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Farage entering his Alan Partridge era: "...an angry performance at a press conference in London, the Reform leader suggested he would boycott the BBC and said ITV had its own case to answer, as [Farage] repeatedly shouted “Bernard Manning”. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/farage-turns-on-broadcasters-racism-allegations-bbc

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/01/zipcar-worlds-biggest-car-sharing-company-to-close-uk-operation No service after 31 December 2025. I wonder if someone will buy the business.

The development at the old Jewson yard is literally overlooking a train station, and Southwark has declining school rolls because fewer kids are being brought up in the borough - and yet NIMBYs objected to it. We *already* have a housing crisis for the people that live here right now.

Some of these things are going on for quite a while, and consistently. I'm just guessing but it seems better organised/choreographed than just a back garden shindig or kids chucking them around. Surely it's got to be wedding venues etc that are putting them on or maybe just allowing them...?

It is. It's just not gonna happen. London is supposed to get 440,000 new homes by 2030. Just 10,000 were completed in 2024-2025 so housing supply is barely growing. Meanwhile, housing demand continues to increase. Net migration to the UK was +204,000 in 2024-2025 (and that's a big drop from the previous year). Of those people, about 25% will come to London ie 51,000 people. The average occupancy of a home in London is 2.5 persons i.e. we should have built 21,250 new homes in London just to keep the current supply equalised with current demand. But we didn't - we built half as much. We're not even keeping things steady with new housing, let alone improving the structural long term shortage. That's not helped by NIMBYs and politicians like @James Barber opposing new housing on infill sites like the old Jewsons yard. But I don't see how people complaining about more tax on £2m homes affects any of that one way or the other. Perhaps I'm being dense. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/press/net-migration-falls-78-in-two-years-returning-to-pre-brexit-levels-every-major-immigration-category-except-asylum-declines/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ldgqvypqpo https://www.hbf.co.uk/news/urgent-government-action-needed-to-prevent-london-housing-delivery-collapse-warns-hbf/ https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/householdcharacteristics/homeinternetandsocialmediausage/bulletins/householdandresidentcharacteristicsenglandandwales/census2021

I don't think we need to worry too much about that. There would have to be a massive amount of new construction very quickly to keep housing costs level, let alone depressing existing house prices.

I don't really see the linkage between the two factors tbh

Today I learned that living in a 5 bedroom, £2m+ house in Dulwich is basically like being in prison. Honestly, CPR Dave is the finest-crafted persona on the forum. He never fails to suck people in - I fall for it every time. It's top quality trolling (in the original sense of the word). From the Subtle Art of Trolling: troll v.,n. To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies"; which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling";, a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. https://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html

A couple of interesting - albeit anecdotal - letters to the Grauniad today about what I think is more useful question about private schools' conduct and response as institutions, and whether they have changed in the interim. Excerpt: the private schools which were built to train young Englishmen for empire-building were deeply racist even in the 1980s. Mine had a quota for the maximum number of Jewish pupils... I say this not to defend Farage, but to point out that he – and many others from a similar background – were schooled in an environment that condoned or even encouraged blatant racism, while also equipping the pupils with the swagger, charm and polish to make others feel inferior and admiring of them. To see him in isolation is to miss the nature of the sorts of institutions that educated him, and the damage they do. I’m sure the schools will say they have changed, and I hope they have, but while they continue to educate their pupils to believe they are better than others, there will be plenty more where Farage came from. The Dulwich College "rape culture" allegations certainly seem to be consistent with an institutional culture of making its pupils feel better than others - albeit girls and women in those cases rather than Jews and Muslims. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/26/racism-claims-against-nigel-farage-are-no-surprise-to-us

1) local government and central government are both just different parts of government 2) if anyone is stuck in the nightmare position of having an unsaleable £2m house in Dulwich, don't suffer in silence. Reach out to me - I'll buy it from you next week for £1m. The community is ready to rally around and support you! 🙏🙏🙏

The entire point of the story is that many people remember Farage as expressing racist beliefs and being racist as a teenager. Have you actually read the article?

Sorry - I said 2002 but obviously that should be 2022. And just to tuck away the "it was only one person that said this" point: The Guardian has spoken to more than 20 people who alleged racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage at school, including seven people who say they recall the targeted abuse of Peter Ettedgui, who is now an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/25/three-more-ex-pupils-at-school-with-nigel-farage-reject-banter-claims

He's also done a nice little video about Kingswood House and Sydenham Hill Station (which got a B tier rating!). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFnyl1ZsOMf/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFs1qzPs8So/

Not sure if you've read the link but Crick's reporting for his 2002 book is different to the Guardian's reporting for its article last week.

Dulwich College doesn't seem to have issued any statement on its (surprisingly active!) news page, although tbf it's not clear if anyone has asked them to comment since publication of the story. Farage has denied "directly" racially abusing anyone. 🤔 https://www.dulwich.org.uk/news-events/news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro

https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/337595-decision-2-april-proposed-development-the-sidings-railway-rise-se22/#comment-1647662

Enterprise messed up my reservation last week, so they are in my bad books. Turo and Hiyacar are peer to peer care rental apps that might have vehicles in Dulwich. Turo doesn't have a great reputation...

Not really imvho - the Dulwich College angle is more interesting. Everyone has already made their mind up one way or another about NF.

🙄 Moan, moan, moan.

I heard that GBK closed because they burgered up their marketing.

No, it doesn't. It's a lot of work and the library is a shagged out heritage building. You admit that you don't even know the scope of the work. It's not refitting a corner shop over the Xmas holidays.

Peachy Goat in Herne Hill is being replaced by Mino. The space is being redecorated.

A detailed account of Nigel Farage's alleged racist and neofascist behaviour while he attended Dulwich College appears in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school Obviously for most the relevant question is if these allegations are true, then is Farage a suitable person for public office? But for Dulwich local yokels (and tbh anyone that's already formed a firm opinion about Farage), the more interesting question might be whether Dulwich College incubated and tolerated pupils' racist and bigoted behaviour at the time? After all, the allegations include that NF and a number of other boys sang songs about gassing Jews and engaged in other bigoted behaviour, that teachers were either present or aware of that behaviour, and that nothing was done. It's remarkable that pieces of the reporting abour 40 years ago mirror some of the allegations about Dulwich College's reaction to some pupils' alleged sexist and predatory behaviour 4 years ago. Minimisation, dismissal, wilful blindness... https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/i-warned-head-of-dulwich-college-about-abusive-boys-five-years-ago-xkxgjftk8 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/26/dulwich-college-head-warns-pupils-over-culture-protest

"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"

Absolute rave review for the food at 2210 by Natty Can Cook in Herne Hill. 👏👏👏 Grace Dent of the Guardian is no easy reviewer. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/16/2210-by-natty-can-cook-london-se24-grace-dent-restaurant-review