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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I watched the first ep but struggled with how dark it was - literally and subject matter. Feel like I need to persevere tho.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Am on the east coast now and there are tons of (lovely and busy) caravan parks that are doing a roaring trade.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Yeah, there’s def some growth. We’d just need to massively increase land use by the sea.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Yep, but it’s “tiny”. And it doesn’t usually coincide with “has plenty of money and wants big splash parks and full of entertainment and all-inclusive food”.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Oh totally. But there’s, what, 7 Center Parcs? Some villages in a small Greek island will have that many - with 200+ rooms each. And buying the land on the beachfront for all that hotel would mean you’d have to charge a fortune. Land in rural Bedfordshire is much cheaper.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

For the cost of a weekend there you can get flights and a week all-inclusive in Greece.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Also eg this 5* hotel with a pool is £500+ a night next weekend:

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

There are lots of campsites that are similar I guess. But the land needed is huge (even ignoring overcoming planning permission) and the economics of those places mean you need four v busy months to make them work and we cannot yet attract that many people.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

It was a stop en route to Scotland. But yes, I don’t think the brisk wind and grey skies were the issue tho.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

But we could no way afford to build and run the sort of all-inclusive 5*, water-park and activity-packed beachside hotels that are ten a penny in Spain / Turkey / Greece in any remotely accessible way. Try booking even a hotel with a pool on the English coast in August.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Went in late-January this year and it was thoroughly depressing. Tho decent fish and chips.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

As someone who until recently worked in travel PR, what I find especially interesting is his stuff is very “non” travel content. And yet inspires travel possibly more so than ones of lovely looking beaches and sweeping panoramas.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Reading this piece and thinking: this guy seems like a cool dude. And then it turns out he loves Whitby. Good lad.

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The TikToker who made Americans mad for Wigan

Kalani Smith is introducing the UK’s lesser-visited towns to an eager overseas audience

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sunshine in Leeds, River Aire.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

They seem to not have much in the way of public affinity / common sense when it comes to choosing what battles to fight.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.

Harborough MP Neil O’Brien has slammed plans for a new prison to house 1,700 inmates.

Neil O'Brien presses the Government for tougher sentencing

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yep, or at least a “urinals” and “cubicles”.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

There is so much goodwill for it. And the characters. And it’s like they wanted us to wish it over.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Isn’t it the worst. Have loved hate-watching every episode.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yeah, I guess the test is if a toilet door with a woman sign on makes it a single sex space?

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Same. Not a lawyer so is just my lay person reading of the ruling but it seems pretty explicit that biologically female as well as female-presenting (ie not trans men) are primary in the case of single sex spaces.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

That’s the thing, if you “present” male you should use male loos. And then we start with the women who have shaved heads or a strong jaw or are tall and suddenly people start asking for birth certificates.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yup. Also, quite a few in smaller places are just a sit down loo anyway so they’ll just take the signs off.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Well I *think* the Supreme Court’s ruling is the law? And the guidance is to help organisations interpret it? But it sounds like those found not adhering could be liable for a sex discrimination claim. The government could change the law, tho.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

...on public health provision in the North-West of England. One of the cases was a not-spot of MMR vaccination in one of the most deprived communities. It turned out that local health services had closed down, so it was now a two-hour, £8, four-bus journey to the place where your kid could...

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The challenge for many who want to do that tho is how they do it *and* comply with the law. No doubt a lot of people will be finding test cases to sue for discrimination and to so many venues with loos eg it will become untenable. It’s such a mess of a ruling.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If your birth certificate is the route to accessing a loo anywhere in public good luck to us all finding them in our parents’ lofts. Or at all. I didn’t have needing ID to use the loo for 2025 but here we seem to be.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Sounds to me like the worst possible outcome from the Supreme Court ruling is about to transpire. Leaving aside the indignity for trans people, how is your local community centre, swimming baths, pub or restaurant going to police this to prevent bad faith actors suing them.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Admittedly I only watched with half an eye but it seemed deathly dull and v shouty.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The fuck? Sorry, that’s awful. What. A. Twat.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Also, *everyone* who Googles (aka everyone) uses AI even if they don’t choose to. And so so so many people I see Googling now take the AI written explanation / answer as read.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Yep, even I got bored of (the limited) telly sometimes and did stuff. And then as a teen I could drink at 15 in bars and clubs and so was out having fun at weekends socialising in a way that I don’t think is possible anymore.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Any plans this evening? Oh you know, probably pay a visit to Pornhub.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I am on the hunt for series at the moment (nearing the end of a Succession rewatch) so I may go back in. Or was debating Scandal (only rewatched The Good Wife recently so too soon to go again).

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Nope. I liked the show but found it a bit stressful to watch but that whole episode had me on the edge and I was like you know what I do not need to subject myself to this. And there was a lack of calm and colour for me to handle to stress and the gloom of most of it.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I had to stop at the Christmas lunch episode. The anxiety was just too much for me to get through it. I needed it to have more joy (and maybe some sex).

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Also, filler is fine but at 2-4am is non-stop “news” so just do that and let the pundits write your live blog.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

In to Smalltown Boy, out to The Boss. If there’s a need for a third then Macarthur Park or Last Dance.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

And given the ability now for a million “red button” type experiences, it all seemed weirdly old-fashioned “single view” telly. Give us three nerds and a whiteboard scrawling away. It’d cost buttons.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/08/2025

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Spent six weeks in Greece while it was totally glorious here and returned to what is pretty much Autumn despite not yet even being August and am beyond livid. My tan is going entirely unrevealed.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

But also why must everything be pleasant? Sewage works aren’t joyful things but I’d still rather have them than not. Electricity substations aren’t winning Stirling prizes but we’d be effed without them.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This is sort of part of it but I get irritated with (educated, should know better friends) who say things like “the BBC is bad” / “big government is bad”. If we make a big deal out of things not being exactly as we want and so we say it’s all bad then no wonder we chip away at faith in the “system”.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I am far too much of a Yorkshireman to think the Cotswolds are really the countryside. If I want a cute suburban village pub near my house I’d move up the hill to Highgate.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

And after a fairly faltering initial response. Shows someone / team really took charge. Very impressive.

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