Adam Jennison

The adventures of Spanish journalists in Ukraine

These journalists will have quite a story to tell back home. Watching it from afar on your phone is one thing, but experiencing it with your whole heart in Ukraine, while risking a life you undoubtedly value, is quite another.

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone.

And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities.

So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

Luke Campbell's £5m headache ''Half and half" Mayor goes full on over Net Zero

New weekly long read is out. New subscribers always welcome.

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Screegrab of thread on X, by Lib Dem Councillor Tom Astell: "Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell Something very concerning is happening in Hull & East Yorkshire. The new Reform UK Mayor has launched a website for a “£1m Community Fund.” Here’s why residents should be worried 👇 1/10 1:06 PM · Aug 17, 2025 · 57.7K Views Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h The site (http://lukeasksyou.com) carries the Combined Authority logo & privacy policy, making it look like an official consultation and that the Combine Authority will be the ones handling your data. 2/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h But when you complete the survey, you’re told it’s “promoted by Reform UK.” Your personal data goes to the party — not the Authority. 3/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h And the £1m fund? It doesn’t exist. It has never been through the Combined Authority Executive Board. No decision. No approval. It’s not even clear if the Combined Authority actually has the ability or monies available for such a fund. 4/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h The Constitution is clear: any spending over £250,000 is a Key Decision. It must be formally approved. That hasn’t happened. 5/10"

Screegrab of thread on X, by Lib Dem Councillor Tom Astell: " Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h So residents are being invited to pitch ideas for a fund that hasn’t been agreed — while handing their data to a political party. 6/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h This is a serious breach of trust. Public branding. Party data collection. A non-existent fund. Residents deserve honesty. 7/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h I’ve written to the Combined Authority Chief Exec demanding answers: 🔹 Has this fund been authorised? 🔹 Who approved use of CA branding? 🔹 Is this an official consultation — or a party campaign tool? 8/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell · 20h I’ve also raised this with the Monitoring Officer, Chief Finance Officer and the ICO. Governance and transparency matter. 9/10 Cllr Tom Astell @tomastell Public office is a public trust. Hull & East Yorkshire deserves honesty, not smoke and mirrors. 10/10 1:06 PM · Aug 17, 2025 · 5,987 Views"

An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA

Calls for investigation into new Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Questions over fund launch and data use

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Has Anyone Ever Escaped From Hull Prison?

There have been well-known and notorious inmates, but our jail absconder correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social finds out if anyone actually made it over the wall.

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@hulllibraries.bsky.social

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

You did a great job 👍
Looks superb

I've got roughly 2 more days left before I'm back at work.. 😶

Too much work left to do 😭

I think I'll get the walls, flooring & radiator done but the cupboard will have to wait

I've got waterproof Bluetooth speakers to fit in it 😂
I need to sing while in the shower

Two walls are going to be white plastic panels, similar to the ceiling. The radiator wall is going to be painted, Diana decided on a similar green to the panels. I'll be painting it tomorrow before fitting the radiator. I like that colour you did the last bathroom..

Yeah, dibond aluminium sheets, no grouting! 😂

After 13 days of using the dog salon tonight was the first time in the new improved shower 😶🥰

I've just got to fit the walls, floor, new radiator, toilet and basin before it's finished...

😑

It's just annoying 😑

It just means another day or two that I need to add to the build as well as clearing the kitchen (too much crap in that area!)

Yay 😑

Found out why there was always a bad smell from the bath waste regardless of how many times I cleaned it

The previous owners made this waste pipe go uphill 😑😑😑

I'll add "remove kitchen ceiling too replace waste pipe" to the list of jobs....

😑😑😑😑😑🫠

Bathroom update..

Pipes & wires sorted out and clipped to the wall.

They were in a right mess 😑

They'll be behind a false wall inside a cupboard

Tomorrow is plastering, fitting waste pipes, ceiling lights & maybe the first ceiling panels

I'm thinking of either fitting a seat, or making sure there's a secure mounting to take a seat in the future if (*when) I decide to fit one..

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The bath is going, just a shower from now on, the side of the bath was becoming too high to get in/out & neither of us have had a bath in years

A very low height shower tray (45mm) is going in..

Much easier on my back

I'm having to shower in the dog salon at the mo 🫠😁😂😭

Guess what I'm doing for my 2 week holiday...

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Britons lacking good public transport more likely to feel lonely, UK study finds Research finds correlation between car dependency and loneliness, particularly in rural towns

"People who depend on cars to get around are more likely to feel lonely and disconnected than those who have access to good public transport, a UK study has found"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Building roads increases congestion instead of reducing it.

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

A small number of subjects and not (yet) peer reviewed, but worth a read.
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Or you could just ask an LLM to produce a precis for you...

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New research from @powertochange.org.uk revisits the 100 places in England with the sharpest rise in long-term high street vacancies between 2015 and 2023.

Inspired by work from @trfetzer.com, @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social and @prashantgarg.bsky.social

2 beds of onions on an allotment, the onions are growing through weed control membrane

A bed of asparagus that has been recently covered in weeds and bind weed. It is an old bed and the bind weed is aggressive so the asparagus is sparse.

A small bed of onions that is covered with weeds

After the recent rains the weeds instantly arrived, it took quite a bit of effort to remove them from the allotment onion and asparagus beds. I've still another onion bed to clear, but it's quite nice work with an audiobook for company

A small cucumber on a cucumber plant

A small cucumber on a cucumber plant

A small cucumber on a cucumber plant

Cucumber season is nearly upon us..

Going to have a go at pickling this year 🙂

Reform UK inherits a financial firestorm in English councils [FREE TO READ] Party faces familiar problem of finding large-scale savings while avoiding unpopular choices

Looks like the link expired so I will post my bleak evergreen local government rundown - updated for the Reform era - again on.ft.com/4kGJZf8

Japan’s $7,000 Single-Seat EV Sparks A Revolution In Compact Mobility In the rural outskirts of Hiroshima, a Japanese startup named KG Motors is making waves in the electric vehicle (EV) industry with its ultra-compact,

Design vehicles to fit cities. Don’t design cities to fit vehicles.

Katie Singh, a British-Indian performer, in a blue formal office shirt and black trousers, strides around a stage in the setting sunshine. An audience watch on with sunglasses and headphones.

Marc Graham, a white British performer, stands looking into the distant setting sun, wearing a shirt untucked at the waist and black trousers. In the background cloudless sky; in the foreground a headless mannequin dressed in a supermarket delivery uniform holding a steering wheel.

Katie Singh and Marc Graham stood on a raised stage with Hull's tidal barrier in the background. Katie is stood facing away from Marc, who looks on dressed in a supermarket delivery uniform. A mannequin in the same uniform is posed next to Katie holding a steering wheel.

A wide shot of the audience sat in two rows around the stage, on top of the car park.

Your first look at Biting Point, our new show about road rage, written by Sid Sagar and performed on top of a car park in Hull 📸