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Nick Langley

@nicklangley.bsky.social

Semi-retired freelance journo, ex-editorial "consultant"* to conservation NGOs. Currently immobilised by orthopaedic boot. Busy with books & BFI subscription. *Facilitating stakeholder engagement by correcting grammar & spelling. Will edit for food.

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View from front door: van bonnet immediately outside.

View from front door: van bonnet immediately outside.

View from window: pavement-parked van blocking light & view.

View from window: pavement-parked van blocking light & view.

Typical Cambridge Victorian terraced street with cars legally pavement-parked both sides.

Typical Cambridge Victorian terraced street with cars legally pavement-parked both sides.

First 2 are the current view from our door & window. As you'll see from the pavement markings, van driver is within his rights to block our light. The 3rd is a typical street in our part of Cambridge. On bin day the gap between cars & houses is full of wheelie bins, since there's no gutter space.

08.03.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lentil cottage pie for 2, reduced from Β£10.00 to Β£7.40.

You could feed the 5000 on lentil cottage pie for a tenner.

Who buys this stuff?

08.03.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

07.03.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1754    πŸ” 475    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 47
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07.03.2026 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Weather forecasters:

From... to...

Between... and...

It isn't hard to get right.

07.03.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's going on with #Penguin's #WilliamTrevor reissues? At Waterstones, half are on the shelf at 9.99 (8.99 at the till), the other half have stickers upping the price to Β£15.99 (12.99 in one case).

07.03.2026 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Staying abroad too long could present two tax problems: people might not spend enough days in Dubai to qualify for residency there; and might spend too many days in the UK and be counted as UK tax residents.

06.03.2026 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...the rich β€œreally value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something likeΒ the Iran warΒ disrupts it, they don’t like it”.

06.03.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

A private jet was β€œan instrument of return” to keep them within their fiscal terms, β€œin many cases with the cost of a jet being far lower than their potential tax bill if they miss the minimum days”
www.ft.com/content/80bf...

06.03.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

UK criticised for not mobilising quickly enough to defend our paymasters in the oil-rich Midde East. These are countries with royal families bigger than the entire British Army. Get them off their flabby arses & into uniform.

06.03.2026 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reform won big in Durham in May 2025 but a 10% swing to Labour here.

* Reform have held one, lost two (LibDems, now Labour) in by-elections
* Reform have lost four through defections (Advance, Ind), gaining one

05.03.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Power Membership Click here to get your piece of history

For the next few weeks, you can join their live workshop on March 26th + watch both POWER STATION and Bank Job + get Dan's complete Crowdfunding Blueprint book - all for just Β£12.
shop.minimoviestomillions.com/welcometocro...

05.03.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which is good news because if Dan and Hilary don’t end up getting Power Station played, the people of Port Talbot may well end up with free solar panels.

05.03.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Channel 4 told them they love Power Station. They just can’t show it. Because Dan and Hilary aren’t famous enough. Channel 4 also took the concept behind Bank Job and remade it with Michael Sheen. Because Michael Sheen is famous enough.

05.03.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dan and Hilary have made three feature documentaries , including Bank Job, where they literally destroyed Β£1.2 million in predatory debt, and Power Station, documenting how 20 households created London’s first community solar power station, premiered at Sheffield DocFest, shown in 125+ cinemas.

05.03.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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Artist and filmmaker duo decide to get properly famous before World War 3, the climate crisis, and various other disasters overtake us β€” so they can finally get the revolution properly televised and installed.

05.03.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've dug out my old Anti-Nazi League & Rock Against Racism badges from the 1970s. We drove them off the streets then; we can do it again. See you all there.

05.03.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Girl, 12, hopes to plug funding gap for Leckhampton zebra crossing Amalie hopes to raise the final Β£7,000 needed for the crossing outside a school in Leckhampton.

Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) said previously the Β£75,000 crossing does not count as a priority as no-one had yet been killed or seriously injured.

12-year-old Amalie said: "We shouldn't wait for that to happen, we should put it in place now to make it safe."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.03.2026 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why not just ask kids to bring their favourite book in?

05.03.2026 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from Telegraph daily newsletter

Today we can reveal the source of Sir Keir Starmer's hesitation over Iran. It was Ed Miliband. Tony Diver, our new Political Editor, has the full story.

Screenshot from Telegraph daily newsletter Today we can reveal the source of Sir Keir Starmer's hesitation over Iran. It was Ed Miliband. Tony Diver, our new Political Editor, has the full story.

Just imagine the depths of uselessness and ghastliness this government could achieve if it didn’t have Ed Miliband in it

05.03.2026 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nomen est omen.

05.03.2026 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Sunlight and solar panels.
@nickofnz

the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz

04.03.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 749    πŸ” 255    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 9
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Storyville - Praying for Armageddon A Storyville documentary that explores the power and influence of American Evangelical Christians as they aim to fulfil the Armageddon prophecy.

Watch to understand what's happening in Iran/MidEast

Documentary filmed in Trump's first term. Journo Lee Fang investigated rising influence of Christian nationalists in the military & pushing the USA towards war; actively trying to bring about the end of the world.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

04.03.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It doesn't seem to have occurred to her that the target readers for her new book are functionally illiterate.

04.03.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop the steal: protect workers’ and renters’ rights! Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. Sign this petition to stop the steal.

Those privately-educated friends of the working class at Reform UK have pledged to rip up the new legal protections for workers and renters. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...

04.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Easier to attack nature regulation than to attempt to regulate the land bankers, housebuilders' cartels & private-equity-backed corporate landlords that have caused our housing crisis.

04.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I always laughed at people who got expatriate & ex-patriot confused, but maybe they were right all along.

04.03.2026 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've just stumbled over Berlin's "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co" campaign -compulsory buying (back) of the property of private landlords with 3,000 or more units in the city, through public purchases by the Berlin state government.

Now that sounds to me like a vote winner. Start with Criterion.

04.03.2026 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0