Antony Carpen

Via @drjennings.bsky.social Good opportunity to make the case for renewables and for rail/light rail investment to reduce demand for oil-based fuels? @bettertransport.bsky.social

It is possible to recreate these things, but the difficulty is whether key people will want to. I hope they do.

Dread to think what they'll replace this with. (From G-Maps here showing the wider building/neighbourhood context www.google.com/maps/search/... )

Glasgow Central: Building collapses at station as fire causes major disruption Dozens of services have since been cancelled and the station will be closed until further notice.

Grim re Glasgow Central Station www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... The building that collapsed next to the main entrance dates back from 1851.

NOOZE: "People have very short memories, confirms study"

FO Madeleine Bayard - Lost at Sea 1943 - Association of Wrens First Officer Madeleine Victorine Bayard (21 February 1911 — 1 January 1943), who served as Madeleine Barclay aboard HMS Fidelity on agent-running operations into Vichy France, was a French agent of t...

First Officer Madeleine Victorine Bayard wrens.org.uk/fo-madeleine... She was lost, with the rest of the crew, when the ship was sunk in 1943.

There's a film waiting to be made on this episode in WWII. @artemisapphire.bsky.social

Now imagine being a music journalist in this scenario. www.rentacrowduk.co.uk/coordinating... "Coordinating 30 young people to act like they’re at their favourite band’s gig isn’t about tricking anyone — it’s about enhancing the atmosphere so that the whole audience has a better time." Really? 👀

The 'hire a crowd' business operates openly and makes journalism even more difficult - Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

"The ‘hire a crowd’ business operates openly and makes journalism even more difficult" www.poynter.org/reporting-ed... Turns out it's even bigger in the US. As if journalists didn't have enough problems.

I remember @markthomasinfo.bsky.social laughing about the idea of paying people to turn up and protest - a sort of 'Rent a crowd'. Now someone's gone several steps further with the concept. www.rentacrowduk.co.uk/blog/ 🥶

Where to start…

Zoë Bread is going after that big warehouse built at the end of residential gardens - a case that on closer examination revealed all sorts of things. On IG at www.instagram.com/reel/DVoiKlx... 😳

At The Junction, Cambridge: www.junction.co.uk/events/backl... "A day of research, sharing & conversation for the UK cultural sector launching new research findings into experiences of anti-LGBTQ+backlash." Wed 18 March 2026.

Happy international women's day.

This is protecting women & girls brigade, harassing a woman.

The police need to follow up on this targeted harassment.

I hope MP Hannah Spencer gets home to a nice brew after a nightmare day.

This came up in a conversation earlier today - impossible to use 'rational public policy analysis' for moves and actions carried out by irrational and reckless actors that have little care for the consequences and no one to rein them in. Huge history case studies on failures of checks & balances

Cambs people, Coffee, buses, politics on www.facebook.com/LabourAlexB/...

Inequalities in Cambridge have reached such extremes… …that even communism is back! I stumbled across their latest round of flyposting while picking up a few things on the way back from the East West Rail consultation on Cambridge East Station. …

NEW BLOGPOST: "Inequalities in Cambridge have reached such extremes…" cambridgetownowl.com/2026/03/07/i... "...that communism is back!" 😱

Suffolk MP backs radical plan to end sexual harassment in schools Now launched: A new blueprint for schools and colleges to ‘change the system’ to prevent sexism and protect girls from sexual harassment

Now launched: A new blueprint for schools and colleges to ‘change the system’ to prevent sexism and protect girls from sexual harassment | Jenny Rhodes

Celebrating 50 years of The School of Clinical Medicine Join in the 50 year celebrations of the School of Clinical Medicine at the Cambridge Festival. Formally established in 1976, it has been home to pioneering discoveries, inspirational teaching,…

Celebrating 50 years of the School of Clinical Medicine @cam.ac.uk 🎉

As part of the @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social, we are honoured to contribute to world-leading medical research, education and patient care.

Learn more & join anniversary events @cambridgefestival.bsky.social: buff.ly/X8lQSQs

⏰ | NEW BLOG: If progressives won’t talk seriously about nationhood, the populist right will keep owning the argument.

Former minister John Denham writes on why civic slogans and better “delivery” won’t be enough: www.ippr.org/articles/rec...

HS2 to rewrite £2bn contract for trains that are the wrong length The government is in talks with Hitachi and Alstom as the cancellation of the line beyond Birmingham means trains are now too long and too many are on order

As I generally do not follow UK rail I am not really up to date with all of these HS2 shenanigans www.thetimes.com/article/95a1...

Can someone who follows this - @garethdennis.uk maybe? - tell me if all of this is factually correct? Because if it *is*, it sounds like a hell of a mess.

In South Cambridgeshire, where 45 councillors will be elected in 26 seats, the Britain Votes Now model shows the Lib Dems as most likely winners in all 26. This isn't completely impossible, but I think a small number of non-Lib-Dem wins is more likely. britain.votes.now/local-electi...

Ward-level projections for May's local elections in Cambridge from Britain Votes Now. They rate Labour as most likely winners in 8 wards, the Lib Dems and Greens in 3 each. Personally I don't think Labour are likely to do anything like as well as this. britain.votes.now/local-electi...

The Cambridge Women Workers series 1930-31 The Cambridge Independent ran a feature in its weekly newspapers called Pen pictures of women workers. It makes for a fascinating social record at a time of significant cultural change in the workp…

Recognise any of these names featured in the Cambridge Independent nearly a century ago? lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/t...

Aside from anything else here (and there is a lot to unpack), the idea “Donald sending a few angry posts on truth social” is more humiliating than anything since Suez is remarkably psychologically illuminating. Our only job in the world is apparently to hang on America’s shoulder.

Seal of Mary Whitshead. RIA GSA/25/1, Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 9 George I, Item 1 (13 February 1723) - By 1723, the heavy wax seals hanging from the bottom of the parchment have been done away with in favor of an image impressed into several drops of wax poured directly on the document itself. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA-25-1

Locating women in the historical archive deepens our understanding of the past.
For #IWD2026 we're sharing records + research highlighting women in the records + their role in History. Starting with this 😀 👇️
Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury
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Looks like Trumpington Road from here - one of the main roads into Cambridge from the south. That's meant to be a bus lane where all the potholes are. This is also a road where are several independent fee-paying schools (with the inevitable decades-long parking issues associated with them)

Saw it on the internet - must be true. By Amy Claire Mills www.instagram.com/amy_claire_m...

Turns out it became popular with one regiment during WWI that they took it back home with them and made it hot! towneleyhallsociety.co.uk/page52.html

A group of young people hold up placards saying "electoral reform" & "we are voting"

The new electoral reform Bill changes a lot, but why not fix all the problems? In 2024, Labour won two-thirds of seats with one-third of the vote. That’s not democracy. Are we avoiding the elephant in the room? Stephen McNair reports

eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/is...