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Andy
@andydrummond.bsky.social
Between Knotty Ash and North Cave.
Posts about bikes, Lib Dems 🔶 and occasionally intensive care medicine.
All views own and probably not that interesting.
Same pattern on the STW forum TBF.

Notoriously there is a massive anaesthesia/ICM and cycling crossover too.
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The problem is that while #FairerVotes is the right thing to do, rushing it in to stop Reform when Lab has consistently failed to do the right thing in the past is not a great look and might backfire.
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Andy
There was even hope a year ago when Alexander became transport secretary. Little if anything has happened since then.
road.cc/content/news...
New Transport Secretary – and cyclist – Heidi Alexander backed to put “cycling front and centre” after shock resignation of Louise Haigh over decade-old phone fraud offence
“I know lots of people think cycling is not for them, but please give it a go,” Alexander, a former transport deputy mayor for London, has said in the past
road.cc
December 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Andy
It's a nice interview. If only we could build cycleways out of good intentions.
Labour generally are prioritising driving and walking and cycling are still very much at the margins of everything. Labour have shown zero ambition since Haig's departure.
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Andy
I remember that it was not even 18 months ago that we had hope for cycling under Louise Haig. Seems a lifetime ago now. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh
Transport secretary says government’s strategy for active travel could cut GP appointments by millions
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
IIRC they’ve taken the bus gate out of the #Heywood town centre regeneration scheme, so my question for TfGM is how this will actually deliver on bus prioritisation? @walkriderochdale.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’d not be so sure though I remember the protests from small toddler about having to wear tights with a bear’s face on the seat “No bear bottom!”

Same person was capable of pulling her nappy off through the leg of pyjama shorts.
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Didn’t you know that only manufacturing is “real work”?
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It was also surely a sign yhat “anything this man says can be ignored”. And yet… #BlueLabour
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The stuff about lanyards was bizarre. Most of Lab’s electoral coalition wear lanyards with ID badges on them to work, IP&C permitting of course.

Classic case of ‘I don’t like the voters I’ve got; I want those ones over there’
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Would be nice to see fine words backed up with a more robust #CWIS3 and adequate funding for #ActiveTravel
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don’t forget that the UK has the highest rate of medical emigration in the developed world, with 1:7 UK medical graduates practicing overseas. There is a *lot* that could be done on retention short of pay, as important as pay restoration is.

But Streeting needs to act.
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Thing I never quite got to the bottom of was whether the hotel saving in MK was offset by the time/cost of splitting the rail journey
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I need to have a proper look at it, but post ‘Rona I’m not in London as often as I used to be, as meetings etc tend to be hybrid.
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Was booking travel to London for work. Cheapest option appeared to be to stay in MK…
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
And next, the toes can go in the mouth.
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If your presentation is in OneDrive you can use PowerPoint Live which works really well.

I've resorted to setting it up myself when chairing meetings, then granting the presenter control.

The other workaround is to share PowerPoint in a windowed view, but then no presenter view.
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM