The next episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That comes out in a week! Please remember that, at the time of recording, Kier Starmer was Prime Minister and our hilarious remarks made sense.

MY SCRIPT FOR NEXT JAMES BOND GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.

It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today. Streets for people. HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after

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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Incredibly naive. Basically kills off any career path for Over Head Line teams. The industry will down skill to repair and maintenance alone. Kills off any investment or innovation in OLE too. Bet they announce a new road or airport expansion within a month.

by Alan Saunders in the Cow Tools Sophisticationposting group on facebook

Football Chant Therapy For Men (With @misterabk.bsky.social @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social @seanburkeshow.bsky.social @samlakecomedy.bsky.social @wsebag.bsky.social @bjalborough.bsky.social @cbthorburn.bsky.social and Chris Weir) www.youtube.com/shorts/V20uv...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

I'm going on tour in 2026! Come and see me doing one of the best reviewed shows from the Ed Fringe (according to the British Comedy Guide). It's called King of Crumbs, and it's a load of old nonsense, really. Book now! Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

Women deserve the freedom to move - yet many still feel unsafe cycling No one should have to choose between a busy road or a dark path. When cycling’s safer for women, it’s safer for everyone 🚲 👉 Donate or join: cyclinguk.org/my-ride-our-right 'My ride. Our right' – supported by Cycle SOS

By 2040, your train journeys will be transformed: 📍 Copenhagen – Berlin: from 7hr to 4hr 📍 Paris – Rome: from 10hr50 to 8hr45 📍 Sofia – Athens: from 13hr40 to 6hr 📍 Vienna – Ljubljana: from 6hr05 to 4hr30 🔗 link.europa.eu/hDyYBG

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

Teen Vogue was doing the work. Wherever these journalists end up, support them.

🐄 Surprise! This year’s Beef and Dairy Network Halloween Special was written by me, Roger Westco- I mean, Tom Crowley! Salivate over BEEF PIE, on the Beef and Dairy podcast feed RIGHT NOW! 🥧 @beefanddairy.bsky.social

get to this if you can - a beautiful show

Private Eye nailing it.

Starmer could get his approval rating back up by simply quote tweeting Musk’s civil war rubbish with the words “Fuck off, mate”.

JOZ NORRIS IS HUGH JACKMAN IS THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Coming to Leicester Comedy Festival as part of the Liebenspiel Weekend in February! events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/joz-n...

A few for b3ta's Two Authors One Book challenge b3ta.com/challenge/tw...

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

"You think you’ve got problems, mate - I’ve gotta go see that overhyped asshole Pagalici tonight just because the wife likes him ... Anyway, I'm writing you up some Sertraline"

A super bit of Swift conservation in Felixstowe where this building hosting multiple nests went under scaffolding. The builders listened, adapted the scaffolding to permit Swifts to access their nest sites, kept the nooks open & now added Swift bricks to help the colony expand.

I made a whole space suit costume for this, and the orange overalls came with a fireproof coating that absolutely stank. So I washed them, and now ALL my clothes stink. (And maybe are fireproof?) In conclusion, this level of commitment deserves a repost.

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

Pitching cosy British crime drama in 2025 youtube.com/shorts/Qvli_...

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The most annoying thing about that FT article - and yes, I shouldn't give it the oxygen of publicity - is that it's largely based on the claimed economic benefits of road investment. But this fails on its own terms, as we know the RoI on non-motor travel is better www.ciht.org.uk/media/mjloxl...

Loved his show in Edinburgh and was great to talk to Joe Kent-Walters (aka Frankie Monroe) on one of my Fringe RHLSTPs shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... And now you can see him on tour frankiemonroelive.com And don't forget you can see RHLSTP live too richardherring.com/rhlstp

Hi everyone. Do you know that we are almost at our target for our power bank for Ukraine? Please, help to spread the message - or donate, if you can - we are so close already! 4fund.com/rbjyg4 #NAFO #Ukraine #fredom

#ComedyPodcastOfTheDay @herring1967.bsky.social is joined by Edinburgh Best Newcomer #joekentwalter (Frankie Monroe) to chat Sudocrem, the Yorkshire mafia, lackadaisical ventriloquism & the tragedy of losing a Gammon hammer on the train shorturl.at/hdV0G #ComedyPodcast #RHLSTP

Dutch Railways: social profit of €1.33 billion, financial loss of €141 million. It delivers 11x (!!!!) more value to society than it costs. Via: social inclusion increase in property values near stations; welfare of employees and consumers; productive use of travel time. www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...

Never not a perfect day to repost this

This is superb. Check it out

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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

🪱🪱OUT NOW🪱🪱 Early Worms, the brand new podcast from Phil Ellis and Anna Thomas is now available wherever you get your podcasts and you can watch the whole episode on YouTube too! The worms will rise! 👂: podfollow.com/1845070773 📺: youtube.com/@EarlyWormsPod

Failing to adopt a national approach to 20mph as an urban/village norm in England increased 2024 casualties by 15,000 per annum and insurance costs by £2bn. Read our latest press release coinciding with the release of the DfT 2024 road casualty stats. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

This is cool an’ all, but I’d venture to suggest that the UK’s abject uselessness at electrifying rail lines isn’t down to the challenges faced by engineers

‘Lack of investment in grid capacity putting strain on Netherlands electricity grid, but don’t worry because the Dutch are investing at least €200 billion in resolving the issue.’ There @BBCNews; fixed your misleading headline for you…👍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

"Hamburg voters have backed a citizen-led referendum that obliges Germany’s second largest city to step up climate action and reach climate neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than previously planned." #ClimateAction www.cleanenergywire.org/news/hamburg...

🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱 EXCITING NEWS! 📣🦡♥️ The wonderful Phil Ellis and I have started a podcast called ‘Early Worms’, produced by the gorgeous ‘A Lovely Time’. Episode 1 is out on 17th October, but you can find the show on Spotify and Apple now!!!!!!!!! Go immediately!!!!!! If you want!!!!! 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.