Christ. Defend American ‘culture’. The culture they want you to defend: guns, mass shootings, oversize trucks, wellness grifting, and fast food. And whiteness of course.

One of my favourite YouTube shorts that cheers me up without fail: youtube.com/shorts/KVkVA...

Calling Reform racist isn’t slander. It’s maths. 20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵

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... 🧵

Been driving for 25 years. 1 speeding ticket from a missed limit change on motorway heading into roadworks, early in my ‘driving career’. My fault. Took the fine. Didn’t whine like a baby (ok maybe for a few minutes lol) or feel bullied. Learnt my lesson, and changed my behaviour. Simple.

Trump completely batshit. Christ. (And Bessent & Rubio looking less than thrilled.) youtu.be/QF_Pxqvr708?...

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

Not bad. Unzoomed #613 3/6 🟡🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

Idly doodling tonight. #Antifa - June 1944, a beach in Normandy.

Osaka’s showpiece streetscape Midosuji Boulevard has undergone major changes. In the build-up to hosting the 2025 World Expo, the city began experimenting with reallocating parts of the road space: widening sidewalks, limiting car traffic, and creating continuous protected infrastructure for bikes.🧵

What We Do in the Shadows. (Friends. But with vampires. And actually funny.) Flight of the Conchords. Spaced.

Mattie Dodd's latest journal takes us inside a stint of stage racing that stretched from the Czech Republic to Romania, via Slovenia and Italy. It’s classic Mattie: sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, equal parts grit and gallows humour. thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/09/20/m...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King. So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO Location: Windsor High Street, UK #trump #epstein

"We can’t all just sit around complaining… we have to make the events we want to race ourselves.” At 21, Elliott Colyer is already launching a hill climb, a new team and planning a Dorset Nat B. thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/09/15/t...

No paywall - because everything is better without paywalls* *although I also need a paywall to keep going. But you know what I mean. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

Bullseye! Unzoomed #605 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

Look what happens when these empty suits are held to account. Lord Walney - former head of Labour Friends of Israel - can't even justify the existence of a proscription he has argued for. Excellent journalism from Isobel Yeung - the rest of the media should take note

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: 20 years ago, Seoul was haggling over whether to install platform screen doors at its Metro stations. many called it a waste and an impossibility. now it’s at all Metro stations across South Korea. how did this transformation happen? www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again. So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version 🧵 1/21

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Steep. Muddy. Champéry, Valais. Raw cut from practice, day 7. youtu.be/--Fnay3B6aQ?...

From Brexit to Brexitism. New post starting the 10th year of my now retitled Brexit & Brexitism Blog, analysing the current politics of Brexit, this summer's confected crisis, and the new terrain of post-Brexit politics. Long read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... 1/2

Curse of private equity. PE has devoured retail, supermarkets, vets, care homes, healthcare. Now it is skateboarding in the US. Staff cuts, up to 90% wage cut, asset stripping, high debt, low investment, price hikes. PE has no long term interest. It devours and is expanding in the UK.

Ooof! Unzoomed #591 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

The Tour de France 'weight debate' revealed how cycling is haunted by its history of hunger. But teams are trying to rethink the watts per kilo equation. Here's how. https://bit.ly/4p0QNqY

Ah what's wrong little buddy? Why the dirty delete? Big clever dark money think tank boy like you can almost certainly defend the position you came to based on ✨vibes✨ against a bunch of people who have actually read a book one time.

“She's incredible. I have not seen an African junior go like this.” All you need to know about Tsige Kahsay Kiros, the Ethiopian junior mega-talent who is currently sitting 18th on GC at the Tour de l'Avenir Femmes 🇪🇹 globalpeloton.substack.com/p/tour-de-la...

Watched a while ago and really enjoyed it. Getting from A to B doesn’t have to be soul-destroying, stuck in a prison of your own choosing. It can be wind-in-the-hair enjoyable. People look upon bicycles as childish, toy-like. Duh, yeah - toys are fun - being a kid again is fun - hence biking is fun!

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc

I compare this to brand new developments local to me & it’s stark how very little has changed here in decades - car dominated estates with pavement parking, wide roads that do nothing to slow speeds, public transport access a bus an hour if lucky & a few ‘shared use paths’ for micromobility. 🥲

Shaded woodland. And twisting singletrack. Love this sort of riding. Combined with some wonderful chalky upland drove roads with great views. And so peaceful!

This is a good article from @bearlypolitics.co.uk albeit surely uncomfortable reading for everyone on all sides in the UK. Firstly, we should all admire the directness and economy in his writing. 1

WATCH THIS: This is quite possibly still the most comprehensive interview I’ve ever done on smart urban transportation for better cities. Filmed in Vienna for a planned Paris-based documentary. Watch it, quote it, and please help spread it around. Thanks!

🚴 Will you be watching when the Vuelta a España cycling race kicks off this Saturday? Among all the grit and grind, one thing will be silky smooth: riders’ legs. Why? We asked four cycling experts if shaving actually helps.

"...automobile travel has about ten times the death rate as public transit, and transit vehicles also impose less risk on non-occupants like cyclists, pedestrians and other road users. Cars should come with warnings: 'Driving causes painful injuries, disabilities and death.'"

Not only do they have their own heads up their ass, they also have a minion’s head up their ass. Dedication to their frail mediocrity has no bounds.

Was tempted to buy this riding shirt recently. Now I’m definitely gonna press buy, as apparently it’ll stop me being abused by impatient, entitled drivists. And it’s bloody awesome, so that’s a bonus too.

Most visitors to Naoshima are hyper-focused on art and high culture. But this seaside hotel caters to a different obsession: competitive Japanese cycling.

The madness of having empathy and caring for those souls seeking asylum!* And God forbid, any of these RW ghouls ever had to flee a war zone and found themselves at the mercy of strangers.. *the Daily Heil/Tories would also suggest they’re ‘fake’ asylum seekers, & not deserving of empathy, of course

Geneva, Brest, Kanazawa, Utrecht, Seoul.

Bet he has the same grave concerns about speeding drivers and drunk drivers in cars. Ya know, actual widespread law breaking.

Here you go: youtu.be/VEvR3G0sxbY?...

Leveraging London's streets as one of its most valuable assets, Strand Aldwych transforms one of Westminster's busiest and most polluted corridors into a vibrant and verdant destination. By filtering out through traffic, 7000 m² of roadway is reclaimed into an accessible and welcoming public space.🧵

MASSIVE supercharged V8 Ford Raptor ✅ Tattoos ✅ Beard ✅ Steroided-up gym bunny physique ✅ And triggered by a 65kg bloke in Lycra (“Lycra c*nt!!”) skidding to a stop at traffic lights ✅ And a garment technologists. He knows Lycra! A tiny-dicked knucklehead marinating in culture war manosphere.

Seeing a bit of angst about lack of vision in progressive politics both sides of the Atlantic. So once again I offer you St Lucian development economist Arthur Lewis’s sketch of what socialists want.

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Motherfucking wind farms…