Policy idea: public executions but it's the cars of dangerous drivers being cut in half with the giant guillotine they used on nuclear bombers.

Imagine how many more jobs this could be if Crewe had a functioning public transport network. crewe.nub.news/news/local-new…

'Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.' -- Steve Holden

The best way to turbo charge housing in the UK is to turbo charge the SME sector. We go where the Nationals won’t… brownfield, urban, small, irregular, complex. SMEs create hyper local jobs and retain wealth in their communities. The main problem is that there is no ‘S’ in SME.

Noticed an anti house building campaign on a walk, lots of signs and a surprisingly professional website, checks application, nearly a hundred objections, it's three bungalows...

An interview of me on the UK bus reform challenge. ⁦ route-one.net/features/why-b…

"Railway schemes not affected by government cuts" - Because they've already been cut... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

👀No facial recognition? No problem! How London Bridge tested tech to track individuals inside the station takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/no-facial-re…

Just what England needs more centralisation.... theguardian.com/politics/artic…

UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

Let's just centralise just a little bit more, what could possibly go wrong.

It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthenglan…

I listened to Moral Maze last, the topic being about disability benefits; pretty much half of those who spoke claimed young people were just pretending to be mentally ill to get out of working...

It's always amazing how many Americans don't understand that their wealth is a product of their country's existence and only exists while there's a state to back it.

The conversation about reform of bus services in England would benefit from maps that reveal the inefficiencies of the current service. So we drew one. humantransit.org/2025/06/bus-se…

Isn't this the plot of Jurassic park?

Buys a house next to land zoned for warehousing since the 60s, complains when they build a warehouse... bbc.com/news/articles/…

What's ridiculous is building this and then running 5 cartridge long trains and not 15 carriage long trains.

I scored 56% on the Centre for British Progress Big British Progress Quiz of the Year! ⭐ 🟩 🟩🟥 🟩🟥🟩 🟥🟥🟧🟩 🟩🟧🟧 🪵 quizzes.britishprogress.org/quiz/christmas…

People think Britain has very little corruption, in reality we've just found ways of making it legal. In unrelated news... bbc.com/news/articles/…