Unrelatedly, I’m currently reading Last Call at Hotel Imperial, and I’ve just reached the point where Dorothy Thompson is kicked out of Nazi Germany for having written unflattering things about Hitler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dear friend simon Any support or donation you give us during these difficult times will help us overcome this ordeal, give us hope and strength, and save our lives♥️🙏

Greetings Simon, I am Sahar from Gaza. I ask for your support, even if it is a little🙏🫶

Simon lost my home, my family, and my dreams — but not my hope. I’m fighting to rebuild my life and create a future worth living.

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

@simonzev.bsky.social Our lives are written now not in notebooks but in rubble, in hunger, in exile. We were children who dreamed of professions, of futures. Today we are only survivors of a war that never ends, praying not to be forgotten. please help me save my family from this war 🙏🏻💔

An apt metaphor for the #Flotilla Israel have used piracy to defend their #GazaGenocide It’s unacceptable, it must be called out & they must release those they’ve kidnapped. Their treatment of them is abhorrent and an affront to international law #Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸

My friend, the activist Ewa Jasiewicz was onboard the Gaza Peace Flotilla and is now in Israeli detention, we're asking the UK government to use its influence to guarantee her safe return. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

A constituent's son, part of the flotilla, has been detained by the Israeli navy. I have written to the Foreign Secretary to ask how the Govt is supporting those detained, who bravely risked everything to oppose the collective punishment of Gazans and this illegal blockade.

A senseless, disgusting & unfathomable incident.

Forza ✊

Israeli forces stopped 14 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, flotilla organizers said, but 23 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, according to the flotilla's tracking system reut.rs/487C9bv

Oh look, a policy worked… NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago. bbc.in/4o4ymAx #ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir

Happy birthday to trains! Who would’ve thought, 200 years on, that this fine contraption could help me run an errand, on a dual-electric mode sleek urban train that goes underground & overground. Here’s to the next 200, we’re gonna need more trains… 🎂2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🛤️ 🚂 #Railway200

🚨URGENT🚨 We’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper & MPs' Will Stone and Tonia Antoniazzi to act now to protect British nationals/their constituents on the Gaza flotilla @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @willstonemp.bsky.social @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social

So that’s what’s at the end of the rainbow… 🌈 🚆 🛤️

@lner.co.uk doing the heavy lifting shifting thousands of people today on all sorts of journeys, including ours to family in Durham. Good smooth journey, uneventful, just how it should be #TrainTravel #BankHoliday

It’s hard to sum up how good it was. Sorry I can’t be there today but this event has been amazing. Yes the range of trains/events was amazing but the best bit for me was the people, all brought together & great to see some familiar faces! Thanks to #DCRail for hosting us!

A very nice day using #VolunteerLeave to host guests onto the #Railway200 #InspirationTrain also featuring some lovely #GBRailfreight locomotives, @clanline35028.bsky.social & a whole bit about careers including on being a #FreightManager #Rail200 #FreightIsGreat

A brilliant afternoon thanks to #GBRailfreight with the launch of the Class 99, a very exciting prospect for the future rail and freight #RailFreight #GBRf #Class99

Israeli settlers kidnap, attack Palestinian-American brothers in West Bank village - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-kidnap-attack-palestinian-american-brothers-west-bank

At least 31 people were killed and more than 150 injured today when civilians traveling to an aid distribution center in Gaza were fired upon, according to media reports citing local health authorities and witnesses.

Here’s a thread about the housing crisis in London, starting from this really poor take. The take is, “homes are being built in Peckham from an old shopping arcade, why are these silly locals against this” This proffers the idea that “build build build” is the key to solving the ⬇️

The housing crisis will not even start to be tackled by people who are more interested in protecting developer’s profits than providing a housing supply for actual local communities.

