Hazipslip

Centre right, I did say Starmer would be worse.

We don’t affirm anorexic people that they are fat, but for some reason…

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Rant.

London, My London 😪

The decline and decay of London is really happening — and honestly, it’s depressing to see.

I’m a born and raised Londoner. I’ve lived all over the city, worked in even more places, and spent time in pretty much every corner of it. I know this place like the back of my hand. The good, the bad, the weird, and the wonderful. It’s my city.

I love this place. Sometimes I hate it but that’s the relationship you have with your hometown, right? You’re allowed, init. But right now, it’s not just a love-hate thing. It’s grief. I feel properly gutted watching it go downhill like this.

And it’s happened fast. You blink and everything’s shifted. On the surface, London might still look the same — the skyline, the landmarks, the rush — but underneath it all, something’s cracked. The edges have frayed. The soul’s gone a bit cold.

Take a proper look. Step out of Zone 1. Or even just walk home instead of getting the Tube, and tell me you don’t feel it too.

Homelessness is everywhere now. Central London at night looks like a rough sleeper’s encampment. People in sleeping bags lining the shopfronts. Tents under bridges. There are actual communities of men living in parks, tucked away in bushes, under flyovers. Even on bloody Park Lane. You know how mad that is? Park Lane used to mean Monopoly money and five-star hotels. Now it’s tents and people defecating in bushes.

Crime’s gone up and no one’s even shocked anymore. It’s like we’ve all just got used to it. You see someone blatantly shoplifting, and no one bats an eyelid. No one does a thing. Even security guards just watch — maybe film it, but that’s about it. Because what’s the point? Nothing happens.

Fare dodging? That’s just standard now. If you pay full price for your travel, you’re the mug. That’s how it feels.

People on public transport are aggressive.

And London’s got a whole new soundtrack these days: click-click-click — the electric whir of stolen or unpaid-for e-bikes flying past you at 30mph. No helmets, no lights, no fear. Just balaclavas and Deliveroo bags, weaving through traffic like it’s a video game.

Phone snatching’s so bad they’ve actually put warning signs on the pavement.

A rape is reported every single hour in this city. That’s not just crime. That’s a full-blown crisis.

Graffiti’s everywhere now even on the bloody Tube. Littering, fly-tipping, mattresses dumped on pavements, bin bags split and spilling into the road. It’s like no one gives a toss anymore. Because why would they?

But it’s not just the stats or the mess. It’s the feel of the place.

London’s never been soft and fluffy, we know that. We’re not known for our warmth or random chats at the bus stop. Its not our culture.
But there used to be… I don’t know. A buzz. A pride. A bit of mutual respect even in the chaos. Now it’s like everyone’s angry. Everyone’s done. Everyone’s ready to snap.

People shout in the street more. Not in a funny or eccentric way I mean properly shout. Road rage, arguments, people squaring up on the pavement in broad daylight. There’s a tension now. Like the whole city’s just one bad day away from boiling over.

The youth? I don’t even know anymore. What are they on? Everyone’s filming everything, trying to go viral. And the ones who aren’t? They’re in gangs, or selling God knows what, or riding round like little stormtroopers on those e-bikes, balaclavas up, middle fingers out.

And what’s with the begging at traffic lights? That’s back now. People walking between the cars, hands out, knocking on windows. That went away for a bit, but it’s crept back in like everything else.

Even the little things feel off. Like queuing. I know that sounds silly, but queuing for the bus used to be a thing here. Now it’s a free-for-all. No order. No manners. Just push and shove and eyes down.

We’ve got weekly marches now. Pally flags everywhere. And yeah, everyone’s got the right to protest but if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, it can get tense fast. I've felt it.

Then there’s the delivery riders. Hundreds of them, lined up like a fleet, just waiting. Whole streets now are taken over by them. Outside chicken shops, outside new-build flats. It’s like the city isn’t for people anymore it’s just a giant service hub, run by apps and scooters.

And honestly? It’s all starting to feel like a WALL-E-style dystopia.

Men sitting around drinking in parks all day, kids filming fights for clout, adults too burnt out or scared to intervene. Shops are either boarded up or they’re the same five things repeated on every high street: vape shop, barber, offie, phone repair, repeat.

Even Oxford Street looks dodgy now. And you know what I mean. You walk past shops that look... off. Knock-off signs, no clear branding, stock that looks like it fell off a lorry. It's not just me being nostalgic it’s genuinely changed.

And I know people will say this is just how cities evolve. They’ll say I’m being dramatic. That London’s always been rough. That this is just a new era. But no. It’s not the same. This isn’t just a gritty phase. This is decline.

And I know it’s not just London. It’s everywhere. I’ve been out of town. The rot’s spread. But London hits different. Because it’s my home.

I don’t even know why I started writing this. I guess I just needed to say it out loud. Because I walk these streets and I know I’m not imagining it.

Things have changed. And not in a good way.

I’m old enough to remember when “change” meant progress. New buildings, better services, more opportunities.

This isn’t that.

This is backwards.

And it hurts.

