Oliver Peace
@justcallmeol.bsky.social
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
5th (Fifth), I'll take that
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
5th (Fifth), I'll take that
When we were all on Twitter people would flag up when Facebook was having one. Now we're all here the flags all seem to be about X. Who's keeping an eye out on Meta having one these days?
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When we were all on Twitter people would flag up when Facebook was having one. Now we're all here the flags all seem to be about X. Who's keeping an eye out on Meta having one these days?
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Tomorrow we take the first big step towards Bee Network Rail. 🐝
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Tomorrow we take the first big step towards Bee Network Rail. 🐝
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
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Central Station, Glasgow, 1964, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
December 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Central Station, Glasgow, 1964, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
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Hat off to whoever is writing the picture captions at @theguardian.com.
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hat off to whoever is writing the picture captions at @theguardian.com.
The tea versus dinner debate has reached new levels
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The tea versus dinner debate has reached new levels
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How AI has made my life better
And why is my experience so different to everyone else?
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Hey Jim, it's a slow news day at the Guardian. Do you have anything for us?"
"Slow news, you say ..."
Great read, superb plot twist
"Slow news, you say ..."
Great read, superb plot twist
Anyway it's an honour the Guardian has licensed a version of a London Centric piece as today's Long Read. The pics are amazing. The fee will pay for me to hire a freelancer for a week. But mainly it means I'm freed from the alpaca... which is replaced by a snail.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?
The long read: Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has resolved to spend his last years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A ta...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"Hey Jim, it's a slow news day at the Guardian. Do you have anything for us?"
"Slow news, you say ..."
Great read, superb plot twist
"Slow news, you say ..."
Great read, superb plot twist
Reckon Iroegbunam and Dewsbury-Hall have given the best centre midfield partnership I've seen in a long time for Everton
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reckon Iroegbunam and Dewsbury-Hall have given the best centre midfield partnership I've seen in a long time for Everton
Having witnessed the queues for one city centre car park backing up a mile and blocking public transport, there's a simple answer: close all the city centre car parks
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
York roads need rethink for festive traffic - councillor
York's roads cannot handle the volume of traffic seen in the run up to Christmas, a councillor says.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Having witnessed the queues for one city centre car park backing up a mile and blocking public transport, there's a simple answer: close all the city centre car parks
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
Rubbish Mountain
A gigantic pile of rubbish was dumped in a field in Oxfordshire. The response sums up everything wrong with British bureaucracy.
martinrobbins.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
Just seconds apart I've lost both whamegeddon and the game 😭
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Just seconds apart I've lost both whamegeddon and the game 😭
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I am glad common sense has prevailed.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Avanti service was to be pulled from timetable from mid-December but would have still run because of needs out of Euston
The express Manchester-London 7am Avanti service will take passengers after all, after the rail regulator conceded defeat in the face of public outcry over a ruling that would have left it running as an empty “ghost train” each day.
The 7am train, the only service linking the cities in under two hours, was set to be axed from the passenger table from mid-December – but would, as the Guardian reported on Saturday, have kept running empty from Piccadilly each day so it could run morning trains back out of Euston. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I am glad common sense has prevailed.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
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I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
I play it every year because of rule 3
Your annual reminder.
Time to post the new Whamaggedon rules again I see
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I play it every year because of rule 3
@richardaljones.bsky.social @tomforth.co.uk @paulcconnell.bsky.social has anyone ever produced a a time series of patents by sector, year and region for the UK?
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
@richardaljones.bsky.social @tomforth.co.uk @paulcconnell.bsky.social has anyone ever produced a a time series of patents by sector, year and region for the UK?
Having seen the crowds in Leeds and York this weekend lapping up retail, markets, pubs and restaurants makes you realise the Budget had no discernible immediate effect on consumer confidence.
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Having seen the crowds in Leeds and York this weekend lapping up retail, markets, pubs and restaurants makes you realise the Budget had no discernible immediate effect on consumer confidence.
Lovely couple of days catching up with lovely people in York x
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Lovely couple of days catching up with lovely people in York x
Am I missing something or is the Reeves thing just going to end up with a really adult response by the FCA which the supposedly sensible parts of the media should've done in the first place?
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Am I missing something or is the Reeves thing just going to end up with a really adult response by the FCA which the supposedly sensible parts of the media should've done in the first place?
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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Yeah and half the size of the Pendolino whose slot they’re taking. Open access suchhhh a dumb mess.
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yeah and half the size of the Pendolino whose slot they’re taking. Open access suchhhh a dumb mess.
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Up the fucking Toffees
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Up the fucking Toffees