Cycling Chris
@cadencechris.bsky.social
Cycling N+1, lapsed runner, fitness professional retired but not retired, STEM outreach (retired) happily married, loves food, the outdoors, have a crazy working cocker spaniel and moved from the madness to rural Pembrokeshire 🏴
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Private equity curse.
Company on Burnley bought by PE to cut staff by 90%. Loyalty counts for nothing.
Typical PE business model - cut staff/wages, high debt, asset stripping, price hikes, sweat assets, profit shifting, tax abuse, extract high returns, move on to the next victim.
Company on Burnley bought by PE to cut staff by 90%. Loyalty counts for nothing.
Typical PE business model - cut staff/wages, high debt, asset stripping, price hikes, sweat assets, profit shifting, tax abuse, extract high returns, move on to the next victim.
Exertis UK 'to cut 90% of its staff' in distribution business | AV Magazine
The move comes amid reports of issues with maintaining credit insurance just a month after the completion of a sale to private equity buyer Aurelius.
www.avinteractive.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Private equity curse.
Company on Burnley bought by PE to cut staff by 90%. Loyalty counts for nothing.
Typical PE business model - cut staff/wages, high debt, asset stripping, price hikes, sweat assets, profit shifting, tax abuse, extract high returns, move on to the next victim.
Company on Burnley bought by PE to cut staff by 90%. Loyalty counts for nothing.
Typical PE business model - cut staff/wages, high debt, asset stripping, price hikes, sweat assets, profit shifting, tax abuse, extract high returns, move on to the next victim.
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Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies
The US also listed as a threat due to its growing interest in Greenland, which is vital to America’s national security
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
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Only 32 to go now😮💙🥰🌟💙!
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
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Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Only 32 to go now😮💙🥰🌟💙!
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
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Only the bravest patriots fall off ladders while trying to scare away foreigners x
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/patriot-wh...
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/patriot-wh...
Patriot who tragically died while hanging flag on lamp post to be given state funeral
Somebody’s drunk uncle has died on his patriotic mission to save his neighbourhood from foreigners by tying flags to lamp posts.
www.normalisland.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Only the bravest patriots fall off ladders while trying to scare away foreigners x
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/patriot-wh...
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/patriot-wh...
Pembrokeshire Cycling
At last! No heavy rain or strong winds so after a lot of faffing about I managed a strength session, shower, food and the neighbours asked If I would take in a parcel for them.
Home with 5 minutes to spare before DPD arrived. Phew
Enjoying my ride and then, a cattle truck
At last! No heavy rain or strong winds so after a lot of faffing about I managed a strength session, shower, food and the neighbours asked If I would take in a parcel for them.
Home with 5 minutes to spare before DPD arrived. Phew
Enjoying my ride and then, a cattle truck
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Pembrokeshire Cycling
At last! No heavy rain or strong winds so after a lot of faffing about I managed a strength session, shower, food and the neighbours asked If I would take in a parcel for them.
Home with 5 minutes to spare before DPD arrived. Phew
Enjoying my ride and then, a cattle truck
At last! No heavy rain or strong winds so after a lot of faffing about I managed a strength session, shower, food and the neighbours asked If I would take in a parcel for them.
Home with 5 minutes to spare before DPD arrived. Phew
Enjoying my ride and then, a cattle truck
Morning Mr Woodie
View from the kitchen window
View from the kitchen window
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Morning Mr Woodie
View from the kitchen window
View from the kitchen window
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Max Sullivan, cabinet member for streets at the council, said: "Those on foot shouldn't have to run a gauntlet of illegally and selfishly parked supercars when trying to walk around Westminster.
The fines don't register but losing the convenience of their vroom vroom certainly does.
Camden used to do this 30 years ago as well. It really works. Drivers hate having to queue in a car pound to get it back.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Camden used to do this 30 years ago as well. It really works. Drivers hate having to queue in a car pound to get it back.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Max Sullivan, cabinet member for streets at the council, said: "Those on foot shouldn't have to run a gauntlet of illegally and selfishly parked supercars when trying to walk around Westminster.
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Five years of inaction. Now what? 🤷
Living Streets' @tansbraun.bsky.social joined @adamtranter.bsky.social on @podstreetsahead.bsky.social to talk pavement parking https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamtranter_pavement-parking-an-unhappy-fifth-birthday-activity-7400632118323863552-SYUU
Living Streets' @tansbraun.bsky.social joined @adamtranter.bsky.social on @podstreetsahead.bsky.social to talk pavement parking https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamtranter_pavement-parking-an-unhappy-fifth-birthday-activity-7400632118323863552-SYUU
Pavement Parking: An Unhappy Fifth Birthday | Adam Tranter
Five years ago, the Government’s consultation into tackling the scourge of pavement parking closed.
