An abandoned, vandalised sign for "The National College of High Speed Rail" outside the abandoned college itself...

Heh. The abandoned aspiration for High Speed Rail. @garethdennis.uk

Cyclist suffers life-threatening injuries in crash near train station The male cyclist was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Imagine presiding over this and just shrugging again and again and again, while also knowing full well that other cities are getting to work on reallocating road space from cars to other modes of mobility so that all residents can get around in safety and dignity.

As local authorities in the UK are now starting to take proper action against the well funded nationalist flag ops that communities around the country have had to endure for months now, it seems a moment to once again recall Labour's response.

This'll never not be funny/revealing.

UK to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset Investment in plant due to supply batteries to Jaguar Land Rover expected to boost economic growth and secure jobs

Corporate Welfare.

UK Govt to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset.

The Govt isn't taking an equity stake in return, won't receive any dividends. It isn't a loan and isn't repayable.

Political parties demonize human recipients of welfare but hand free money to corporations.

SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists Engineers link reduced lifespan of roads to shift to heavier cars, some bought to navigate damaged surfaces

Surprise!
Turns out heavier cars wear out roads quicker and cause more potholes. Time for a weight tax on cars.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ministry of Defence 05 APRIL 2026 • Overnight, RAF Regiment gunners, operating in a high threat area, successfully downed multiple Iranian drones. • UK Typhoons and F-35 jets, supported by Voyager and Royal Navy Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, have continued their defensive missions over the Eastern Mediterranean, Jordan, Bahrain and UAE. • Force protection measures in the region continue to be at the highest levels - ensuring UK personnel are as safe as possible. We continue to work closely in coordination with allies.

A cool update on the war we aren’t fighting and aren’t involved in

A popular British politician with a national platform has said the words "car parking is not a right that any driver has on the road."

An obvious truth, but one other leaders know the interests they represent would never allow them to say.

This feels like a turning point in public space discourse.

Joseph Binder, 1950

Where can kids hang out other than on social media.
Shops use ultrasound to discourage them.
Play parks and grassed areas are being sold of to developers.
Youth centres have been closed.
Play in the street and some ruddy faced wanker in an SUV will complain

No.

It's their lack of independence and autonomy.

*Stares at the streets in the UK*

Over the years we've blamed social media, mainstream media music, gaming, comice... Anything but address the actual problems of social inequality, social mobility, educational inequality and personal autonomy. Britain's in denial on this. It always was.

Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

This is batshit.

Between 1980 & 1990, privatised U.K North Sea oil and gas raised £166 billion in tax.

The Conservative Party used it to halve income tax for top earners.

Norway used their publicly-owned oil & gas revenues to fund 1st class services and establish the world’s largest Sovereign Wealth Fund.

It will always be The Maglev!

Mind-blowing that I could park a huge piece of private property, indefinitely and at no charge, on some of the most valuable land in the world.

Broader point: when those we've elected to represent us and run our towns and cities revisit what's the best use of kerbside space, that's A Good Thing.

The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.

Driver jailed over Birmingham Eid crash that killed girl, four Javonnie Tavener is sentenced over the crash that killed Mayar Yahia in April 2024.

In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving.
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That this happened at all shows what a problem we have.

That the perpetrator was unrepentant, the sentence minimal and the victim DEFENDED that it was "hard" to drive at 20mph shows that we've internalised motornormativity.

Queuing for a bus earlier - every time I see this, it annoys me.... we must be one of the few countries in the world, where towns have to bid to the central Gov for a bus. Must be a bid consultant's dream. The UK Gov logo is a collective sign of failure, not success.

Yvette Cooper: "There is a very serious conflict underway in the Middle East, in the region, and we've seen these strikes continuing from the Iranian regime"

Israel and the US have set Iran on fire but Yvette Cooper wants us to believe the problem is Iran.

Imagine a Britain where we had used the profits from North Sea Oil to prepare for it running out and having a transport network that works rather than giving rich people a tax cut.

Treasury: Here, have a 35 year old London Underground train not quite ready for the scrapheap with a battery in it. bsky.app/profile/gare...

a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Detached parts of Shropshire - Wikipedia

West Mids. Historically the city itself was Warwickshire but grew to absorb parts of Staffs and Worcs.

If you head out into the Black Country, there were even exclaves of Shropshire - covering places like Oldbury, Warley and Halesowen
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The same billionaire dictators that deliberately encourage British people to move to their tax havens so they don’t have to fund defence and public services at home think *we’ve* let them down, lads…😂

A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals.

British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.