So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Around 10,000 university workers being made redundant this year. Labour policies are definitely cutting through in higher education …

Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?

I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper. The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.

So let me get this right. We had to leave the EU to control immigration, and we are going to control immigration by emulating the stringent immigration system of Denmark, which is a proud and happy member of the EU.

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Not pro-life. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Football Association of Ireland EGM passes motion calling on UEFA to ban Israel from all club and international competitions. Resolution brought by Bohemian Football Club - approved by 88%. Motion cites operation by the Israeli FA of clubs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Darren knows that come the next election, Bristol is turning even more Green. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

Word.

In a world of Jeffs, be like MacKenzie.

Crack!! The door has opened, however small, it's ajar. #gazagenocide Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

🔴Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party Why is Nigel Farage’s supposedly ‘anti-globalist’ Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum? bylinetimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

One of the two men accused of plotting an attack on immigrants in Ireland is called Karolis Peckauskas and I have nothing to add to that

They say what's in the epstein files is so much worse than we can imagine.

I am a little late to this, but I have also requested my name and face to be removed from @cyclinguk.bsky.social publicity due to the decision to remove trans women from their awards. Trans women are women, gender is on a spectrum (and I did a genetics degree), and cycling is for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲❤️

FOR SALE - the OH has decided to sell his electric G Line. He has the small Forest Green one and he has been out on it once for less than two miles. Ongoing problems with his knee force an end to any cycling ambitions for the foreseeable. £3000 no offers, it is mint condition DM me

If gave you €1 every second since you were born: You would have €1 million within a week and a half. You would have €1 billion by 32. You would never have €1 trillion. Generations upon generations after you would not reach €1 trillion. Because it would take over 31,700 years to reach €1 trillion.

I remember just a few short weeks ago when people were banging on and on about how the Orange Order is just a friendly social club that doesn't have a sectarian bone in its body. The Irish Times even got Patsy McGarry out of whatever home for the bewildered he's been retired to to say as much.

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

This clarifies for me one of the key things about the English WW2 obsession that’s so disturbing - it’s the seamless alliance of unbearable tweeness with nationalistic jingoism. The combined effect is genuinely uncanny.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Um. I'm no historian, but I'm extremely sure that letting your army go hungry has ended badly every time it's been done.

actual communism

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Even I thought this was one of mine!

I can't even imagine how bad the #EpsteinFiles must be for Republicans to be okay starving millions of americans to cover them up.

My favorite comment on the FT story

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

There is so much to do. @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @cyclingincork.bsky.social

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Which one is more English?

"X – Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front "Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion" bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/e...

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It looks like Reform has lost *another* councillor at Kent County Council. Isabella Kemp now sits as an Independent, according to the council website. Means that Kent has lost ***16%*** of its Reform councillors since May👀 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Thursday's @theguardian.com cartoon #zohranmamdani #mamdani #zohranfornyc #NewYork

Well done #SkyNews for publicly exposing what most of us already knew. Billionaire Musk is using his X platform to undermine liberal democracy with the most extreme right wing and racist content. We can’t let this continue. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The survey also found a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime respondents had experiened here. And at what, then, drives that perception that town is not safe. 5/

A European Parliament hearing on the housing crisis has heard testimony about the scale of homelessness and the lack of affordable homes across the EU, with one delegate describing a warehouse in Slovakia where 100 people sleep each night

Radio station jocks reading out crash after crash on the M50, N7, etc. Then in their next slot a phone-in competition where motorists are on their phones while driving. Every person who phoned in was driving. Perhaps radio stations could not accept calls from people driving & not normalise it.

So much of the Left tries to replicate the Right when it comes to transport policies, carefully doing everything they can to avoid upsetting drivers. Here's what happens when you focus on the majority of people who stand to benefit from improved transport options.