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If all the planned strikes go ahead, there will be eight days of strike action across December and January

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

"Quiet, piggy!"

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging Keir Starmer as PM

ps amid the chaos an actual good thing happened today, & this is the first Gen Z-friendly thing i can remember a govt doing since..i don't know when? so fair play www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

There was a fork in the road and as usual the PM took the wrong fork…

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

New bus service for Cambridge's Mill Road Romsey Town. Circular via Ross Street, Fairfax Road & Thoday Street. One (slow) service on the third Sunday of November.

It's clear that EU SM+CU is essential to get growth started. If Labour ignores this, the deepening recession and increasing tax burden will make everyone noticeably poorer, a fact that Farage will ruthlessly exploit. Please get Labour to wake up before it's too late!

Now with reduced dried fruit content.

An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA

#Coldplay #Kisscam #Yorkshire version.

And Chris Whitty reminds us that cycling is, in fact, a perfectly normal thing to do, a perfectly healthy thing to do, and a cheap form of transport. No lycra necessary. (Or cycle helmets, IMO. Shhhh!!!) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

12 mayors commit themselves to a 'national active travel network', including our own Paul Bristow 💙. This is brilliant. We have at least four primary schools within walking distance of Mill Road. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Never forget what he said in 1970. bsky.app/profile/snig...

Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform

Rod Stewart takes the stage at Glastonbury...

There’s a group of Labour MPs whose vision for the country appears to be equality of misery: businesses made less dynamic and taxed more than under the Conservatives, child poverty continuing to rise as it did under the Conservatives.

It’s June; so that means Sunday blogging is back for the summer and what better way to kick things off than a visit to a quirky railway station. busandtrainuser.com/2025/06/01/b...

Did we mention Bournemouth? History repeated itself for Go South Coast, following First Bus' withdrawal from Southampton in Feb 2023. First's orderly departure allowed a well-planned update to Bluestar’s network. busandtrainuser.com/2023/02/18/f...

And this one, on how Andrew and his team built and developed the high-frequency services across BCP to the extent that a single-decker every 3mins still didn't have the capacity for crowd-shifting, so high-spec double-deckers were needed. busandtrainuser.com/2023/10/14/m...

For a flavour of Andrew's achievements, you could hardly top Roger @busandtrainuser.bsky.social French's blog on how the More Bus team replaced the Yellow Bus services in BCP in record time. busandtrainuser.com/2022/08/07/m...

And an obit from routeone. www.route-one.net/news/obituar...

Andrew Wickham. A sad and untimely loss to the bus industry. Brilliant tribute from Roger @busandtrainuser.bsky.social French. busandtrainuser.com/2025/05/25/s...

Sad news of the death of a man who has done so much for MoreBus, local Public Transport and the wider #BCP community. #RIP Andrew 🙏

"Unless we fill the magic box with Elton John songs it won't be able to diagnose cancer." The AI "industry"doesn't need anything produced by the creative industry. All the potential applications of AI are ones that utilise databases of facts.

I have a piece in The Observer today. It is about my parents’ deaths, grief and how stories help to keep the dead alive. I haven’t written for Observer Review for a few years so was glad to be back in its pages. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

In the new Private Eye out today, MD highlights serious concerns about the media's role in the Lucy Letby case. How weak evidence, media spin, and police-funded PR helped build the case against Lucy Letby, only in the new Private Eye, out now.

Starmer to halt migration to Reform The new Private Eye is out now

Grim for the Co-op www.theguardian.com/business/202... Surprised there’s not been more in Westminster on this given the number of small communities dependent on single food shops incl co-ops.

"The UK is very good – much better than most European countries – at integrating migrants, because most Britons, and most migrants, want integration... The rhetoric and policy we saw yesterday will take us backward to a much uglier, and more dangerous, place." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The detention of Hasan Piker is the latest example of something we all need to be talking about: The biggest assault against free speech in the West for 70 years 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Labour wants to reverse its dismal polling, it should reinstate winter fuel allowance. Not ramp up the immigrant bashing.

It’s disgusting rhetoric and what we all predicted. Keir has seen Reform being racist and popular and decided that his need for popularity is such that clearly he has to go to something different. Zack shows the real way to oppose Reform; offer something different; offer hope-offer change

Migrants are not the reason our country doesn't work. Whilst they're busy trying to get by - it's government austerity over decades causing the division that Starmer is fueling - rather than investing in our country. Let's turn our country around. Backzack.com

Starmer's Britain. Not even subtle.

The Labour government is so ridiculously afraid of Reform, bur don't realise running to the right will lose voters like me who just cannot stomach it. They have lost my vote.

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, educating our youth and paying our taxes. /s

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

"Island of strangers" - here's the impact of traffic on friendships, from 2008 Bristol study. (original research from Donald Appleyard on San Francisco but resulted hold for most places). The more cars there are, the less we interact with neighbours.

Intrigued by www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/pushing... in @cambridgeindy.bsky.social, @paulbrackleyci.bsky.social. Of Bristow's 6 points, which are mere aspirations? Mayoral powers? CAPCA board decisions, with Bristow attempting to act ultra vires? Room for some investigative journalism.

Bristow's 6-point press release on CAPCA website, @anna4labour.bsky.social @lornadupre.bsky.social @labouralexb.bsky.social @johnelworthy.bsky.social Mayoral aspirations? Mayoral powers? Board decisions, with Bristow attempting to act ultra vires? cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk/news/lets-ge...

Shocking! Again???

I think they've just copied and pasted the South Cambs figure by mistake - the 33.1% figure is correct based on the electorate numbers vote-2012.proboards.com/post/1616140...

Not sure if you spotted this @philrodgers.co.uk Comment sent from me to East Cambridgeshire District Council… On your webpage "Mayoral election for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough May 2025" – eastcambs.gov.uk/about-counci... – you have two distinct figures for 'turnout'. (1/3)