they have no idea what an email or an immigration queue is.

thrilled and delighted to share that I have migrated and I'm no longer in the UK. I have actual vacation time for the first time in a while. more paperwork BS to do but I have done the really big bit.

Thrilled that my rear bicycle wheel's inner tube now has 3 repair patches on it. An inner tube is now about £6, so this is £18 saved and the tube works as good as new. Learning to repair and keep things out of landfills is spiritually and monetarily rewarding.

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity

Fun fact the labour party have stopped the number one way in which lower income people have been able to save for retirement (salary sacrifice). From April 2009 salary sacrifice is capped at 2 grand with no guarantee of it going up with inflation. www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/articles/lat...

I will never forget when a former flatmate told me how his girlfriend had been instructed to book hotel rooms for rich men to meet woth mistresses and see workers as part of her job. This would have been in c. 2013. Words by @londoncentric.media

the ancient world just intuitively understood that hot beverages taste better when poured out of a little dude. we had the technology before, and we can again.

Day off type business. Put it in H!

Questions about Mandelson, his heinous crimes and how much Starmer knew. Dan Norris, elected as Lab MP, arrested - 2 counts of rape. Tulip Siddiq sentenced to 4 years. I wonder why Labour have made 3 attack videos about me in the last 24 hours? They're done. Finished. Toast.

Weird being at the Emirates stadium when there's so many empty seats. Our guess is that of seating of 60,000, about 5,000 people are here. Which is still quite a lot tbh.

The second they do this, their claim on the Elgin marbles being 'accessible to everyone around the world' goes further into the trash than it already is.

Really enjoying picking books from my library based on whats on the librarians choice desk. Right now I am on @mightymur.bsky.social 's 'shambling guide to new york city' which is very charming and fun. I'd never have found it without the library. Empty dressing packet as a bookmark.

This is the labour party aspiration for this country. A bottom dollar-paying arms dealer to a world riven by conflict and fear, rattling like a big cart towards a horrible end. I am sickened by this view of the world. It is such a waste of potential. I refuse to accept it.

cant wait for my free tulip planting lessons from the UK government to go with it.

You should always lock up a bike (for any length of time over a few mins) with 2 sold secure gold locks, not just 1 and a cable.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Another brilliant political move by Braverman here; at the exact moment the entire world is watching the actions of ICE in Minnesota with horror & disgust & revulsion, she's using her first big statement as a member of Reform to go "We need some of that over here" Genius, really reading the room*

Just learned that logistics inc cargo bike/EAV firm Pedal and Post has gone bust. I think the loss of their client which they reference just torpedoed their finances and made it unviable. My guess is that it was Lime cancelling their contractor-enabled battery swaps and bike moves that did it.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

there's a lot of awfulness around at the present. I am taking comfort in this man and his fellows via tiktok Nathanslifeandmoore cooking delicious lunches while out and about on roofs and in vans. Guys are probably eating better than every city slicker in the square mile.

bright spot in a cloudy week

Vanguard now cutting exposure to the UK in its life strategy product. Life strategy is reputed to be ideal for long term stability and growth. Chat i dont think this is good news. www.ftadviser.com/content/e248...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

the official UK government 'we are cooked' report that keith is going to pretend doesn't exist.

god knows there is awful things going on at the moment. I am taking a minute to enjoy that the Cow Tools wikipedia article has been updated with the amazing news that a Swiss cow has been found to use a tool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

thinking about this more and more. Today I have paid for a rear wheel bearing replacement service and sewn some gloves as a repair and this entire time i have had my brain occupied about That Guy Over There the entire time.

Track bike rear wheel is in for a service (hub bearings) and i immediately feel the financial pain. Service cost will be about £30, and the bus to and back from work over 3 days will be about £10.

the second these mags start telling us to get in on turnips you can know for a fact that we are all cooked

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I've made my podcasting debut off the back of this upload. Bivvy bags are cool and this one is both good and affordable. Hope you enjoy. 13 mins long complete with beginner podcaster errors but we move. calumonwheels.podbean.com/e/goretex/

Sleep easy, vittoria randonneur cross. As a commuting tyre on a fixed gear bike you did pretty good. Now replaced with a panaracer ribmo.

dreadful.

hot take the bbc actually do deserve to get roasted for this and I dont care who gets mad about it. Bbc materials are all overwhelmingly carbrained. Maybe if they couldn't just fling 12 million quid worth of taxis at guests every year this would be somewhat limited.

I found out this week that library fines from Islington library no longer exist which really threw me. I was expecting to get done for a few p at least.

The north london ride home from work at 1730 was, truly, crazy work. There's being freezing. There's being rained on. Then there's two at once. At least it wasn't windy.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Labour councillor thinks that the murder of a woman - with plans that political parties in the UK are specifically looking to emulate - shouldn't be political. Labour have no intention in every challenging the far right - which is why they'll be next to follow unless we stand up to them.

Trump started it. Reform and Tories are at it too. And Labour already heading in that direction. All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.

The thing is ICE has killed multiple people this past year, but it wasnt seen as a problem at large because they were all Black and brown people. ICE killing people didnt become a major issue until it was a white person.

The woman murdered by ICE: 37-year-old Renee Good.

You thought there was a new DFT road safety strategy? Not quite. This press release 'announces' elements of a strategy without actually saying it is active. The announcement says a strategy has been 'launched' today....

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

In a library trying to print something. Surrounded by people trying to keep warm. I really feel for them. Thank goodness this library is still going.

I am fervently hoping there will be no snow or ice in london, or if there is, it goes away with immediate effect. It is dangerous!!!!

Signed up for my first duty supporting with first aid in another football stadium to my normal. By the grace of God it will have warmed up a bit because I have spent today huddled indoors.

following a social media account gives you 0 (zero) percent of a controlling stake of its output and if you get mad about it, thats more fool you.

So cold in this house that cooking potato steam is actually coming out the microwave. Crazy work.

It was much too cold for parkrun for me today, so I wrote up a blog post about london cargo bike couriering and specifically whether an Urban Arrow xl can or should replace a car. Enjoy! calumonwheels.com/2026/01/03/u...