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GB News and Sky don't have the sweep and the reputation of the BBC. I suggest you read the piece. Excoriating could be replaced by 'devastating.'

The Times has today listed numerous examples of bias in the BBC's Arabic Service. It's excoriating stuff

Perhaps you should be

I read somewhere that it was to be an Orleans Smokehouse, opening in December, which seems unlikely

I've lived near here for years and there has never been a crash on that wall, then there are three in three months. They only just finished rebuilding it. It really is rather odd. Perhaps they're trying to get through to Platform 9 3/4

How about bullies?

Plough Sainsbury’s

Have you a more appropriate nomenclature for those predators?

These two animals rode past me on Lordship Lane, at high speed on the path, all in black on black bikes. I next saw them inside Sainsbury's riding their bikes up the aisles laughing before taking off towards the park. Their intent was clear. My wife tried to excuse them saying that they are probably being pressured by criminal gangs but it looked to me like they were enjoying themselves too much

Prior to the ED Deli there was a cafe called The Savarin. The lady would shout the orders through a hatch to her husband frying stuff out the back. I've spent many a hangover in there. They bought next door and for a few years were selling second hand pushchairs

Dave from the Drum's funeral last week. It was like a reunion. Lots of familiar faces and sadly some notable absences. Off the top of my head: Frannie's wine bar, the Yellow Door run by Anne and Sammy with occasional Monty Pythons as customers, George's chip shop on the corner of Matham with (a guy who thinks he's Elvis) behind the counter, Dave Thorpe, Peter Walsh and Frank Kemmi (?) from Get Stuffed (wealthy geezers) and the dusties propping up the bar in the Foresters, the Magdala card school, The Kebab and Stab, Thistells (Sammy again) later Robert's much missed Chardon, the Moulin at the Plough (Margaret and Eric), Streamline motorbikes, the Uplands rock disco with Peter Bashford, Saturday afternoons in the EDT (Des), punch ups in the Palmerston more to follow...

A security car travels around after the gates are closed

Is it open yet?

Spotted at the weekend: I thought I knew most of the notables of Dulwich but this was a new one on me https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/durrell-gerald-1925-1995/