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Trouble up t’ Mill Road
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Speaking out on all ‘manor’ of stuff, mainly related to Mill Road, Cambridge UK.
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Better here than on 'Twatter' 🤔
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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"Quiet, piggy!"
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging Keir Starmer as PM
Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging Keir Starmer as PM
Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging Keir Starmer as PM
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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ps amid the chaos an actual good thing happened today, & this is the first Gen Z-friendly thing i can remember a govt doing since..i don't know when? so fair play www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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There was a fork in the road and as usual the PM took the wrong fork…
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Really not sure why Labour doesn't understand that when it comes to immigration and asylum, however many offerings it lays on the altar of Nigel Farage, the Reform gods will not be satisfied. Why squander its credibility and shred its values in chasing a far right populist party it will never catch?
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
New bus service for Cambridge's Mill Road Romsey Town. Circular via Ross Street, Fairfax Road & Thoday Street. One (slow) service on the third Sunday of November.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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It's clear that EU SM+CU is essential to get growth started.

If Labour ignores this, the deepening recession and increasing tax burden will make everyone noticeably poorer, a fact that Farage will ruthlessly exploit.

Please get Labour to wake up before it's too late!
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Now with reduced dried fruit content.
September 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA
August 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
July 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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And Chris Whitty reminds us that cycling is, in fact, a perfectly normal thing to do, a perfectly healthy thing to do, and a cheap form of transport. No lycra necessary. (Or cycle helmets, IMO. Shhhh!!!)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Chris Whitty says culture-war coverage of cycling could harm nation’s health
Chief medical officer for England urges people to set media cliches aside to focus on health benefits of physical activity
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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12 mayors commit themselves to a 'national active travel network', including our own Paul Bristow 💙. This is brilliant. We have at least four primary schools within walking distance of Mill Road.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twelve of England’s regional mayors back plan to create ‘national active travel network’
Exclusive: Unprecedented move to focus initially on helping children to walk, cycle or scoot to school safely
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Never forget what he said in 1970.
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Rod Stewart declaring we should give Nigel Farage a chance makes absolute sense when you remember his support for Enoch Powell. See this interview with Rod Stewart (International Times No 94 December 17-31 1970).
June 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform
June 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Rod Stewart takes the stage at Glastonbury...
June 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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There’s a group of Labour MPs whose vision for the country appears to be equality of misery: businesses made less dynamic and taxed more than under the Conservatives, child poverty continuing to rise as it did under the Conservatives.
6 in 10 households hit by the two child limit are working families. TBH I’d expect an MP keen to comment to know that.

Rising child poverty is the “retrograde step”. Removing the two child limit helps children get a good start in life.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Broken Labour agrees on one thing: frustration with Keir Starmer
Faced with a divided party and disaffected voters, this month’s spending review is of critical importance to the government as it seeks to balance the books and plan for the future
www.thetimes.com
June 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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It’s June; so that means Sunday blogging is back for the summer and what better way to kick things off than a visit to a quirky railway station.

busandtrainuser.com/2025/06/01/b...
Britain’s quirkiest railway station
Sunday 1st June 2025 Horray it’s June; so that means Sunday blogging is back as the BusAndTrainUser.com enhanced summer timetable kicks in for the next three months from today. I’ve been meaning to…
busandtrainuser.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Did we mention Bournemouth? History repeated itself for Go South Coast, following First Bus' withdrawal from Southampton in Feb 2023. First's orderly departure allowed a well-planned update to Bluestar’s network. busandtrainuser.com/2023/02/18/f...
First last day
Saturday 18th February 2023 It’s the end of an era for buses in Southampton today as First Bus closes its bus garage doors for good bringing to an end 143 years of bus operation that can be t…
busandtrainuser.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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And this one, on how Andrew and his team built and developed the high-frequency services across BCP to the extent that a single-decker every 3mins still didn't have the capacity for crowd-shifting, so high-spec double-deckers were needed. busandtrainuser.com/2023/10/14/m...
More buses for more
Saturday 14th October 2023 Poole based Morebus recently put 28 brand new ADL Enviro400 MMC buses into service on its busy high frequency route m1 which crosses the conurbation linking Poole, Bourne…
busandtrainuser.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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For a flavour of Andrew's achievements, you could hardly top Roger @busandtrainuser.bsky.social French's blog on how the More Bus team replaced the Yellow Bus services in BCP in record time. busandtrainuser.com/2022/08/07/m...
More more in Bournemouth
Sunday 7th August 2022 Thursday 4th August 2022’s stark announcement Bournemouth’s buses dramatically changed colour yesterday following the sad news on Friday 29th July the town’s Yellow Bus…
busandtrainuser.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM