This metro mayor election has at least made me realise I am not alone in my obsession with public transport. Have just spent some time on a rail forum reading threads from 2017 under the heading 'why is there no railway station at Liverpool airport?'.

In protection of the Protection; Jenna Campbell on the battle to preserve one of #Manchester 's finest boozers in the face of threats from an international brewing giant ...

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An update The Trial Podcast the jury have not sat since our last episode on Thursday - so do catch up while you can! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… They’re due back tmrw 🤞 when the judge will be summing up the case before he sends them out. Jack Hardy and I will bring you up to date.

The hearing has finished for today, it will resume on Thursday, the media are not allowed to report any of today’s proceedings for legal reasons

I’m at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today for a hearing to decide whether baby killer Lucy Letby will be able to appeal her convictions

Lucy Letby: I’m at the Court of Appeal where the former nurse will apply today for permission to appeal against her convictions. Reporting will be highly restricted because of a retrial on one charge which is due to start in June.

Me and Liz Hull only went and bloody won #pressawards The Trial of Lucy Letby The Trial Podcast

Bloody hell

By the way, the entire parliamentary Workers Party of Britain voted against the smoking prohibition - as did the sole Reform Party MP. The putative precious freedom to shorten one’s life is not a left/right dividing line. Apparently

Despite offer on Friday to show us the McGrail #RestrictionNotice confidentially we have NOT been shown the part of it which specifies precisely what evidence is being excluded from publication by the Govt. This is meaningless. Still in the dark. 1/5👇

Ross Anderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.

“Those pesky peers in the House of Lords are continuing to block any attempts to get the Rwanda policy off the ground”

“But you abstained in the Rwanda vote, didn’t you?”

It does feel like the myriad of housing crises are closing in on Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.

'It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV and you’re just like, you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot.'

Categorically, undeniably about race and gender.

Oh dear.

The truth he speaks is his truth and we shall hear it all. Another piece of a dark genius.

A thread on how I accidentally blundered into an invisible campaign to censor the internet, and remove inconvenient news stories from Google...

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