Politically-correct, authoritarian childless women. The list of people to be afraid of has been suitably updated.

slightly less well known than the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness is the Sam Vimes "Onions" Theory of Nutrition

And to illustrate this. People in our town are moaning about the £508,000 it costs to implement a 20mph zone. The total Highways budget is £102,000,000 and the council will spend £1,200,000,000 in total. People don’t understand £508k, £102m and £1.2bn.

I have very little time for Your Party people, but I admire her writing out all the zeros in this text. We should all do that. And she’s correct about parasitic billionaires shutting their gobs too.

Should be in prison for attempted murder. But, for some reason, the law considers it a lesser offence if you try to murder someone with a car rather than a knife or a gun

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit. Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year. Why isn't Tesco paying?

Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration. tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats. (I'm not trying to make friends) open.substack.com/pub/russinch...

Well, well Big Jim.... How's the Old Trafford project going?

Went down an AI hole after I read something about car parking space in the USA. It told me that a little over 150,000 hectares of land is used for residential property in the UK. And about 45,000 hectares is used to park cars. 22% of people don’t even own a car.

Make clowns wear a red nose.

Scroll down for the suet crust part of the recipe. I used Atora from the English Fayre who travel around here. thestoriedrecipe.com/individual-s...

And to celebrate. Some nice salami and pickles. And mature cheddar with the fig and ginger chutney from the French garden. In front of the #cricket. #Dailysandwich

I know you’ve been waiting for updates on the W France floods. Last year we dug ditches, put in pumps and drains to take the water away from the house. And the good news from my neighbour is that the ditches are full and the house is dry. The local public swim pool is under a foot of river water.

I’m so tired of this shit.

It’s the 247th anniversary of Admiral Augustus Keppel being acquitted at a court martial, the natural outcome of which obviously was... yes, that’s right: the Honourable Charles James Fox, Member of Parliament for Westminster, got shitfaced and smashed windows in the Admiralty 🧵

Oh great. Had already planned to be back there on Sunday for the mid winter check, now I’m going to have a few sleepless nights in between.

Doesn’t matter how many times I post about how brilliant the memorials to the Vendée Wars are, nobody ever invites me to speak at student events. A free speech disgrace.

The definition of sustainable transport modes should not continue to include “ultra low emission vehicles”. Sustainability cannot be reduced to tailpipe emissions, as even electric cars have huge environmental and social consequences. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Things that ARE beautiful, and…

Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant. Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply

Have they really installed massive air conditioners to blow cold air over the players, coaches sitting on the bench at the #cricket #WorldCup? No worries about climate change then.

Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get. To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.

Left the chips too long!

Post ride treat for dinner tonight. (Yes, it is choir night too, obviously!).

I love being on a bike. Stop at a village in Cambridgeshire because “that’s an interesting name “. There’s a rabbit hole to go down. 1840 (gosh that’s late!) 2 women accused of witchcraft “and fortune telling”. But - sadly - it’s actually a Ford where Wych (Elm) trees grow. Disappointing.

TWO medieval churches from my ride today. All Saints in Cottenham. 13thC but the remarkable tower with its pineapple tops was built after “the great storm” of 1617. And the second needs no introduction, the vast and stunningly beautiful Ely Cathedral. Lord only knows what Fenland man made of it.

The best run organisation I ever worked in or with brought in a chief operating officer from a professional services firm. One of those places with 7 or 8 multinational service lines and thousands of highly motivated people. In other news, Number 10 is going to appoint a think tank apparatchik.

Campaign for a town wide 20 mph zone going well in Stortford. Does bring the #15minute city nutters out though. Fortunately I’d read something on here about #Oxford when it was suggested they had ALREADY BLOCKED FREEDOM.

Blimey. This is bad. #cricket

This is a really interesting article. It challenged me to think about “car brain” in a new way. We campaign for clean air, safe streets, mental and physical health benefits. These arguments give us even more reasons. Thank you for sharing.

Did Jacks fall in a bucket of bleach? #cricket

Oh Tom. You have to hit those or you look like an idiot. #cricket

Dinner tonight is my take on Macdonalds.

Genge, tactical!? Saving him for Scotland? My arse. The only way Wales were getting back in to this was if Genge stayed on the pitch.

Cheeky early beer and crisps.

Virgin. Never flying with them. #6Nations @itvsport.bsky.social

Right. Starter eaten. Antipasto out of the way. Main course coming up. Roast beef. #6Nations

My sons in law are my rugby chat people. I predicted france by 20, Italy by 3 and England by 20. Just saying. #6Nations

Thankfully it’s not PISSING IT DOWN (official weather report from Rome) in SW London. #6Nations

Enter Macbeth: so foul and fair a day I have not seen… Exit, pursued by an Italian. #6Nations

Pink?? That’s lilac surely. #6Nations

Good job I didn’t put the ENTIRE pension fund on Scotland winning in Rome. #6Nations

Three of my formative musical experiences: Ray Charles Ian Dury Itzhak Perlman

Patriots don’t strut around draped in Union & St George’s flags, pissed, puffing on fags.. saying they’re AngloSaxon.. They’re multi nationals heroically saving lives, treating ppl, caring for them, reassuring them, offering a smile & a cuppa, wearing scrubs, uniforms or civvies for the UK ppl 🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Delicious, as always.

Ready to serve

Ready to go in. 20 min at 180.

Three pan cooking tonight. Your favourite Friday is fish night meal.

I enjoyed that tournament and the best team won. But the discrepancy between the decisions around those two “catches” was not good. #cricket

Just the 10 an over from the last 15. 10 and 11 to come. Piece of cake. #cricket