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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 1d

The success of the Northumberland Line makes the Mayor's decision to spend £750m on a single roundabout at Moor Farm even more baffling.

Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected] @gazza-d.bsky.social · 1d

New passenger look so successful that is getting even more capacity.
A testament to the "build it and they will come" idea.
I wonder how much other latent potential is there just waiting to be unleashed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Northumberland Line to get extra peak-time carriages

The line, between Ashington and Newcastle, has carried 700,000 people since December, bosses say.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 1d

I've never had any desire/aptitude to write a novel, but if I did, it would be loosely based around a character named David Byrne, whose parents decided to stay in Dumbarton and not emigrate after all....

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

X is incredible these days. We all know social media erases nuance, but X has taken this much further. It's not enough to express a loud opinion there now: to get heard, you have to couch everything in terms of riot, civil war, societal collapse, the end of civilisation, apocalypse. It's exhausting.

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 1d

Bah, I've been hiding from you all evening! 🙃 I'm not panicking....yet

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Forest's head of HR on the right here

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.

Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

Mind how you go...

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 1d

Job title. 😉

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised it's ten years since my parkrun PB, and yet I still can't quite give up hope that I'll beat it one day. 🤔

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 1d

Mind you, the memories aren't all bad. 😉

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 2d

Still shuddering at the memories of 1980s trips to the Villa Park and Molineux away ends which Jenrick has forced me to recall. 😱 😵‍💫

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2d

What the...

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 2d

While this is obviously a tiny and unrepresentative sample, the general pattern is establishing itself in many areas - whole county councils became primarily LD vs Reform contests in May. Makes sense as aligns several divides - education, class, Brexit - particularly in suburban/South England

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 2d

The future is arriving in Preston Lancs as well as Camberley, Surrey. Four out of the six English by-elections reporting overnight now have Reform and Lib Dems sharing the top two spots bsky.app/profile/elec...

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 3d

Ashton (Preston) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 37.3% (+15.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.9% (New)
🌹 LAB: 24.3% (-34.6)
🙋 Ind: 5.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 3.5% (-16.3)
🙋 Ind: 3.4% (New)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

WE NEED A NEW LINE ON THIS STORY, TRY ANYTHING

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 3d

“Oh, you shouldn’t have”

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to it. 😃

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 3d

Tax them out of viability

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4d

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

nation.cymru

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Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmm. 🤔

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Kieran Mc 🚟 @kjmci.me · 4d

We have an AI for train tickets, it’s called a journey planner. We’ve been collectively perfecting it for decades now. What does this add? What does this *do?!*

Hermit life in the woods becoming more appealing day by day.