These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

If you have a more sensitive disposition stop watching at 57 seconds and forward to 60 seconds. It is of this special needs Palestinian man being blown up and I have an anxiety disorder so, I understand that these images are detrimental for your mental health. But her message is important plz listen

A tip off from FL colleagues of a new Gateway path, 4L73 from Tinsley that’s booked via my local line so popped down to Bruce Grove to see it cruise thru. 66553 leads a mix of FLA lowliner twin & quintets plus some FSAs with 8’6” 20fts which enables the use of this gauge restricted line #RailFreight

It’s been an eventful week. Officially stepped up a role, @tottenhamhotspur.com have won the #EuropaLeague🏆& I managed to meet @lner.co.uk 91106 named ‘Swallow’ matching my #Intercity tattoo & year of vintage at King’s Cross with goodies.

Not every day you get to do a historical move but that’s what I supported today with a #RailAdventure wagon move taking Class 43 HST power cars to Dollands Moor for only the 2nd time & the first time via the main line & under their own power. Just one buffer stop away from running off to France 🇫🇷 👋

Here's the actual reality of a bus stop bypass, at any given time, on any given day. No interactions, no danger to pedestrians, VI or otherwise... but my wife, sister-in-law and daughter can independently and safely access local amenities without fear or risk of being crushed to death.

13-year study finds protected bike lanes make roads safer — for everyone theprogressplaybook.com/2023/11/20/1...

After many many years I’ve finally got another ride on a TMST original #Eurostar Class 373 set from Paris to London. It’s my 1st time on a refurbished set & I think my first time on a 373 to/from Paris (all previous journeys to/from Brussels) 🙌 🇪🇺 ⭐️ 🚅 ⚡️ 🛤️ #TravelByTrain

Cannot remember the last time I used this platform to board/alight a train at Finsbury Park. This was courtesy of a Thameslink unit sat on 7 with a broken window otherwise the doors never open on 6 and trains aren’t scheduled to stop on 5. #TrainLife #RareMovements

Busy main roads don’t have to be barriers. In the Netherlands, safe cycling infrastructure lets people of all ages easily and safely navigate through a motorway junction. It’s possible, if we choose to make it so.

Cutting benefits payments *specifically* for people deemed unable to work due to illness or disability is a genuinely shocking choice from Labour. Aside from the incredibly obvious moral horror of it, it shows how our economy is set up all wrong. #r4today

Really proud my team has produced this for #InternationalWomensDay2025, a freight service from quarry, to FOC, on the network, to the customer, delivered by female colleagues across the industry #YouCantBeWhatYouCantSee #IWD2025 👷‍♀️ 💪 Link to video here: www.linkedin.com/posts/networ...

"ceasefire falters" is an interesting way for the washington post to describe "israel reneges on the ceasefire agreement and uses starvation as a bargaining chip" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The walk from Folkestone to Dover over the cliffs. Looking west from Abbotscliff was my favourite catching a pair of 375s heading for Dover #TrainLife

A day well spent, which started at the utterly excellent Folkestone Harbour station and the cafe in the old Signal Box #TrainLife #SundayWalks #Folkstone

On a wet, cold, freezing December night in Utrecht people still cycle in very large numbers. Build cycle infrastructure that enables safe and comfortable cycling conditions for everyone and people will ride, whatever the weather

A nice run on ‘Chris Green’ to Dartford and back. Then seen departing Denmark Hill in all its #NetworkSouthEast💙❤️🤍 splendour. I’ve jumped off here because the Victoria Line has got delays so an alternate way home for me!

What an absolute delight to see this livery back! #Southeastern 465908 is now out and about in #NetworkSouthEast💙❤️🤍 livery, almost exactly how they were when I was growing up! It’s wondrous & a great tribute to Chris Green. Thank you to those who made this happen! #TrainLife #Class465SendOff

The unusual moment caught at Waterloo of a shunt move from one part of the W&C depot to the other via the departure platform. This also meant seeing 2 southbound trains at the same time heading towards the depot (one was shunting, the other arriving from Bank) #TrainLife

As cars get bigger, so do the risks. People hit by larger cars when walking or cycling are far less likely to survive. @cleancitiescampaign.org needs your help to stop #Carspreading! Find out how: https://buff.ly/4gCta2z

A fantastic day with #YoungRailPro part of #RailWeek2025 #Heritage volunteering on the #PrincessRisboroughandChinnorRailway A great opportunity to do some pway work and help out the railway. Always look out for similar events for future opportunities!