Sacha 🇺🇦
@sachazarb.bsky.social
Charlton supporting, payments product managing, music loving someone from the Home Counties
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It's just a lie to say London transport is 'subsidised' - we receive no grant and we are net contributors. London buses are subsidised by London trains.
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It's just a lie to say London transport is 'subsidised' - we receive no grant and we are net contributors. London buses are subsidised by London trains.
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When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
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Good to see HMT has finally relented on the tourist tax. Important that mayors are allowed to keep all of the income and choose how to spend it without central interference. And that it's the beginning of fiscal devolution not the end.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Good to see HMT has finally relented on the tourist tax. Important that mayors are allowed to keep all of the income and choose how to spend it without central interference. And that it's the beginning of fiscal devolution not the end.
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Let the joy be unconfined, the Whole Show Podcasts of the Friday and Saturday shows are here. We take the news and most of the ads out, so it takes less time to listen to, which gives you more time to bill the Russians for the things they want you to say.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
Nick Abbot -- The Whole Show - Podcast | Global Player
Funny and witty, Nick is a national treasure. Nick Abbot – The Whole Show is now available exclusively on Global Player. Subscribe now so you don’t miss any future episodes.
www.globalplayer.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Let the joy be unconfined, the Whole Show Podcasts of the Friday and Saturday shows are here. We take the news and most of the ads out, so it takes less time to listen to, which gives you more time to bill the Russians for the things they want you to say.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...
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Again, while the hypnotits thing is funny, it is also a real issue of "So, your previous career was being a charlatan?"
I did fall into the trap of "What's his angle with the NATO stuff?" before realising it's not that deep it's just what he believes as a fundamentally unserious individual.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Again, while the hypnotits thing is funny, it is also a real issue of "So, your previous career was being a charlatan?"
Polanski is Farage of the left, straight up and down grifter to me.
This would be a heck of an audacious move and would really focus Starmer's mind.
Zack Polanski tells the BBC it would be "very tempting" for him to stand in Keir Starmer's seat at the next general election
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Polanski is Farage of the left, straight up and down grifter to me.
One of the things going for Rory Stewart’s abandoned mayoral run, was his thing for Parisian density
Loads of shabby crap badly-used late Victorian 2 storey blocks on almost every thoroughfare outside Central London, pull them all down and build 5 storey mixed residential above commercial ground floor. I've been saying it for a decade.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One of the things going for Rory Stewart’s abandoned mayoral run, was his thing for Parisian density
Ridiculous day of Cricket that
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Ridiculous day of Cricket that
He sounds like the middle class football fan on the Fast Show, when he probably swears like a tropper and wants to stand in Blocks 5 or 6
I spend a lot of time thinking about this, and I think it's because the 'real Starmer voice' is quite...blokey? And that is for a bunch of reasons a register that the British centre-left has always struggled to speak in.
Starmer genuinely loves football, like, there's evidence of him LOVING football for decades. And yet...when he talks about it....he sounds like someone who has never seen a minute of it. He sounds like someone who only just heard the word "football" earlier that day.
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
He sounds like the middle class football fan on the Fast Show, when he probably swears like a tropper and wants to stand in Blocks 5 or 6
Not a bad week for Wes Streeting, probably even better for Bridget Philipson
November 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Not a bad week for Wes Streeting, probably even better for Bridget Philipson
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And btw as I’ve written I’m not necessarily convinced BBC should survive in its current form. But I’m far more sure, partly because I’m an actual patriot, that its demise shouldn’t come at the hands of a foreign head of state.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
And btw as I’ve written I’m not necessarily convinced BBC should survive in its current form. But I’m far more sure, partly because I’m an actual patriot, that its demise shouldn’t come at the hands of a foreign head of state.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
Even if true, this whole, excel go green, approach to running the economy since 2011 is a fucking terrible way to run a country.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Even if true, this whole, excel go green, approach to running the economy since 2011 is a fucking terrible way to run a country.
It’s a bottle job of massive scale. And the problem is, they’ll have to come back (if they make it mind) next year and play the same stupid game only to step back from the edge of doing the right thing
Adam isn’t speculating here: it’s what Reeves did last time (alongside a hefty employers’ NI hike) and it *didn’t* go down well.
It also didn’t raise enough to protect against shocks, hence more rises being needed now.
This is total, dismal, political failure.
It also didn’t raise enough to protect against shocks, hence more rises being needed now.
This is total, dismal, political failure.
Exchanging one unpopular, but effective, tax-raising measure for a load more unpopular, controversial and piecemeal tax-raising measures is not going to end well
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It’s a bottle job of massive scale. And the problem is, they’ll have to come back (if they make it mind) next year and play the same stupid game only to step back from the edge of doing the right thing
The limit going did lead to people buying Pinarello’s on it, which was a piss take, £2,500 limit seems about right
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
Rachel Reeves to curb bike purchases through salary sacrifice in Budget
Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The limit going did lead to people buying Pinarello’s on it, which was a piss take, £2,500 limit seems about right
Fuck this is good, the film will stink, the music I don’t think will
House featuring John Cale by Charli xcx & John Cale on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:17
music.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Fuck this is good, the film will stink, the music I don’t think will
Jamie Vardy right on a number of issues
The broader pattern, to quote a learned philosopher “chat shit, get banged”. Repeated PMs have made false promises and then become unpopular when the bill comes due.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jamie Vardy right on a number of issues
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The only good news today: new Robyn single out November 12th.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The only good news today: new Robyn single out November 12th.
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I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Quiet a big deal this, potentially for sports right particularly
*SKY OWNER COMCAST SAID IN TALKS TO BUY ITV’S BROADCASTING ARM
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Quiet a big deal this, potentially for sports right particularly
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Not behind a paywall here www.electionatlas.nyc/maps.html
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Not behind a paywall here www.electionatlas.nyc/maps.html
One the best albums you can wrap your ears around
The Boy Who Played the Harp by Dave on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 10 Songs
music.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
One the best albums you can wrap your ears around
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A total and utter hero
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A total and utter hero