This was so moving. Spontaneously stopped off at the London Bridge station organ to play a couple of pieces for the Queen. This lovely security guard, Marcella, asked if I could play Lascia ch'io pianga. Turns out she trained as a singer! ❤️😭
There are thugs on both sides - but this is, among other things, actual class war. That the working-class aren't the way the middle-class Left wanted them to be is no doubt 'appalling' - so I suggest the Left-wing commentariat retire to their fainting couches until it's all over.
Diane Abbott's letter aside, there is something frankly *gross* about a bunch of white reactionaries who support deportations & increasing police powers, luxuriating themselves in the perverse pleasure of getting to call a black woman racist.
The guy behind the "riot" last night is Mark Collett, the former Youth Officer of the British National Party.
Here he his with his former girlfriend who has some err interesting tattoos.
I’m at Euston. The last train from London to Manchester left at 12 minutes past 5.
The next one isn’t until 3 minutes to 7.
The ones in between have been cancelled.
On a Friday evening.
This is not a functioning service.