Reposted by Tim BurrowsLuke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've banged on about it before but Michael Gillard's book Legacy, on corruption around land around London Olympics involving David Hunt, is a brilliant book. Hopefully this leads to prosecutions... and on the day that his top pal David Sullivan reveals he's suing the BBC too. 3112
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like this should be bigger news (via fellow Long Fella Watcher @luketurner.bsky.social ) www.dailymail.com/news/article...dailymail.comCrime syndicate linked to suspected gangster targeted by policeA specialist tactical officer was stabbed in the leg as the force swooped on 24 properties and arrested 17 people across London and four counties. 021
Reposted by Tim BurrowsTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He is not burning cash. He is investing money to shape political discourse and public opinion in line with his ideology and interests. And it's a successful strategy. Also, for a billionaire losing 10 million is like losing 1000 pounds for a middle class person. 111132
Reposted by Tim BurrowsTobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is what ethnic cleansing looks like: the blanket cancellation of life and the infrastructure required to support it. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...aljazeera.comSatellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal warGoogle Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. 183
Reposted by Tim BurrowsLuke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I live in Chingford / Woodford. People move to Essex bc mugs like me have bought their mortgage-free homes, giving them a fat pile of £ to spend on a greige-painted new gaff and a West Ham themed shed pub in which to sit and moan about the death of the pie & mash shop that they never went to. 76581117
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just a geezer saving for a holiday, doing what he needs to do. 021
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Obsessed with this detail in this resurfaced 1981 Guardian archive report on France banning the guillotine. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... 140
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Blimey, soon they will be able to afford Sandro Tonali www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comDonations of £72m make Reform’s prospects both rosier and riskierParty can boost its campaign power with funds from billionaire backers, but it can also lose support from ordinary Britons 030
Reposted by Tim BurrowsLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/09/2026‘If you look at post-election analyses, the number one issue for citizens was not migration at all. It was the economic situation.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the AfD’s state election victory, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comOn Politics: Germany's Far-Right Future?Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 10 September · 1hr 4min 172
Reposted by Tim BurrowsRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls. 412795620
Reposted by Tim BurrowsSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026England's young people performing esp well, putting UK in the top ten for maths, reading and science. One driver of bucking trend is better integration: closing white/minority attainment gap for children of migrants, where west European countries lag www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comEngland’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and scienceOECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills 918461
Reposted by Tim BurrowsDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff. 112607504
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Danny Thomas is the latest public school alumnus pretending to speak on the behalf of "working class Britain" because he can affect a persona and maintain an accent to be seen as credible. See also Tom Skinner, whose political flirtations died down somewhat after meeting JD Vance last year 000
Reposted by Tim BurrowsGill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Just Stop Oil protesters sitting peacefully outside Parl’t on Wed were escorted to police stations; masked thugs were escorted, still Masked, to train station. JSO protesters were released, mostly alone, in the early hours. Some had their return tickets, Oyster cards & railcards confiscated. 14020
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Published the same weekend that Danny Tommo, mentioned in the piece for his role in encouraging far right unrest in Epsom, escalated his fascist flashmob skills by halting traffic at the ports of Dover and Portsmouth 000
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is a fantastic essay on the uncanny (even by his standards) prescience of JG Ballard's last novel, Kingdom Come, by a writer who lives similarly in a Surrey motorway town 293
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's good! (I need to invest in an industrial-kitchen-size extractor fan next time) 110
Reposted by Tim BurrowsRichard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As my Lancashire gran would say, a Lummox. A clever stupid lummox. All the same these posh dons… 141
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I've had my tea so this is a pure Friday, er, indulgence - leftover tatties, mustard and plonk 130
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I got talked into it in a boucherie in Arras a couple of days ago. Really torn over whether to open and cook it. (My wife is out for two hours) 230
Reposted by Tim BurrowsTim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I wrote about the protest outside RAF Barnham and how it is affecting the town of Thetford, and about anger assimilation and political failure. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comThe battle over RAF Barnham: how ominous anti-asylum protests engulfed a small Norfolk townThetford has a welcoming history. So why have there been so many demonstrations this summer over plans to house asylum seekers at a nearby military base – as well as nights of violent disorder ? 001
