Probs a very limited market for this, and my thoughts are clouded by nostalgia for the back-breaking child labour of my youth, but I'm tempted to get some paper delivery bags printed up with this on them:

Separated at birth?

Almost all Oxford’s train services will be nationalised next year. The Government today announced that GWR and Chiltern Railways will be brought into public ownership in mid/late 2026, leaving CrossCountry until 2027.

Fire has burnt a third of one of Africa's largest game reserves - Etosha National Park in Namibia -- home to 114 species of mammals, notably the critically endangered black rhinoceros, and a major tourist attraction. Hundreds of soldiers joined the fight to contain the spread of the fire

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

From My Wife:

Big day for all the postcards tomorrow! Looking forward to laying them all out in a village hall to show you! 513 with a few more back at THLAS HQ… #PostcardDrop2025 🥳✉️🎉

Soviet-era bus stops photographed by Christopher Herwig

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #MakingTaxDigital obliges all businesses/freelancers to file quarterly accounts online with 3rd party software instead of yearly on paper. Many lack the skills, time + funds to do so If anyone still on the Hellsite fancies posting it there please do!

Well I wasn't expected this! And it's excellent! Labour are bringing back maintenance grants for students in higher education. They will be targeted to disadvantaged students studying priority courses to help them access & excel in their studies. They grants were abolished by the Tories in 2016.

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

More libraries are good - now pay for librarians

"We need you to paint a pedestrian sign" "No problem" "Have you ever seen a person before?" "Sure I have"

It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate. youtu.be/WDXLxpQdIUQ

Rail is a powerful tool for delivering sustainable economic growth & reducing regional inequality. Our new report recommends: • Improve services to increase demand • Provide long-term funding certainty • Place greater value on rail's wider benefits. bettertransport.org.uk/research/mak...

Oi, Vladimir Putin, your boys took one hell of a beating

Ended up at a hospital A&E early this morning. In the next cubicle a team of medical professionals were trying to save a baby, brought in by ambulance and police. Of the maybe ten people I saw, only two were white British. It made me think: if Farage gets his way, what is going to happen to our NHS?

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

A victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal who was temporarily paralysed after the stress of her ordeal has been offered 15% of her compensation claim

🚨 BREAKING: The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) is firmly in the lead of Moldova’s election, with around half of votes counted so far and PAS-sympathetic constituencies still to tally. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/poll...

The UK's first rice harvest has been grown in Cambridgeshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another plug for this petition against #MakingTaxDigital HMRC trying to force everyone who files tax returns (i.e. not people just on PAYE) to do so quaterly using third party software instead of once annually on paper. This will be impossible for many. #HMRC petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72....

How exactly do you even go about proving "social worth" in a manner which doesn't base rights on earnings and which everyone, including Brits, would meet the standards of? I know I would definitely struggle.

#bbcLauraK Impressed that Starmer pointed out that Brexit has prevented returns of people who cross the Channel in small boats, and that he is beginning to point out the dangers of electing a pro-Putin party in the UK. Perhaps he is veering away from his out-Reform-Reform policy?

🪬🧿 Lovely wooden pens i have made :) Check out www.luxurywoodenpens.com or please repost :) #pens #woodworking #handmade #writing #craft #luxury #stationery #alttext

I'm sure Chris Mason will be all over this. any second now... just you wait... ...

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway. So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

No such thing as illegal immigration. 🙄 Jenkyns peddling conspiracy theories, making generalisations, just like Farago. #bbcaq

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pulled from the goodneuroscience Instagram because I rarely encounter mind-blowing revelations anymore... "When life feels overwhelming, the brain doesn't reach for novelty it reaches for safety. Rewatching the same show isn't just a habit. It's a built-in way the nervous system regulates stress."

#OnThisDay 1990 : 35 years ago today, the first episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation was broadcast on BBC Two. #90s

I interviewed her for a rate rebate in 1979 in the Sheffield town hall 'eggbox'. She qualified - which proves that you don't earn much as a witch. I was 20.

Bluetit (left) and great tit (right) #birds #photography

In the past, I have compared political journalists on Sky News and BBC News to hacks at Smash Hits. I apologise - to hacks at Smash Hits. At least they did research.

In 2019 my BRP was stolen while on holiday in Romania. I had to apply for a temporary entry visa via a private company in Bucharest to come back home to the UK. This took 2 months. When it finally arrived Ryanair staff refused boarding/ check in, said 'you're not going anywhere with that thing'.

Petition against UK digital tax scheme #MakingTaxDigital petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72....

900 year old font in the Church of St Mungo, Dearham, Cumbria. Listing says it appears to have been a cushion capital, carved with dragons and symmetrical designs in scrolled panels. #FontsOnFriday

Rovers Return, Withy Grove, Manchester, 1923, painting by George Baxendale Kearey (1896-1945). #NorthernArt

You may feel lonely in this world, but you're never really alone. Even now, you are surrounded by bramble witches, dark fairies, and the restless swirling spirits of ancient forest gods. Take comfort in that.

Is it "move to Dubai"?

Absolute horseshit. YouGov is ridiculously biased towards the far right. It’s gleefully predicts Reform winning every by election and then they inevitably come 4th. Ignore them.

Morning all. So Sky is proclaiming Farage as our next PM on the strength of some poll that most will not have seen or been interested in. There are not enough of Farage's ilk in my country to put him there; the minority being coached & manipulated into supporting him now just have the biggest gobs.

The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

The magic of an Irish rainforest.

No Darcy Bussell. No Balti. No cheese. No beer. No Flintoff. No Wallace and Gromit. No Ozzy. No Benjamin Zephaniah.

Yes! Come on! Let's remember the Britain we are proud of and make more of it. Less division. Less hate. Less racism. This is our Great Britain! Thank you Labour for making and sharing this video to remind us. What is your favourite part of this video? What else would you have included?

Here’s how I sometimes start a new project. First I buy a fancy new notebook. Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page. Third I never look at it again.

Long past time to take the blinders off. Everything on the table in plane view will advance women's health. #womenshealthempowerment #APOPS #TheBiggestSecretsinWomensHealth