Mike Best
@bestlaidplan.bsky.social
Planning, placemaking, music, politics and general wokeness. Birmingham
Thought it had been done before, then I remembered….
London 2012
London 2012
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thought it had been done before, then I remembered….
London 2012
London 2012
And the second being:
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And the second being:
Thanks as ever for the summary of this case. You highlight two important points in the judgment which bear repeating as the media seems to promulgate only one version of events.
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Thanks as ever for the summary of this case. You highlight two important points in the judgment which bear repeating as the media seems to promulgate only one version of events.
Great win for Cam Norrie in Paris tonight #ParisMasters #ATPtour
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Great win for Cam Norrie in Paris tonight #ParisMasters #ATPtour
Strong meme vibes going on here. Just can’t decide which one!
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Strong meme vibes going on here. Just can’t decide which one!
Brilliant evening at the Apollo in Manchester watching Counting Crows, 32 years after the first time.
“I wanna be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone Just a little more funky”
“I wanna be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone Just a little more funky”
October 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Brilliant evening at the Apollo in Manchester watching Counting Crows, 32 years after the first time.
“I wanna be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone Just a little more funky”
“I wanna be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone Just a little more funky”
I’m staying in Manchester tonight and booking.com has this as the first suggestion as to what to do with my time!!! Really? That algorithm needs checking.
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I’m staying in Manchester tonight and booking.com has this as the first suggestion as to what to do with my time!!! Really? That algorithm needs checking.
Clearly the architect was in on it, as the pyramid is at exactly the right angle for that ladder to reach the second floor windows.
Just saying….
Just saying….
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Clearly the architect was in on it, as the pyramid is at exactly the right angle for that ladder to reach the second floor windows.
Just saying….
Just saying….
And there I was thinking it was just IS or the Taliban that wilfully destroyed its own culture.
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
And there I was thinking it was just IS or the Taliban that wilfully destroyed its own culture.
If he wants truly integrated places, why doesn’t he start with letting poor people live alongside rich people. Or maybe his view is entirely about non-white people and not really about integration at all.
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If he wants truly integrated places, why doesn’t he start with letting poor people live alongside rich people. Or maybe his view is entirely about non-white people and not really about integration at all.
Add that to his other crimes against humanity
The White House Rose Garden
The White House Rose Garden
September 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Add that to his other crimes against humanity
The White House Rose Garden
The White House Rose Garden
Currently reading this excellent book by @jonnelledge.bsky.social. Given my interest in history, maps and a career as a town planner, it’s the book I wish I could have written. Never would’ve been this unputdownable though.
September 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Currently reading this excellent book by @jonnelledge.bsky.social. Given my interest in history, maps and a career as a town planner, it’s the book I wish I could have written. Never would’ve been this unputdownable though.
I enjoyed a day spent talking Green Belt with @catrionariddell.bsky.social and James Corbet Burcher at the launch of Charles Goode’s new book in the Birmingham & Midland Institute. And we fitted in recording a @50shadesofplanning.bsky.social podcast with @samuelstafford.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I enjoyed a day spent talking Green Belt with @catrionariddell.bsky.social and James Corbet Burcher at the launch of Charles Goode’s new book in the Birmingham & Midland Institute. And we fitted in recording a @50shadesofplanning.bsky.social podcast with @samuelstafford.bsky.social
Whether this is true or not, this sums up Sheffield United’s board over the 50 years I’ve followed them. Even when they are on the cusp of something (like last season) they conspire to screw it up. Not a single point and only 1 goal so far.
September 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Whether this is true or not, this sums up Sheffield United’s board over the 50 years I’ve followed them. Even when they are on the cusp of something (like last season) they conspire to screw it up. Not a single point and only 1 goal so far.
Incredible performance by Carlos Alcaraz tonight and the whole fortnight. Like the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era, he and Sinner are stepping up their game every time they meet. 3 successive finals at Grand Slams and they just keep getting better. #USOpen
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Incredible performance by Carlos Alcaraz tonight and the whole fortnight. Like the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era, he and Sinner are stepping up their game every time they meet. 3 successive finals at Grand Slams and they just keep getting better. #USOpen
I was in the Arthur Ashe stadium exactly ten years ago when Donald Trump was attending the Serena v Venus quarter-final. The men’s QF had overrun and there was a massive scrum with 20k people leaving and another 20k trying to get in. Nothing like tonight’s fiasco though
September 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I was in the Arthur Ashe stadium exactly ten years ago when Donald Trump was attending the Serena v Venus quarter-final. The men’s QF had overrun and there was a massive scrum with 20k people leaving and another 20k trying to get in. Nothing like tonight’s fiasco though
Did it only work on Royals?
WTAF are we giving these people any airtime?
It’s a freak show that the media are treating like a government in waiting.
WTAF are we giving these people any airtime?
It’s a freak show that the media are treating like a government in waiting.
September 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Did it only work on Royals?
WTAF are we giving these people any airtime?
It’s a freak show that the media are treating like a government in waiting.
WTAF are we giving these people any airtime?
It’s a freak show that the media are treating like a government in waiting.
This is what he said in Nov 24 reported in the Guardian. “He” was purchasing the property and “he” had just exchanged contracts. Then he admitted his partner had bought it.
Of course he will get away with it and the lying.
Of course he will get away with it and the lying.
September 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is what he said in Nov 24 reported in the Guardian. “He” was purchasing the property and “he” had just exchanged contracts. Then he admitted his partner had bought it.
Of course he will get away with it and the lying.
Of course he will get away with it and the lying.
Is it something about managers called Ruben?
We barely lost a game last season (apart from the play-off) and now we’ve lost 4 in a row and only scored once.
Bring back Chris Wilder!
We barely lost a game last season (apart from the play-off) and now we’ve lost 4 in a row and only scored once.
Bring back Chris Wilder!
August 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Is it something about managers called Ruben?
We barely lost a game last season (apart from the play-off) and now we’ve lost 4 in a row and only scored once.
Bring back Chris Wilder!
We barely lost a game last season (apart from the play-off) and now we’ve lost 4 in a row and only scored once.
Bring back Chris Wilder!
August 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This weekend I’ve been a different kind of busy. Running the stage at Hope Cove Weekend in Devon where we’ve had bands on each of three nights, an Open Mic and singer/songwriters during the late afternoon. A new career beckons!
August 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This weekend I’ve been a different kind of busy. Running the stage at Hope Cove Weekend in Devon where we’ve had bands on each of three nights, an Open Mic and singer/songwriters during the late afternoon. A new career beckons!
Yes, just like it was when you were a boy……
August 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yes, just like it was when you were a boy……
Just dipped into The Times this morning to remember I’m really not part of its target audience these days.
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Just dipped into The Times this morning to remember I’m really not part of its target audience these days.
A challenge there for you @simonicity.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A challenge there for you @simonicity.bsky.social
My copy. This was the no1 LP when I was born.
August 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
My copy. This was the no1 LP when I was born.