Since the counter was fixed, well over half a million cycle journeys have been made in less than two months. At peak times, records show that rush hour traffic consists of 250 motor vehicles ph in the am & 350 in the pm, considerably less than the number of bikes. Time for another cycle lane

Still some ripe tomatoes (Moneymaker) on the outdoor plants, but blight has finally finished them off ahead of this week's frost. Also 4-5 lb of green tomatoes which will almost certainly blighten before they ripen unless we chutney them quickly. Cucumbers were a surprise on plants we thought dead.

I wanted to use my BFI subscription to watch some Powell & Pressberger films. There aren't any. No Hitchcock either. Among films that are available to subscribers are five Jean Rollin soft-porn vampire films from the 1970s, in French. Who do the British Film Institute think they're catering to?

"Contemporary conservatism has failed to become cool because its instincts are more about edgy provocation than any serious appreciation of art and culture. Great art will always be about expanding our worlds, not making them smaller." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They've admitted liability so why are they not being made to pay to clean it up now? "Southern Water has apologised for the spill but Helena Dollimore, MP for Hastings and Rye, wants it to fund the cleanup and any future nature restoration." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Orf with his head! ‘King is anti-British,’ claimed Farage’s choice to lead Reform youth wing Jack Eccles has posted on X several times this year to complain about the monarch www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I'm still convinced that "economist Lord Jim O'Neill" is just some random bloke they fetch from the pub.

BBC stands up up to ranting bully. "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.” It is thought that the BBC has also been advised that it has a strong legal case. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school. And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this. This is not a serious society.

"When Trump was elected the second time, Bill fired most of his climate staffers and went to the White House and lavished praise on Trump, and then put out this series of statements last week that puzzled anybody who was really concerned about the climate crisis.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Waiting for confirmation that Göring had two but very small.

#Whitewebbs Lewis owns the largest stake in one of tUK’s biggest operators of pubs & restaurants (& Toby Carvery), Mitchells & Butlers... Lewis transferred his majority ownership interest in Spurs to a family trust in 2022, the year before he was charged. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Waiting for confirmation that Göring had two but very small.

BBC's US reporter on this is called Kayla Epstein. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

🚨Trump KNEW about Epstein’s abuse AT THE TIME. “Of course he knew about the girls,” said the late Epstein, the world’s most notorious paedophile, in emails released just now. Be a shame if EVERYONE heard about this. You know what do x 🎥: Our banner at Windsor Castle in September #epstein #trump

BBC live reports on Trump mentions in Epstein, Maxwell emails. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Out on December 9, available to preorder fromNewCon Press now. Do you believe in miracles?

As it stands, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will undermine species protection. Write to your MP today, it takes less than 2 minutes act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp... Thank you to everyone who has already spoken up for #bats 🦇. Please share widely

"History Reclaimed [occupies] the same ideological universe as GB News and its US counterparts: a populist movement that recasts culture and scholarship as political battlegrounds... bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

The vote is tomorrow. Email your MP now -it takes literally 5 minutes. action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

The vote is tomorrow. Email your MP now -it takes literally 5 minutes. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...

'Tomorrow (13 November) the Commons will debate the Bill and the pressure is on... 260 peers voted for amendment 130 which protects wildlife, signalling that they don’t believe the Planning Bill’s measures will deliver a “win-win for nature and development”.' www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

In these times of rancour & division, it’s comforting to find things on which we can all agree: Kent County Council, for example, really does provide a perfect illustration of how well Reform would run the country. I agree with Nigel! www.bbc.com/news/article...

By accepting vital amendments to the Planning Bill, the government can start correcting the flawed thinking that has alienated natural supporters. Failure to change the current anti-nature rhetoric will see Labour’s electoral chances go from bad to worse. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit

🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

The Forestry Commission investigation “should shed more light on this troubling incident”. In the aftermath of the felling, Mitchells & Butlers Retail claimed the tree had died. The company declined to comment on the call to fund attempts to keep it alive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm sure there must be others, but this is the first one I've been sent. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-bbc/

Strangely distracted wondering when & why I wrote the single word Grasshoppers? on a bit of scrap paper.

“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The fire service does not have council members listed as chair or vice chair. 'the public "has a right to expect that its emergency services are accountable to them and their elected representatives. "At the moment, the structures for that have broken down in Kent."' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's not forget we're up against the American culture that says it's not enough to win; the loser has to be crushed & humiliated. Trump won't stop until he's satisfied he's humiliated the BBC, & by extension, the UK. Will Farage & Badenoch be happy to go along with that?

Farage: "Whatever the downsides of increased house prices, these people [second home owners] bring a lot of money into these areas.” That's bollocks too. Do voters in deprived areas actually listen to what he's saying? www.politicshome.com/news/article...

If you look hard you can see the strings Putin's pulling.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’

'Some former colleagues of Kuenssberg and Searle look back at this period with embarrassment and question how close the BBC allowed itself to get to Downing Street under Boris Johnson...' www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...

"Let’s be clear about what’s really happened here. There has been an agenda against the BBC — well organised, well funded, and pursued ferociously by malign interests both inside and outside the corporation, and inside and outside the U.K." www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam...

"Take Buckle Street Studio, a 13-storey apartment hotel that breached BRE guidance for 201 windows across 166 rooms in 58 individual flats in neighbouring buildings .For each of these 58 homes, the drop in daylight levels amount to material harm." theconversation.com/daylight-rob...

"In 2021, Johnson appointed Robbie Gibb to the BBC Board. Gibb has made no secret of his views. He was director of communications when Theresa May was in Downing Street. He then helped set up GB News, a right-wing news channel which promotes conspiracy theories" iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

1/3 "Prescott's own argument and suggested source material undermines his own claims of neutrality. He cites a 2022 report by History Reclaimed, also published in the Telegraph, which highlights 4 BBC programmes with “an overly simplistic and distorted narrative/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The playground, one of 6 in Portsmouth, is a feeder for the nearby youth club, one of 4 in the city. Retention of this number of youth spaces is almost unprecedented at a time when centres are disappearing at other coastal towns with high levels of deprivation." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Veterans minister Louise Sandher-Jones has rejected suggestions the BBC was institutionally biased. "When you look at the huge range of domestic issues, local issues, international issues, that it has to cover, I think its output is very trusted." www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...

Seems extraordinarily high. Taken at roost? "In 2023, eagle owls were responsible for killing half of the project's newly released red kite chicks. In response, the team at AMUS adapted how and when the chicks are released to increase their chances of survival." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a stitch-up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.