James Scantlebury

And an ugly engineering led railway station to boot. Shame, eh

Agreed - the irony of out-of-town retail parks in Newham being replaced by big box industrial distribution warehouses for Amazon etc…

I think for regional trains a mix is best to satisfy a wide range of needs, commuter/urban/metro trains longitudinal is better.

I think a mix is nice for regional services … passengers do like to face forward / have a table, whereas longitudinal are better for the reasons you outline.
Alas, GA wanted to have a unified fleet.

The 720s are miserable… but DfT rewarded bidders for maximum number of seats arriving into London for the morning peak 🥲

Congrats!!!

Interesting that despite building a LGV (and decent autoroutes) all the way to the coast, this still happens in France! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_S...

Empty whisky bottle

After 6 years, finished this deliciousness. Any recommendations for something new?

Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over its use of children's data.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... yep, the Online Safety Act and having to verify the age of users

Imgur access in the United Kingdom From September 30, 2025, access to Imgur from the United Kingdom is no longer available. UK users will not be able to log in, view content, or upload images. Imgur content embedded on third-party sites will not display for UK users.

Oh shit, Imgur no longer works in the UK. That might break a lot of things across the internet for UK users

It's not like the conferences are being held in Kigali or Singapore or something... how much are train tickets to Liverpool?

I'd a stick "Harlow Parkway" station at the north end of the site with a non-stop bus to Harlow... some commuter parking would mean they could build on the car park next to Epping station too...

If we're doing pie in the sky New Town ideas... how about North Weald? Could cheaply extend the Central line for 10,000+ new homes on this site.
There's enough land to keep the air ambulance and industrial uses on site, while buffering the existing village. Bet the NIMBY pushback would be intense...

1) we need proper bus rapid transit in London rather than just skipping a few bus stops and branding it "Superloop"
2) Bakerloop is a silly name
3) Wow, brown buses are *ugly*

Digital ID is gonna be another embarrassing U-turn for Starmer, I can see it from here.

Hello

“Oh but Suzuka 2005 was great!!!”
Yes, even the dogshit seasons can have amazing races

Splitting the line would allow for much higher frequencies - it’s a long term aim of TfL.

And TfL doesn’t have the billion quid to rebuild it…

And when we go to France… a land of milk and honey, supermarket wise

What is this, the fascism cheering section of NYT? Abusing government power to silence critics shouldn’t be headlined with “success”

Eurovision rumours are that some broadcasters (including Germany) will withdraw if Israel isn’t permitted to take part, and on the other side RTE, RTVE & others publicly saying they’ll withdraw if Israel takes part…

Tim Davie at the Beeb saying “Eurovision isn’t political” is a laughable statement.

These are great!

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

At last, the UN says we can call a spade a spade. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks like it needs one more lane, eh?

Really good to see the number of people cycling in London because of the strike!

Protests expected as 51 Israeli arms makers among exhibitors at London trade fair Campaign Against Arms Trade says UK government has hit ‘peak complicity in genocide’ in allowing the firms to exhibit

Big brain thought - maybe the RMT also want to disrupt the nasty Arms Fair happening at ExCeL this week www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

People are so horrified of the memory of the time they got baby piss/sick/poop over the item, that they can’t imagine selling it (even if it’s perfectly clean)?

Obviously there needed to be a reshuffle… but won’t this amount of moving around just delay action on nearly every policy portfolio?
Ministers need to learn their briefs, discuss them to civil servants, decisions delayed, stagnation continues

New DLR train

Hello new DLR train!