🧵 1/11 It does bother me the sheer amount of box filling, photocopying, sticking in, arrow/line drawing, caption writing etc that appears to be eclipsing a broad and rich variety of ways to present work.

Just had a fight with a bus driver who refused to go and read the sign that mentions in no less than SIX different ways that the wheelchair space is for wheelchairs not prams. I am home now and in tears from him, he was horrible. TfL need to train your staff to get out the 90s

"If you have net migration of 10,000.. And you've got 10,000 terrorists coming in" Just the Conservative party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch equating migrants to terrorists 🤷‍♂️

1. You might not have heard of it, but the system supposed to protect us in England and Wales from #floods is an absolute disgrace: a network of old boys' clubs completely unaccountable to the public. No wonder it fails so badly. My column + thread. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New post just out: "The Efficiency Paradox" My explanation of why governments find it so hard to save money and how they could make big savings in the future. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the…

“My default position has been for 19 years, if somebody on Kendal Market asked me what I did this week and I felt any sense of shame about telling them - don’t do it in the first place” Lib Dem Tim Farron is applauded for his stance on accepting gifts in office #bbcqt

Unlike the EU Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types The amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales & Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of times higher theguardian.com/environment/20…

"I tell you what is the best deterrent, competence." - Tim Farron on #BBCQT Instead of wasting money on failed schemes like the Rwanda Plan, let's process asylum claims quickly. Return those who aren't refugees humanely, and welcome those who are.

Agree. Other big cities around the world don’t allow their residential property to be bought as investments by international buyers who never live there. It guts the city. Why have we allowed it?

Oh GWR you have failed again. 2 trainloads on one train Paddington to Penzance. Rammed. And now we’re told this train - which is already late - will terminate at Exeter. Bloody useless

Wow. I've never seen Euston as crazy as this. Megaphones and police being used for crowd control. Gateline shut because of a train being full and standing to Crewe. This is not my idea of a safe environment, and I work to this station.

"not unsafe"

999 vehicles on motorways and dual carriageways. The general rule is to go left but not into the hard shoulder. If no hard shoulder then you need to create an emergency corridor. Learn what to do with our #BlueLightAware video

Surreal, that on the day the first female Chancellor is about to deliver a speech, the entire focus was on gifts and donations which are within the rules I don't remember our media doing the same when the Conservatives were accepting gifts and donations, not at this scale Yes,

I’m afraid I’m someone who gave up trying to get into a Higher Tier scheme as I was told I could not as I’m not in a ‘target area’ despite being in a a national park. There are farmers already delivering for nature and those ready to step up who have been denied access to £

“There is a risk of future deaths if there is only lip service paid to learning from tragedies like this.”–Heidi Connor, Coroner #RuthPerry Ofsted was “defensive and unwilling to respond constructively to criticism” - Christine Gilbert “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose”.

Hypocrisy on an intergalactic scale…

Kay Burley Paul Tyreman Tom Baldwin Well done him for pointing out the total lack of degree applied to political stories. Being lent a box for a football match does not equal being lent a villa by someone in return for a seat in the house of Lords. And journalists should recognise that.

But not a single word from the government on how they propose to fix the 5-year wait for rape trials. Or the desperate lack of barristers to prosecute and defend in these cases, which causes hundreds of trials a year to be cancelled.

I'm delighted to have kick-started the #Lifts4Hexham campaign. After 189 years, #Hexham has waited long enough! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…