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First details of future F1 engine rules revealed

F1 will only realise far too late what a problem it's giving itself by racing as an essentially ICE formula in the 2030s. By two years in, they will be scrambling to fix it and bring the next set of engine regs in early too. Talk about just not getting it. www.motorsport.com/f1/news/firs...

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The initial plan for F1’s next engine regulations have been revealed: 3.0-litre V8 turbo, with a smaller electrical motor and 50kg lighter

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First details of future F1 engine rules revealed

motorsport.com

The initial plan for F1’s next engine regulations have been revealed: 3.0-litre V8 turbo, with a smaller electrical motor and 50kg lighter

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@samholloway.bsky.social I'm relying on song 3 here... 3s or 4s definitely. Maybe 3s?

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@samholloway.bsky.social I'm in the credits (as a crowdfunder) of a documentary following Slow Club's final tour. It's a melancholy and sometimes uncomfortable watch. I was surprised they even made it to a fourth album after the third one failed to cross over. They missed their moment somehow.

John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thinking of compiling an end-of-year list called Stupid Old Men Who Made Fools Of Themselves In 2026. It'd do big numbers. This cretin probably hasn't beaten Richard Dawkins and his AI girlfriend, mind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't eat pancakes with my bacon and eggs either!

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not many things truly shock me in these dark times, but I just saw an advert for Toby Carvery breakfast - yes *breakfast* - with a Yorkshire pudding on the plate. Breakfast.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

... everybody talk about... pop, er, muesli...?

A square drinkd coaster, with white text on a black background, which reads:
London
New York
Paris
Bewdley

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

... everybody talk about... pop, er, muesli...?

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks - good to get confirmation. I'm sure it's been well researched and thought through, so I might be unusual in having found those featured useful; but if it's not too late for feedback I'd like to throw that in. Cheers.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh - has the iPlayer interface been changed to remove sorting options? So you can't, say, check to see which films have been added most recently? That was a useful feature, but I can't see it on desktop or mobile now. Maybe @skillagesteve.bsky.social knows?

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I also remember the denouement being extremely clever and satisfying (and unfortunately, or not, am watching it now with my remembered knowledge of who the traitor is)... but possibly I was rather harsh to write off the first five eps as merely set-up.

Tweet by me on June 4th 2015: Ep6 of The Game paid off everything set up over the previous episodes beautifully. Very clever. But the 1st 5 eps were basically all set-up

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Revisiting my tweets from the time, I remember I was impatient to watch it...

Tweet by me from April 15th 2015:

Finally the BBC gives s tx date for The Game (Apr 30th)! Can only presume this has been victim of BBC politics for some reason. A shame.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Latest TV re-watch: Toby Whithouse's 2015 Cold War spy thriller The Game. BBC sat on it for ages. Commissioned for BBC1 but eventually shunted out on 2. Possibly it takes its cues from Tinker Tailor a bit too overtly, but I'm 3 eps in and it's wonderfully layered and intriguing. Well worth a look

John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Actually no, scrub that - getting confused. I was thinking of the final track, Horses Jumping, which is a PITA to play because there's a gap then a secret track after it. Must have been one of the last albums to do that. Annoying. Decade Dip: vague guess of the 4s.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed Altered Images tonight, running through the Happy Birthday album in full and projecting more power and drama than I've ever picked up from the album. Excellent second part to the set really was hit after hit after hit.

Clare Grogan onstage in a white dress with feather trim, her second outfit of the evening.

Clare Grogan performing on stage as part of Altered Images.

Feel I should add: I absolutely don't blame any of the band members for not wanting to expend time and effort revisiting what they did from age 16 to 20 (or whatever Pete was). Pity the catalogue hasn't had more love, that's all. I mean, if Cherry Red really can't find anyone else to do it...

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Their first two major label singles were from when you could have three B-sides on a single CD; after that it was the era of two CDs with two B-sides on each. They did a lot of B-sides on a relatively small number of singles!

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To be fair, I don't blame any of them for not being motivated to spend a lot of time and effort revisiting what they were doing between ages 16 and 20 (or however old Pete was) that ended a bit acrimoniously.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Real shame there was never a Kenickie boxset with all their B-sides and sessions... But the time for that was probably around 2007. A band where nobody's curating the back catalogue, sadly.

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We haven't (yet) implemented any AI bulletins, but our thinking is that local weather should be feasible but traffic bulletins are almost certainly going to turn out as gibberish.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tremendous news! Both series of Get Krackin are now on YouTube - from the Kates, whose next project was Deadloch. Get Krackin is totally different but just as vicious - makes This Time with Alan Partridge look piss-weak. Get on it. youtube.com/shorts/URnH4...

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Kannouncement! Get Krack!n Season 2 now on Youtube! #getkrackin

YouTube video by The Kates

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Kannouncement! Get Krack!n Season 2 now on Youtube! #getkrackin

YouTube video by The Kates

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@samholloway.bsky.social ooh the quality's taken a dip with song 4! And I don't know when it came out, mercifully missed it at the time. Maybe it's 0s...

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@samholloway.bsky.social ah, I did enjoy that REO Speedwagon! I thought 2/3/4 from that, but song 3 makes me think it's an earlier album and we're on the 0s or 1s. Hmmm.

John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Harry on commentary making a blunder I'm not sure I've seen even Crofty do, and completely miss that Leclerc has successfully overtaken Piastri, despite commentating on the entire move. #skyf1

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Agree with this, though before I knew it was Lammas I thought of it for many years as the late bit of the summer after Indietracks.

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John Kell @johnkell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@samholloway.bsky.social it was Sparks?? I've never clicked with them to be fair... So, I think I was right to consider the late 70s idea, as I think Toy Soldiers was 89...