From 6 July, a free reservation is needed to take bikes on the Calais-Paris TER trains. Now (a) no danger of 10 people turning up for 4 bike spaces and (b) this route now shows up when you add a bike to a Calais-Paris booking at SNCF-connect.com. seat61.com/bike-by-train.…

I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by Headline Books on 11 September. Available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.

Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals. The media reporting was equivalent to 30 news pieces a day on the non-existent millionaire exodus across 2024. taxjustice.net/press/milliona…

BBC News - 'Taxi boats' pick up migrants in waist-deep water as Channel smugglers switch tactics bbc.com/news/articles/…

HS2: I've read the official reports and statements so you didn't have to. Depressing. A vision for connectivity and levelling up the country has become a national embarrassment, wrecked by incompetence as tens of billions of taxpayers' cash was squandered. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

Scottish nationalists complaining we export electricity to England are often the same people who insist renewables are our key to a prosperous future. I'm really not sure where they imagine that prosperity is set to come from if not from selling it to energy hungry neighbours?

reminder: the process of making the film has brought to light the revelation that senior people in the US knew the cladding was dangerous for high rises and that it was being sold for Grenfell: thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

If this level of global warming in Scotland is going to continue for my last few decades, then I am up for splashing out for a house by the beach that is for sale because the owner is worried about sea level rising

Ken Patrick No, she said she felt it would be morally wrong.

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📣 Hazard ≠ Risk 🚫 Hazard = What can go wrong. ✅ Risk = What’s the actual chance it will - based on exposure. It’s not just what it is. It’s how much. How often. And how you’re exposed. That’s the science. Why be scared of a shark, when you are standing on a beach?

I bet Robin White thought using the women’s toilets in Parliament after a discussion on the Supreme Court ruling was a great stunt. Thanks to Kate Harris & Heather Binning who challenged him, their policy changed & women’s toilets are now strictly for women. Serves him right!

Rosyth salmon workers 'treated worse than the fish', says report ift.tt/N87WqFI

Always lauded,never criticised BBC News - Private school protected abusers for decades - inquiry bbc.com/news/articles/…

I’m not corrupt… Just incompetent. Friday’s The Courier #tomorrowspaperstoday

Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.

My energy bill supplier has told me that " the government has walked away from zonal pricing- a concrete plan to cut everyone's energy bills" They say you do not have an alternative. Michael Shanks MP

I remember giving a lecture there in 1970s-daunting in front of a large number of nurses and midwives.. Of course since 2011 NO midwives since the SNP closed three/six midwifery schools as part of a FORTY-PERCENT cut to intake of students A very BAD decision opposed by the RCM

He did assault a police officer

Fire alarm at the Burrell, ten minutes and no fire engines.