Nico
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Shame that making the UK the most connected etc etc, centres around 1 airport at £49B* there is so much more to this country than LHR. Divert HS2 too for completeness.
*It will be way more than this and tax payers of the whole country will cover the gap 📍
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*It will be way more than this and tax payers of the whole country will cover the gap 📍
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Heathrow Airport's third runway expansion plans to cost £49bn
Heathrow says expansion is
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August 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Shame that making the UK the most connected etc etc, centres around 1 airport at £49B* there is so much more to this country than LHR. Divert HS2 too for completeness.
*It will be way more than this and tax payers of the whole country will cover the gap 📍
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
*It will be way more than this and tax payers of the whole country will cover the gap 📍
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trying to explain to the nine-year-old - a Tottenham and England fan - that's she's basically already had a lifetime of success these past few years 🏆 The Lionesses have created a generation of fans who won't be weighed down by 'years of hurt'. An incredible achievement. Legends the lot of them 🏴
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trying to explain to the nine-year-old - a Tottenham and England fan - that's she's basically already had a lifetime of success these past few years 🏆 The Lionesses have created a generation of fans who won't be weighed down by 'years of hurt'. An incredible achievement. Legends the lot of them 🏴
#lionesses are amazing, but the joy thieves are just as amazing in their urgency to bang on about irrelevant comparisons. Don’t watch if you’re stuck in 1966 or if you’ve no remain your immediate circle. 🤫🏴🦁🏆🏆
July 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#lionesses are amazing, but the joy thieves are just as amazing in their urgency to bang on about irrelevant comparisons. Don’t watch if you’re stuck in 1966 or if you’ve no remain your immediate circle. 🤫🏴🦁🏆🏆
The gap between what they say and what they do is incredible. Imagine how wild some of their policies will have to be 🤯
Champagne nationalists
Reform spent £350 on champagne at luxury lunch, election spending figures show
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform spent £350 on champagne at luxury lunch, election spending figures show
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform spent £350 on champagne at luxury lunch, election spending figures show
Other expenditures include £989 stay at London hotel but party sources say costs not incurred by Nigel Farage
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July 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The gap between what they say and what they do is incredible. Imagine how wild some of their policies will have to be 🤯
Dear @mcdonaldsjp.bsky.social it would be so great if you could capture the number plates of the drive through customers before they become fly tippers later. Plenty of other info in the receipt in the Asda bag for life 🙄
July 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dear @mcdonaldsjp.bsky.social it would be so great if you could capture the number plates of the drive through customers before they become fly tippers later. Plenty of other info in the receipt in the Asda bag for life 🙄
I guess Coke could choose to pay their workers more if a strategy flip is this easy. That the cane sugar version is known as Mexican coke is beautiful though.
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I guess Coke could choose to pay their workers more if a strategy flip is this easy. That the cane sugar version is known as Mexican coke is beautiful though.
Beyond belief really. If not now*
*now for the thousandth time
*now for the thousandth time
Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood
Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood
Exclusive: Wes Streeting among ministers pushing for action after calling Israeli attacks on aid sites ‘intolerable’
Keir Starmer is under pressure from cabinet ministers for the UK to immediately recognise Palestine as a state, as global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza.
The prime minister is understood to have been urged by a number of senior ministers in different cabinet meetings over recent months that the UK should take a leading role in issuing recognition. Continue reading...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Beyond belief really. If not now*
*now for the thousandth time
*now for the thousandth time
Plover Scar Lighthouse at Cockerham Sands. Lovely.
July 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Plover Scar Lighthouse at Cockerham Sands. Lovely.
Morning dear, we said to each other (quietly)
July 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Morning dear, we said to each other (quietly)
Excellence in the field of being excellent!
But what a ride from Onley
There’s a lot of Brits becoming OnleyFans
There’s a lot of Brits becoming OnleyFans
July 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Excellence in the field of being excellent!
Wow! 🚲
So many green numbers! Showing there are many more available parking spaces than usual.
The holidays have started and the abandoned bikes have been taken away recently.
Largest bicycle parking garage in the world in Utrecht, NL.
The holidays have started and the abandoned bikes have been taken away recently.
Largest bicycle parking garage in the world in Utrecht, NL.
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wow! 🚲
👏 take a moment to appreciate the benefit and not stress about who or how. 1.7m children accessing funded early education is great news.
This is a huge achievement for the Labour government in its first year. Number of children accessing funded early education & childcare has increased by 33% in a year, reaching 1.7 million, an increase likely related to government initiatives aimed at expanding access to early education & childcare
July 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
👏 take a moment to appreciate the benefit and not stress about who or how. 1.7m children accessing funded early education is great news.
Everything about water privatisation here in the UK is going swimmingly it seems. All that market competition, infrastructure investment, consumer benefit coming together as promised 🙄
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Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says
Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Everything about water privatisation here in the UK is going swimmingly it seems. All that market competition, infrastructure investment, consumer benefit coming together as promised 🙄
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Voter turnout is only c60% anyway, so this isn't really much of a story. Voter apathy was invented a long time ago, in some areas only 44% of edible voters actually do. How can voting be made more participator would have been a better survey. www.itv.com/news/2025-07...
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July 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Voter turnout is only c60% anyway, so this isn't really much of a story. Voter apathy was invented a long time ago, in some areas only 44% of edible voters actually do. How can voting be made more participator would have been a better survey. www.itv.com/news/2025-07...
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While the headlines will, understandably, be about votes for 16 and 17 year olds, maybe the most significant part of this voter reform package is confirmation of a move towards automatic voter registration, even if the timeline for this is a bit fuzzy.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections
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July 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
While the headlines will, understandably, be about votes for 16 and 17 year olds, maybe the most significant part of this voter reform package is confirmation of a move towards automatic voter registration, even if the timeline for this is a bit fuzzy.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The full document is here www.gov.uk/government/p...
Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections
www.gov.uk
July 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The full document is here www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds would be able to vote at the next general election, under government plans to lower the voting age
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Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election
Other planned changes include expanding voter ID to include bank cards and moving to automatic registration.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds would be able to vote at the next general election, under government plans to lower the voting age
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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There should be some for of nation ID system in the UK, on top of extending the range of what counts as meaningful forms of ID. Why would anyone object to this is a time when all our information is being funnelled to FAANG and Palantir anyway.
July 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
There should be some for of nation ID system in the UK, on top of extending the range of what counts as meaningful forms of ID. Why would anyone object to this is a time when all our information is being funnelled to FAANG and Palantir anyway.
Not before time that this was modernised. Plenty of 16 & 17 year olds supporting the military right now, and plenty in the work place contributing to the economy who have more than earned this right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election - live updates
The government plans to lower the vote to 16, meaning around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Not before time that this was modernised. Plenty of 16 & 17 year olds supporting the military right now, and plenty in the work place contributing to the economy who have more than earned this right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
My Cannonade Topstone blending into the forest like John Rambo.
July 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My Cannonade Topstone blending into the forest like John Rambo.
Twist is on the list www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...
The Best Books of 2025 (so Far)
Where it's novels or non-fiction you're after, here are our picks of the best reads this year
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July 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Twist is on the list www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...
But rail fare rises at least should have been in the forecast www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK inflation hits highest for almost a year and a half
Food and clothing prices rose more quickly while fuel fell only slightly, boosting the overall rate of inflation.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
But rail fare rises at least should have been in the forecast www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...