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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 5h

Yes I agree with both of you on that but I also struggle to see how a stronger focus on climate would help them electorally? For me their biggest problem is a lack of leadership in the details which makes them still come across as a small party.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 6h

Would any Green policy on climate enabled to them to win in this seat? Especially when up against a government with a new PM in honeymoon period?

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 21h

It's a pity that the paper only considered the safety of those people in the car, it would have been interesting to see the results for pedestrians.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 21h

Activists have called for female crash test dummies that reflect women's' bodies. But Volvo—a company whose reputation revolves around safety—says that approach is too simplistic. Its new report notes that height, body shape, and weight also affect crash risk. www.volvocars.com/us/media/pre...

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 23h

I work at the Bottom of Avenue Louise and it's a lot quicker to Midi than the Airport.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 23h

Where are you in the EU Quarter? Metro to Schuman from Midi is faster than train from the airport?

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Remembering your presentation: wouldn't the best thing TfL do is pay for a new train depot?

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have to celebrate anyone trying to encourage more travel by train than flying but not sure about whether this would benefit anyone people much outside London. Opening the Kent stations or sorting out Euston / HS2 to be delivered more quickly more important.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 08/10/2026

Stopping #CrossChannelRail trains at Stratford would be possible. But it’s no panacea. 🧵 to explain.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're one step ahead already 😀 www.msn.com/en-ph/news/o...

msn.com

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If we get into panic about any minor change, we're never going to sort out our public services. We also need to get away from being screamish about tax rises. A £10-20 tax increase per month would not be noticed by most. (And that's before we target it).

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Any spend we don't have to do is annoying and the Iran war should also be opposed for it's death and destruction. BUT: we need to get sensible on financial impacts: per person, £12 billion equates to £170 a per person. It's about 1% of total government spend. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...

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Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances

FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree, this is causing the biggest fear from Digbeth that the cultural businesses lose their home and they can't find anywhere else or forced out from the area.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Businesses impact could be mitigated, a lot rent anyway. Just needs a master plan to work out how to support them and works proceed quickly unlike HS2 related tram.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eric Claxton's guiding principle when designing Stevenage was that separating bikes and cars was fine, if: - Their routes ran parallel - For every metre the bikes gave up in gradient, the cars should give up two - If necessary, you make the cars go further not the bikes Because cars have ENGINES

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've always been puzzled by the police reluctance to get involved in traffic offences happening right in front of them. I don't think this should be an arrestable offence but a quiet word from the police would be good.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like the way they seem to think biological sex is the key thing about predicting birth rates instead of maybe asking people (or families) whether they intend to have children?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How?! Did they not stop at the lights?

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Said this before but this bears repeating. The biggest problem with all political parties is they don't get or pretend they don't know what drives our economy.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Still I get Aldi and Lidl confused. We're getting an Aldi built near us and I keep getting confused which one it is.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Selection bias from the catchments of supermarkets? Plus also this could easily be the type of polling where what people say they do is very different to what they actually do

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 05/10/2026

For UK Burnham, the growing risk of UK industry becoming collateral damage in an EU-China trade war is turning abstract talk of “better cooperation” into a stark choice between limited market fixes or a full-scale return to the EU table.

euobserver.com

Why ‘Made in Europe’ could push Burnham’s UK back into the EU’s arms

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wouldn't it be far simpler to just replace with electric heaters in each room? Probably with battery electricity storage.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Successful but not rich" and targeting people earning around £100k, which is at best the top 5% of the population feels very on brand.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love Lower Decks so will be giving this a go.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I said supply deliberately. We make a lot of components that go into European vehicles.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We don't we probably destroy what is level of our automotive supply industry, which is a big part of the West Midlands economy.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can we get one political party in the UK that isn't bonkers?

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love the little warning sign at the end and nothing else to stop anyone driving off... Feels appropriate

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was in Utrecht for the annual Velo City conference last week and got to cycle slowly around the world's largest bike parking garage beneath the Centraal station. Room for 12,500 bikes and the first 24h of parking is free

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The building safety crisis has put huge costs onto the industry through rework. People living in homes have had lives uprouted, made it difficult to move. So yes you might safe money up front with the less regulations but the consequences can easily out weigh that benefit

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's not too say we need better regulation, but less regulation isn't a positive ambition. Linked to this our biggest problem as a country is we don't have strong enough enforcement.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Find it amazing that politicians still think that cutting regulation in the housing industry is a good idea where we will have an ongoing crisis with thousands of people still living in unsafe flats due to poor regulation and enforcement.

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With one tweak this thumbnail looks like a @killjamesbond.bsky.social bonus episode on a thriller where @postoctobrist.bsky.social is playing a Soviet spy who uses her skills to lure the naive bureaucrat played by @garethdennis.uk into emptying a UK Treasury account before she betrays him to MI5.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Explanation - one of the main concerns was that any Jewish member, or even any synagogue, supporting a two state solution, would be considered racist (because one of those states would be Israel). That's most left wing UK Jews. The amendment to address that concern was voted down.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will be resigning my membership of the Green Party, as this motion has passed unamended. I’m absolutely heartbroken.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This policy is both horrible and depressing, as it rules out the only party I might have considered voting for currently.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What this shows more than anything how dire political conversations about tax and spend in the UK are.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A lot to do come by public transport and yes a lot drive. Coaches though are generally full and organised from major cities: it's one of the most sustainable forms of transport we have. Biggest challenge arguably still is rubbish and it's something they're working on, but it's hard.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah get that but there's a huge range of stages: the site is as big as Birmingham City Centre. There's about 100 stages in total (although some night only).

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm assuming you've never been? There's a lot more to it than what is covered on TV, but also get it's not for everyone.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Huge cultural export, creates a lot of soft power for the UK. The festival itself doesn't make huge amount of money: £7 million in profits, £2.7 million went to charity. Which is very low when you consider 210,000 people attended.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also I've said before, if we're drawing these kind of graphs, then we should also consider things like what happens when you age out of young person's railcard and get the train to work.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My view on this is that yes it should be made smoother and less of impact but also it's frustrating that how this has got a lot of attention, when it affects the wealthy. Yet there are things very similar linked to universal credit that don't get the same attention.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This, but also: - people start car pooling for the school run - parking up at a takeaway instead of going through the drive thru - Not driving to parkrun

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also I know a lot of people will say London has a higher cost of living but also we shouldn't be expecting people employed directly and indirectly in the public sector to absorb that cost of living through low salaries to let the wealthy pay less tax.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm intrigued why Hammersmith and Fulham aren't exploring a workplace parking levy. It's probably a much fairer way of raising some of their funds they need.

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