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Is that when you hire someone to come to your party dressed like a mum?

Amazing eh? Who’d have thought that a mix of doom and gloom austerity and trying to out-reform Reform would have been so unpopular?

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 22h

Your house has become your parents house in what seems like overnight. Too many things that nobody will ever use in the bathroom ... things being discovered that were put there 20 years ago for no good reason still hoarded. In my childhood this was some pre-decimal currency.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 22h

You have kids because that's what you do ... you try and make it work the best you can because there's no user manual ... before you know it that's who you are ... and then you're spat out the other side old and fat and tired and you don't know what happened in the intervening time!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 23h

And tomorrow ... then there were none ... the last one off to university ... something I desperately looked forward to 18 years ago becomes a huge hole to fill in my life. Wow ... never thought I'd feel like this ... I suppose that's life. Do I have the energy to do what I wanted to do back then?

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 02/10/2026

We hated him. He certainly didn’t splash the cash and then tried to merge us with Reading … I think our biggest signing was £78,000 for John Aldridge from Newport County!

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Happy birthday to Henry the vacuum cleaner x

screen grab of Henry the vacuum cleaner's wikipedia page

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 02/10/2026

If this motion passes then I shall be cancelling my Green Party membership. You don’t fight racism and genocide of an evil government by adopting their intolerances and tactics of generalised division … that is never how peace is achieved.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Yeah, but the clocks change in just over 3 weeks and by that time sunset will be 17.45 moving to 16.45. Basically they’re saying “enjoy October” which I think is a good message.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 02/10/2026

Consider this your sign to go outside before it gets dark at 4pm again.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Wrecked by money and bad humans greed for more and more money. Not all humans are greedy for more than enough ... only some ... never let them gaslight you in to believing that the disease of greed is "just human behaviour" ... it isn't ... the majority of us need to regulate the greedy minority.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 01/10/2026

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I haven't watched the Premier League or Match of the Day for five years. If Man City are allowed to get off with this then I will care even less. A beautiful game ... one which I cared about deeply as a kid when my plucky Oxford United rose to win the Milk Cup ... wrecked by money.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 30/09/2026

There's only one thing more gross than finding that a mouse has eaten your tahini lid ... it's finding that same mouse died by falling in to your tahini and has been decomposing there since the last time you checked your tahini. Fuck my life.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 30/09/2026

You can definitely do bacon in them … and boiled eggs in the kettle!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Tell me you tour with a microwave without telling the people who run Premier Inn you tour with a microwave. We've been busted several times ... now we call it the "sewing machine"

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’

PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The clocks can actually go back whenever you want them to. You just have to deal with the consequences.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I think a radical solution which bans cars in the city centre with excellent public transport links in while allowing those who live in the suburbs along the roads to use their cars locally is ideal. Botley Road was very pleasant with the rail bridge closed. The current solution isn't that.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

My family are from Oxford ... I remember stories from them from back when St. Aldates and Cornmarket were the A34 trunk road from Southampton to Manchester. Obviously that's from a time with far fewer vehicles, but Oxford has always had a massive traffic problem and I would like to see that solved.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Absolutely ... I've lived here for 50 years ... I'm well aware of the geography and the problems of only 5 roads in to the city with no possibility of another because it's a small hill surrounded by floodplains and multiple river streams. I'm not the pro car person you seem to be arguing against.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Interesting. Thank you! I’d love to know where all that traffic causing congestion on Abingdon Road southbound is coming from! Can it really all be exempt trade vehicles, buses, people using their passes and a few local residents?

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Because of that it shouldn’t also be asked to take almost all of the cars visiting central Oxford on top of that. You can’t just say it shouldn’t exist as a route to traffic. Almost everything built along it would be rendered unviable. I can’t take you seriously.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Well, everyone’s entitled to their opinions, but at least now I know that you’re not up for a serious debate about this. The Botley Rd is the least ancient route in to town built as a causeway across the flood plains. It has houses, an industrial estate, a supermarket and multiple retail parks.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Blimey! Andy Burnham is good at this isn’t he? That was an amazing speech.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I think it’s pretty clear that listening to Andy Burnham puts paid to the myth that everyone gets more right wing as they get older!!!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Not for the first time I think you’re deliberately misunderstanding what I’m writing about.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The traffic for Seacourt park and ride doesn’t need to use the length of Botley Rd - that’s the point of it … it’s brilliant! However the 1600 CITY CENTRE car parking spaces now have to use the Botley Rd and it can’t cope with it.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The US is no longer an ally of our country. Their governors regularly spread disinformation about us. America is a rogue state and a malign actor.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Great. Now do it for 3pm until 7pm when Botley Rd is trying to cope in the direction without the bus lanes.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Great. So we get the traffic for 1600 car parking spaces and Abingdon Rd gets the traffic for 42. That seems fair!!!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I can see all of these reasons if all the people designing it were dispassionately trying to dissuade cars from entering the city centre. But my complaint is that the result is that residents of the unfashionable part of Oxford have to have their lives disrupted by the hell created to achieve it.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I mean, the first guess is not a million miles away!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

That’s a good idea. Although I’d do it the other way round to make better use of the Botley Rd bus lanes.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

There’s no parking for Hinksey Pool so nobody’s driving there! And Redbridge recycling centre is on the edge of town and nobody is using the Abingdon Rd to get there unless they live on Abingdon Rd now the filters are in place.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I’ve just checked on a map and the distance from the Westgate car park to the A34 turning at Botley is 1.6 miles … the distance from Westgate to Redbridge is 1.5 miles.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

As I keep saying, Botley Road only has bus lanes in one direction. By moving the filter to where the ice rink is the traffic could be shared between two roads rather than dumped on just one. Your suggestion also has merit, but it’s clear the council doesn’t have the stomach for it.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Botley Road has far more destinations though, the station and its car park, Osney mead trading estate, the multiple retail parks, Worcester street car park, Oxpens car park. Currently the only reason for driving up Abingdon Road if you didn’t live there would be to go to Hinksey Park!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I think the answer to this might be to put the filter further along Oxpens Road such that Abingdon Road gets the Westgate traffic rather than Botley Road as the removal of through traffic has rendered it without any purpose other than residential.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I don’t see what the difference is. When the A34 is blocked as it often is, the queues end up right down the Botley Road which is longer than the whole of Thames Street.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

There’s always one! Sometimes we have to use that and walk in to Wootton village from Besselsleigh when the 44 gets so fucked up that the “hourly” service begins giving up and just turns buses around.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I think you’ll find both are marked A34.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

The straight ahead third lane is not 300m long, it holds 2, maybe 3 cars!

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Yes, but they both get used for traffic turning right meaning anyone who lives beyond has to queue behind them. Also it is not a left turn, it’s why the Botley Road was built! No bus services turn right there.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Ironically this also makes using Seacourt Park and Ride a much more slow service and makes the more infrequent 44 local service totally unpredictable. There is no bus lane out of the city.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

You mean like the two right turn lanes to join the A34 at the end of Botley Road which always queue back to the centre of town making it impossible to go through to Cumnor Road? Well now all those extra cars from the Westgate car park are making it even worse.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well of course that’s going to improve! But it’s just been moved to Botley Road, Frideswide Square and Hollybush Row in the other direction.

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