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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

It irritates me that a lot of the british media are using headlines like 'Thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa' Completely over looking the rest of the poor bastards that live there who have lost everything.

UN Says Emissions Will Drop In The Next 10 Years But Not ‘Fast Enough’—Bill Gates Urges New Approach The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

The nightmarishly surreal title sequence to SHADOWS OF FEAR (1970), ITV's incredibly nasty psychological horror/thriller anthology. Heavily reminiscent of Yellow Submarine, it's accompanied by Roger (Hammer House of Horror, George & Mildred) Webb's queasy cocktail jazz theme tune.

Streeting admits he could have provided more doctor training but chose not to Wes Streeting continues his rampage to smear doctors strikes - unfortunately for him, he also let slip his failure to train doctors

While Streeting blames junior doctors
for hurting patients
you can bet that privatisation funded Streeting
is hurting us much, much more

"Streeting admits he could have provided more doctor training but chose not to" www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

Standing room only and improvised sun visors to the fore on the first day of Glamorgan's match v the Australians, St Helen's, July 31st 1926. They were rewarded with seeing the Australian dismissed for 283 and Glamorgan closing on 85 for 3. That was as good as it got and Glamorgan lost by 224 runs

Absolute classic

Bravo

teaching kids about reading and writing is too important to outsource to corporations

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Black History Month Black History Month always provides a fantastic opportunity for us to recognise the outstanding contributions people of African and Caribbean descent have

Black History Month - Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust share.google/WlcZkxbzBRUT...

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam said some immigrants living legally in the UK should be deported to leave the country more "culturally coherent".

Not sure what’s worse, Katie Lam’s comments or the fact that we can’t get Labour to criticise them …

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-brea...

Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...

“The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that question".”

Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars A public lecture as part of the Royal Historical Society's visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, with Professor Tim Grady

This week we look forward to meeting with historians at the University of Suffolk along with archivists from Suffolk Archives for the next RHS Visit.

The day closes at The Hold, Ipswich (5.30pm, Weds 22 October) with a guest lecture by Prof Tim Grady to which all are welcome: bit.ly/43oqsKb

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

My favorite.

Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!

So were the signs...

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Seabury Quinn was the most prolific author at WEIRD TALES. His Jules de Grandin occult detect series ran to 93 stories over ~99 issues, not counting reprints. I've read them all twice. For my sins.

1 like = 1 bad summary of a Jules de Grandin story

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He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

Reeves and her ministerial colleagues privately grumble that the OBR could and should have reviewed its productivity forecasts earlier. If it had done so while the Conservatives were still in power, Jeremy Hunt's pre-election cuts to national insurance contributions might have looked unaffordable.

Really? Did anyone who was paying attention actually believe that Hunt's cuts to NI were affordable? And if the OBR's assumptions about productivity have always looked optimistic, why base your fiscal strategy on them?

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...

‘Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, declared that starvation did not exist. According to Unicef, Gaza’s entire child population under five is at risk of acute malnutrition.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the bloghttps://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.