Still, no action. In what is a very unhappy fifth birthday, I joined Ned Boulting, Laura Laker and ...
www.linkedin.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Five years of inaction. Now what? 🤷
Living Streets' @tansbraun.bsky.social joined @adamtranter.bsky.social on @podstreetsahead.bsky.social to talk pavement parking https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamtranter_pavement-parking-an-unhappy-fifth-birthday-activity-7400632118323863552-SYUU
Living Streets' @tansbraun.bsky.social joined @adamtranter.bsky.social on @podstreetsahead.bsky.social to talk pavement parking https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamtranter_pavement-parking-an-unhappy-fifth-birthday-activity-7400632118323863552-SYUU
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Aideen’s story has sparked an overwhelming response, showing the real impact that pavement parking has on people’s daily lives across the UK.
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
Woman calls for pavement parking ban after falling out wheelchair on school run
Aideen Blackborough was left lying in the road after being forced to manoeuvre her way around a vehicle blocking the pavement in Great Barr
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Aideen’s story has sparked an overwhelming response, showing the real impact that pavement parking has on people’s daily lives across the UK.
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
The 20mph discussion topic is on Radio 5
One of the guys has just said 20mph causes traffic congestion.
Volume of traffic causes traffic congestion
One of the guys has just said 20mph causes traffic congestion.
Volume of traffic causes traffic congestion
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The 20mph discussion topic is on Radio 5
One of the guys has just said 20mph causes traffic congestion.
Volume of traffic causes traffic congestion
One of the guys has just said 20mph causes traffic congestion.
Volume of traffic causes traffic congestion
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Britain is so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mother attempted to pull her own teeth out with pliers.
Lack of planning, education and training
Obstacles put in the way of foreign educated/trained dentists, improves private profits.
archive.ph/6VqEq
Lack of planning, education and training
Obstacles put in the way of foreign educated/trained dentists, improves private profits.
archive.ph/6VqEq
Why Britain doesn’t have enough dentists
Plenty of trained foreigners want to work, but slots for the qualification exam seem as hard to get as Glastonbury tickets
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Britain is so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mother attempted to pull her own teeth out with pliers.
Lack of planning, education and training
Obstacles put in the way of foreign educated/trained dentists, improves private profits.
archive.ph/6VqEq
Lack of planning, education and training
Obstacles put in the way of foreign educated/trained dentists, improves private profits.
archive.ph/6VqEq
Pembrokeshire cycling
Bridge by my sisters closed and the road flooded.
Debris on the lanes other routes and not safe unless you have a tractor or 4x4
Can’t think of a safe route from home unless i head towards the main A road and we drove down that yesterday and it was a stream!
Bridge by my sisters closed and the road flooded.
Debris on the lanes other routes and not safe unless you have a tractor or 4x4
Can’t think of a safe route from home unless i head towards the main A road and we drove down that yesterday and it was a stream!
December 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Pembrokeshire cycling
Bridge by my sisters closed and the road flooded.
Debris on the lanes other routes and not safe unless you have a tractor or 4x4
Can’t think of a safe route from home unless i head towards the main A road and we drove down that yesterday and it was a stream!
Bridge by my sisters closed and the road flooded.
Debris on the lanes other routes and not safe unless you have a tractor or 4x4
Can’t think of a safe route from home unless i head towards the main A road and we drove down that yesterday and it was a stream!
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Sharp surge in housebuilding needed to meet Govt target of 1.5m new homes in England.
Due to deindustrialization UK is the world's biggest importer of bricks, imports 30-40% of cement, lacks skilled labour.
Corporations buying new homes for renting. People can't afford them. Lack of social housing
Due to deindustrialization UK is the world's biggest importer of bricks, imports 30-40% of cement, lacks skilled labour.
Corporations buying new homes for renting. People can't afford them. Lack of social housing
Steve Reed admits sharp rise needed to hit 1.5m housing target
Housing Secretary Steve Reed tells the BBC's Build Baby Build ministers are
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sharp surge in housebuilding needed to meet Govt target of 1.5m new homes in England.
Due to deindustrialization UK is the world's biggest importer of bricks, imports 30-40% of cement, lacks skilled labour.
Corporations buying new homes for renting. People can't afford them. Lack of social housing
Due to deindustrialization UK is the world's biggest importer of bricks, imports 30-40% of cement, lacks skilled labour.
Corporations buying new homes for renting. People can't afford them. Lack of social housing
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The worst of the rain has now cleared Wales and the southwest, but there have been some very high rainfall totals over the last 24 hours ☔
Here are some of the areas in south Wales and the southwest that have recorded the highest rainfall totals 👇
Here are some of the areas in south Wales and the southwest that have recorded the highest rainfall totals 👇
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The worst of the rain has now cleared Wales and the southwest, but there have been some very high rainfall totals over the last 24 hours ☔
Here are some of the areas in south Wales and the southwest that have recorded the highest rainfall totals 👇
Here are some of the areas in south Wales and the southwest that have recorded the highest rainfall totals 👇
From my earlier post I mentioned Marsin Bakery in Hockley Heath.
Sitting out front at the bakery was risky with the prospect of being squashed by a Range Rover or any vehicle that forgot where the brake pedal was.
