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Labour member, #FBPE, EU citizen, trustee of the charity, Online Transport Archive; maybe 3 million images curated thus far, http://www.onlinetransportarchive.org, with the misfortune to support Spurs & STFC. Train nerd.
I was a bit apprehensive about Hansen playing at full back, he’s just scored two 7 point tries under the posts in the first 10 minutes, which goes to prove I know nothing about rugby.
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was a bit apprehensive about Hansen playing at full back, he’s just scored two 7 point tries under the posts in the first 10 minutes, which goes to prove I know nothing about rugby.
Squeaky bum time in Shropshire’s Irish ghetto after the ominously good England performance at Twickenham earlier. #ShouldertoShoulder
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Squeaky bum time in Shropshire’s Irish ghetto after the ominously good England performance at Twickenham earlier. #ShouldertoShoulder
Christmas must be coming, there are more perfume than betting ads on TV.
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Christmas must be coming, there are more perfume than betting ads on TV.
www.bbc.com/news/article... Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales. Never saw the point of them, a waste of time and money. Hardly anybody voted for them, a #Tory PR stunt when they were actually cutting police numbers. Well done #Labour
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article... Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales. Never saw the point of them, a waste of time and money. Hardly anybody voted for them, a #Tory PR stunt when they were actually cutting police numbers. Well done #Labour
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The man with the job of enforcing impartiality at the BBC is former head of comms to a rightwing Tory prime minister. Let's leave it there, OK?
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The man with the job of enforcing impartiality at the BBC is former head of comms to a rightwing Tory prime minister. Let's leave it there, OK?
Some good news from America at last, Mandani wins in New York. This is really going to annoy the man baby in the White House. It’ll be interesting to see how he reacts.
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Some good news from America at last, Mandani wins in New York. This is really going to annoy the man baby in the White House. It’ll be interesting to see how he reacts.
Wayne Rooney was a great player, then, a not very successful manager and now a football pundit, a pretty awful pundit. All the broadcasters are actively promoting him. He seems to be on virtually every channel every other day. I’d rather he wasn’t.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Wayne Rooney was a great player, then, a not very successful manager and now a football pundit, a pretty awful pundit. All the broadcasters are actively promoting him. He seems to be on virtually every channel every other day. I’d rather he wasn’t.
It’s not been a great few days for the railway network, first #Huntingdon now a derailment at #Shap which will probably affect the WCML for days. Sympathy for all staff and passengers involved in the consequences of these events.
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It’s not been a great few days for the railway network, first #Huntingdon now a derailment at #Shap which will probably affect the WCML for days. Sympathy for all staff and passengers involved in the consequences of these events.
The #Labour government isn’t perfect but it’s a thousand times better than the #Tory regime which gave us austerity and compounded this with #Brexit, the root of the UK’s economic problems. The poisonous negativity from the press, #BBC and #Sky never relents, it’s not too late to revive #Levisson
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Halloween is the ancient Celtic/Irish Samhain festival marking the onset of winter. Immigrants must have taken it to the USA where it was transformed into the nonsense we have now which was returned to the UK as a commercial opportunity in the last 20 years. The original version was better.
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Halloween is the ancient Celtic/Irish Samhain festival marking the onset of winter. Immigrants must have taken it to the USA where it was transformed into the nonsense we have now which was returned to the UK as a commercial opportunity in the last 20 years. The original version was better.
Now that the issue of #RachelReeves and her house has been resolved, I’m looking forward to the attention of the press switching to the circumstances surrounding the house acquired in his constituency by the MP for Clacton. I cannot understand why it hasn’t got more coverage.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Now that the issue of #RachelReeves and her house has been resolved, I’m looking forward to the attention of the press switching to the circumstances surrounding the house acquired in his constituency by the MP for Clacton. I cannot understand why it hasn’t got more coverage.
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Departure from Pembrey & Burry Port. 21 October 2025. #railway #photography
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Departure from Pembrey & Burry Port. 21 October 2025. #railway #photography
Re Andrew, a colleague in publishing, whose family had links to royal circles, told me years ago he was extremely promiscuous. This came back to me when the Queen paid off the late Virginia Roberts, whom he'd never met, allegedly. The royals aren't the heros in this, they were part of the cover up.
