less popular than they used to be not that the Labour Party is popular. In most boroughs fewer than 50% of those eligible to vote actually voted Labour.
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