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@SpeedicutRugby @mehdirhasan @TheOmniLiberal Mehdi doesn’t disagree with him on the Islamist stuff, he has long supported Islamist views, calling non-Muslims “cattle”.

He was also paid handsomely by the Islamist sponsoring Qatari regime.

Mehdi holds Israel to a standard he wouldn’t dream of applying to his fellow Muslims.

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

Using someone’s real name or sex rather than indulging their delusion isn’t a disciplinary or a criminal matter.
Jolyon is a grifter.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

⚖️ UPDATE

Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online, but the regulator refuses to take action:
https://t.co/Qs6ocjmiyw

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Many Nazis were crossdressers and Erwin Gohrbandt, who helped perform the first vaginoplasty, went on to torture prisoners in Dachau. Also, every time you see the trans flag, you see either the Palestine flag or a watermelon symbol beside it, so it's really you troons who have more in common with Nazis than *checks notes* children's author JK Rowling.

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@SBarrettBar And a badly worded tweet or mutually sharing dark humour memes gets a prison sentence…

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@GAZAWOOD2 Report as Terrorism. Same for the account. After all it’s a Hamas front.

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@The_Mighty_S @SimonHarrisMBD You’re comparing a city of 650,000 to ones of over 8 million.

Christ Scots Nationalist Socialists are the dumbest creatures on the planet. And transport is devolved… so blame Edinburgh. Which could barely organise a fucking tram.

[Giles Dilnot @reporterboy]

Obvious question is why anyone at all subscribes to giving this man’s grifting organisation any money at all - not why people pay to read a newspaper of their choice.
He is such an insufferable self righteous bore it’s off the charts

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@andrewrobs @TonyDowson5 Moron and his awful Bad Law Project with its fantastic record of losing deserve to be treated with utter disdain and hostility.

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@peterjukes By impoverished you mean grew faster than France or Germany…

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@thebookseller Presumably to be sold amongst the fairytales in the fiction section?

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@RizDaBiz1 @mragilligan Have you ever considered not being a Hamas shill?

[Andrew Gilligan @mragilligan]

Cambridge University’s education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has an assistant professor who wrote that Muslims should study computers "to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate." Me for the Spectator. https://t.co/BZ1qqtwVtl

[spiked @spikedonline]

Gary Lineker has shared an Instagram post that compares Zionism with Nazism. This isn’t political critique – it is raw bigotry. Likening the Jewish nation to the Nazis is revolting. Lineker’s brain really has been fried, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/vQ3nULnqWc

[Adam Sellers @YisraelChaiAdam]

This is the problem when you elect Islamist Muslims as MP’s. Their tribal hatred of Jews will always take priority over serving the British public.

[Ruben Cober | Essential Europe @RubenCober]

“If two Arab boys need to be taken care of, I’m not sending two girls in.” “As soon as certain surnames come up, we bring in the police.”

An emergency nurse in Germany told German newspaper Die Welt about the enormous precautions hospitals need to take while treating clan members. People shouldn't have to live like this in what was once one of the highest trust societies in the world.

“It usually doesn't take long for 20, 30, 40 family members to show up in front of the hospital. They have special Telegram groups where they alert each other, and they want to make their presence felt in a way that's often aggressive: 'We're here; we stand by our people—and you can expect trouble if anything happens to them.' In these circles, it's common for the mothers and women to scream loudly and in high drama. This high noise level is a stress factor for the staff and also for the patients."

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — August 16, 1948

A Greek Catholic bishop recorded the real reason so many Arabs left their homes during the war.

Bishop George Hakim told a Lebanese newspaper:

“The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ‘Zionist gangs’ very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.”

They left because their leaders promised them a swift, total victory over the Jews.
They were told to clear the way so the Arab armies could finish the job.

The Arab armies failed.

This is what was originally called the Nakba. The failure to destroy the Jewish state at birth. Decades later, it was rebranded as a story about refugees.

They started a war of annihilation.
They lost.
And they have spent the decades since demanding the world treat that defeat as the original sin of the conflict.

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

The modern day equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns…

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Burnham sending civil servants around the country:

"In an initial pilot, every mayoral authority will receive between five and ten civil servants on a 6–9-month secondment. The teams will provide the skills and expertise needed to support a once-in-a-generation devolution settlement. Mayors will be given the freedom to request the type of skills they need.

The package also includes:

· A new Civil Service Fast Stream pilot in Yorkshire and Humber, providing more opportunities to build successful careers in regions outside London and creating a new pipeline of future leaders with experience working in local and central government.

· Expansion of the Future Leaders Scheme, a civil service programme to develop high potential individuals, to mayoral and local authority officials.

· A Digital Devolution programme to unlock government data and build AI, digital and data capability in mayoral authorities.

· The Minister for Growth and Minister for Sport will work with Mayors on the Stadium Regeneration Accelerator, which will support major sports-led regeneration projects and bring forward jobs, investment and housing."

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@aswren Why are these not published without a request in the interests of open justice?

[Hazipslip @Hazipslip]

@tomhfh And inexplicably New Yorkers made Mamdani mayor…