omg it’s a crossover episode with @ballyshann.bsky.social

A reminder that the Luftwaffe wasted a load of high explosives bombing Britain. They should instead have found a way to drop 20-30cm of snow nightly. Would have crippled the economy.

Thank you!! ☺️

An MRP? 4 years from an election?

the Malaysians to Singapore, 1965

Definitely agree on the cultural point too - they’ve found a way of making pampering social acceptable and fashion for men’s hair is just shorter than it was a few years ago, hence more demand for the services

I have about three on my road, they’re always busy and they’re not cheap either. The one I use is cash only so I assume it’s probably not paying its true tax bill but I also doubt its the front for anything more nefarious, they’ll be making more than enough money to make a tidy profit

Only 30% of mine, I have Isak and my defence had an oddly strong week with three clean sheets

Guys I’ve lost Mushroom can you help me find her?

Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø,Norway at night

dundee asda milton entrance during the day

life imitates art 😍

The fishing industry is worth about £600m in GVA to the British economy. To understand just how tiny that is, the British wine industry is worth £8.9 *billion*

I have no idea what she’s doing

The kids are alright

Well good to know I’m at least as well informed as your grads 😇

How would you level up Scarborough and Blackpool, out of interest?

Counterpoint: London is almost 10x the size of Leeds (also Brighton has grown a lot in the last few decades)

Oh and not that it matters as much as good road/rail but Scarborough Athletic are in the National League North whereas Brighton and Hove Albion are 7th in the Premier League

It’s also good to consider the seaside towns that are doing well - Whitby, Robin Hood’s Bay, Staithes, etc. They’re also not well connected *but* they’re a lot smaller so people are willing to travel for the quaintness. Scarborough and Blackpool have the worst of both worlds - big and cut off

Great piece. The first paragraph hits the nail right on the head: its connectivity. Brighton is ~1 hour from London by train, Scarborough is 1 hour 37 from Leeds and you need to change at York. Brighton has the M23 and A23, Scarborough has the single lane A64

We're gonna have lots and lots of attempts to classify and categorise Mangione because the big picture is just too banal and futile to even bother wheeling out anymore - that in a society where gun violence is normalised, gun violence is normal.

I keep reading pieces that say Reform came from nowhere to win 5 seats and 14% of the vote in 2024 - did everyone forget 2015? Or even June 2019?

It’s probably all they have left

I think about this one all the time

In France the rebuild the Notre Dame in 5 years, in Britain we dither at the planning stage for years over extending a provincial church

In France the rebuild the Notre Dame in 5 years, in Britain we dither at the planning stage for years over extending a provincial church

They’re on part of the Jubilee, the newest bit

It’s sort of impressive how Macron has managed to turn the Notre Dame reopening into a big international occasion out of nothing. There’s no reason a tonne of world leaders need to be there, but they are!

It’s a good day for wind power ⚡️

Big fan of the yellow sofa!

Reservoirs. We gave up building them in the early 1990s. Great to hear @Keir_Starmer raise on of my favourite symbols of Britain's low investment disease - here's the relevant section of Great Britain? www.penguin.co.uk/books/461720...