Absolutely first class 😂😂😂😂😂

Is the Downing Street lectern out yet?

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A cracking read

BBC News - Red Arrows to fly with fewer jets to preserve ageing fleet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Time is a flat circle! In our latest long read, we explore how the Tyne & Wear Metro’s map & wayfinding became such a mess. #TyneAndWearMetro #Newcastle

This. I'm not a lawyer, but I think / reason / rationalise as I write. The writing IS the thinking process. It's how I work

www.wired.com/story/world-... An alternative approach to keeping abreast of developments globally. Will it catch on?

First flight of what became the Supermarine Spitfire took place on this day 1936 in Southampton. Only British fighter produced continuously throughout WW2. Trafford Park made Rolls-Royce Merlin engines used to power both the Spitfire and the Lancaster bomber.

Go on, have another one. What do you mean you're full? Come on, you can have another CEEFAUX can't you? Look, it's only a little one, barely requires reading? Go on. Don't make us ask again. There are people in world who don't have access to CEEFAUX you know? Send it to them instead shall we? eh?

Bridges across the Tyne, photo by Sally Ann Norman.

open.spotify.com/show/5GSYrqj... Recommend this pod - always interesting

Japan is building a 500 km/h maglev. It’s also expanding streetcars. Why do slow trams still matter in Japan? A new Weekend Tokyo essay on LRT, urban time, and cities moving at two speeds. open.substack.com/pub/letterfr...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

OK, this one is going to annoy some people, but it needs to be said You should not try to re-open Ashford and Ebbsfleet for #CrossChannelRail trains concurrently, you have to choose one or the other And it should be ASHFORD Explained 👇 crosschannelrail.eu/ebbsfleet-or...

Chapeau to everyone at ITV Sport @itvsport.bsky.social for their brilliant coverage of the Tour de France over so many years. Ned Boulting, Gary Imlach, David Millar, Phil Liggett, Matt Rendell and all, you'll be missed. Vive le Tour 🇫🇷 #TDF2025

Morning- #sophiefromromania says keep on signing the #parkypetition100K

Please sign this. Just do it. Thank you. Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" - Petitions share.google/kg43omN9oitf...

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

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Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.

This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.

Very cool live map of the London Underground www.londonunderground.live

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... this account of Stationers flight to the ISS is nothing short of astonishing

Remember any of these?

www.facebook.com/share/v/161L... wow!

The borough of Manchester was elevated to city status #OTD 1853. As the world's first major industrial urban centre, it was radically different to what had come before.

Really cool 🙂

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Better tech costs. And there is a huge associated concentration risk as well........

Resilience, resilience, resilience all the way. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A remarkable story, and a brave man. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'm here...........