Under the new #planningframework planning applications near railway stations will be a default ‘yes’. Our village has a raised station as the land around it floods all the time so that should be fun to watch

We still have problems but when we press we look so much better and that suites Ekitike. It doesn’t suit Isak. And we have all said enough about Chiesa - should be getting much more time on the pitch. #LFC

I don’t understand this gov’t’s attitude towards nature. Millions of Labour voters are members of the national trust, RSPB, wildlife trusts and thousands of community groups and volunteer daily to protect nature. What focus group is saying ‘sure, destroy the natural world, that will win you votes’

As a frequent traveller on Avanti North West I would be less interested in a new livery and more interested in clean windows and enough staff #Avanti #GreatBritishRail

Gakpo ruled out for a number of weeks. Mo off to AfCon. No doubt we will now sell Chiesa 🙄 #LFC

The minute #JeriRyan sits in the Captain’s chair in Season 3 of #StarTrekPicard, she is the Captain. That presence is hard to find in actors. #Paramount/Skydance really missed an opportunity taking that series forward

I am the first to criticise the performance and I have but 9 mins extra time with no injuries ?! #LFC

No identity, poor substitutions, no recognisable patterns of play. Thing is we all knew this would happen the minute they took every vaguely pressing attacker off and replaced with Isak (who never touched the ball) and Waturu #LFC

OK - so not all the subs I expected but odd nevertheless. How exactly do they expect Isak’s style to suit this game

Get Gakpo off and bring on Chiesa but he will probably take off Curtis or Dom and bring on Isak or Mo #LFC

Cue #LFC collapse - brought Wirtz off presumably for Tuesday and we have dissolved

Why is Konate even diving in there - usher him out. Going nowhere #LFC

It’s like the planet is telling us in every way it possibly can that we’re in very big trouble. The bees. The forests. The rivers. The glaciers. Now, the penguins.

If every player showed the hunger and intensity of Chiesa we would still be top of the league - #LFC

🇮🇹 Federico Chiesa after coming on in the 86th minute: - 1 block - 1 recovery - 1 clearance off the line - 2/2 passes completed Saved Liverpool the draw. He deserves to play more.

Predictable. Isak and Mo are not in form and do not press. The state of the team now and you need players that will drag us into contention. Ekitike and Chiesa will do that. Also Jones at right back?!? #LFC

Love Mo but he is just not in form - Chiesa would have brought the energy down the right side we needed #LFC

Wow - this is poor. No pressing, allowing Sunderland to get the second ball, falling back, no confidence. Everything Klopp instilled into this team has gone to be replaced by nothing the team seems sure of #LFC

@dannyfinkelstein.bsky.social correct again in #theTimes Another point worth making is very few of the 126 Lab MPs with rural area in their constituencies really have any hope of holding onto their seats. A promise to rejoin the EU could well save some of them

Sad news about Vallegro and Utopia - together they taught us Brits what dressage was. Will never forget the 2012 Olympics win for Vallegro #Dressage #Champions

I wish the NHS did coffee. I know they can’t afford it but would really make people feel better first thing

Kudos to Alex Kingston - she looks in so much pain #Strictly

Gotta feel for Wales - final game in their autumn series is South Africa - this won’t end well #WALvRSA

From all the talk it seems that Slot’s view of Chiesa isn’t changing anytime soon. But one thing he is forgetting. Chiesa is clearly very popular with team mates. Not playing him puzzles them as much as us - can’t help with morale #LFC

Exclusive: Farmers and landowners fear Defra is putting its flagship Landscape Recovery schemes at risk. While the large-scale projects are intended to last 20-30 years, the government could pull the plug at any time with a year’s notice. cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2025...

Hope when GWR is nationalised they put 9 rather than 5 coaches onto all trains - overcrowding is insane and this is a 2pm weekday train. #GWR #nationalisation

London being London

Well the old US London embassy has a new lease of life. Eagle flying high #Rosewood

Might have caused less chaos if they had let the tractors into Whitehall…

Still not sure how the new ‘mansion tax’ would work. Bands F, G and H property values differ wildly across the country. Yet the proposition is that this would be a national tax with local government not benefiting or involved in setting it / so how does it allow for valuation differentiation?

Catching a tiny bit of the Villa/Leeds game. Pressing and energy from both teams - marked contrast to where #LFC find themselves

At no point did I ever think Klopp was not the right man for job despite some challenging times - and we had them. The challenge with Slot is I am not sure he has the players with him at this point #LFC

Love the new Wales attack. Shame they have no defence #WALNZL

Great to see a professional woman’s ref at the WALvNZL rugby - football seems a very long way behind

#BIodiversity - in a parlous state across these isles www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the many, many things I hugely admire about Ukraine is its ability to keep the trains going despite being bombed daily. In the U.K. meanwhile the excuse seems to be ‘it’s Friday’ and ‘winter’…

The staff on #Avanti are brilliant - but the service itself - suboptimal to say the least and the resilience of the track support services presumably railtrack just not there

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All this talk about Semenyo - why doesn’t Slot just try out Chiesa there when Mo goes to the Africa Cup? His stubbornness about certain players is worrying #LFC

Whether you agree with the new Labour proposals or not - Reform is clearly concerned given seniority of spokespeople on GB News since the Home Secretary’s speech

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Every word of this. Policies that will cost consumers more, suffocate nascent industries, leave us dependent on gas for longer, and jeopardise green transition are really not great overall..... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Currently front page of The Times online:- How many obstacles will our iconic swifts have to wade through to just catch a break? www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Juliet Samuels gives the Chancellor both barrels in @thetimes.com today. To raise just £500m the Treasury has effectively frozen the investment plans of every family business in the country. One of the pillars of the economy they are cutting back rather than invest for growth. Well done everyone

The Planning Bill is back in Parliament today.‼️ From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats. Peers reduced some of those risks. Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.

Fair to say that #GWR is having a ‘mare today - sigh

A reminder that a subscription service would be the end of the BBC universality, which makes the BBC the BBC

#PaulJohnson with a very sensible set of proposed tax reforms in #theTimes. Won’t happen of course. I can partly understand decisions by politicians not to move forward on this basis. But have never understood why the Treasury brain does not. All are logical and all should already be in place