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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1h

Ok the irony is I actually was about to get in touch with you about a story but now I just have to write “thanks dad”.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1h

Would you say that the piece you’re referring to is this one and that I’m needlessly trying to think of an excuse to reply to you so I can gain possibly one or two subscribers by linking to it in the comments to this post?

www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Your upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 7h

It goes both ways!

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bryce.lol @bryce.lol · 7h

Slowly but surely, the market is moving towards my food delivery model: a transit van full of ping meals and a microwave.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 8h

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 8h

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

this is a slur, Janan has never written a line as good as this, which I think about most days. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Lol US vs UK libel law.

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Jeannette Vargas said the lyrics in Lamar’s Not Like Us, which refers to Drake as a “certified paedophile”, were a matter of opinion, which could not be “actionable defamation”.

on.ft.com/4ojA6pH Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track

Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track

[FREE TO READ] Jeannette Vargas’s judgment says ‘Not Like Us’, which calls the Canadian singer a paedophile, was a statement of opinion

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

The pan fairy liquid one is great, almost as enjoyably trashy as the girlfriend.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

Ironically I had it explained to me for the first time this week, in an old-style pub, by someone involved in the business rates evasion business.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

also the covid-era planning reform of "turn any empty shop into a micro pub" thing is also cocking up the old cost-heavy pub base.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

We have done! www.londoncentric.media/i/168467673/...

Why can't anyone stop the fundraisers outside London stations?

Inside Success and WeRBlighty have broken the law with their fundraising activities. So why are they are allowed to continue operating outside the capital's busiest railway stations?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Intercity livery zooming past and belching cooling towers, be still my 90s heart.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Among London white collar professionals with two small kids earning £100k+ it is a double tax dodge. If you earn, say, £105k then a £5k e-bike reduces your income to get nursery subsidies worth £12k/kid. So buy a £5k bike for £1900 and gain £24k of nursery. You’re up £22k and got a free cargo bike.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

A Hiplok d1000 at £200, laka insurance at £20-30 a month, backpedal’s recovery team for a tenner a month and I’m happy to leave it at central london stations for days on end. Cycle onto the platform at King’s Cross, chuck kids direct from bike seat onto train, lock bike on platform.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Why don’t they? No reliable second hand market?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

A few billion of VAT found that someone had missed, plus that £5bn of seized Bitcoin that had been stolen from impoverished Chinese factory workers, things are looking up for the British economy!

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 3d

There goes my long held view that cash government receipts were accurate because you just had to add some columns in a bank account

on.ft.com/3J0Y6yE ONS revises down government borrowing estimates after data error

ONS revises down UK government borrowing by £2bn after VAT error

[FREE TO READ] Office for National Statistics reduces estimate for current fiscal year just weeks before Rachel Reeves’ Budget

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Honestly re-read things so many times to avoid this happening…. But it’s a typo. Although an ironic one.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Some strange reseller fees within all that!

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

So it's this www.savills.co.uk/insight-and-... and Gatwick, right.

Savills UK | Water Neutrality in North Sussex

Savills UK | News

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Yeah I had a very bad experience and then a very bad one! But the difference between cycling in the gutter around Manchester in 2008 and now is wild.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

solid effort by Charlie Bibby lining up that photo.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

Yeah the locks seem to be a weak spot. Also I just nearly went into the canal a couple of times. The signage is also crap. But having loads of big post war motorways gives you lots of space right. Dunno what happened to the designer on Deansgate they’re on crack.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

Cycling around Manchester/Salford is just 100x better than it used to be, even if every so often the route just randomly dumps you on a pavement next to a motorway and goes “yeah this will do”. Their rental bikes are also better than the TfL options... when they work.

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