Chris

Plus all the rest of the driver criminality. No excuses.

Only one thing better: eliminating cars. bsky.app/profile/worl...

I’m loving the Metropolitan Machinists Company cycling catalogue from 1903 this morning. I’ll have a pair of ‘cyclists’ dust glasses with wire gauze sides’. i0.wp.com/spitalfields...

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Never vote Reform. Especially in Cymru.

Eluned Morgan rules out loan threshold freeze for Welsh students First minister says only the Welsh government, not UK ministers, set thresholds for Welsh borrowers.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Little bit of good news though I suspect there is another Labour u turn coming anyway.

Still doesn't do anything about the obscene interest rates students have been paying on their plan 2 loans since starting uni.

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

New festival announced to celebrate St David's Day Amelia Jones The National Botanic Garden of Wales is launching an exciting new cultural event with a festival celebrating St David’s Day. The Little Things Festival will take place on Sunday 1 March i...

The National Botanic Garden of Wales is launching an exciting new cultural event with a festival celebrating St David's Day

Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push Josh MacAlister issues warning as government launches £88m ‘call to arms’ to find homes for 10,000 foster children

UK Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector.

Promise made over a year ago. No legislation.

Corporations are profiteering everywhere - water, energy, mail, healthcare, dentists, banking, vets ...

Political parties funded by corporations, don't bite the hand that feeds them.

Photo At a press conference on January 26, Nigel Farage embraces Suella Braverman, after her defection to Reform. Image: LEON NEAL/GETTY

There is now, at the very least, a competition between the "respectable" ex-Tories and the street populists - like Zia Yusuf and Matt Goodwin - over who will set the tone for Reform, and who are key to its outreach to the unashamed fascist plebs. The more its ethos evolves towards that of the shire Tories and ex-military types, the more it alienates the 100,000 drunk racists who followed Tommy Robinson into Whitehall last year.

“The truth is that Reform has no long-term answers for the structural, economic and geostrategic problems Britain faces. It has been, until now, held together by hate”

It cannot fix the problems we face because it’s a symptom of those problems, not a cure.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-w...

Student loans: why is Martin Lewis clashing with Rachel Reeves? MoneySavingExpert founder has said changes that will lead to some graduates in England and Wales paying more are ‘not moral’

www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

Haven't always 100% agreed with Lewis' messaging on student loans but can certainly agree that plan 2 interest rates are immoral. All power to him and others highlighting this issue. Such a ridiculous system.

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

England's water companies have 1,200 criminal convictions.

They lose a trillion litres of water to leaky pipes. Dump sewage in rivers for 4m hours. Customers fleeced.

None has its licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Corporate fines are not collected

Whatever happened to democracy, rule of law?

And in Japan you cannot own a car unless you can prove to the authorities you can store it in a private parking bay or facility OFF STREET

Reform social media vetting process is brutal, says councillor Reform councillor says the candidate vetting process has been

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you weren't an arsehole already given working for Reform this would be a challenging job? Locating the 'best' turd in a cesspit ...

Carryduff: Pedestrian in 80s dies after being hit by car The woman was struck by the vehicle at about 18:25 GMT on Saturday on the Saintfield road.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hit by a driver.

Yet another #KilledByADriver.

I'm fed up of catering to the idiots ...

I should go to bed but I am listening to Led Zep and it feels inappropriate ;)

RIP Catherine O'Hara :(

An hour behind on Ben vs Sca. Can't remember a game this foggy on TV. Does it get any better? Apparently result stands at 60. 51.24 currently. 13:10. Mad.

Not used Visual Studio for so long there has been a major version release in the interim! It'll have got easier, right? 😏

Woman dead after fatal crash closes tunnel on A55 crash in Conwy Police said the woman, in her 40s, had been in a car involved in a crash with a heavy goods vehicle.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did she kill herself or was she killed by the other driver?

#KillerDriver

Not least supporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

😱 UK ownership of US-style pick-up trucks is up 92% , say @cleancitiescampaign.org

😡 What's the problem? Longer than a WWII tank, larger than the average parking space, incredibly heavy and so high that children cannot be seen by their drivers, they aren't nicknamed "battering rams" by chance.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'It's like having PTSD' - villagers left without broadband since last year

Methinks this is trivialising PTSD! Amazing what passes for news nowadays ...

Graduated driver licensing: Northern Ireland to bring in changes for young drivers The new rules will be introduced in October and are described as the most significant reform of driver licensing for 70 years.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Could've gone further but at least someone in the UK is making an effort to reduce road crime. Hopefully others follow. Cymru?

Three independent commissions have backed devolving policing to Wales.

Scotland, Northern Ireland – even London and Manchester – have powers over policing.

Asked if Wales should too, the Home Secretary says:

“No I do not.”

Labour has no respect for Wales.

Ireland will shortly also announce compulsory stab vests to counteract the danger from knife crime..

Man, 29 dies after one-vehicle crash in Bridge of Earn Police said the incident, which involved a Audi A4, happened near the Craigend junction on Friday.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AKA man kills himself.

Elon Musk's Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences The British arm of Tesla has faced multiple court proceedings linked to allegations of road traffic offences.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

£20k! Nothing to Tesla. Up the fines!

Hopefully the bad publicity will be more significant and make them change their ways.