JoelTaylorhack

Fraser Nelson commendably points out to the Right that their narrative of 'lawless Britain on the verge of civil war' is the inverse of the truth. And the big rise in immigration has coincided with a big drop in crime. frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...

Now I know what it’s like to miss Glasto tickets How I’m ill prepared for the rock star like rush to see the Bayeux Tapestry New piece from me joelbtaylor.substack.com/p/now-i-know...

Now I know what it’s like to miss Glasto tickets How I’m ill prepared for the rock star like rush to see the Bayeux Tapestry New piece from me joelbtaylor.substack.com/p/now-i-know...

Now I know what it's like to miss out on Glasto tickets A new piece after my Bayeux fiasco today joelbtaylor.substack.com/p/now-i-know...

Now I know what it's like to miss out on Glasto tickets A new piece after my Bayeux fiasco today joelbtaylor.substack.com/p/now-i-know...

And so it comes to pass Buggeration I'll be ok. I'm a member but fed up for my wider family who'll probably miss out

What an immensely frustrating experience getting Bayeux Tapestry tickets Was logged on, via several machines, from the time they were released this morning and the nearest I'm to the front of the queue - after over 2 and a half hours - is 66531 It's not going to happen is it?

Sorry this is twaddle I live in zone 4 It takes me under 20 minutes to get to London Victoria I can be at Tate Modern, Borough Market of the City in 25 In little more than 40 minutes I can be in King’s X or the countryside I used to live zone 2 & couldn’t get to any of those places so quickly

Boots on the Ground by Massive Attack and Tom Waits is rather fantastic and ferocious

Ordnance Survey benchmark on the side of St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby

Well this is rather lovely

Is there a different Daily Mail or is Katie Zacharia that much of an idiot?

True to form, Musk has invented an entirely useless car

Zelensky, despite everything, remains a class act Trump remains an idiotic toddler

6.4% voting for an obviously racist party Awful

@cheeseford.bsky.social how are you? We must catch up

Spent the last two hours talking to police as I rang them after inadvertently chatting with a hugely pissed woman with a pram and an 8 year old Kept falling over, children very distressed, felt I had to And still not sure I did the right thing and feel awful for the kids

On Sally Rooney - we are not an overly political shop but books have always been about freedom of thought and expression, and we support that. We are able to continue to stock Sally’s books, and we will continue to sell them. Jo and Chris

Abraham Cupeiro plays a Roman cornu, a 3-meter curved brass horn used by Roman cornicines to relay military signals, in a duet with Sabela Caamaño on pipe organ inside Galicia's Catedral de Mondoñedo. IG: @abrahamcupeiro ~ Spain instagram.com/abrahamcupei...

After five years, council finally acts to clean up country park insidecroydon.com/2026/10/15/a... #Croydon #ThamesWater #Sewage #SouthNorwood @rspbengland.bsky.social @cprelondon.bsky.social

What a pathetic headline from the BBC

Thought it would be fun to watch some of the Rugby League World Cup But I've just discovered it's on a channel called Premier Sports, which costs a minimum of £12.99 a month Rugby League is making itself irrelevant by being so hard to watch Just stupid

It’s such bad luck these things keep happening to Reform

Sensible advice from Siduri to Gilgamesh

This piece bothers me www.thetimes.com/life-style/c... It’s Polly Vernon writing about when she worked in a bar in London It includes this: ‘Politicians drank there — I once made Tony Benn a G&T — as did EastEnders stars and footballers’ I can’t imagine Benn in such a bar & he didn’t drink booze

A handsome pigeon joins me as I finish off a book over lunch

This piece bothers me www.thetimes.com/life-style/c... It’s Polly Vernon writing about when she worked in a bar in London It includes this: ‘Politicians drank there — I once made Tony Benn a G&T — as did EastEnders stars and footballers’ I can’t imagine Benn in such a bar & he didn’t drink booze

This is such sad news We stayed in a flat round the corne from the Marche Couvert des Enfants Rouges a few years ago and it was just lovely Great stalls, fantastic food Must have been terrfying for the nearby residents I do hope something can be reborn www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Ian Hislop in the Sunday Times He’s not wrong ‘This is why I find the new right so annoying, because they seem to dislike this country very much. And I don’ta.’

I still don’t understand how anyone in America voted for the corrupt, stupid orange blob

In a bar watching a band It’s not very busy I saw a woman filming the group with her phone She wasn’t filming the band but herself singing along for about five minutes

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Just trying to imagine what he’d be like if he was more stupid I don’t think I have the capacity

What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.

These people are unhinged

Spent about 3 hours today creating a giant cinnamon roll as a birthday cake Not bad

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Childish, vain, stupid, warmongering, crooks US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Robert Jenrick of Reform on why he wants a debate about who is not ethnically English, not just a debate about cultural integration. But it is deeply illogical to claim insisting that Rishi Sunak + Marcus Rashford can't be English is driven by a concern about too little integration!

I can't remember: when Thatcher wrote The Right Approach in 1976, did she also do this?

Bread and circuses www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Many will feel that, like Corbyn before him, Polanski showed a failure of courage to stand up to antisemitic entryists, preferring their adulation instead Doubt Polanski will realise his time as Green leader is now basically over He’ll plough on but successor will have a big job detoxifying party

what does "netflix-style vision for iplayer" even mean? they already do the same thing as netflix's core product. it is a netflix-style service.

I think the BBC should close its television news channel to save money It’s so poor now anyway Fund proper journalism, make decent news programmes, maintain Radio 4 Rolling news is awful too

James Acaster apart, these traitors aren’t behaving with great subtly That ‘whale of a time’ comment from Maya was deeply misplaced #traitors

@mrkennycampbell.bsky.social how did I miss you hosting a podcast? Jolly good fun

Whenever I write something about a railway under performing, I get people - usually from Great Britain - whingeing at me that their railway is worse. Not only is it not necessarily true, but it is also tiring. So I wrote about it! jonworth.eu/my-train-is-ev…

Kemi Badenoch's inheritance tax plans appear to lock wealth locked into families and reduce the number of family homes on the market Novel approach to the housing crisis