Well, krappy, I am not sure it'll be a good one (or one at all). grenners and I have disagreed in the past and while I don't think they are a horrible or mean-spirited person I think our views are so different that there is not much point in engagin…
Here's a crazy idea! Central government raises taxes on corporates and the wealthy, and increases local government grants to something near pre-austerity levels so that we don't have to choose between having a proper well-maintained park or awful, i…
I don't think it's lockdown returning the area to the 80s, it's more the pandemic that necessitates the lockdown.
kreuzkav, I wear jumpers over shirts, and liked Italian Farmers! Where shall we meet to duel? Wray Crescent cricket pitch at dawn?
Hi Scruffy. I take your point but there is a different between consuming art or products which were created by a horrible person (an interesting argument to be had there!) and honouring them with statues and road names. When you honour someone you i…
Likewise Arkady. I also find that a lot of the people who want to change things like street names are doing so because they are genuinely offensive or celebrate people who were outright racist/sexist/genocidal (often all three), and that people who …
They are staying up until equinox. They started out as an Xmas/Hannukah/Diwali thing but we like them so much we have agreed to keep them up for a while.
@Scruffy, my recollection of Rosa's is that it's not bad - but not bad is not good enough when we have Granary and Rusty Thai nearby, both of which are excellent. The Granary corn cakes and Rusty's tom kha in particular are really exceptional.
@krappy, I think people can probably do without the marvels of the plastic shop (as I call it), but do rather need food for survival. I would like to see much stricter enforcement of one-way systems, limiting of numbers, mask wearing etc in supermar…
The article says this: On Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks.
That strikes me as bullshit. I thought places of business had the right to reserve entry. It is private property and the…
BrodieJ, your argument is getting close to the territory of "If you are only doing good in one area rather than every area you are a hypocrite!", and thus implies that one being consistent and doing nothing is better than doing something but not eve…
Arkady, I think that's a very good argument. My son goes to school on Gillespie Road. Usually I do the school run on a cargo bike (I used to have a beloved bike trailer that he grew out of). If the weather is bad I drive. I bought a bike specificall…
I think I broadly agree. These measures don't reduce the amount of driving and car trips, which is what is really needed - they just shift the pollution around less equally, onto street where it is already bad (and many of which are residential anyw…
We think (my wife agrees) that Rusty Thai is very, very good. On some dishes better than Granary, others not quite - so use that as a benchmark. Definitely better than Rosa's. Don't let location put you off - Big Jo across the road is outstanding to…
I have had Rosa's before and it is good, but not as good as either Rusty Thai on Hornsey Road, or Granary, both of which are outstanding. The Tom Kha at Rusty is just amazing. (Granary's is very good, and their curries are slightly better; but Rusty…
@kreuzkav, given that the Beatles had long since broken up by the 80s I suspect that the queues of people to watch them then were invented or confused!
@Scruffy, I am not as anti-religion as you. I think that some religions actually do try and do s…