Tom Pike

Nigel Farage, who has appeared on BBC Question Time 38 times, says the BBC has been insitutionally biased for decades.

He may have a point.

This is on the A38 between Toyota Island and Little over near Derby. It's the silliest locally that I know of; close second is a lamppost in the centre of a cycle lane.

cyclists dismount sign next to a shared use path underneath a road sign, with give way signs on both sides.

This is my favourite Cyclists Dismount sign. Present on both sides. Bonus points for give way markings (not sure who is giving way to who).

Combine PPM with elements of VED, and bring in weight classes. Fuel duty to remain. It could encourage people out of polluting vehicles, but also out of e-SUVs.

Just introduce PPM for all vehicles that require a licence - motorbike, car, van, LGV, HGV etc. Combined with elements of VED, it could be a sliding scale based on emissions and weight. Combined with fuel duty, this would encourage both lighter and lower emissions.

From the comments:

"Bicycles are a fairweather mode of daytime transport used exclusively by able bodied middle class men"

I better let my wife and kids know they need to stop cycling, and I now know I shouldn't have done a £50 shop on the bike in the rain yesterday evening. Silly us.

A black and white photo of Enrico Fermi standing at a blackboard, explaining a scattering problem. He is wearing a charcoal wool three-piece suit, with a striped tie and a light-colored shirt. Fermi is looking to the right of the photographer, smiling at someone in the audience.

Enrico Fermi, one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, was born #OTD in 1901. While most physicists focus on either experiment or theory, Fermi excelled at both.

Now, estimate how many new physicists will be born today. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢 (1/n)

Image: New York Public Library

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

I think it’s revealing of the current trajectory of the UK political economy that universities are told they will be allowed to go bust despite employing significantly more people than JLR, and being the engine of many local economies.

*driver

Make sauce. Freeze sauce. Homegrown tomato goodness all through the year.

Perfect example of why the requirement to issue NIP within 14 days should be amended and increased to at least 28. The bottom part of the latest (Apr 25) list reads like a number of staff were off (annual leave/sickness/other duties etc) at the same time, or that it was deprioritised.

UK Judge Affirms Legality Of Public-Submitted Road Crime Footage In Landmark Ruling A judge has ruled that motorists and cyclists can legally share videos with police, dismissing a lawsuit from a retired solicitor.

Big news for dashcam/helmetcam users:

Judge Affirms Legality Of Public-Submitted Road Crime Footage In Landmark Ruling

www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

So long as it fills the space and leaves no gaps for air to circulate, I don't think it will make a significant difference which you choose. Caveat - roof has to be watertight (obvs) as otherwise rockwool could act as a sponge. We have rockwool in roof of our wooden office cabin, internally lined.

A Tesla parked fully on the pavement next to double yellow lines, reg LB69CEO

This CEO Tesla driver can't keep off the pavement #YPLAC

They won't think about the time taken to park (often not directly by the school), plus time to get into/out of car, and from parked car to school gate... It's a similar distance to the local primary for us, I think they journey would be longer by car than on foot once you have factored in the above.

Spinning your wheels Sir, R.L. Vickers ("Freight of history", Letters, Eye 1654) asserts that "public transport eats taxes, private transport provides tax revenues.” In fact, the hidden costs of motoring's many downsides far outweigh the tax receipts. These socialised costs - gridlock, air and noise pollution, emergency services costs, road damage, public health impacts from sedentary lifestyles and deaths from road crashes - are met only partially by motorists. Motoring taxation raises about £40bn per year, while a recent report from the Royal College of Physicians estimates that the annual cost of air pollution alone is as much as £50bn. If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires. CARLTON REID, Motoring journalist and author of "Roads Were Not Built for Cars", Newcastle on Tyne.

“If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires.”

My letter about the hidden costs of motoring is in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Nottingham: Bus front door entry/exit, tram multiple entry/exit
Derby: Bus front door entry/exit

Would the evidence that trans women have been using women's spaces for decades without any problems be sufficient?

Why would they do that?

NRS buy them from suppliers then hire them out to the NHS, to make a profit.

If the NHS did the sourcing and purchasing themselves, they would likely be able to achieve savings (as no private profit would be generated). NHS is vast - a dedicated team would pay for itself.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Geoffrey Hinton (formerly of Google) explained his view: AI excels at cognitive tasks, whereas tasks requiring manual dexterity and/or emotional intelligence are weaknesses. So jobs such as skilled tradespersons, some physical labourers (as per your e.g.), healthcare workers and teachers are safer.

Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets

Ed Milliband is about the only reason to have faith in labour.
He is right.
We do need to continue to step up efforts to get to net zero and tackle the climate emergency.
Change has already happened, and UK weather is more extreme so we need to double down.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ok, an update on the Bus Services (No.2) Bill, which some people and organisations were trying to use to ban the use of floating bus stops which would have ended the ability to build cycle tracks in England in many circumstances.

The committee stage has finished and in this specific area,

1/n

My public transport commute went up by more than 10% between last year & this. If this were happening to drivers, it would be presented by media as a national crisis. Instead, it is happening to people making a choice we should be encouraging and disproportionately to those least able to afford it.

a bus stop floating in front of a car park and access road

Etwall Rd in Derby, c2012 - a thins strip of pavement, with a dropped kerb at the far end but no provision or easy access to the shops behind the floating bus stop/car park and access road. Still present today