WTAF. How on earth is this good for the environment, let alone passengers who might want to use the service? 🤦‍♂️Avanti West Coast Manchester to London train to run empty bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Let #localgov in England unite - the "mansion tax" shouldn't have the words "council tax" in it unless it is a tax set by and retained by councils. New name required! Local Government Association (LGA) SIGOMA Centre for Cities County Councils Network District Councils' Network Core Cities UK @CIPFA Solace

Has BBC News (UK) stopped employing people who know how to use the apostrophe?🤦‍♂️ bbc.com/news/articles/…

Erm, British Library. Think he might struggle to talk about more than 2,000 years of Christian thought on any topic...🤦‍♂️ Meurig Williams

Waste collection services generally, and the new duty to collect food waste in particular, are not even mentioned in the #localgov provisional settlement. Bizarre. gov.uk/government/con… District Councils' Network Local Government Association (LGA)

Erm, Home Office. 1) number...is (agreement of noun and verb in correct English 🤦‍♂️) 2) shameful to whom? Not to the people of Britain. Isn't Home Office responsible for border security? 🤔

Everyone expects private companies to make profit. What is unjustifiable is gap in prices between areas a relatively short distance apart - much higher in Kidderminster than in Birmingham suburbs. "Fuels" suspicion of cartel behaviour in some areas. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Sounds like a prescription for centralism....if the answer is Westminster/Whitehall, then we've learned nothing from the last 50+ years. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

At last. Only 5 years and 1 month since close of the consultation for Department for Transport to confirm it will go ahead...but it depends on primary legislation (no timetable given) and secondary legislation ("in due course"). Which means nothing changes yet. 🙄gov.uk/government/con…

Come on, British Library. I have pointed this out before. There can't be 3,000 years of Christian encounters with anything. 🤦‍♂️

Whitehall's stock answer: centralism. Where is the commitment to devolution if elected mayors are meant to take over functions of police and crime commissioners but the Home Secretary can interfere in staff appointments? If @UKHomeOffice wants a national police force, create it.

No, BBC News (UK) as your story reports, #localgov in England can give cash payouts to people. All the Government is doing is providing funding. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Great summary, from a former long-serving Foreign Secretary.

Holocaust memorial event for Wyre Forest, organised every year by @franoborski, and addressed by @mark4wyreforest. My role is to read the declaration and commitment on behalf of the people of Wyre Forest.

The packaging, presumably, Tyrrells 🙄

Elections postponed by one year (subject to outcome of the court case). But reality as *everyone* knows is that elections for these councils in 2027 will be cancelled if reorganisation goes ahead: elections in May 2027 will be for new unitary councils. legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/96/c…

Councils can't go into administration (receivership). They are not companies. 🤦‍♂️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"head overseas" to avoid the visitor tax.🙄 Opponents of this long overdue tax & fiscal devolution haven't been overseas anywhere in the last 20+ years, where they will find such taxes are (1) absolutely normal (2) have not stopped people going on holiday. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Appreciate the story is about USA, BBC News (UK). But we deserve UK English this side of the pond. Carmakers, please.

Swam there in 2024. Sorry to learn of the loss of the arch 😢 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…