Jasdev Sekhon
Ex-Civil Servant.
Interests include global news, sustainability, the green transition, disinformation.
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- If one has a 2nd home in London which sits empty, chances are you are not a Londoner? ... the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: ... the mayor is advocating further punishing those households with second homes in the capital, despite rent already being extortionately high due to his failed housing policies.
- Listening to the OS programme on the BBC World Service and, at the close of the hour, discussion of the new "no nudity" rule for guests of the Cannes Film Festival, moving on to the stunt by Kanye West and his then-wife Bianca Censori at the Grammy Awards earlier this year. Silly Season is here!
- "How to lift weights in midlife"... presumably, with correct form and posture, just as any age group should?
- Ooh. Comments are disabled on this week's Lunch with the FT, I wonder why..?
- Wow. Parallels in 20th Century history. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- I don't think I've ever seen facebook recommend a cult to me before! In my notifications, "You might like Aleister Crowley"... www.facebook.com/groups/25859...
- A bit of a glaring error by the presenter on BBC World Service's Newshour just now whilst he was interviewing a war hero and absolute legend. "Tyranny" didn't end with the defeat of Nazi Germany, as we know, it continued through Stalin's USSR! But strongly recommend listening to Colin Bell, RAF hero
- I would not have voted Green anyway, because I have a good local Labour Party MP, and because I doubt the sincerity of the Green Party in respect of the green transition when they want to block any actual attempts to build the necessary infrastructure. And now this, at this time.
- Green Party leadership frontrunner Zack Polanski tells me the UK must now end its membership of NATO, because of Trump. Polanski says that Trump's presidency means the "Age of NATO is over" and his party should now abandon its commitment to the alliance bylinetimes.com/2025/05/08/g...
- I’m sorry everyone but I must share this latest episode in the highly compelling Italian series of AI-generated Pope Francis x Dragonball Z crossovers. I speak no Italian but the auto-generated subtitles are sufficient for me! www.instagram.com/reel/DJTz6Nu...
- Spotted in WHSmith