No. Your opinion is completely ill-informed and contrary to facts.

What have they done to Colin?!

Also - did you spot all those cycles swerving to avoid the grating with the holes parallel to the line of travel? That ought to be an easy fix for cycle lanes in general - to have grating grids that cyclists can feel happy to cycle over!

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That darn dig-in-heels reflex is very annoying, I sympathise!

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Swift recovery!!! 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲

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I assume that because there's no state religion in the US, the biggest religion has folks trying to push it in there. But in the UK, religion is already embedded in the state, no need to push at all. More like keep quiet, in case a swell of folks (non-theists, or non-devout, or pro-secular) notice!

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I bet it will produce an amazingly beautiful crop of flowers! 🌺🌺

Just awful. If my parents had ever pulled that, they would have been NC-ed so quickly they wouldn't have had time to look up the word "ghosted".

We didn't deserve this day.

Surely somebody could accidentally lock him in a bathroom somewhere!

Who can get a Blue Badge?

In theory, yes, I do, and I think I ought to have a blue badge.

But I don't actually qualify under any of the categories on www.gov.uk/government/p... and I'm not going to waste time applying. Said article above is much more worried about the other way round - people getting one when unqualified. 🙄

I wondered whether I qualified, as I use crutches/wheelchair sometimes, but as I can walk 300m, I don't. But I can't walk all the way round the supermarket. It would be very useful to have a parking space with space adjacent to unload a wheelchair, even if that space is further away. Complex issue.

Does this work with Drum & Bass? Heck of a mashup!

There's different parts that should get different treatment. In the most-walked bit between Risinghurst and Thornhill, there might be options that would work better than (or alongside with) reducing the speed limit. But it's got to work. Existing speed reduction nearby has very little effect.

Yes, a proper cycle path here (like Marston Ferry Rd standard), from Thornhill to the Holton turn, would reap huge benefits in great swathes of children cycling to & from school.

Needs Marston Ferry Road standard: difficult as there is not the room in places and the ground drops away steeply in places near the the main carriageway.

Mere installation of a barrier will not make for a suitable route for both pedestrians and cyclists.

Needs more than that: if you want to make the Thornhill to Wheatley stretch a suitable cycle path (a very good idea) then it needs upgrading. Terrible condition at the moment, narrow with some parts uneven & arcing brambles. Sometimes, before verge cut, you cycle with vegetation brushing both legs.

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Thank you!

Thank you! Went out hunting for something a bit different, wasn't expecting to find two flower species completely new to me! 😁

A cute yellow cowslip in a grassy meadow. Hundreds of them in the background across the meadow. Just coming into season in this location.

Two short cuckooflowers of the palest pink, surrounded by grass and some dead leaves. These and several others were in the dampest sections of the meadow.

A short orchid with several purple flowers on its stem, surrounded by grass. The flowers have spots and stripes and pale patches. This was the earliest of these orchids, most are still at ground level in this meadow where you can only just about see the buds. Leaves plain, like broad large grass leaves, not spotted. Having pored over several photos of early purple orchids and green-winged orchids, these orchids all look like the green-winged orchids and not like the early purples, despite it being rather early in the season!

Two views from slightly different angles of the same field wood-rush (I think it's that!). It is surrounded by grass, and there's a brown leaf. The interesting bit is the splotches of brown at the top with white streaks radiating out from the centre. You can't really see the leaves of this field wood-rush very well, but they are few in number, like grass leaves but rather wispy.

FIrst time on #wildflowerhour - would be grateful for confirmation that I've got these right!

Cowslips, cuckooflowers, green-winged orchid and field wood-rush.

All taken today in a grassy meadow in Oxfordshire; more in ALT text.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

It would be nice to see this graph focusing on, say, 1975 onwards. I don't really feel that a Victorian comparison is at all helpful, it just looks like cherry-picking.

I borrowed this book from the library and enjoyed it - thank you!

Ooooo! It does sound interesting.

It was reported that the LibDems said they approached Labour to be in a coalition with them, but Labour just weren't interested.