This is a good point. Just imagine if the headline was something like "Patriotic Anthony Joshua brings in enough money to the country to fund hundreds of nursing jobs in the NHS".

When the Manchester Guardian calls, the people of the North heed the call. And if those people are me, we inject Manchester Liberalism, even from across the Pennines, right back in to the paper of Northern record. Get your fill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If city regions are to transform their transport with trams, we need a grown up conversation about how they’re funded. Otherwise our 5-year funding settlements will just be funding two lines/extensions at a time and not much else to fill the gaps.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The latest in my history of home computers is live. Covers the era of Commodore, Atari and Jack Tramiel. He was a brutal manager. But also an Auschwitz survivor, and that shaped him, and his legit drive to build a better world. This warning from him hit home, right now. every.to/the-crazy-on...

EU and Japan agree on Japanese association with Horizon Europe research programme - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Would be a perfect way to mark Star Trek's 60th birthday

At the Future Homes Hub, we’ll be supporting the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to explore how we can both reduce the complexity of the adoption process and ensure more consistent standards. Looking forward to getting stuck into this: www.linkedin.com/posts/vicky-...

A good measure of how hard it is to find agreement on how to fix the problem is that I don't think we need the richer part of the country to pay more tax. We need the poorer part of the country to pay more tax, but locally.

Large parts of the second largest city in the UK have had no domestic recycling service for the whole of 2025. There is apparently no time table, plan, or commitment from the local council to fix this environmental disaster.

This is very good - but the question is how do we fix it? (And does anyone got the political courage to do so...? As it would mean the richer part of the country paying more tax)

It is absolutely wild that roads/drivers in the UK kill & seriously injure nearly 30,000 people every year & our collective response to this is just a shrug. Imagine the reaction if these were air passengers.

Just make it happen (saying the person who travels on Eurostar at least once a month).

I'm pretty convinced that the next election will be Reform Vs Green party. People want change. Media will focus on Reform and try to paint Green party as scary. Everyone else won't get air time. Which will help Polanski get his message across.

And not just parking tickets either. Six - SIX - convictions for dangerous driving. Should have been locked up long ago. Tagged so he couldn’t even get in a car. So right about using the technology though. Can’t understand why we don’t.

This is absolutely awful but yet the coverage is that something that just happened, not that it could be avoided. Driver had multiple dangerous driving convictions, was drunk at the time and drove at 100mph to avoid police. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So work related post: I coordinate the EU funded project CulturalRoad looking at how geographical and cultural diversity might affect future automated and connected vehicles. We've launched a survey to capture people's thoughts on inclusion: surveyjs.io/published?id...

Protocol complexity is a distraction. It's not as if they're exchanging anything complicated. AOL and MSN Messenger etc. managed to do this years ago.

Indeed there should be more down on bad behaving bike drivers but to think that they're anyway worse than drivers of big vehicles is crazy.... About 70% of motor vehicle drivers don't give way at junctions to pedestrians like they should. 40% of car drivers don't keep to the 30mph speed limit.

A minor but nasty bit of rent-seeking the government should do away with: the £10 charge for changing the time/date of a train ticket. Make it £1, if there needs to be a charge at all.

Good article: the government cannot do anything as there's already a two tier market between recent leaseholds that have no ground rent. inews.co.uk/news/labour-...

She's gone and done it. 🇪🇺President von der Leyen has yielded to German pressure and just proposed to scrap the EU's 2035 combustion engine phase-out. "This will divert investment away from electrification at a time when European manufacturers urgently need to catch up with Chinese EV," says T&E.

"Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality. Thus, biology cannot be invoked as a basis for such in legal terms." Augustin Fuentes.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Some great stats in this - clear rail growth is continuing.

UK and European Vehicle manufacturers need to accelerate the switch to EV not slow down. Otherwise they'll lose the market to Chinese manufacturers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What is the true meaning of Christmas? Could it be, perhaps, further subsidising drivers and saying sod off to those who don't have cars? Stockport motornormativity strikes again.

my open letter to Keir Starmer on the disaster of Euston

At some point there's going to be a very interesting Employment Tribunal about the BBC "impartiality rules" which seem being selectively applied which could easily give rounds to challenge under Protected Belief.

How to miss the next step in technology and condemn your society to poverty? Every first year knows: strong government policies stimulate innovation. Lack of it, gives you a backward, vulnerable and polluting economy

Great thread - Europe is pretty much in line with the US and arguably higher when you factor in our better quality of life.

This is the problem of the London-centric narratives against HS2 (e.g. why do **we** need to get to Manchester quicker?) when the biggest gain is actually Birmingham - Leeds - Manchester.

1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵

This is all crazy but the business stuff is particularly crazy - does that mean you have to hand over email addresses for a company you no longer work for? What about if you were seconded to another org on a confidential project?

On one hand I'm fully supportive of local control but this also shows the mess of brand/ identity with GBR as I can't see any indication of that branding. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We've just had our cladding remediation decision delayed another month so I tend to agree with this... committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Great reporting. “Across Tues front pages, the ruling was presented as a clear ‘win’ for the nurse – despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton.” And posting sick racist jokes about Pakistan floods to a WhatsApp group…

If Ukraine actually gave up Donbas (which is simply not feasible and almost certainly won't happen), this would go down on history as one of the biggest mistakes ever made. It would not lead to peace, Russia would keep attacking, just from a much better starting position.

The Trump administration's industrial policy U-turn and aggressive trade policy are reshaping global clean tech markets. For EU manufacturers, it's a tale of two shocks: falling US demand + surging Chinese competition. Our new policy brief discusses what's happening and what Europe needs to do 🧵

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Challenge of Modern Politics - they need to be able to be good communicators, but ultimately the job of an MP is to write good laws, understand detail. It's asking a lot to have both skill sets.

There's an article on the BBC about birth rates. Yet it misses an important context. There's nearly 8 billion people on this planet. Many still living in poverty. Yet we're more worried about imaginary babies than people actually living already.

Thoroughly agree with this review. The Futureheads Christmas album is basically a five gold rings out of five stunner. www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/28/t...

No mention of right to manage in this article but if they're they this motivated to report issues, then it makes sense to take control themselves. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Well that rules out anyone running a website with a comments section in the UK going to the US due to the Online Safety Act.

What used to be the values of the US and UK which seem to be missing is that is far more important that someone innocent doesn't miss out then someone guilty gets away with it

Better article than the headline as it also says about rejoin. There's no point being in the Single Market but not being a full member. Means we follow rules without having a say. (But as always what the UK wants isn't really the issue. It's whether the EU will let us back in is the big question)