Andy
@andydrummond.bsky.social
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Between Knotty Ash and North Cave.
Posts about bikes, Lib Dems 🔶 and occasionally intensive care medicine.
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Brummie and Manc arguing over which city has the honour of being crowned England’s second city. Brummie understandably says ‘Birmingham’, Manc says ‘London’.
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Wheras for Badenoch ten more years would have either put paid to her via a dumb scandal or have seen here consigned to the fringe, and Starmer would have never risen beyond cabinet minister.
This is all still the echoing consequences of one bad vote in 2016.
This is all still the echoing consequences of one bad vote in 2016.
It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
The Conservative Party isn’t getting back near power without recovering the Home Counties.
Now imagine how the sentence “The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population” come across at the breakfast tables of middle class professionals in Surrey reading their FT.
Now imagine how the sentence “The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population” come across at the breakfast tables of middle class professionals in Surrey reading their FT.
"The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
Yet another election where a noisy online minority against LTNs doesn’t translate to the ballot box.
The three candidates campaigning explicitly to halt and remove the LTN in the Moseley by-election received a combined total of just 11.4% of the vote.
The three candidates campaigning explicitly to halt and remove the LTN in the Moseley by-election received a combined total of just 11.4% of the vote.
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I'm reading a book about plant pathology but it's a dying field.
I’m reading a book about proctology but it’s a pain in the arse
I'm reading a book about anaesthesia but I keep nodding off.
I'm reading a book about plant pathology but it's a dying field.
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The most annoying thing about that FT article - and yes, I shouldn't give it the oxygen of publicity - is that it's largely based on the claimed economic benefits of road investment. But this fails on its own terms, as we know the RoI on non-motor travel is better www.ciht.org.uk/media/mjloxl...