Net approval rating of Tony Blair, falling sharply around 2001/2
Why is Labour listening to Tony Blair? Does Keir Starmer look at this and think 'great idea'?
04.08.2025 11:26 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@jackfifield.uk.bsky.social
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Net approval rating of Tony Blair, falling sharply around 2001/2
Why is Labour listening to Tony Blair? Does Keir Starmer look at this and think 'great idea'?
04.08.2025 11:26 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Jimmy Saville was, of course, a big advocate of listening to explicit music on Spotify without verifying his age www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
04.08.2025 07:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Campsite just outside Machynlleth
We went through Machynlleth. Luckily the campsite (which opened for us out of season after we turned up without a booking and gave them a call) and the local pub had adequate facilities!
03.08.2025 20:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yep, right next to the entrance! I think it was required on the planning permission
03.08.2025 16:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Seven bikes parked at Lidl
Lots of bikes parked at Lidl in Fulwell, south west London (zone 6) earlier today!
03.08.2025 15:57 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0i would just like to not pay Β£4 more for a journey from a nearer station to me, when if I cycle another 15 minutes I can save money...
03.08.2025 15:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes but does seem crazy that if I change to tube at Richmond by grabbing a train from Twickenham it costs so much more
03.08.2025 14:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There is no better example of austerity than shutting down public toilets and then wondering why everywhere stinks of piss
03.08.2025 13:13 β π 39 π 9 π¬ 3 π 0Horrifying I hate it make it go away
03.08.2025 13:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is even worse if you have a Railcard as you get charged Β£8.80 rather than the Β£4.80 it would cost if you had two different cards... as I recently found out...
03.08.2025 12:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is because there is no afternoon peak for journeys in to zone 1 from out of zone 1 - so your journey in to Waterloo would be off peak, and then after 7pm it's off peak for tube. But the fare system would count your WHOLE journey as peak if you use the same card at Waterloo.
03.08.2025 12:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0An especially egregious example of this... get on the train from Twickenham at 6.40pm on a weekday and go to Waterloo, then change on to tube after 7pm to, say, Canning Town, and it'd be Β£7.30 if you use two separate cards, or Β£8.80 if you use the same card...
03.08.2025 12:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What perplexes me even more is just going Twickenham to Richmond would be Β£3.60 on its own, so you're getting charged more than it'd cost if you were to use two different cards...
03.08.2025 12:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0TfL peak fares!
Can someone explain why a single from Richmond to Embankment is Β£4.60, but adding one (or two if you count St Margarets) train stops at the beginning to go from Twickenham brings it up to Β£8.80?!
Β£4.20 for an extra four minutes on the train?!
When I cycled through Wales earlier this year we stopped by a public loo for a wee but it charged money, so we cycled out of the town and pissed in a bush
03.08.2025 10:54 β π 37 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0βUnfortunately, the toilets have never made a profit, they have never even been cost neutral.β
Insane quote...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
So much time and resources devoted to stopping something that's going to carry on regardless.
Just legalise, regulate, and tax all drugs and take the money out of the hands of criminal gangs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A beam holding up a building I guess outside Twickenham station. It says "need passenger assistance? This space is for you"
This beam.... It's for you
01.08.2025 23:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes!
01.08.2025 23:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did you know Londoners get the bus for free until they're 18? Or 19 if they redo a year of A Levels/other.
01.08.2025 16:37 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This law is wrong and must be reversed and rethought.
01.08.2025 14:46 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Disgusting ! www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ir...
01.08.2025 14:43 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Five convicted for county lines drug operation
Blyton's darker later material is often overlooked
31.07.2025 13:46 β π 28 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0No
31.07.2025 13:33 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0( NO LOUNGE )
Just Β£2,850 pcm if you have three people or Β£3,050 pcm if you want to add a fourth.
31.07.2025 12:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This flat offers the EXCLUSIVE opportunity to sleep in a big bedroom which has exclusive access to the property's back garden!!
31.07.2025 12:43 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New study finds that Norway's lavish EV subsidies increased car trips by 10-20% with "sizable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Any idea what changed since this www.bbc.com/news/uk-3481...
31.07.2025 11:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0www.eurostar.com/rw-en/travel...
Disassembled in a box or bag, handed back to you when you get off
Why do you have to disassemble your bike to go on the Eurostar between Paris and London? How do we get this changed?
31.07.2025 11:04 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 8 π 0