Adam Chapman

So parking controls were proposed (entirely fair enough - metering and double yellows) and were opposed *by exactly the same people* because this would formalise this.

Now me? My objection was that this should be conditional on being accompanied by additional lighting and improved pavements. 2/2

This could be almost anywhere in outer SE London (we have the same in my corner of Kent: one of the - more baffling - reasons for opposing a housing development adjacent to a station is 'parking', & 'traffic'. Nearby roads are de facto weekday linear car parks (because free). 1/2

Don't look away.

This was a city. A city.

And a system that links a major airport with a city centre is not, really, a meaningful environmental intervention (though it would displace an awful lot of diesel buses based on my experience of Dublin Airport).

The reasoning deployed here seems to be rather different: this chap can only conceive of public transport as a business accessory and sees AI as a way of reducing the need for mobility that could be catered for by self-driving cars (with tiny carrying capacity).

This does seem to be a gendered POV.

Mass robo taxis? Here's an idea (parsing, I think, a very senior BR manager about 45 years ago): why not run them on designated, reserved routes at regular intervals. You could couple them together for increased efficiency...

The Kent council boss in question being the leader of the Labour administration in Dover District, rather than the Reform county leader. No idea about his views on Brexit (though in east Kent, the odds are in favour).

Title at the top of the map is Electric Supply Districts in the City of Birmingham. A border around the map. Legend on the top left of the map - Map of the City of Birmingham, 1905. Compass symbol to the right of this. Map of the Birmingham conurbation divided into eight named sectors. Dots or dots inside a circle appear inside the borders of some of the sectors. Key in the bottom right of the map indicates the symbol of the dot inside a circle represents a Generating Station and the dot symbol by itself a Sub - Station.

#MapOnATuesday This illuminating Electric Supply Birmingham District map of 1905. Included in a souvenir brochure for the opening of the Summer Lane generating station in Oct 1906. Reference - Birmingham Corp D/7 (384780) #LibraryofBham

It's not *always* men, but it so often is.

Man doesn't understand what public transport is actually for #57394.

Just to let you know that the Metro Bank One Day Cup starts tomorrow - I can’t see one thing mentioning it on the BBC sports page tonight but it is happening…
There were some fantastic games last season - let’s support them 👍💪

I take no pleasure in the resulting wheezing, however.

I take great pleasure in outsprinting some of our younger players when we have them! Otherwise, I have the memory of the popped calf to show for it.

I'm quite often the youngest player in my Sunday side...

Could be worse: I remember watching Jim Botham make his debut for Wales in the Six Nations. I knew his great grandmother. I'm 44.

#skystorians 🗃️#archives

There are significant problems with the way that sexual violence is dealt with in the criminal justice system.

There is chronic underreporting.

Investigations take years.

The court backlog means several more years before a trial.

Complainants give up.

Prosecutions collapse.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

‘Pay here’: the QR code ‘quishing’ scam targeting drivers How to avoid costly double whammy as rise in app- and phone-based parking payment opens new frontier in fraud

Not archaeology, or even related, but worth sharing on the subject of car parking fraud. Bottom line is don’t try to pay via QR codes.

Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs Government vetoes cross-party effort to protect threatened waterways from push to rip up environmental red tape

The only reason we still have these fragile habitats is because previous generations chose not to wreck them. What will our legacy be?

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Welcome to your 'And who is 'Gazza'?' years. 😜

Former cricketers Gareth and Jeremy, for example.

I don’t doubt it. It just happens that all those I know of are from (west) Yorkshire.

a woman wearing a blue hat and a blue coat is standing in front of a field ALT: a woman wearing a blue hat and a blue coat is standing in front of a field

Nora says you’ve got the wrong side of the Pennines.

One I’m sure @oswaldsraven.bsky.social knows.

Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: Things Transcending Time This session, sponsored by the Haskins Society and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, University of Winchester, invites papers exploring objects and their relationships to, through, or against time. Things never have one life but many, through birth, interference, additions, and even abandonment. This session seeks to understand the many ways that objects transcend time through creating it, holding or shaping it. This session also wishes to challenge the dominating hierarchy of textual studies for history (as a time and place, rather than a discipline) through objects who themselves shape or create history. ‘Object’ is broadly conceived for this session; for example, a manuscript is also an object when the research is its life as an object rather than the textual understanding of it. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiple or concurrent times understood or embedded in objects • Objects’ authority and agency with and against time and history • Microhistories or biographies of objects and their place(s) in time. • Theoretical or methodological considerations of object-led histories Papers are warmly invited from any academic field (art history, archaeology, history, etc.), and should be generally focussed on the Anglo-Norman worlds and their surrounds (broadly interpreted), ca 800-1300. Papers presented by ECRs in this session may be submitted for consideration to the Denis Bethell Prize from the Haskins Society. Please send a 250-word abstract (including key terms) and short CV to Katherine Weikert (Katherine.weikert@winchester.ac.uk) by 15 September. Your subject line should read ‘Things Transcending Time [your surname]’, else it is liable to be missed and unread. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Weikert.

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.