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@jim.londoncentric.media
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Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 27m
This would also impressively mean scrapping the subsidy for air con, Proudly announce year ago, just before it goes live. I’ve just been dealing with an engineer who’s just taken investment to launch his own small business next year to install all this!
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2h
Sorry I’m just replying to all your posts now but as one of the first journalists to approach Grimes for comment on the “er you clearly made up this Brexit donation” story, he was a non-ideological terrified kid and became what he is now in response to media criticism and Twitter attacks.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2h
Oh I knew him irl from the indie music scene and it was very confusing when he later became a thing! Absolutely terrifying list that reminds me of loads of people who I saw post on a daily basis for a decade, left *zero cultural footprint in my mind* but probably shaped UK politics forever, badly.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2h
The Vote Leave head office over indexed on “junior staff involved because want to get laid and certain senior staff keen to get involved” and I always think that’s the unwritten story of why Brexit happened.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13h
This is my favourite “endorsement” of sorts in ages.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13h
Eleven months ago I DM’d Mr Palmer on Bluesky asking if he could recommend any freelance Chinese reporters… and that’s how long my torturous editing process takes. But it’s a pretty fun read! Especially London developers boasting about the investment case for British NIMBYism.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 20h
I hide a single typo in every edition, as prominently as possible, to prove that it's not written by AI. (Fucks sake, it's always the subhead you put in at the last minute, thank you.)
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23h
The death of Harry Webb and London’s gas-and-drive problem. www.londoncentric.media/p/nitrous-ox...
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“The killing of Harry Webb wasn’t just another statistic”: London’s gas-and-drive crisis
Plus: What will pedestrianised Oxford Street look? • Where in London are the Greens targeting next? • Phone theft decline is a central London thing
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23h
Yeah ok but the cheese… is *inside* the ham.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23h
This is how I learn 3 for £8 (very hard mental arithmetic, implying vague sense of value per item and savings to be had) has been replaced by 3 for £9 (hang on I’m paying three quid for those cheese-in-ham things)
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/10/2026
Ok so you need to book a hunting lodge room in the pyramid it is full dystopia America consumer mental brilliance. The rest of Memphis is a total mess. One historic elvis street and then a dump. Theres a concrete college football stadium you’d appreciate in the suburbs.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/10/2026
Love this! I dunno if it’s pure po mo but the highlight of going to Memphis wasn’t Graceland it was getting to stay in a giant 80s pyramid turned into a fishing shop / hunting lodge. It all just makes a bit more sense in America. PS plz do the death of the millennium-funded arts centre building
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/10/2026
I really think we lost something by moving to “notes app apology on Twitter” rather than “RP voice over a house beat”.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
A world of many views!!
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Pangram has been checked out and found legit. In my experience and testing and works. Others don’t.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Pangram really isn't.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
So weird isn’t it! So quickly normalised! To the point this barely even feels news!
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Flagged for intolerance, incredible.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Sorry but it’s very Lib Dem that this is happening behind a paywalled FT article that I’m learning about on Bluesky.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Insane to think how influential Quartz was for a while compared to *waves hands* wherever we are.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Very funny how the 'naked girl clinging to Branson' photoshoots stopped mid-2010s. Anyway, yeah, I think normal people like them and they're good at taking credit. When they lost the West Coast train contract lots of public polling suggested people thought the Pendolinos would vanish.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An account of UAE lobbying the UK govt over Man City in this FT Big Read by @joshnoble.bsky.social @arashmassoudi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/c1b9de85-8...
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/10/2026
Those mayoral odds are very weird compared to the betting markets, especially for Reform!
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Anonymous sources are bad, says an anonymous source.
Greens do 'things differently', says source over former deputy's criticism
A Green Party source has responded to earlier comments from Caroline Lucas on the party's motion at its conference over the weekend.
They say: "There are ups and downs in politics and when people are passionate they disagree in the heat of a campaign."
The source adds: "We do things differently, unlike Labour who use anonymous sources and resort to factionalism."
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
"UK cask ale volumes have more than halved in less than a decade"
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
I know soooo much about 60s/70s/80s TV cos 90% of my childhood TV were Stuart Maconie clip shows. I think we just venerated it. Also unified national print media.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
Spotted a Marsh Fritillary during association Was roundly ignored
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
People like hedgehogs, owls and bees.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
they took two specimens and made them fight in the Bank of England basement, 15 rounds, andrew bailey ate the losing bird
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
deep insight into the British id contained in this banknote poll result www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
Funny what public latch onto tho. I've been helping relatives with high pressure dodgy double glazing salesmen who have wholesale adopted Miliband eco language: "We've got a private green grant that's only available if you pay in the next 24 hours... er, it's like a government grant, but private".
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
Hardly an original take but it is Quite Annoying to imagine how much the UK (and me, and you!) would all have more cash today if Donald Trump hadn't decided to start bombing Iran for *reasons*. Where's the White House impact assessment on my nursery fees. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...
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Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances
FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half
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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MHAIRI BLACK?!
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 07/10/2026
Conservatives’ plans for London *Swap free school meals for police funding? *Who they want to face as a Labour candidate *The theoretical route to an election victory www.londoncentric.media/p/conservati...
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The Tories think they can win back London
Their long-shot route to power • First, give the impression of actually liking London • What needs to go right if they want to win the mayoralty in 2028
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 07/10/2026
It's rare that you can actually smell a room through a picture but there we go.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026
Demanding your head coach read this out at a press conference is iconic.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026
“Leeds has got a Harvey Nicks now” was one of those phrases that rattled around my head during childhood because everyone spent their whole time saying it and I definitely did not get it.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026
Yeah do it all the time.
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Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yep, when I catch up with other former Lib Dem Spads we just sit around cackling about how we destroyed the Tories by making them compromise on key issues. ‘Wow we totally screwed their electoral chances for a decade’ we say as we laugh into our drinks.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026
Look you got the plastic bag tax through, don’t be harsh on yourself.
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For 'professional' reasons, I am a member of lots of small town Facebook groups. This bloke has been appearing in towns across Sussex (Horsham, Redhill, Crawley, East Grinstead) with no apparent explanation. This is precisely why I stay subscribed to these groups.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026
This is it - like the thing about Posh George’s grandmother being known in Yorkshire for hiding behind her title to run a dodgy antiques business. Bring back scandals that involved incompetent insider dealing, doped racehorses and 18th century woodwork swaps.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026
Rude! UK gets a slice of every pound on OnlyFans. bsky.app/profile/jim....
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/10/2026
Look, I like stories about leylandii-based boundary disputes that come with big aerial photos of the neighbouring properties in question. I have no shame.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/10/2026
I’ve just spent ten minutes trying to find a headline from 2014 which was something like “Katie Price’s ex arrested in badger culling incident gone wrong in Wales” but sadly you’ll just have to take my word for it.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/10/2026
Sam I don’t think you’ve spent long enough on MailOnline.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh no
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/10/2026
I’m getting so many automated news story pitches from AIs now. Which are basically PR emails wanting to get a link to a product. Eg “we’ve uncovered this factoid of info, if you use it please link to us”. I wouldn’t run any of them but they’re both overwhelming me and weirdly often better targeted…
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/10/2026
Go to reading museum instead
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/10/2026
Everyone understandably seems to just ride on the pavement which is fun!
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