Adam Smith

I just love an airport departure board. Always makes the world feel like such a small place.

Could end up in Tehran or Seoul or Teeside.

The story of my weekend in Shropshire in one post. 🌲🌳

reading the NL election news and thinking of this

Sounds more fun than it is.

Interesting to see that the PVV has leaked support to FvD and JA21.

Makes me wonder if Reform ever take power whether they will end up unseated by an even further-right force which will be broadly unelectable but catnip to those disillusioned by Reform in govt.

This is the area where I work - only 250 LSOAs (out of 33,755) are more deprived.

Coastal deprivation is its own flavour of poverty and I don’t think I could point to evidence on the ground that the government is meaningfully alleviating it.

Думаю, "атмосфера" здесь подходящее слово. Это уже не принципиальная позиция, если вы переходите от ярого противника иммиграции к партии D66.

Really excited for all the new European destinations this will open up such as (checks notes) ... Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.

Innovative.

Я понимаю, как люди переходят от левого популизма к правому, но переход от правого популизма к либеральному центризму кажется мне странным.

Хотелось бы познакомиться с теми, кто перешёл с PVV на D66. Голландская политика — это просто безумие.

Hab versucht, mich einzulesen, aber es ist echt schwer zu verstehen, warum die DB so komplett darin versagt, ein pünktliches IC-Netz zu betreiben. Jeder Zug ist zu spät. Es ist längst mehr als nur ein Meme.

🇩🇪 Ich war eine Woche lang mit der DB unterwegs – und sie hat ihren Ruf echt bestätigt. Jeder IC über 30 Minuten verspätet, und DB Regio hat mich in Königs Wusterhausen stehen lassen.

I just spent a week on DB and it definitely lived up to its reputation. Every IC train 30+ minutes delayed. DB Regio stranded me at Königs Wusterhausen.

The DWP is using flight bookings to do this when every time someone enters or leaves the country their passport gets scanned??

A rare example of a tight system bypassed for whatever reason.

It’s so strange that the UK (apart from NI) doesn’t have lantaarnpaalposter and verkiezingsbord culture. I’d like to know how we avoided it.

Please don’t talk to me about my crush on the LP candidate. It’s not a good look.

I’ve just done a week of hotel breakfast buffets in Germany and NL.

Truly the best of times, truly the worst of times.

Watching how voraciously Germans will attack a new delivery of hard boiled eggs is admirable.

It feels like Dutch people wake up on election day, shake a bag of Scrabble letters and pick out the party they're going to vote for.

Strangely worked out well for D66 even though there aren't numbers in Scrabble.

Dug out my Canon Powershot G9 to take to the Caucasus next week and found these photos of Lowestoft that I took back in February 2024.

These old digicam sensors do a fantastic job of atmosphere it has to be said.

A miniature police kiosk.

Here a wee thread for Ōtautahi people or people who grew up here before the quakes. It’s from an exhibition of miniature buildings by an artist called Ghostcat and it was held in the quakestruck Christ Church Cathedral and I was literally moved to tears. This is the old police kiosk in the Square.

Couldn’t resist these ‘Shell Nature Studies’ books in Oxfam. Published in 1957 in Norwich. 🌿

Insidious nonsense from Winterson. I don't wish to read a single word of """creative""" writing that has been spat out by a computer.

I love the New Adlestrop Rail Atlas but I'm especially grateful for it at the moment as I'm building a counterfactual anti-Beeching rail network in NIMBY rails and using it a lot for reference.

Lincoln Cathedral has an incredible west front but the inside leaves me feeling a bit cold.

Having to pay to go in doesn’t help.

Whitby was good too. I thought there would be more goths.

Of course it’s home to an enormous, once grand, Victorian hotel being run into the ground by Britannia Hotels.

Have thoroughly enjoyed a little half-term trip to Scarborough with its Georgian terraces and bracing bay.

Folk horror at Reedham ferry today.

The high water stopped the ferry and stranded us at the pub for the afternoon.

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Incredibly rare YIMBY W from the great folk of Bacton, Norfolk.

Westminster City Council blanking out its commitment to build affordable homes also up there I would say.