Can’t help but feel that with every twist and U-turn with the Iran War that there are hidden financiers making vast amounts of money through insider trading.

Almost as vile as a war that bombs and terrorises civilians are the revolting profits made by city scumbags and their friends.

Not English, but isn’t English rugby player Abbie Ward just such an inspiration to others?

Thoughts and prayers with all Reform UK and Restore politicians, supporters and hedge fund billionaires at this incredibly difficult time. ❤️

Certaines sociétés et personnes richissimes veulent vous faire croire que la "Cité du 1/4h" est un complot effrayant.
Alors que c'est juste du bon sens commun:
Plus de choses proches sans nécessiter une voiture.
Mais avez-vous entendu parler du
"Complot de la Cité d'1 Heure "?
Restez aux aguets !

Great to see Qaqortoq Airport open!

What next for Narsarsuaq, I wonder? 🤔

Quite astonishing that Southeastern can run a 6-carriage high speed train (1544 Margate to St Pancras) with just one working toilet on the entire train.

And to remind us of this, the first two carriages smell of sewage.

The diabolical state of UK trains.

Planning a rail journey from southern Poland into Slovakia.

The rail links are very poor still.

At the Zwardoń crossing, two train changes are required (technical reasons) with essentially a shuttle running to Skalite and one other route seems to be summer weekends only.

In Oulu it is

-Dark 1/2 of the year
-Ice and snow 1/3 of the year
-Pretty often below -20°C

And it is one of the cycling capitals of Europe.

What matters most is whether infrastructure supports cycling. Not the weather or terrain.

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better?

Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence.

Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”.

Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it.

Crazy!

Trump.

Impeach him.

Orbán him.

Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network “Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 20...

“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights”

Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand.
Hungary shows us we must never give them power.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...

Or “At least Orbán made the trains run on time, eh?”

Not going to lie, seeing a convicted American felon hit the headlines for calling His Holiness the Pope “weak on crime” was only #8 on my 2026 bingo card.

“If you were a betting man, Matt, how would you see the last Hungarian election going?”

"People worried that LTNs would push traffic from little streets onto big roads and jam them up.

[But] a study of the impact of London’s LTNs [found this hasn't happened]:

There's been, on average, a 47% fall in traffic within the neighbourhoods and traffic on boundary roads has not increased."

I wonder if American pilots and missile operators are aware of the concept of war crimes and that they could personally face lengthy jail sentences for executing orders that are clearly illegal under international law?

The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...

“Since cars have killed the city, we need faster cars to escape on superhighways to suburbs that are even farther away. What an impeccable circular argument: give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars.”

Written in 1973, when the destruction was just beginning.

The irony being that the massive investment in renewables is what has sheltered the UK from the worst fossil fuel price rises these last weeks.

When what we actually need are cyclepaths.

I cannot fathom why the UK government considers a state visit to the USA by the king to be a good thing.

What possible good can come from it?

The Trump administration simply uses such occasions for propaganda and personal gain. It’s serious cringe to see Britain kowtowing to them.

Threatening war crimes isn’t the flex Trump thinks it to be.

After two decades, Google Maps still can’t cope with places being a hotel AND a restaurant or cafe.

So if you go for a meal or a cafe, the review section asks you to rate the Rooms.

“I don’t know. I only went for a fucking latte and a pastry.”

Sigh.

The Trump administration is now determined to buy Graceland as it is essential for US defence. It is also considering buying Disneyland for much the same reasons.

“If we can’t buy these important countries,” President Trump said in an interview, “I cannot rule out military action. Take heed!”

Guangzhou isn’t just building bike lanes. It's building a healthier, more liveable city.

With over 6,000 km. of greenways, it quietly boasts one of the world's largest cycling networks.

What was once overlooked is now impossible to ignore: a vital link in their modern, multimodal transport system.

It strikes me that Iran now feels politically stronger despite losing much of its leadership.

While the USA now feels politically weaker because it hasn’t.

Sadly, history shows that in the future of the USA, there is usually a worse Republican president than the current one.

British schoolgirl stranded in Denmark after return flight blocked over UK border rules Exclusive: Hanne, 16, from Sussex, was not allowed to board flight to London after weekend in Copenhagen

I swear the UK government simply will not rest until they have alienated every single ordinary person in the nation.

Rarely has a government been so determined to lose the next election.

It’s breathtaking.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Although no expert in Middle Eastern affairs - a trait I seem to share with the entire Trump administration and the US military - I fear all this Iran war will deliver is an even more unpleasant, embittered, theocratic regime led by an even more inexperienced radicalised leadership.

Same for Iran.

People of all ages and abilities cycle in a “fietszone” or bicycle-priority zone in the city centre of Maastricht, along cobblestone streets lined with trees, parked bicycles, terraces, and historic buildings.

People of all ages and abilities cycle in a “fietszone” or bicycle-priority zone in the city centre of Maastricht, along cobblestone streets lined with trees, parked bicycles, terraces, and historic buildings.

People of all ages and abilities cycle in a “fietszone” or bicycle-priority zone in the city centre of Maastricht, along cobblestone streets lined with trees, parked bicycles, terraces, and historic buildings.

People of all ages and abilities cycle in a “fietszone” or bicycle-priority zone in the city centre of Maastricht, along cobblestone streets lined with trees, parked bicycles, terraces, and historic buildings.

This past November, Maastricht quietly introduced the Netherlands' first “fietszone” or bicycle-priority zone, which takes the concept of “fietsstraten”—streets where cars are treated as guests—and applies it across the entire city centre (within the ring roads) rather than along a single corridor.🧵

Gianni Infantile is thrilled to announce that Melania Trump has been awarded the inaugural FIFA Documentary Prize.