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Re Andrew, a colleague in publishing, whose family had links to royal circles, told me years ago he was extremely promiscuous. This came back to me when the Queen paid off the late Virginia Roberts, whom he'd never met, allegedly. The royals aren't the heros in this, they were part of the cover up.
So the racism of the #Reform MP isn’t racism according to #Farage. If more black and Asian people in TV ads proves anything, it’s that they’re now an integral part of society and economically significant to businesses and brands. Maybe that’s what really annoys her or is she too thick to get that?
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Time for the annual post on the pointlessness of putting the clocks back, plunging us into darkness at about 4.30pm. A gentle daily decline in the length of the day would be much better. How many benefit from this? There is also evidence that it is actually harmful to the well-being of some people.
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Time for the annual post on the pointlessness of putting the clocks back, plunging us into darkness at about 4.30pm. A gentle daily decline in the length of the day would be much better. How many benefit from this? There is also evidence that it is actually harmful to the well-being of some people.
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Semaphores at Pantyffynnon. 21 October 2025. #railway #photography
October 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Semaphores at Pantyffynnon. 21 October 2025. #railway #photography
For about two weeks every October, the acer in my garden explodes into colour having been fairly drab for the rest of the year. It looks even better when the sun is shining, which it wasn’t today. Isn’t nature amazing?
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For about two weeks every October, the acer in my garden explodes into colour having been fairly drab for the rest of the year. It looks even better when the sun is shining, which it wasn’t today. Isn’t nature amazing?
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Crewe Junction box’s GWR lower quadrant home signals on the line from Crewe at #Shrewsbury station, close to the site of the 1907 accident. There cannot be many like these left on the UK’s railway network.
October 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Crewe Junction box’s GWR lower quadrant home signals on the line from Crewe at #Shrewsbury station, close to the site of the 1907 accident. There cannot be many like these left on the UK’s railway network.
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Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quite right to block them, the sporting blockade of South Africa helped to bring about the downfall of the apartheid regime there. Sport, Eurovision Song Contest and all cultural ties should be blocked until the Israel government stops the persecution of the Palestinians
Quite right to block them, the sporting blockade of South Africa helped to bring about the downfall of the apartheid regime there. Sport, Eurovision Song Contest and all cultural ties should be blocked until the Israel government stops the persecution of the Palestinians
Wrong to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match, says PM
Followers of the Israeli club will not be allowed to attend the Europa League game over safety concerns.
www.bbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quite right to block them, the sporting blockade of South Africa helped to bring about the downfall of the apartheid regime there. Sport, Eurovision Song Contest and all cultural ties should be blocked until the Israel government stops the persecution of the Palestinians
Quite right to block them, the sporting blockade of South Africa helped to bring about the downfall of the apartheid regime there. Sport, Eurovision Song Contest and all cultural ties should be blocked until the Israel government stops the persecution of the Palestinians
Listening by default to bits of the radio coverage from Israel. As speaker after speaker outdo themselves to stick their tongues further up the bum of #Trump, the deranged narcissist must be absolutely loving every second of this. Utterly sickening sycophancy on an unprecedented scale.
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Listening by default to bits of the radio coverage from Israel. As speaker after speaker outdo themselves to stick their tongues further up the bum of #Trump, the deranged narcissist must be absolutely loving every second of this. Utterly sickening sycophancy on an unprecedented scale.
Going to Frankfurt on Tuesday. My colleague, ironically as resolutely anti #Brexit as I am, can only access a #UK passport. Wondering how long I’ll be hanging around waiting for him. The blame for this needs to be firmly pinned on the #Brexit traitors but #UKmedia will ignore this again or blame #EU
UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
October 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Going to Frankfurt on Tuesday. My colleague, ironically as resolutely anti #Brexit as I am, can only access a #UK passport. Wondering how long I’ll be hanging around waiting for him. The blame for this needs to be firmly pinned on the #Brexit traitors but #UKmedia will ignore this again or blame #EU
Is there a more attractive location on the whole network than the Barmouth bridge? This view is from the summer of 2021.
October 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Is there a more attractive location on the whole network than the Barmouth bridge? This view is from the summer of 2021.
Voting has opened for the #Labour deputy leader. I think I'll pass on this one. Neither candidate presses my buttons, I'd much rather have Angela back.
October 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Voting has opened for the #Labour deputy leader. I think I'll pass on this one. Neither candidate presses my buttons, I'd much rather have Angela back.