Paul Abernethy

I’m genuinely amazed. Sat here in a pub in east London and three young people in their early twenties have just come in to play darts. They’ve bought a pint each, but their whole reason for coming is the dart board. I didn’t even know that people that young knew what a dart board was. Love it.

London used to be the best city in the world. I loved living and working there. Genuinely loved it. The whole world wanted to be in London. Now? It is a dump. Outside a few select posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world. It depresses me so much now, I can’t even tell you. It was our city, our great capital city. The best city. Slowly, but now more and more quickly, it has had its heart torn out. Gangs of men, very often foreign, roaming around stealing phones with no consequences. Police don’t care, nobody cares. Why would they? We’re told it’s just part and parcel of living in a big city. NO IT’S NOT. Filthy underground carriages. It stinks. Graffiti everywhere. Fare-dodgers jump the barriers, nobody from TfL does anything. Security guards just stand there gormless. Most don’t even speak proper English. What’s the point in them being there? Honestly? Decency is becoming less and less common on public transport. If you want to listen to your music, or have a phone call, put your headphones in. PLEASE. We don’t want to hear it your conversation. Obviously. So shut up. Dreadful ‘candy’ shops EVERYWHERE. Always empty. I’ll say it if nobody else will. It’s MONEY LAUNDERING. These awful ‘rickshaw’ bikes flying around, blaring out awful noises. Why is nothing done? It’s just insulting to the rest of us. I don’t want to listen to your shitty music. Nobody does. These e bikes. Just strewn across the streets. Piles of them. It's so damn rude. Homeless people, everywhere. Genuinely mentally ill people seem to be more and more common, just roaming the streets. We’ve all seen it. There has to be a better way. And just everywhere is filthy. Rubbish all over. It stinks of weed. The whole place has just got a more menacing feel about it. It’s concerning even holding a phone out in your hand. How on earth has this been allowed to happen? And it gets worse and worse and worse. This is all in those posh areas I spoke about. Head a bit further out. Good luck. Lewisham? Tower Hamlets? Whitechapel? Plenty of others. It’s a dump. It’s filthy, and it does not feel like Britain. It’s certainly not safe for women. It’s like being teleported to a different country, one borough to the next. None of them Britain. I honestly used to love London so much. It’s now a dying city, and it breaks my heart to watch it happen. But. How can we fix it? You know what's coming. It’s estimated that up to one in 13 people in London is an illegal migrant. As many as 585,000 illegal migrants are in the city… Deport them, and we can start the necessary restoration process. I want my capital city back.

Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.

Some very sad news to bring you. Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva have died in a car crash in Spain. Our thoughts are with their family and friends.

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