Given these changes permanently castrate the long term potential of the high speed lines emanating out of London, that's essentially nothing saved to destroy the future of Britain's railways. And these people are in charge of creating GBR.

No. By my calculations this £2.5bn HS2 saving* from reducing speeds** is less than the cost of holding up the project and doing the reset in the first place. It's certainly less than the cost of the design changes at Euston. How embarrassing for everyone involved.

Gee whizz Wes, in what way was it dishonest

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

Did we all completely miss that an Afghan military officer and refugee in England was beaten to death in a pub car park two weeks ago? www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2607566...

Baking-in the bigotry from Day 1. "Rights" are becoming a dirty word in UK politics. First, they take them away from some outsiders. Then, they take them away from a small minority of the population. Then a larger minority sees them go. And before you know it, it's "Rights, what bloody rights?"

How DO you make good democratic choices against a background of chaotic decline? I guess we're finding out...

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

I am quite certain @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a better guardian of my Jewish values than Keir Starmer who said it was appropriate to cut off water from a people subject to genocide.

If you’re not intervening in public politics why you publish the letter and are now on a radio show mister police man

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

Can someone explain to me why we shouldn't police incitement to hatred against some groups but we should against others?

There are elections next week, and you should notice that the pretence of impartiality just goes straight out of the fucking window, any time the dirty hippies get too big for their boots and need a good stomping back down.

At best Starmer has postponed his downfall, more likely hastened it. This guarantee opposition parties very strong attack lines. Whipping MPs on this, fairly or not, is going to look far too much like a cover up for many voters. It is a rookie political mistake to make which looks self-serving

Isn't it funny how British journalists can do this kind of analysis of what time of day Zack Polanski likes tweets, but totally missed Peter Mandelson defrauding the public for years until the Americans accidentally dropped him in it.

What a fabulous piece of film criticism.

Effectively forcing a mother away from her THREE WEEK OLD baby. Just despicable.

This is a real thing a real person said. Astonishing how much contempt people hold in their hearts. Soul-poisoning.

Declassified photos of Stasi agents modeling undercover disguises.

thatch finials were, historically, often used to indicate something about the resident- a hint at their occupation or the number of children, sometimes. so anyway i have some questions, namely, where is this house so i can figure out who thatched it and offer them a round of applause

Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

i'm sorry but if you fall for this I think less of you. I know everyone wants to give people grace and say "anyone could fall into this!" but that's not true and we all know it

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

This is Britain. 25.3m Britons live below Minimum Income Standard. 3m malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Higher rate of infant mortality compared with peer countries. Average real wage unchanged since 2008. Govts enslaved by the super-rich.

The incompetence of those now in charge of transport in this country is staggering. This HS2 article is basically fact-free. All of its sourced assertions are bollocks - yet this rubbish is currently further wrecking HS2. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

Actual quote from recently, in a class test where AI wasn't allowed: "But how can I write code without AI?" 😐 Watching ChatGPT do your homework is *not* learning. A lot of students are vibe studying through their degrees and not gaining basically any knowledge of what they're doing

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

@begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social love the podcast! If you take suggestions, please, please, do Edward Petheridge’s Lord Peter Wimsey!

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

Unanswered questions apparently don’t include “why does the Labour Party have a dirty tricks unit for secretly smearing perceived enemies” and “since we now see it does have one and it’s literally trying to report journos to the security services as traitors, what else might it have been up to”

Noted tartan owner winds bum tight after arrest! (6, 11-7)

Britains smallest Shetland Pony Lucky. Dennis Hutchinson, ca. 1980

Well THREE top podcasters say “shut the fuck up”

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Pens, were they?

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Anyone who says, "an intern must have done this" has no idea about how social media management operates at this level. Posting AI slop is a very deliberate choice. Especially for an institution this big.

Comrades cow, sheep and chicken form a vanguard party and successfully liquidate the kulak stealing the labour of the proletariat. The farm is then collectivised and becomes a workers utopia.

oh fuck it, free to read www.patreon.com/posts/alrigh...

Let's break it down: 1) Largest neolithic stone circle in *Europe* 2) There's a lovely pub called the Red Lion *INSIDE A HENGE* 3) Unesco World Heritage site 4) Near to stongehenge so you can look at a lesser henge and appreciate Avebury more.

Heard a lot of you chatting shit about Newgrange, and I'll admit it's a solid B-tier henge, but Avebury is the thinking man's henge - it encircles a large part of a village. You can live in a henge.