Look away now 🫣 Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision. We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

My dad was a crime reporter on the Luton News in 1975. Just a couple of the highlights from just one page of a British Newspaper Archive search 😆

"Beyond the numbers, there’s a simple truth that emerges from both the research and the riders: e-cargo bikes are fun. They turn errands into adventures, draw smiles from strangers, and make cities feel friendlier."

#34: Coins

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running." - former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

How often do the police object to new or upgraded works because it makes illegal driving easier? I appreciate tackling illegal motorcycling isn't easy, but the police shouldn't be just objecting like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

We’re thrilled to welcome Cllr Tina Valcarcel to the Liberal Democrat group! 🧡 After nearly 20 years as a Labour councillor, Tina says Labour has moved away from her values — and she’s found her home with the Lib Dems. Welcome, Tina! ✨

New! After eight years of waiting, they're online! See London's unbuilt motorways as even their planners never could in our amazing, immersive Ringways Map, hosted by the amazing SABRE Maps. It *might* be the best thing we've ever done. #ringways

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.

My daughter Katie's list of 25 Lake District Fells Ranked by how Hard-Core their Name Sounds. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Protected cycle tracks are not just for cyclists, they allow more freedom for those with mobility issues

Prins Hendrikkade, Amsterdam in 1980 and today. Cars can no longer use this route in front of Centraal station, now reserved for only people on foot, bike or on the tram

Errol 1985 📷Robert Mapplethorpe

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

Incredibly naive. Basically kills off any career path for Over Head Line teams. The industry will down skill to repair and maintenance alone. Kills off any investment or innovation in OLE too. Bet they announce a new road or airport expansion within a month.

I am curious about the religious right response to this. Do they have to stop "praying" outside abortion providers now?

This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...

A Golden Morning at the Au Sable Light. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan

Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska-Curie outside their house near Paris, 1895 #BicycleBirthday Marie Skłodowska-Curie November 7 (1867-1934)

Too many city plans are still using language like “balancing competing priorities” because at some point, we city planners decided that the word balance made us sound reasonable and less scary. But let’s be clear — in most cases balance has been a myth, and is often NOT the correct goal or approach.

New Travelling Turtle video! Delighted to be premiering episode one (of two) of our adventure across Europe, trying to make the longest possible public transport journey in the Schengen zone in 200 hours. Lots of boats, trains, buses, pastries, mountains and Grieg. #Schengen200 youtu.be/qSQapm0UyWU

Monumental hubris, every detail is jaw dropping. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

*taps sign*

We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them | The Bear

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Very insistent, is The Times leader today, that the Supreme Court ruling is clear. But even it can't agree what the ruling means. Snips from The Times on 4/11/25, 12/9/25 and 26/9/25.

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will this do?

THE FORTY ELEPHANTS were an all-female gang active in London from 1873 until the 1950s. Noted for their longevity they operated from the Elephant & Castle area, raided West End stores, posed as housemaids to burgle wealthy homes & were notoriously expert at evading capture.

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates ceramic figures #womensart

Bus has to wait FOUR TIMES to keep to the timetable due to lack of congestion after Oxford's Congestion Charge went in. ⬇️ I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.

Dan Hannan + Douglas Carswell put a lot of emphasis on the equal citizenship of black, Asian and mixed race Britons (especially in 2013-2016, concerned that Farage's nativism + the legacy of Enoch Powell would make it impossible for Reform to reach 50%. Carswell has flipped entirely. Has Hannan?

Hannan becoming more extreme, probably egged on by his old friend, Douglas Carswell. I don't think they used to be this extreme but they entered into a Faustian bargain years ago: they, 'the clever chaps', could ride/steer the less desirable part of the Right. Now they are steered by it.

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament They were crooks and shysters to a man They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Devastation on repeat: 1,000+ dead, 6.9M affected by Pakistan’s monsoon floods Climate change is melting glaciers, intensifying monsoon rains, and worsening floods, hitting the poorest hardest in a country responsible for just 1% of global GHG emissions www.bbc.com/news/article...

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Image of the Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of rock to the other side of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos.

Friday!

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