Sitting out front at the bakery was risky with the prospect of being squashed by a Range Rover or any vehicle that forgot where the brake pedal was.
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
From my earlier post I mentioned Marsin Bakery in Hockley Heath.
Sitting out front at the bakery was risky with the prospect of being squashed by a Range Rover or any vehicle that forgot where the brake pedal was.
Sitting out front at the bakery was risky with the prospect of being squashed by a Range Rover or any vehicle that forgot where the brake pedal was.
Charged with dangerous driving and criminal damage.
Pick up truck driven through the plate glass into the MacLaren Dealership in Hockley Heath.
Opposite is Marsin Bakery and at least three times a week I would ride over for coffee, bread, pastries and a chat.
I do miss that bakery.
Pick up truck driven through the plate glass into the MacLaren Dealership in Hockley Heath.
Opposite is Marsin Bakery and at least three times a week I would ride over for coffee, bread, pastries and a chat.
I do miss that bakery.
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Charged with dangerous driving and criminal damage.
Pick up truck driven through the plate glass into the MacLaren Dealership in Hockley Heath.
Opposite is Marsin Bakery and at least three times a week I would ride over for coffee, bread, pastries and a chat.
I do miss that bakery.
Pick up truck driven through the plate glass into the MacLaren Dealership in Hockley Heath.
Opposite is Marsin Bakery and at least three times a week I would ride over for coffee, bread, pastries and a chat.
I do miss that bakery.
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UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years.
Average real wage stuck at 2008 level.
Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
Average real wage stuck at 2008 level.
Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
UK households cut spending at fastest pace in almost five years, says Barclays
Bank reports 1.1% drop in card spending despite Black Friday boost for retailers
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years.
Average real wage stuck at 2008 level.
Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
Average real wage stuck at 2008 level.
Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
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Thames Water is teetering but wants to pay £2.5m bonus to execs.
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
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December 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Thames Water is teetering but wants to pay £2.5m bonus to execs.
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
if you don’t need to go out……on the other hand if I braved it, and I will not, I’d get three PR’s on the way out of Eglwyswrw heading north for 10k.
Pity it’s raining otherwise….
Pity it’s raining otherwise….
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
if you don’t need to go out……on the other hand if I braved it, and I will not, I’d get three PR’s on the way out of Eglwyswrw heading north for 10k.
Pity it’s raining otherwise….
Pity it’s raining otherwise….
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Delighted to say that I’ll be taking part in a debate at the Royal Society of Medicine next Monday evening, about flexibility within medical training (my view is that there isn’t enough and things need to improve significantly). Honoured to have been asked, will do my best 💙
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Delighted to say that I’ll be taking part in a debate at the Royal Society of Medicine next Monday evening, about flexibility within medical training (my view is that there isn’t enough and things need to improve significantly). Honoured to have been asked, will do my best 💙
Feeling much better after my rant this morning.
We needed a Rouvy Race. 🥵
A walk along the estuary and lunch at The Golden Lion Newport.
We got wet in the rain and as it’s so warm, a ride out would have been okay.
We needed a Rouvy Race. 🥵
A walk along the estuary and lunch at The Golden Lion Newport.
We got wet in the rain and as it’s so warm, a ride out would have been okay.
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Feeling much better after my rant this morning.
We needed a Rouvy Race. 🥵
A walk along the estuary and lunch at The Golden Lion Newport.
We got wet in the rain and as it’s so warm, a ride out would have been okay.
We needed a Rouvy Race. 🥵
A walk along the estuary and lunch at The Golden Lion Newport.
We got wet in the rain and as it’s so warm, a ride out would have been okay.
I detest this Labour government
New tax code landed and I’m paying more tax.
I have been paying tax for a very long time.
Worked bloody hard for a very long time and have paid enough into the system whilst a lot just sit on their arses doing sod all….
Yes, I am annoyed
New tax code landed and I’m paying more tax.
I have been paying tax for a very long time.
Worked bloody hard for a very long time and have paid enough into the system whilst a lot just sit on their arses doing sod all….
Yes, I am annoyed
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I detest this Labour government
New tax code landed and I’m paying more tax.
I have been paying tax for a very long time.
Worked bloody hard for a very long time and have paid enough into the system whilst a lot just sit on their arses doing sod all….
Yes, I am annoyed
New tax code landed and I’m paying more tax.
I have been paying tax for a very long time.
Worked bloody hard for a very long time and have paid enough into the system whilst a lot just sit on their arses doing sod all….
Yes, I am annoyed
Me and my shadow.
I’m trying to read a book.
Ruby has other ideas and decided I’m far more comfortable than lying anywhere else!
I’m trying to read a book.
Ruby has other ideas and decided I’m far more comfortable than lying anywhere else!
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Me and my shadow.
I’m trying to read a book.
Ruby has other ideas and decided I’m far more comfortable than lying anywhere else!
I’m trying to read a book.
Ruby has other ideas and decided I’m far more comfortable than lying anywhere else!
It’s showing off again
December 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It’s showing off again