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The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

This is me. Although I wasn’t especially a horsey gal, I did work at a stables in my teens. Mainly so that I could be trusted to take a horse out on my own. I am genetically untidy.

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Trunkless legs, trunkless legs
Standing in the desert
Half a shattered visage
And a wrinkled lip and sneer
Ozymandi (Ozymandi), Ozymandi (Ozymandi)
Ozymandi, King of Kings

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

Cool, congrats 🎉

This is a must read essay for any progressive who wants to grow the alternative.

A key to the 'Polanksi bounce' is kickass positioning and marketing, sound policy, and delivery.

This essay explains why Reform voters not just Labour voters are reachable and can be won over.

YouTube video by BBC Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC

Charlie Brooker nailed TV News 15 years ago, and the BBC paid him to do it.
youtu.be/aHun58mz3vI?...

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest.
#Aras25 #Speirgorm

A typical UK employee will have to pay a record 55% more tax than the equivalent self-employed worker, according to analysis by Resolution Foundation, as the think-tank urges chancellor Rachel Reeves to take further steps in the Budget to equalise treatment of freelancers and staff on.ft.com/47rU1vy

Image of a one story home in a rural location, one side destroyed, a bulldozer sat atop the rubble.

Too good not to share...

Daily Star's 60p Lettuce Liz that lasted longer than Truss immortalised by BFI The lettuce livestream has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive as part of a digital collection featuring 400 significant pieces of British online video content

Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

The lobby groups that co-opt grieving parents like Ian Russell and Esther Ghey and rewrite the stories of their children’s lives and deaths to advocate for legislation that wouldn’t have saved them really makes me sick. That Esther also has ended up in a narrative that victim-blames Brianna is vile

Good Morning #StarTrekFamily I hope y'all have a Fantastic #StarTrekFriday 😂🤣😂🤣🖖 LLAP

as far as i can tell, children are already elgibile for the booker prize. they just don't write enough novels, being distracted as they are by roblox, homework and putting their hands up in their air saying "six seven"

Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.

inviting bigots to bully you isn't a workable way of running a country (as the UK's last month shows)

my latest with @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

These Labour MPs would easily retain more seats at the next election and stop a Reform government if they used their huge majority to implement PR instead of unwanted digital ID, trans bans, racist border enforcement and disability cuts. When Farage is PM they will only have themselves to blame

This is why “do not comply in advance” is the answer.

Making this barbarism expensive to police makes this more of a problem to this Labour government than the in-built attacks on human rights.

Which is sickening.

(homer simpson voice) I sleep in a big bed that's not connected to the internet

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's donkeys carrying lambs up the Italian Alps in special pouches.

I've always wondered where that phasing "intending to under go..." came from, I guess that letter.

I've always been a Green in my heart but never thought they were a viable option in reality.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has elevated the #GreenParty exponentially and for the first time in my life I have officially become a member of a political party.

#VoteGreen

Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

Share archive links.

If you must.

Choose what you give your clicks to.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

My eyes! I'm not sleeping tonight (but that might just be this cold)

I have been asked to share these 2 job vacancies...

Hey Folks, there are 2 part time peer support worker roles for the lower feminising team at Parkside hospital being advertised by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Closing date is 30th October but will close sooner