Except at Düsseldorf Airport where you have to pay €3.70 for a new bottle.

Today’s ‘professional driving’. Crossed the stop line without space to clear both the pedestrian crossing and the junction behind. YX17 OHE

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Also tonight I’ve had someone randomly asking me if I knew the German word for fridge. He seemed amazed that after about 15 seconds I replied with “Kühlschrank“.

The UK: Fill up your water bottles with our chilled filtered water from a dispenser. Germany: Here is a tap.

Ok people why is Heathrow colder than Glasgow?

Err… @poggs.com - I don’t think we’ve commissioned this yet! (It’ll be PGR 003 when commissioned).

Excellent piece from Fraser Nelson - definitely worth a read - frasernelson.substack.com/p/how-jews-a...

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence. Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry. We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.

this is why we have universal vaccination; to protect children before they can get their own shot

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Ok people. What’s the deal with standing up ready to get off the Eurostar at St Pancras, when the train only left the Channel tunnel five minutes earlier?

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Yeah, the Greens are one of those parties where I sometimes go 'I'd take you more seriously if you told me something you'd do that I don't like, because politics in practice always involves some compromises,' and now I'm going Oh God Not Like That.

Zia Yusuf used the tragic death of Amy Houston in his speech today. Her dad explicitly asked politicians not to do this in 2013. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sounds very reminiscent of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Disturbing.

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Just going to leave this here

I was born and raised in Gorton and Denton, and I absolutely guarantee you Reform won't put it first. They won't even put Britain first. They'll put Russia first. We LITERALLY jailed one of them for doing that.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

Replace ABC Corp with Network Rail and this would describe several of my former colleagues.

In all the time I’ve spent here and in the other place, I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to refer someone to Arkell v. Pressdram. Something about the people using the Meta equivalent that makes me want to do it regularly.

For balance, as I do spend a lot of time poo-pooing suggestions that this or that thing is meant as a Nazi allusion, I should point out here that I absolutely believe that this logo is meant as a Nazi allusion, it’s an open and shut case.

I’m down with the kids, innit.

One of the most maddening things about our current government is the way that they seem to think that if you find the right ambiguity of framing, they can continue to have it both ways and be everyone’s friend indefinitely.

So I know the enshittification of British Airways is well known but a few tips for them if they want to improve: 1. Cancelling a flight and rebooking on the next available flight should not mean being rebooked on the one three hours before your cancelled flight.

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

SY26 at Longbridge (Submitted by Thomas Crame) #SignalOfTheDay

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Takin over are citys (sic)

What?? This is very bad news for people (at least in inner-ish London) who want to live without a car. I'm more of a Zip van user myself and they can be very, very useful.

Happy Hesa Fredrik day to all who celebrate. What do you mean, you forgot? I bet you remembered at 1500…

For context this "independent voice" is a former Conservative candidate and the sister-in-law of David Cameron

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

"Honor" r brave wartime boys by hanging a small overpriced model on a tree that's in your home because of a German tradition. War Christmas is truly upon us.

Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

What's so damned corrosive rebutting this influencer shit about railways (or probably anything else for that matter) is it makes you doubt whether hard work is even worth the effort Why bother asking, checking, confirming if something makes sense, when the bullshit wins more plaudits than truth

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

FFS 😡 FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening! Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu

This is a lesson on how not to ask questions Don’t ask him if he said racist things Say “ This is just one example of what fellow school pupils say you said (to a Jewish pupil) : “Hitler was right” “Gas them” making hissing noises Did you say that? Did you make hissing noises?

Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts? White adults National pride: 26% Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49% Both: 19% Ethnic minority adults National pride: 15% Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55% Both: 20% yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

The old Engineer vs Project Manager debate is alive and well. You can deliver quality, you can do something quickly, or you can do something cheaply. Whichever one you choose, the other two will suffer.

Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

Still recognise that view. Used to have to go there once or twice a year between 1984 and 2000 - this was always the nicer direction to be heading in!

Today is the day…