David Child

I watched the first ep but struggled with how dark it was - literally and subject matter. Feel like I need to persevere tho.

Am on the east coast now and there are tons of (lovely and busy) caravan parks that are doing a roaring trade.

Yeah, there’s def some growth. We’d just need to massively increase land use by the sea.

Yep, but it’s “tiny”. And it doesn’t usually coincide with “has plenty of money and wants big splash parks and full of entertainment and all-inclusive food”.

Oh totally. But there’s, what, 7 Center Parcs? Some villages in a small Greek island will have that many - with 200+ rooms each. And buying the land on the beachfront for all that hotel would mean you’d have to charge a fortune. Land in rural Bedfordshire is much cheaper.

For the cost of a weekend there you can get flights and a week all-inclusive in Greece.

Also eg this 5* hotel with a pool is £500+ a night next weekend:

There are lots of campsites that are similar I guess. But the land needed is huge (even ignoring overcoming planning permission) and the economics of those places mean you need four v busy months to make them work and we cannot yet attract that many people.

It was a stop en route to Scotland. But yes, I don’t think the brisk wind and grey skies were the issue tho.

But we could no way afford to build and run the sort of all-inclusive 5*, water-park and activity-packed beachside hotels that are ten a penny in Spain / Turkey / Greece in any remotely accessible way. Try booking even a hotel with a pool on the English coast in August.

Went in late-January this year and it was thoroughly depressing. Tho decent fish and chips.

As someone who until recently worked in travel PR, what I find especially interesting is his stuff is very “non” travel content. And yet inspires travel possibly more so than ones of lovely looking beaches and sweeping panoramas.

The TikToker who made Americans mad for Wigan Kalani Smith is introducing the UK’s lesser-visited towns to an eager overseas audience

Reading this piece and thinking: this guy seems like a cool dude. And then it turns out he loves Whitby. Good lad.

Sunshine in Leeds, River Aire.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

They seem to not have much in the way of public affinity / common sense when it comes to choosing what battles to fight.

A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.

Another 300 clicks here 🎁! on.ft.com/4ozyZmK Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right

Early August and in jeans and a jumper and still a bit chilly. Ffs, the North.

Yep, or at least a “urinals” and “cubicles”.

There is so much goodwill for it. And the characters. And it’s like they wanted us to wish it over.

Isn’t it the worst. Have loved hate-watching every episode.

Yeah, I guess the test is if a toilet door with a woman sign on makes it a single sex space?

Same. Not a lawyer so is just my lay person reading of the ruling but it seems pretty explicit that biologically female as well as female-presenting (ie not trans men) are primary in the case of single sex spaces.

That’s the thing, if you “present” male you should use male loos. And then we start with the women who have shaved heads or a strong jaw or are tall and suddenly people start asking for birth certificates.

Yup. Also, quite a few in smaller places are just a sit down loo anyway so they’ll just take the signs off.

Well I *think* the Supreme Court’s ruling is the law? And the guidance is to help organisations interpret it? But it sounds like those found not adhering could be liable for a sex discrimination claim. The government could change the law, tho.

...on public health provision in the North-West of England. One of the cases was a not-spot of MMR vaccination in one of the most deprived communities. It turned out that local health services had closed down, so it was now a two-hour, £8, four-bus journey to the place where your kid could...

The challenge for many who want to do that tho is how they do it *and* comply with the law. No doubt a lot of people will be finding test cases to sue for discrimination and to so many venues with loos eg it will become untenable. It’s such a mess of a ruling.

If your birth certificate is the route to accessing a loo anywhere in public good luck to us all finding them in our parents’ lofts. Or at all. I didn’t have needing ID to use the loo for 2025 but here we seem to be.