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3rd train ive caught recently where GWR has cancelled seat reservations. The polite GWR platform crew aren't informed train carriage sequence. Chaos as people run up and down the platform to get their reserved seats / carriage to find they could have gone to any carriage. Infuriating.

Hungary has voted for Remain.
Britain next, please.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

This is so well done. 👌

Also be good to see the money also used for protected bike lines and bus lanes (so the new bus can move at around the city quicker). @robbryher.bsky.social @edplowden.bsky.social @david-on-a-bike.bsky.social

The work at Brabazon has already started. Though local argument is it "South Glos" (technically yes) or "Bristol" (as people in that part of the city call themselves Bristolians).

Seven new towns proposed to kickstart housebuilding push Seven locations proposed as new towns with each location delivering at least 10,000 homes with several delivering up to 40,000.

Gov comms confirms its not in Bristol..
"Brabazon and the West Innovation Arc, South Gloucestershire — up to 40,000 homes at the heart of a world-class research and advanced engineering economy"
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Agreed! Also think of all the glorious tram stations or mass transit station names Bristol could have if it ever got built. We would run out of names before running out of places it could stop. "The bit by IKEA" or "that road in Fishponds" Ah well... Maybe one day.

Tight central Barcelona pedestrian street with limited car access

Barcelona public space/square connecting several pedestrian streets in a walking quarter

Pedestrian street with a mid-block urban movie cinema

Walkable pedestrian street filled with the people in central Barcelona, Spain

I often think about how so many cities are AGONIZING over the idea of turning a single street, or even a block, into a people-place and pedestrian stroll, while thriving communities like Gràcia in Barcelona are filled with networks of pedestrian streets and squares with no cars, or “tamed” cars.

Would love to see a development like this in the Bristol area. @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social, going on, you know you want too.

It’s incredible that Farage was too ill to go on BBC Breakfast last minute, but has enough energy to do a Reform rally and Davos this week.

He must have a severe allergy to scrutiny.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

A depiction of a snake that is in pieces. Originally representing the US from 1754 but replaced with European nations in reference to the EU using an AI tool to keep the wood block print effect.

Imperfect but the joys of AI

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are): adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Wouldnt it be interesting if the countries surrounding Hungary refused entry to their airspace....

Come on Bristol City Council, can we not do the same here? @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Today was one of my favourite lectures, on how evidence influences debates.

Case A: 79 people died as a consequence of smart motorways (2010-2024). That's sufficient to pause the policy.

Case B: In the first year of the Welsh 20mph scheme 900 fewer people were injured. There's still contestation.

The upgraded Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht. This could be any high street in the UK. Your street isn’t too narrow - it’s your town planners imagination that is.

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

"WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD BECAUSE SOME OF THAT PUBLIC GOOD MIGHT GO TO SOMEONE I DON'T LIKE" is part of how we got to where we are in 2025

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

Just wait until the BBC, Sky, Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun, and GBeebies get hold of this story of obvious and deliberate tax avoidance!

JUST WAIT!

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How Traditional Wild Haggis Is Made In Scotland | Unreal YouTube video by Haggis Wildlife Foundation

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