Nick Langley
@nicklangley.bsky.social
Semi-retired freelance journo, ex-editorial "consultant"* to conservation NGOs. Currently immobilised by orthopaedic boot. Busy with books & BFI subscription.
*Facilitating stakeholder engagement by correcting grammar & spelling.
Will edit for food.
*Facilitating stakeholder engagement by correcting grammar & spelling.
Will edit for food.
Plausible but no!
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Plausible but no!
Same story from another angle?
"On the southern edge of London, the motorway due to run from Gatwick into the city centre can be seen stopping mid-construction — instead disgorging drivers onto a single lane road through countryside villages."
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-rin...
"On the southern edge of London, the motorway due to run from Gatwick into the city centre can be seen stopping mid-construction — instead disgorging drivers onto a single lane road through countryside villages."
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-rin...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
www.londoncentric.media
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Same story from another angle?
"On the southern edge of London, the motorway due to run from Gatwick into the city centre can be seen stopping mid-construction — instead disgorging drivers onto a single lane road through countryside villages."
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-rin...
"On the southern edge of London, the motorway due to run from Gatwick into the city centre can be seen stopping mid-construction — instead disgorging drivers onto a single lane road through countryside villages."
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-rin...
Another part of this murky business conglomerate owns Spurs & wants to rip up part of the surrounding #Whitewebbs Park to install training pitches, destroying dozens of other old trees & a rewilding & regenerating landscape in the process
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Another part of this murky business conglomerate owns Spurs & wants to rip up part of the surrounding #Whitewebbs Park to install training pitches, destroying dozens of other old trees & a rewilding & regenerating landscape in the process
New one on me, but "algorithmic modeling for Rhino" is now my phrase of the day.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
New one on me, but "algorithmic modeling for Rhino" is now my phrase of the day.
All quite possible but ring no bells!
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
All quite possible but ring no bells!
Number One vehicle choice of the over-leveraged & under-endowed.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Number One vehicle choice of the over-leveraged & under-endowed.
In a thicket in the middle of the old Templehof airfield in Berlin my younger boy & I came across a bloke banging away at a full drum kit. There was a cargo bike nearby.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In a thicket in the middle of the old Templehof airfield in Berlin my younger boy & I came across a bloke banging away at a full drum kit. There was a cargo bike nearby.
“He would relentlessly drive the Brexit agenda and, because it was so extensively covered by the Daily Politics, other programmes – like Newsnight and Today – would pick it up."
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“He would relentlessly drive the Brexit agenda and, because it was so extensively covered by the Daily Politics, other programmes – like Newsnight and Today – would pick it up."
When Gibb edited the BBC’s Daily Politics programme, he was "obsessed with the Brexit agenda".
“He would tell output editors to get Farage and other right-wing figures on to peddle that agenda – at a time when its polling position just didn’t merit that amount of coverage.”
“He would tell output editors to get Farage and other right-wing figures on to peddle that agenda – at a time when its polling position just didn’t merit that amount of coverage.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When Gibb edited the BBC’s Daily Politics programme, he was "obsessed with the Brexit agenda".
“He would tell output editors to get Farage and other right-wing figures on to peddle that agenda – at a time when its polling position just didn’t merit that amount of coverage.”
“He would tell output editors to get Farage and other right-wing figures on to peddle that agenda – at a time when its polling position just didn’t merit that amount of coverage.”
"And don’t forget these are the same people hellbent on undermining another great three-lettered British institution, the NHS. For people who want to make Britain great again, they have a weird way of going about it, tearing down the things that made us great in the first place."
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"And don’t forget these are the same people hellbent on undermining another great three-lettered British institution, the NHS. For people who want to make Britain great again, they have a weird way of going about it, tearing down the things that made us great in the first place."
"It’s quite something that it is the Trump angle to the story that did for Davie and Turness when I would argue that the real current scandal for which the BBC should be held to account is its role in over-promoting a ragbag of right wing MPs who are front of the queue for its destruction."
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"It’s quite something that it is the Trump angle to the story that did for Davie and Turness when I would argue that the real current scandal for which the BBC should be held to account is its role in over-promoting a ragbag of right wing MPs who are front of the queue for its destruction."