Nice of the Mail to provide a clear tactical voting guide

Livigno, Italy The men’s freeski halfpipe final is photographed multiple times by a fixed camera during the Winter Olympics Photograph: Héctor Vivas/Getty Images

Fascinating in depth journalism from the guardian on the build up to and start of the war in Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The then government cancelled the second part of the Leveson Inquiry in 2018. It planned to look at the relationship between the media and the police.

He's releasing an album of metal covers. He might even make me like some metal. But this is untouchable.

I'll bet Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is sweating now.

Is there *any* crowdfunder that has actually enabled investors to cash out at a profit?

A tasty treat for tonight.

Beautiful sounds for a cold wet Friday. A surprising side project for Kieran Hebden (4Tet) with William Tyler.

If people own £76k to _some bank or whoever_ then they are putting less of their income into the actual economy, buying healthier food, eating out, supporting local pubs and shops, lending their mates a few quid to help them out, getting a bus, hiring contractors. Wealth redistribution is good.

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Of course they did.

LOL. People are generating their CV's with AI, then HR are using AI to filter the CV's, and no-one is getting hired. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Late stage capitalism right there.

Reporting of cycling casualties in London is so inflammatory. This sounds really bad doesn't it? But is it actually? Because Lime didn't launch until 2022 and have grown massively - to at least 10% of all journey stages (as reported by Ross himself). So comparing to 2017 is ridiculous.

Incredible scene youtu.be/het1kl-A8qw?...

But we weren't allowed a cycle lane on a busy road outside a school because it'd destroy the grass verges. (It'd destroy the grass verges because they'd already stamped their little feet about removing width from the road.) Suddenly fuck the verges? It's almost like it was bullshit all along.

I might press them to answer the questions, but really, this shows *yet again* that when it comes to free car parking, it is justified on flimsiest of reasons. Compare that with trying to build new cycling schemes. 15/16

And there's your side road zebras being possible in Wales from 11th March this year. www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...

It's not only Paris that is doing good stuff for cycling in France - loads of mid size towns have infra that most places in the UK can only dream of Chambery A big secure storage 'Velostation' at the Rail Station plus bike rental but the network map (and simply numbered routes) that caught my eye

Jonny Ive's company LoveFrom has designed the new Ferrari and the interior is truly stunning. Notably, he's absolutely damning about the trend for touch control in cars - explicitly saying that it's killing people.

Take that hiviz evangelists. The North East ambulance service is buying white ambulances now to save money as painting them hiviz yellow doesn't make em more visible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This will never be not funny to me

Huge if true: riding a bike is not only fun and convenient; it's also great for your health. Who knew?? @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social

AI+Actually Indians.

“I had to go in and face my colleagues who were saying, ‘Mike, what have you done?’” A glimpse inside Haringey's street space transformation, featuring @mikehakata.bsky.social and @carlafrancome.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lauralak...

A Reform-led council has spent £600,000 on an eight-space car park, of which six spaces are reserved for senior Reform councillors, who get to park there at no charge. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent ‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”’

Well... some things *did* happen. One of the journalists that broke the story was blown up and the second was shot along with his fiancee.

Craft beer in Grenoble. Jackie Brown. A very murky Brown Ale.

Looking forward to this. A couple of years back we had some people staying for NYE and after a late night we rewatched the entirety of Detectorists the next day. Perfect TV.

This is just glorious. And I say that as someone who has never been to a Farmer J, is normally bored by eatery reviews and tends to be put off by long rants. But this: oh my. normallondonbloke.substack.com/p/mind-the-r...

Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.

The perils of ageing in two images

Nothing to see here. Just a member of the unelected House of Lords complaining that cycling groups have 'captured the relevant organs of the state'

Not the text you want 30 minutes before you’re leaving to get to St Pancras. “We couldn’t find you a seat on the new train”. But you’ll still sell me a seat on that train in first class? Fuckers.

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

The problem is not capacity. The problem is who gets the capacity. TfL increasingly seem unable to understand that giving 20% more signal capacity to buses mixed in with other traffic doesn't mean 20% faster buses, but 20% more people driving. They have to do much more to separate modes...

Good take on fairly sensible @ategov.bsky.social guidance on floating bus stops, bus stop bypasses, bus stop boarders. Ultimately however the guidance amounts to 'try & do what you were already doing a bit better'. The amount of delays, time, money put in to appeasing 'fears', 'concerns' and from...

Hidden away off Streatham High Road. I think the swimming pool might be be out of use.

Residential freehold association claiming a ground rent cap would transfer wealth from pensioners to “wealthy overseas investors”. So a lot of freeholds are owned by pension funds. But most leasehold properties in UK are NOT owned by overseas investors….

This was very clearly unbuildable and ridiculous. The waste of resources to get this far has been huge. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Steve Bird and the telegraph so as usual this seems devoid of any factual information about the claims made. NofuckingbikesUK has “shown” (where?, how?) that “37 of 121 bus stops” were the “wrong type”. What does that even mean? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f21686a...

Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Fucking lol

Journalistic neutrality from the Times Andrew Ellson. Lambeth Council had a huge electoral mandate to deliver their Transport and Kerbside strategies via LTNs but a small group challenging on a technicality is a humiliation and a landmark case.

Propaganda. Blatant and easily disproved, but when velocity is all that matters they win.