Gareth Dennis
@garethdennis.uk
Railway engineer and author of HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways). Hosts @railnatter.uk. Chairs Yorkshire PWI and NEREF. Co-founder of the Campaign for Level Boarding. He/him.
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"That's not possible, you can't do that. The trains have to run." Hauntingly similar conditions in Germany to those in Britain prior to the Hatfield rail disaster.
Dear friends in the EU: this is not inevitable, just as liberalisation is not a precursor to better railways.
Dear friends in the EU: this is not inevitable, just as liberalisation is not a precursor to better railways.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Reserve a book from the local library and get a bonus nursery rhyme on the reservation slip.
I’m going in @garethdennis.uk ❤️
I’m going in @garethdennis.uk ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reserve a book from the local library and get a bonus nursery rhyme on the reservation slip.
I’m going in @garethdennis.uk ❤️
I’m going in @garethdennis.uk ❤️
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This distraction is photographed just west of where an eastbound driver zoned out at speed and ran into the back stationery traffic killing a young boy in the back of a car.
Ignoring the pathetic, tragic jingoism of popping a bunch of nylon flags on the posts of road signage along a bypass, but these are such obvious hazards it should genuinely merit a national restraining order on the flag twats.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This distraction is photographed just west of where an eastbound driver zoned out at speed and ran into the back stationery traffic killing a young boy in the back of a car.
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In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.
April 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.
Ignoring the pathetic, tragic jingoism of popping a bunch of nylon flags on the posts of road signage along a bypass, but these are such obvious hazards it should genuinely merit a national restraining order on the flag twats.
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ignoring the pathetic, tragic jingoism of popping a bunch of nylon flags on the posts of road signage along a bypass, but these are such obvious hazards it should genuinely merit a national restraining order on the flag twats.
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We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
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Once again banging the drum that Grainger v Nicholson was an utter disaster and that the criteria for highlighting what constitutes a protected philosophical belief was always going to be weaponised.
We've seen it with racism, we've seen it with transphobia, and now Islamophobia.
We've seen it with racism, we've seen it with transphobia, and now Islamophobia.
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Once again banging the drum that Grainger v Nicholson was an utter disaster and that the criteria for highlighting what constitutes a protected philosophical belief was always going to be weaponised.
We've seen it with racism, we've seen it with transphobia, and now Islamophobia.
We've seen it with racism, we've seen it with transphobia, and now Islamophobia.
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Grim re supply chains and skills investment 😞
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Grim re supply chains and skills investment 😞
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When Green party critics call our thoroughly researched policies that are often worked through for years "simplistic" "undeliverable" etc, they are never specific about which policies or why.
That's because it would reveal that what they really mean is "our donors don't like them"
That's because it would reveal that what they really mean is "our donors don't like them"
Darren knows that come the next election, Bristol is turning even more Green.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When Green party critics call our thoroughly researched policies that are often worked through for years "simplistic" "undeliverable" etc, they are never specific about which policies or why.
That's because it would reveal that what they really mean is "our donors don't like them"
That's because it would reveal that what they really mean is "our donors don't like them"
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The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
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Sharing this for my York comrades
@yorkgreens.bsky.social good opportunity to visit and do something for your social media in solidarity
@yorkgreens.bsky.social good opportunity to visit and do something for your social media in solidarity
If you're in York, head down to St Helens Square for 1200 🚨TODAY 🚨 to join a big pro-trans rally. Get your raincoats on, get out and get loud - we'll be there, it would be great to see you there too! 💚🏳️⚧️
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Sharing this for my York comrades
@yorkgreens.bsky.social good opportunity to visit and do something for your social media in solidarity
@yorkgreens.bsky.social good opportunity to visit and do something for your social media in solidarity
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It brings me immeasurable pleasure and joy to announce that the UK Labour Party is entering Cuomofication
At a time when Labour are failing to deliver on one of its key promises the Guardian publishing this drivel as an “exclusive” tells you more about the Guardian’s client journalism and how desperate the Labour right has become than anything else.
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
It brings me immeasurable pleasure and joy to announce that the UK Labour Party is entering Cuomofication
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At a time when Labour are failing to deliver on one of its key promises the Guardian publishing this drivel as an “exclusive” tells you more about the Guardian’s client journalism and how desperate the Labour right has become than anything else.
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
At a time when Labour are failing to deliver on one of its key promises the Guardian publishing this drivel as an “exclusive” tells you more about the Guardian’s client journalism and how desperate the Labour right has become than anything else.
If you're in York, head down to St Helens Square for 1200 🚨TODAY 🚨 to join a big pro-trans rally. Get your raincoats on, get out and get loud - we'll be there, it would be great to see you there too! 💚🏳️⚧️
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If you're in York, head down to St Helens Square for 1200 🚨TODAY 🚨 to join a big pro-trans rally. Get your raincoats on, get out and get loud - we'll be there, it would be great to see you there too! 💚🏳️⚧️
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This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
doing battle with my local briefcase boy MP on twitter dot com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
doing battle with my local briefcase boy MP on twitter dot com
broken Britain latest
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
broken Britain latest
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had very much soured on cask or "real" ale back home, but they just do it better here
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
had very much soured on cask or "real" ale back home, but they just do it better here
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font