Yes. 🇪🇸

Robbie needs to invest in some better product

Wonderful. I love them. So special that Bellingham allowed Saka to take the penalty for his hat trick and then scored that last minute beauty anyway! ❤️

This Arse-Villa household is very happy rn.

Oh well at least I’ve got Spain in the @villaandproud.bsky.social sweepstake 🇪🇸

Game on, Nige.

Glorious

What a game. What a team.

Well, this helps explain why Farage has gone into political hiding. Just how many more undeclared dark money donations were there?

We’ve got a hedgehog turd on our lawn! This is why I left London 🦔

You've seen him on the beach, and you've seen him on TV: Duran Duran bassist John Taylor pedals on the sand #BicycleBirthday Born June 20, 1960

16 years ago this very day I was supporting Nigeria v Argentina in Jo’burg 😎

Look at some of those Crossrail flows. anita.garden/londonriders/

Just back from Kings Norton Farmers’ Market, runners up in the 2026 Farmers Market awards! For those of us sad about the election results, the world still turns 🌞

Birmingham suddenly ripe for a UK remake of Borgen and I for one am here for it

Generally a fan of rainbows. This one on this Birmingham morning, not so much 😩

Campaigning in elections has been such a big part of my life for years. Feels so odd - but also good! - not to be involved any more.

Great to be able to share this If eliminating road danger and getting around our great city of Birmingham quickly and safely are important issues to you, then have a listen to our dissection of the various political manifesto pledges on transport.

❤️ Trains

🗳️ Later this week, Birmingham's local elections will hot up further as candidates are published. Here's a thread of our election coverage so far, what you can do now to put safer streets and better transport at the top of candidates' agendas, and what to expect from us over the coming weeks. 🧵

It’s not every day a new train station opens just up the tracks from where you live. Just completed the Kings Norton to Kings Heath South Brum challenge on the Camp Hill Line ❤️🚂

With three new rail stations on the Camp Hill line and two tram stops on the Eastside extension open in the last few days, we're taking the opportunity to ask for more stops please!

S1 E1 I have two flower beds ready for planting.

No one gave us any pedestrian infrastructure so we made our own.

Watch 👀 as drivers mount the pavement where a young mother pushes a baby, 20 metres from a primary school. This is normal in Birmingham. It’s the kind of behaviour which led to plans for an LTN in this area, which have now been abandoned by the Council after 6 years of development.

Just caught up with this excellent @brumhour.com conversation between @roifield.bsky.social and @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's own @lucycaldicott.bsky.social. As this positive discussion makes clear, we can have more mobility choices that improve our city for more of us.

It’s a pleasure to have @lucycaldicott.bsky.social in @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org’s committee. Lucy steered our 1 year of the road safety emergency event and is currently preparing to launch our new manifesto asks into the world next month. Lucy had an hour-long interview on Brum Radio y/day.

Leading teams through change doesn’t have to mean confusion, stress, and burnout. I learned a powerful lesson years ago about maintaining trust with your team. This week’s newsletter: www.changeout.org/leading-chan...

We don’t talk about burnout enough I’ve written about it in this week’s newsletter ❤️ www.changeout.org/burnout-in-m...

This week’s newsletter is now out and it’s all about making the business case for joy 🌻 www.changeout.org/the-business...

In this week’s newsletter I look at leadership in complexity where beliefs are sometimes held as being in opposition and where people are seeking black and white, not grey. The important thing is to lead with inspiration and trust and try to find the common ground. Have a good weekend

I hope 1 day our country and auto industry will change and these events will be a piece of history. Thanks to @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org for organising tonight's event to mark the 1 year of @brumroadsafety.bsky.social declared by council. Thoughts with the 23 victims since, including 1 today.

My speech from the @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org event to mark the first anniversary of the road safety emergency today. 🧵

Happy Friday! This week’s newsletter is now OUT looking at why strategies should be kept simple, making wills and a mass Wuther. Oh, and couldn’t resist mentioning the Lionesses again ❤️ Have a great weekend! www.changeout.org/keeping-it-s... #linkinbio #strategy #leadership

On 4 March 1824 at the City of London Tavern in Bishopsgate, over 30 eminent "gentlemen" put their names to the fledgling RNLI at its inaugural public meeting. The crowd unanimously passed 12 resolutions, including:

Great to join the @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org demo in Moseley this morning. Thank you to everyone for coming. Constant red light jumping while we were there which underlines what a dangerous junction this is.

“I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.” RIP Ozzy #utv

Good to represent @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org on Midlands Today yesterday. Thank you to the BBC for dedicating the whole programme to road danger and Birmingham City Council’s road safety emergency.

'Ethan Akotiah, 22, who lives off Stratford Road, said: "It's terrible, it's getting worse and worse. My nan was in a collision and so was my mom. It's constant ... I fear for my family's life."' @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

This week’s newsletter is about the importance of local democracy. I think that if people understood better how to make contact with local politicians and how to make change happen it would help rebuild trust in democracy. Have a great weekend and don’t forget to like and subscribe! 👍✅

342 days of a road safety emergency in this city. I’m asking a question in BCC’s Full Council today about what is being done to tackle it.

I do enjoy an exuberant parklet occupying a car parking space and paid for with govt funding 🌱#exeter

Mam's in Ballymena hey ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️ @izzykamikaze.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter brought to you from sunny Digbeth. I look at how important it is to remain curious, no matter how important you are, or how much you think you know. Happy Friday, folks! #leadership

I am smiling to myself that John Taylor of Duran Duran trailed a gig later in the year in “North Midlands”. It’s going to be at Coop Live in Manchester

I always feel a bit sad on this day because the days start getting shorter and it feels too early in the year. But, on this day, in 1997, I came out. (It was indeed the longest day but things got better)

I’ll never forget the constituent who told me that the Stockwell - Oval LTN was going to increase his *car* journey time to Sainsbury’s from 8 to 15 minutes and I had to really bite my tongue not to say “yep that’s exactly the point”. Ah well.

In this week's newsletter I look at the importance of making hybrid working better for all and also finding some tranquility on Youtube. Enjoy! www.changeout.org/team-culture...

From writing bids and building fundraising strategies & stepping in as interim CEOs and FDs, Blumers have been busy! Demand for bid writers is high. If you’re a charity looking for help with a specific trust or foundation, check out our search function: ▶️ blume.life/charity-funds

Sometimes it feels hopeless to write my newsletter. There’s so much fear and pain in the world. I started it just before the pandemic as a way of making sense of things and trying to share a little light in the darkness. Here's this week's effort: www.changeout.org/vision-free-...