BigPhil
@phillusmajor.bsky.social
Family~Basil 🐶~Food~Wine~Coffee~Holidays~History~Music~Books~Railways~Aviation...bit of everything really. Based in the North East of England
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Chapeau to everyone at ITV Sport @itvsport.bsky.social for their brilliant coverage of the Tour de France over so many years. Ned Boulting, Gary Imlach, David Millar, Phil Liggett, Matt Rendell and all, you'll be missed. Vive le Tour 🇫🇷
#TDF2025
#TDF2025
July 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Chapeau to everyone at ITV Sport @itvsport.bsky.social for their brilliant coverage of the Tour de France over so many years. Ned Boulting, Gary Imlach, David Millar, Phil Liggett, Matt Rendell and all, you'll be missed. Vive le Tour 🇫🇷
#TDF2025
#TDF2025
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Morning- #sophiefromromania says keep on signing the #parkypetition100K
July 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Morning- #sophiefromromania says keep on signing the #parkypetition100K
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Please sign this. Just do it. Thank you.
Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" - Petitions share.google/kg43omN9oitf...
Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" - Petitions share.google/kg43omN9oitf...
Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter"
We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.
share.google
July 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Please sign this. Just do it. Thank you.
Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" - Petitions share.google/kg43omN9oitf...
Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" - Petitions share.google/kg43omN9oitf...
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okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there
June 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there
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British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked after his conviction for gross indecency. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked
Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This 👇🏻
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Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.
May 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.
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This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.
One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly.
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
April 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.
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April 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... this account of Stationers flight to the ISS is nothing short of astonishing
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
“Hey, this is a very precarious situation we’re in.”…
arstechnica.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... this account of Stationers flight to the ISS is nothing short of astonishing
Remember any of these?
A selection of some full car adverts on the Tyne & Wear Metro over the years.
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Remember any of these?
Redirecting...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The borough of Manchester was elevated to city status #OTD 1853. As the world's first major industrial urban centre, it was radically different to what had come before.
March 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The borough of Manchester was elevated to city status #OTD 1853. As the world's first major industrial urban centre, it was radically different to what had come before.
Really cool 🙂
A side-project I've been working on for the past couple of years is finally presentable!
cabviews.net
I find cab ride videos relaxing to watch, and they provide an interesting view of different landscapes and infrastructure, so I made this site as a collection of cab rides with maps of the routes
cabviews.net
I find cab ride videos relaxing to watch, and they provide an interesting view of different landscapes and infrastructure, so I made this site as a collection of cab rides with maps of the routes
Cab Views
A collection of cab ride videos with interactive map overlays. Featuring trains, trams, metros, and other forms of rail transport in settings and landscapes from all over the world.
cabviews.net
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Really cool 🙂
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Oh no, someone's made some stickers to stick on controlled pedestrian crossing points in an attempt to encourage the council to change the timings.
March 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Better tech costs. And there is a huge associated concentration risk as well........
Astonishing fact on #bbcr4today earlier, discussing the Heathrow power failure. Heathrow requires 41MW; a new data centre nearby needs 150MW. Stark illustration of the underpinning energy consequences of data storage.
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Better tech costs. And there is a huge associated concentration risk as well........
Resilience, resilience, resilience all the way. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Wake-up call’: ministers launch urgent investigation into Heathrow shutdown
Government says lessons need to be learned after the substation fire that caused chaos for 300,000 passengers
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Resilience, resilience, resilience all the way. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A remarkable story, and a brave man. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A remarkable story, and a brave man. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Astonishing that LHR is dependent on this single failure point. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates - BBC News
Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates - BBC News
Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates
Flights are cancelled and diverted mid-air as Europe's busiest airport closes until midnight over a
www.bbc.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Astonishing that LHR is dependent on this single failure point. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates - BBC News
Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates - BBC News
Why should Zelensky be required to wear a suit and tie when Musk doesn't?
March 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Why should Zelensky be required to wear a suit and tie when Musk doesn't?
I'm here...........
October 21, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I'm here...........