My dad came over from Sicily & worked as a waiter at The Ritz…

He built a whole life/family here from those starting blocks

Last week,Brexit rules came in taking min visa salary threshold to £38k

Not only does this kill hospitality

It kills the dreams of people like my dad.

Hugely wealthy but the thought of having to pay the same tax as everyone else is 'petrifying'. Imagine. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Marriage was all but finished, we'd just let it go and silently knew the writing was on the wall. Driving to work one morning and someone on the radio said text your partner and just say I love you. Did it. It was the reset we needed and 20 years on still happy. Thanks DJ.

I still don't understand how data centres 'use' water. They're not evaporated it are they? Just taking in cold water and pushing it out a little bit warmer. I feel like you could re-use all that water, possibly even use the heat from it for something useful.

There was never a good reason to demonise asylum seekers or unpick international human rights.

But you couldn't pick a much worse time than now. Open war across the middle east. Ukraine. Democratic collapse across Sehal. Tensions in Serbia. Putin. Possible Trump 2 >

The commitment to infrastructure investment in Switzerland always astounds me. Building new platforms under the current ones - in Bern's busy station is amazing. Can really see work progressing today. A way off before the visualisation becomes a reality baslerhofmann.ch/en/projects/de….

This picture just shows how much of a dismal missed opportunity the removal of Queen Street Bridge in front of York station is...

Here was the perfect chance to break the inner ring road and create a pedestrian-prioritised gateway from the station. Instead: bypass-width tarmac.

Here’s the article in full: ft.com/content/46d8bd…

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

THE PRIME MINISTERS INTERVIEW THIS MORNING SHOULD SHOCK THE COUNTRY

UK media is doing an appalling job in educating the public about the serious implications of the UK joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the human rights convention

Please RT widely

How many more times. Leaving the ECHR & creating your own Bill of Rights pre-supposes you can trust the Government with your human rights in the first place. During the past eighteen months this Government has robbed millions of workers of their right to strike, locked millions

List of things I think an unhealthy amount about that have nothing to do with gun reform.

-Parking minimums and the need to abolish them.
- The way we massively subsidize air travel and car travel but expect public transit and high speed rail to pay for itself and expect local

Okay, table stakes that Huw is lying about the HS2 funding given this project was funded and mostly complete before Sunak's HS2 cancellation.

Bigger question: given Dec 24 timetable has been pulled, how long after June 2025 will passengers see any benefits from this project?

Very happy to support the publication of this important strategic report today. I really can't overstress the importance of an immediate rolling stock order to secure the UK's design and manufacturing base, plus a committed plan of electrification of course routes to support it

🎢Great news that ' #UniversalStudios GB' is expected to have most guests arrive by #rail , thanks to excellent strategic planning.

You might think the site looks small, yet you could fit the entirety of Islands Of Adventure + Universal Studios parks & more!

Interesting thread. And the back of my head.