Hyde Tavern beer festival this weekend. Well worth a visit if you are in #Winchester

Unfortunately I can't make the debate on second jobs as I'm in America for a speaking engagement before coming back to promote gold bullion then doing my GB News show and squeezing in a few Cameo recordings before bed.

Pivo – Västergatan, Malmö. One tap, one beer and it’s a good one. Lovely staff too, highly recommended and thanks to @europeanbarguide.bsky.social for the recommendation.

JOHN BETJEMAN GOES BY TRAIN (1962) | https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-john-betjeman-goes-by-train-kings-lynn-to-hunstanton-1962-online

Who annoyed that tram?

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

Very sad news from the brewing world. Rob was a legend in many ways and alongside Martin Kemp when they founded the Pitfield Brewery back in the 1980s and won Champion Beer of Britain with Dark Star. RIP. www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2026...

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.

Today is the 91st anniversary of the last diary entry of the first man who tried to climb Everest solo. Mind you, his plan had been to crash land a plane 14,000 feet up and then stroll the rest of the way, so perhaps he wasn’t destined to succeed 🧵

No idea about WiFi on UK trains, but the rest of this study cited by BBC is obviously at best confusing 🇨🇭 90+% of trains don’t have WiFi 🇫🇷 only TGVs do, there it’s solid 🇩🇪 it’s decent on ICEs, can be awful elsewhere https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8pn4l03r7o

75 PARIS Le passage du turbotrain, une RTG rame turbine a GAZ sur la Petite Ceinture Avenue De Clichy, lors d'un transfert d'activité Paris St Lazare - Paris Nord, 2 gares parisiennes ou opéraient ces engins mythiques 1983 📷 Thierry Porcher

Just heard that family-owned Redemption Brewing has fallen into administration amid soaring costs. Beloved since it started in Tottenham in 2010, their excellent cask popular in local pubs inc. community-owned Antwerp Arms. Sad & bad news.

I just wanted to track my steps and my sleep as set up some friendly competition with my mates and now it’s suddenly “Hey let us track your mental health and why not just click this button and give us full access to your medical records and-“ FUCK. YOU. TECHBRO. WANKERS.

A little UK > Continent train ticketing history here, in a chat with Simon Calder: "Why is it so difficult to travel to – and through – Europe by train?" www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Good news! @adnamssouthwold.bsky.social & Ghost Ship survive. Fear of sell-off in 2024 averted. The 154 yr old regional family brewer & cosy country pubs dominating the Suffolk town of Southwold has reduced unsustainable debt. Chair Simon Townsend describes asset disposal as painful but "essential".

Town Wall, Caernarfon, north Wales, painting by William Selwyn, Welsh artist (Caernarfon Royal Town Council Collection).

Incongruity rating: 13/10

Why the scare quotes? Huge numbers of people in this country are struggling with their mental health, esp since the pandemic. Most politicians diminish this harm and gaslight people suffering for somehow not being robust enough. I celebrate @carladenyer.bsky.social being brave and honest.

The Purple Moose brewery tap in Porthmadog

Decent Robinson’s boozer The Four Alls Caernarfon

“Reasons for things going wrong [include] successive government commissioned reviews, changing objectives and political priorities” - BBC News “Anyway, here’s another change to the specification and the political priorities” - the Labour Government

It’s no use just saying the livery is [rubbish] (that’s too subjective and not very constructive); it has objectively failed to build on a century of British *modernism* (far more British than a tenuous interpretation of the Union Flag) and is therefore a huge opportunity missed :(

Free Lord Dodecahedronhead. #Eurovision

Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

40 years ago today, 12 May 1986, & Tiverton Parkway station opens replacing Tiverton Junction station. The new station is situated on the site of Sampford Peverell, an intermediate station closed as part of the Beeching rationalisations of 1964. #railways flic.kr/p/2s6AAa9

ca.1905 German Railways guide book; one of the wonders of the age, the Schwebebahn in Elberfeld - opened in 1901 linking towns that were to form the new city of Wuppertal in 1929. It still runs & is still a wonder of the age! @wsw-wuppertal.bsky.social @wuppertal.de #transport ↘️ flic.kr/p/2scomj6

Tomorrow will I predict mark the beginning of the end of the old two-party political system and in future we’ll see a succession of chaotic coalition governments. Another of the unintended consequences of Brexit.

“Our research shows that Irish consumers are curious, adventurous and increasingly eager to explore new taste profiles." Can ye hear yereselves Heineken? If that was the actual case they wouldn't be drinking Heinken in any form and the average tap list in every Irish bar wouldn't be what it is ...

History of the USA: - King of England imposes taxes - America declares independence - Things go well for nearly 250 years - America elects a moron - Moron imposes taxes - King of England gets taxes removed

'It looks like rain again, she takes a train again She's on her way again through London town' - 'Modern Girl' by Sheena Easton, who turns 67 years young today - 📸 Kings Cross station, London, 1965, photographer unknown

Iranian defies odds to defeat Trump.

ALL THAT MIGHTY HEART (1963)

York 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leeds-Malton train is phenomenally expensive for a sub 1hr journey, so at least I can rinse the ticket by breaking the journey! Blue Bell as great as ever. Free cheese& crackers on Sundays. Nice chat with locals. Golden Ball that have bought out their freehold from pubco scum! Woo! 🍻👍

Conwy, north-west Wales, photo by Sarah Horrocks.

Great beers from @trackbrewingco.bsky.social - Navigator Nitro Stout highly recommended.

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BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

There are trespassers on the @gwr.com line from Maiden Newton to Paignton today

Garble Arch

you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

Those poor astronauts, they're going to miss Power Plant Day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tonight's beer of the day is Sumave Pilsner from @teamutopian.bsky.social. An easy drinking beer especially for the ABV. Quite a distinct bitter aftertaste, in a good way. #bskybeer

Wrexham v Southampton

Shea Charles stuns Arsenal to send Southampton into FA Cup semis

Le Chemin De Traverse Bar à Bières is a great place in Nantes! Lovely friendly owner who really knows her beers and plays good ska music. @europeanbarguide.bsky.social

And just like that, having ridden Class 455s all my life, this really is the last time in revenue earning service. End of an era & another childhood fleet of mine gone… #Class455 #NetworkSouthEast❤️💙🤍

Wow. Sadiq Khan asks Keir Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum 👏

World's first functioning model railway hat debuts at Cheltenham Festival Ladies Day Photo by GWR