51: Oval Office Antics, London's Night-Time Economy

The picture here is of Becky Burke, a student from Yorkshire on a backpacking trip who was picked up by ICE for being somewhere near a removal process of 'illegals'. Her parents are trying to keep track of where and how she is as no doubt is the Consulate. Meanwhile Mohammed Khalil's deportation for organising student protest at Columbia has been blocked by a Federal Judge. Robert Reich over on Substack suggests that , as per JD Vance suggesting that Zelensky broke the '...Hillbilly code of honour', Trump is stoking resentment against degree holders as if they were unpatriotic (Vance of course holds a Law degree but holds it differently). Locally, Lambeth and Richmond have new measures to protect their night-time economies and we reflect on the evening experience in London Town these days..