Ashley Giles
@ashleygiles.me
Coffee, cities, tech, beer, cycling.
🚲☕️🍻🏳️🌈
(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
🚲☕️🍻🏳️🌈
(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
A bleary eyed first day in Tokyo 🗼🇯🇵
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A bleary eyed first day in Tokyo 🗼🇯🇵
Not even a fan of golf, but watching the Ryder Cup tonight 😮💨
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not even a fan of golf, but watching the Ryder Cup tonight 😮💨
Long overdue purchase of this beautiful book about the East End via @pagesofhackney.bsky.social today!
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Long overdue purchase of this beautiful book about the East End via @pagesofhackney.bsky.social today!
Always fun to attempt debate with a TERF. The usual response…
September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Always fun to attempt debate with a TERF. The usual response…
Southampton FC really should just buy up all this land and build a proper sports campus
September 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Southampton FC really should just buy up all this land and build a proper sports campus
Some beautiful new plans for Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus, made somewhat less beautiful by the lack of provision for safe cycling. This despite it being a highly strategic cycle route.
It’s 2025, @citywestminster.bsky.social, get with the programme, lads.
lcc.org.uk/news/new-reg...
It’s 2025, @citywestminster.bsky.social, get with the programme, lads.
lcc.org.uk/news/new-reg...
July 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Some beautiful new plans for Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus, made somewhat less beautiful by the lack of provision for safe cycling. This despite it being a highly strategic cycle route.
It’s 2025, @citywestminster.bsky.social, get with the programme, lads.
lcc.org.uk/news/new-reg...
It’s 2025, @citywestminster.bsky.social, get with the programme, lads.
lcc.org.uk/news/new-reg...
Thinking about what Fred Perry would’ve thought of the Wimbledon AI
July 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thinking about what Fred Perry would’ve thought of the Wimbledon AI
Meanwhile, the 'development' part of FCDO in 2035 looks like the below.
But at least there won't be any wars in the next 10 years that will result in immense humanitarian aid needs, in addition to ongoing threats from disease and poor health systems...
But at least there won't be any wars in the next 10 years that will result in immense humanitarian aid needs, in addition to ongoing threats from disease and poor health systems...
June 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Meanwhile, the 'development' part of FCDO in 2035 looks like the below.
But at least there won't be any wars in the next 10 years that will result in immense humanitarian aid needs, in addition to ongoing threats from disease and poor health systems...
But at least there won't be any wars in the next 10 years that will result in immense humanitarian aid needs, in addition to ongoing threats from disease and poor health systems...
Remember when Citymapper had their own fleet of buses in London? That was weird
March 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Remember when Citymapper had their own fleet of buses in London? That was weird
the proposed Starline looks cool but it's missing the obvious addition of HS3 from Waterloo to Penzance (with some no doubt very cheap tunnels under Dartmoor)
March 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
the proposed Starline looks cool but it's missing the obvious addition of HS3 from Waterloo to Penzance (with some no doubt very cheap tunnels under Dartmoor)
This feels like one of those leaflets I should put in the back of a book for me to discover in like 40 years when I’ll be all like ‘woah, cool’
March 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This feels like one of those leaflets I should put in the back of a book for me to discover in like 40 years when I’ll be all like ‘woah, cool’
Last beer of 2024 / first beer of 2025!
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
January 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Last beer of 2024 / first beer of 2025!
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
December 29, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Decided that given Sadiq did the Lea dirty by not naming the Weaver line it's rightful Lea Valley line name, they should ~at the very least~ add the River Lea to the Overground map like the Thames
November 23, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Decided that given Sadiq did the Lea dirty by not naming the Weaver line it's rightful Lea Valley line name, they should ~at the very least~ add the River Lea to the Overground map like the Thames
Agree and I am once again repeating my newsletter call for them to extend it the cable car to Brighton…
(open.substack.com/pub/mosaic/p...)
(open.substack.com/pub/mosaic/p...)
November 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Agree and I am once again repeating my newsletter call for them to extend it the cable car to Brighton…
(open.substack.com/pub/mosaic/p...)
(open.substack.com/pub/mosaic/p...)
Someone just flew in a private jet from Northolt to Southampton.
Will Sunak be at the Saints match this evening?
Will Sunak be at the Saints match this evening?
October 29, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Someone just flew in a private jet from Northolt to Southampton.
Will Sunak be at the Saints match this evening?
Will Sunak be at the Saints match this evening?