#BylineTimes, mailed last week, hasn't arrived yet. #TheNewWorld, which should have arrived this morning, wasn't delivered.
#RoyalMail are batching our post again.
Taking out a #subscription is an act of faith these days. Publishers who depend on them should be making more of this.
Prices are rising and working families face a Trump-made cost of living crisis. I've just signed this to show that working people refuse to pay the price for Trumpflation. Can you add your name too? actionnetwork.org/forms/workin...
Bribing Peterborough voters with Cambridgeshire's money in preparation for the next General Election.
Imagine being Ed Miliband & every time you line up a load of broadcast media appearances to talk about the latest genuinely brilliant stuff your department is doing, instead you have to spend the whole interview answering questions about the latest scandal your government has needlessly propagated
& Justin Webb a bigger one!
Four times Ed tried to answer the Rosebank/Jackdaw question, & each time Robinson butted in and drowned him out. Shameful.
Thames Water wants to set its own rules. The Board of Ofwat is split over whether to let them. Tip the scales in favour of people and planet: email the Board now, and urge them to reject Thames Water's creditors @weownit.org.uk tinyurl.com/85m396az&nbs...
Forget the confected drama. Someone is getting on with his job.
The energy secretary will announce speeding up the warm homes plan to encourage rapid take-up of solar panels and EVs, expanding use of solar on public land, & delinking gas and electricity prices.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollexfen is the name of the poor cousins (though among the principal characters) of the big house people in William Trevor's The Silence in the Garden.
I recognise that people have waited a long time for this issue to be addressed. However, I believe it is right that the Department for Transport is taking the time to get things right. I welcomed the publication of the Government’s formal response to the 2020 public consultation on pavement parking, which sets out measures to tackle the problem. I support the new, devolved approach to pavement parking which is being taken. This reflects the Government’s commitment to allowing decisions to be made closer to the communities they affect. Local leaders know their communities best, so they are in the strongest position to meet local needs effectively. I am pleased that the Department has been clear that its overarching objective is to make pavements accessible and safe. However, rather than introducing a “one size fits all” national prohibition, which was one of the consultation options, councils will instead be empowered to make the decisions that are best for their areas. In the first instance, this year, local authorities will be given powers to issue Penalty Charge Notices for vehicles parked in a way that unnecessarily obstructs the pavement. Then, at the next opportunity, the necessary legislation will be brought forward to give local authorities the powers, on an opt-in basis, to prohibit pavement parking across their whole area. They will also have powers to exempt locations where pavement parking would still be necessary to maintain traffic flow, such as in narrow streets. More widely, I am glad that road safety is an absolute priority for the Government. I welcome the fact that the Department for Transport (DfT) recently published the first national Road Safety Strategy in a decade. This marks a turning point, with decisive action being taken to make our roads safer for everyone.
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The problem with "Local leaders know their communities best... councils will be empowered to make the decisions that are best for their areas" is that many Cambridge councillors' believe, as one phrased it, that "tackling #pavementparking would be electoral suicide".
Two at Fen Drayton Lakes on Tuesday.
& I'm sure I heard a buck fart.
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It would be interesting to know how, given current waiting lists around the country, these allotments became unused.
“The single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” — FrameWorks Institute Via Urban Truth Collective
When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works.
Repetition works.
Repetition works.
Repetition works.
(Did we mention that repetition works?)
#UrbanTruth
Our centre-right parties have overtly thrown their lot in with the new international fascism. Our main centre-left party has tried to appease this corrosive ideology, and the left is hopelessly divided as a result. We are not ready to face what is coming.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.
Three other people on the stall were at Victoria Park in '78 too, which was nice, but puts us all around 70 at least.
First potato through. It's a 2nd Early (Kestrel), planted two weeks after the 1st Earlies (Accord). Last year, the maincrop (Picasso) was through before both Earlies.
My quinquennial attempt at falafel. First lot as usual ruined a batch of oil by disintegrating & burning on contact. After more attempts than were made on Rasputin, I baked them. Now, where would they fit in the Guardian's ratings?
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
Left: Mine Right: Theirs
Please help me out by pretending the Chairman of Reform didn't just show that he doesn't know what local elections are and thinks we are in America.
@londoncentric.media
Credit re cornichon story on the News Quiz, last couple of minutes.
The best vetting in the country
Osborn allegedly told mayor of Wisbech, who is Black, to “speak English”
Removed from role on children & young people committee after telling councillors some children in care were “not just naughty, they can be downright evil”
leftfootforward.org/2026/04/refo...
Londonphobia is not new, but the city's enemies are all the right people to be enemies with writes Janan Ganesh who proposes Holloway Road into Highbury Fields as the biggest tonal shift in London, tho will entertain other bids as.ft.com/r/681c0974-f...
From Erotic Review to Sclerotic Review.
Expertly captioned.
Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic. Opens in a strange, cut-off community in the Welsh Borders, then turns into what's almost a dramatised documentary on the rise of Hitler, seen through the eyes of a naive Englishman.
