It is a weird bit of arrogance to lump walkers, cyclists and bus users into some low value block who do not vote. Almost everyone is a pedestrian and plenty of cyclists and bus riders also own cars. Reducing them to a single poor and irrelevant group says more about the commenter than about reality.

2016 is when everything turned into a bit of a shit sandwich. Celebrity deaths, Brexit, Trump, algorithms. It’s the year when platforms, politics and populist tactics all aligned and we’ve basically been paying, quite literally, for the mess of it all ever since.

I’m on a few Cardiff History Facebook groups and the rose tinted nostalgia is wild. I was born in 1975 and my lived experience is that Cardiff was a shit hole until around 1992. The very photos they swoon over show that clearly yet they’re still completely blinkered by it...but yes, fewer cars!

Exactly. Also, children do not teleport from their home to the school gates. They still have to walk, cross roads and move through their neighbourhoods. 20mph needs to apply to streets around schools as well, not just the bit right outside the entrance. But sure, won’t someone think of the drivers.

It’s not theft if you’re just removing an unauthorised object from public property (assuming they had no permission). Take a few photos and report it to the council if you want to be thorough. The police won’t care, it’s a civil matter. That whole 'admitting theft' thing is just uninformed bollocks.

Yup. This.

Wales... where solar panels run on vibes and melancholy.
I’ve had to put a light on… in the day! I didn’t survive the Blitz for this, dag nammit!

Welcome to BlueSky, Drew!

It’s always telling that when they can’t attack the ideas, they attack the appearance.

Thanks 🙏

Well, not since the British burnt it down in 1814. Too soon?

I think it’s just the Reach website template cloned across their 5th estate to wring every penny from ads. What used to be journalism is now clickbait AI slop for the vulnerable and gullible. There’s a reason critical thinking isn’t taught until university.

*always

...but maybe that’s changing? With the advent of Polanski and Mamdani, is the left starting to fight narrative with narrative?

Based decency, but learning to hit back at the usual suspects with clarity and focus. Kindness can away stay kind, but we can’t always keep quiet. 2/2

Be a good start just to get back the land tied up in the Crown Estate. All the money it makes here still goes to Westminster, unlike Scotland who actually get to keep theirs.

I don’t hate winter. In my head it starts on Jan 6. Winter has its endearing bits ...except February. How can the shortest month feel so long? Every year I plan to escape it, every year I fail.

Feb you, February.
What are you even for, February.
Are you happy now, February?
Feb you, February.