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I wrote about the protest outside RAF Barnham and how it is affecting the town of Thetford, and about anger assimilation and political failure. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comThe battle over RAF Barnham: how ominous anti-asylum protests engulfed a small Norfolk townThetford has a welcoming history. So why have there been so many demonstrations this summer over plans to house asylum seekers at a nearby military base – as well as nights of violent disorder ? 001
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 20/08/2026hahahaha (I was channelling you when posting this, obviously) 010
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This looks like a sixth form drama production of a political satire called 'The Coalition', penned by the drama teacher who is also playing Nick Clegg (right), and starring the school's least popular prefect as David Cameron 2112
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Something very 'London has changed' about the fact this megarich Essex drugs kingpin (arrested in Dubai) lives on Albion Drive, Hackney, a place I first read about 20 years ago as Iain Sinclair's address, "bought for a tenner with money lent by Renchi...' etc www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2647652...echo-news.co.ukLeader of Essex drugs trafficking gang jailed after being caught in DubaiThe leader of a major organised crime group has been jailed after spending nearly five years on the run and being caught in Dubai. 020
Reposted by Tim BurrowsHacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Express led on a "jaw-dropping" list of freebies given to asylum seekers in Thetford. The list: bedding, towels, one frying pan, one saucepan, one set of cutlery — and one toilet roll. www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/g...hackedoff.orgGuess what was on the "jaw-dropping" list?How the bare basics, including one toilet roll, became a tabloid headline. A guest fact-check by Emma Monk of Monk Debunks. 34110
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Yes, visit in the morning and its role as a care home for widowed drinkers is laid bare 120
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I concur - my French friends in london used to *love* the Rochester Castle in Stoke Newington when we all lived around there in the 2010s. 'This *Abbots Ale* ... it is fantastic." 120
Reposted by Tim BurrowsStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Reform’s electoral record at parliamentary by-elections: win by five votes when the previous Labour MP had literally decked one of his constituents. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Beat a novelty candidate with no ground game while doing worse than the Tories in the same seat in 2019. 13844226
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I was on BBC just after Farage's speech. He lied about the police and referred to himself in the third person. I called it the most arrogant political speech I'd ever seen, and then they brought in John Curtice and we discussed. It isn't on iPlayer so all I have is this grab of me looking knackered 050
Reposted by Tim BurrowsHarry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Astonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat". 691031303
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Incredible detail here on the formation of the Clacton constituency's seaside settlements of varying fortune, and how the quietly extreme facets of their demographic lend themselves to Faragism 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsTim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Luca spouted everything you might expect from a gen Z man who watched too much Joe Rogan – so why did it feel so haunting? Some notes from Clacton on a very modern voter (who might not even vote) timburrows.substack.com/p/luca-notes...timburrows.substack.comLuca – notes on a 21st-century Clacton voterI saw a vision of the future at the end of my two-day journey through the constituency that is being contested by Nigel Farage. 193
Reposted by Tim BurrowsSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/08/2026"High temperatures have meant London Ambulance Service (LAS) was busier in June than it was during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic." www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... 518579
Reposted by Tim BurrowsSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Clacton turnout benchmarks 1122
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026NB I am going to use this Substack for stuff I can't fit into my journalism and notes from the field, if anyone is interested. Very much a scrappy work in progress! 020
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Luca spouted everything you might expect from a gen Z man who watched too much Joe Rogan – so why did it feel so haunting? Some notes from Clacton on a very modern voter (who might not even vote) timburrows.substack.com/p/luca-notes...timburrows.substack.comLuca – notes on a 21st-century Clacton voterI saw a vision of the future at the end of my two-day journey through the constituency that is being contested by Nigel Farage. 193
Reposted by Tim BurrowsRachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Really interesting thread. Having recently holidayed in both Kent and Essex and read @timburrows.bsky.social excellent book on Essex (bought in a shop mentioned in the book!) I’ve been thinking about this. 141
Reposted by Tim BurrowsSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The Moroccan government confirmed that the Ceuta migration wave was organized and amplified through social media. A similar campaign is currently being run on TikTok, where people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq are being encouraged to migrate through Belarus to EU via the Baltic states. 1/2 8196134
Reposted by Tim BurrowsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it. 670252238961