I agree. The biggest barrier to train travel isn't speed but cost and comfort. I'm on an inter city train now, most toilets are out of order, carriages reduced and aisles blocked with standing passengers. HS2 savings shd go on slashing fares and improving service.

This is a must-read: Armies sometimes get it catastrophically wrong, terrorists sometimes tell the truth. By the time we learn who really bombed #Gaza's Al-Ahli Hospital people will already have made up their minds and a street-truth will be widely believed.

The paedophile journalist #PeterWilby was spared jail despite consuming images of children being raped. #Phoebe Plummer was trying to stop the fossil fuels that will burn us all, but will serve 6 months?! One is a hero, the other an abomination but judges on another value system.

This is sickening and alarming that no-one challenged her. ✊

Hey Fife Council FifeCouncil Q&A, do you compost/chip discarded Christmas trees for mulch or do they go in landfill?

Fury grows over Tory visa rules where ‘only the rich’ dare fall in love theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

Shocking numbers on French, Italian and Spanish contributions to defence of Ukraine, via POLITICOEurope playbook. #UkraineWar …unless there’s some other explanation?🤷‍♂️

Today in a side room in parliament the government pushed ahead with policy to increase the number of, and role of, Physician Associates PAs are not doctors, nor GPs, and yet they are being phased in as doctor substitutes and GP substitutes - read that again This will create a

🧵/ The government doesn’t want you to know it, but it is currently conducting a massive, un-evidenced, cost-cutting experiment in the NHS, replacing doctors with so-called physician associates. 1/n theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

Just when you thought the world couldn't get any worse

Hi Harveen Ahluwalia, trying to message you. Could you DM me please? All bests, Dean

Triumph for the @edinburghacad survivors - former housemaster John Brownlee found guilty on 38 charges of cruelty and violent abuse of the children in his care, over 20 years.

Quick 🧵👇 Two members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly, Kewal Singh Pathania and Vipin Singh Parmar did us all a great favor. They asked a question of the HP Ministry of Health to provide a list of all drugs that have failed testing in the last three years along 1/n

Some big truth bombs here from ⁦Praveen Swami⁩ but for British soldiers/people it was a fight for survival and for our way of life - our options were fight or live under Nazi rule. My Dad was born into it and the memory of the Blitz never left him. theprint.in/opinion/securi…

Purely as a piece of communication, this picture of Keir and Victoria Starmer at Taylor Swift speaks a million words. His rivals look angry, old, unhealthy, flabby, tired…. Success is about the soul and people respond to soul….. you can see it in this photo….

Don’t forget what they have done. Partygate, the Covid contracts, the lies, the kickbacks. The cronyism, the failure to invest, the division and scapegoating, the trips to the bookies, the Liz Truss mini-budget, the decimation of your public services. Don’t forget any of it. 🧾

If Keir Starmer reversed Brexit, which of the Brexit benefits would you miss the most?

Fabulous tribute to a true working class hero. Where would Brown and Blair have been without Prescott?

I've seen and reported many child sex abuse scandals, but I don't remember the far-right ever caring about them. The perps - cops, care home heads, social workers, private school masters - were too white. Abuse isn't about race, it's mainly about men. #PakistaniGroomingGangs