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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 14h

The thing that concerns me about Burnham is nothing seems to have been put in place that will have much impact by the next election.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 14h

Personally I would not select organisations with almost no capacity left to do anything but arrange social care to make good on promises about building.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 16h

That's more than one a day. Beyond the rules of physics I'm afraid.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 18h

In a simulation of Gove as prime minister, he blew us up.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"aim" and "where possible" is not "will".

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Unsolicited advice is free for a reason, but I'd go with a different approach to Burnham than that for Starmer who was a train wreck everyone hated. Burnham isn't that.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

1945: Churchill did not vote in the Labour landslide election because he was not on the register. He was able to vote in the Westminster City Council election later that year.

MR. CHURCHILL VOTES

Mr. Churchill walked into Caxton

Hall shortly after 5 p.m. and recorded

his vote at the booths for the St.

Margaret's ward of Westminster. He

looked cheerful. He was unable to

vote in the General Election because

his name was not on the register. It

has since been restored.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Years of working in policy means I'm completely jaded. Words mean so little. I'll check against delivery.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Please continue with more of this.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"The government will try to “build bridges” on energy policy where it finds common ground with Donald Trump's climate-skeptical White House" You do wonder if these people live in the same universe as us.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 29/09/2026

1945: The thrifty British sell the contents of the German embassy in London. Sounds like a lovely auction room. 😬

Hitler Lovers
Buy Nazi Flags
London. Nov. 28—(AP)-Two Nazi flags, bought at auction at the former German embassy in London, were apparently on their way tonight to Kingdom house, headquarters of the Legion of Christian Reformers, a new organization which London newspapers said regards Hitler as "a divine instrument."
The flags were removed by a Mr
A. Wilson who said he intended to present them to the. Christian Re-formers, which received wide publicity in British papers yesterday in connec tion with the auction of a huge granite bust of Hitler.
The bust was bought by Capt R.
Gordon-Canning, former member of the British Union of Fascists, for $2000 after spirited bidding. Gordon-Canning, who was imprisoned for two years during the war under defense regulations, told reporters the bust might "go back to Germany in about 25 years time."

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Sick of work this Monday lunchtime? Or perhaps hungover from one too many on the first night of Labour Conference? If so, distract yourself with ✨ 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗥𝗣 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ✨ Full interactive at: jack-bailey.co.uk/ward2024

Screenshot showing interactive ward level MRP estimates at the 2024 UK general election.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Putting the Fabulous back into Astrophysics!! (And did not break any bones!) bookshop.org/p/books/invi...

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Announcing social care will be dealt with at a future date is almost ready to become one of these ceremonial traditions that people become unsure of the origins.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026

You should assume anything you put on the web is vulnerable to being deleted overnight and plan accordingly. So many companies also don't seem to realise Twitter/Facebook/Instagram are innaccessble now to people without an account. Your menu is in three pinned posts? Can't see any of them.

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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘If you asked me 30 years ago, would things be as bad as they are now, I'd probably have said no….So the fact it's got worse wasn't me being prescient. I didn't know it was going to get worse, it just has.’ Looking forward to seeing this next month in Newcastle.

bbc.co.uk

Our Friends in the North play still relevant - Peter Flannery

Peter Flannery says a new stage version of the classic TV show will resonate with modern audiences.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well they are better at triangulation, I'll give them that.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 27/09/2026

He's a bit unseasy doing a Zohran Mamdani isn't he?

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 27/09/2026

An illiterate view. Why does the City of London lead the way in eliminating traffic and promoting active travel? To force out enterprise? To shoo away wealth?

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Some of the specifics of the 1960s road proposals. They wanted to build a flyover at Gants Hill. I will now look a little more kindly on this location which is simultaneously a major road junction and town centre. Rejected on amenity grounds, even in the car-brained 1960s.

TRUNK ROUNDABOUT MAY GET " MECCANO-TYPE " FLYOVER

DAILY TELEGRAPH REPORTER

" MECCANO-TYPE " flyover to carry Eastern Avenue over a bottleneck at Gants Hill, Essex, is being considered by the Ministry of Transport. This type of construction was foreseen in

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Current station building has to be the ugliest major station in the country (currently 19th busiest).

A collection of ugly short buildings approximating a railway station.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Climate change is bad for workers. 👏 Prime Minister tells ITV News London 'lessons must be learned' on bus driver working conditions www.itv.com/news/london/...

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I remember someone bringing their dry cleaning to a job interview. They didn't get the job, but I still remember that (if not their name).

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Not to reignite that discourse, but when I went to Three Sheets in Soho it had the obligatory food rule and the staff were very apologetic. We had to skip starters at the restaurant we went to afterwards.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still sort of struggling to believe that amidst everything else going on, Andy Burnham popped up this week to say we should bring back drinking in stands at football.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thomas has been denied bail. His case will go to Crown Court on Tuesday.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Well this has been in the works for a long time. Might have happened a decade ago if a clause hadn't been added to the 2017 buses act to preserve the legacy of Thatcher. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

standard.co.uk

Sadiq Khan puts London buses back into public ownership for first time in 30 years

Buses for London will first run services on Route 6 between Victoria Station and Willesden and may be rolled out across the capital

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

What makes something a uniform? If everyone in an organisation wears the same clothes and you wear them every time you show up, that's a uniform right? If the clothes are iconic (actual meaning of word) of your organisation then that's a uniform? www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8an...

legislation.gov.uk

Public Order Act 1936

An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of military or similar character; and to make further provision f...

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Stop using location information that requires this outfit to continue running a server (looking at you NHS and others).

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

That's a shame. They had planning permission for their proposal and raised the money.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Anniversaries of things coming up and I find myself wondering how that was only a year ago.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Bath is an interesting one to watch. Lots of people want to live there, but only a few can. People driving in from Wiltshire's plentiful car dependent estates have become a problem.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Good video about using headphones instead of the phone speaker. youtube.com/shorts/oT4lb...

youtube.com

Headphones on public transport 🎧

YouTube video by Transport for London

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Homophobia, racism, and hatred of differences are not opinions but crimes."

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 24/09/2026

She blocks the path and complains when I walk past.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 24/09/2026

They are making money out of boat slop and the Home Secretary is complicit in the grift.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Watching a TV show recorded in 1981 with a railway station poster in the background blurred out. It was Jimmy Saville. Not sure how the viewing experience is improved here.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Northern Heights too. District line Bromley-Upminster are all still BR stations and would be until 1969. bsky.app/profile/mike...

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