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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My pub quiz team partner when it's the flags round:

Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you cast that new Hercule Poirot? Sure did boss real fucking sexy like you asked What? www.digitalspy.com/tv/a73497877...

digitalspy.com

Hercule Poirot is back! First look at Agatha Christie's detective in "epic" new BBC drama

He means business.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is probably true for both Mr Beast and James Patterson but at different ends of the spectrum.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can I shock you? I like the war on motorists

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This Times editorial opinion calls for more traffic police on the roads and action to curb social media glorification of joyriding. It does not mention what would be by far the easiest, cheapest and most effective remedy: speed limiters on cars.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026

[redacted person who does not know whose mentions they wandered into]: In my city, the cyclists are so entitled, they act like they own the roads. Me: LET THE BIKES OWN THE ROADS. THE BIKES ARE FAR LESS DANGEROUS AND POLLUTING BY ABSOLUTELY EVERY MEASURE. MAKE THE CARS PAY TOLLS TO THE CYCLISTS.

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is marvellous news: the more people who know that their cars / motorbikes can be seized for anti-social driving the better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Police seize limited edition £3.7m Ferrari in supercar crackdown

Ninety vehicles worth more than £8m were seized in a weekend operation in central London.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Turns out that Google now thinks Eilieon 2 is another name for the film Aliens but maybe I meant Eileen.

Screenshot of a Google search snippet for Eilieon 2 which it has confused for Aliens

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

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National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads

Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I helped shape the West Surrey future brand!

Survey comment: whatever you do half of the county will hate it and the others won't mind it so don't listen to idiots like me, just get a good designer in and do what they think is best

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @lauralaker.bsky.social I've never seen this before. Hostile paving to enforce new restrictions on cycling and walking on this path. Has been a cycle route for ages. Next to A3 in Guildford

Path next to main road with pyramid shaped paving stones

Path next to main road with no cycling and no pedestrians sign and works installing hostile paving

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thank you Kevin Keegan for the greatest game I've ever witnessed live (despite supporting neither team) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenh...

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 3–4 Manchester City F.C. (2004) - Wikipedia

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

On Doomsday, ever since the womb 'til I'm back where my brother went, that's what my tomb will say. Right above my government, Dumile Either unmarked or engraved, hey who's to say?

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My TV has staged an intervention

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The players should come back on after the regulation 15mins and just play around them.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lots of people agog that a regular player wouldn't know en passant but I played Scrabble with someone who insisted you could make words diagonally and that was how they played.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"We even charged our phones while out" Don't take financial advice from someone who thinks this is a smart move. It probably saved them £1 a year. Pure frugality fetish.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

After reading this you might need my new book "The 4 Hour Tiny Violinist: Learn To Play Fast And Sympathise Slow"

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This government is like when dog owners see their dog jumping up at you and ask it nicely to stop. It doesn't work but it gives the impression they're doing something and maybe it's not really their fault even though it obviously is their fault because they're supposed to be in charge of the dog.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What's the least made up country? I propose that it would need to have existed a long time in its current form and have obvious and undisputed boundaries. Japan is the best contender I reckon.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social new stuff in Kings Cross. Masses of hire bike parking

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 03/06/2026

Everything I know about economics, I learned queueing at Alton Towers as.ft.com/r/21e56ef4-2...

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The UK is stuck in a rollercoaster queue

British theme parks are a fitting symbol of the country’s supply-side economic woes

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A 2011 Sirrus is a great choice. Functional but too old to be flashy yet not retro enough to be trying too hard. The guy knows what he's doing.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Something inside so wrong

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My partner and cat when they catch me browsing canyon.com:

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/05/2026

The worst thing you can do in a supply crisis is universal subsidies. Want to protect the poor? We have a mechanism for that, cash transfers!

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If you care about co2 emissions you should be raising fuel duty and increasing taxes on domestic use of natural gas for heating and cooking. Electric cars, induction stoves and heat pumps are all prove technologies now and we should be happy to phase out fossil fuels via tax rises.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wow this house is older than it looks

A suburban house with a large number 35BC on the wall

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Simon Jeffrey @simonjeffrey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not so fun facts about uninsured drivers: they kill and maim a lot of people.

• Every 20 minutes, someone is the victim of an uninsured or hit-and-run driver. That's three an hour, 72 a day, more than
26,000 a year.
• Every day, at least one person is so seriously injured by an uninsured or hit-and-run driver that they need lifelong care.
That's more than 360 people a year whose lives are forever changed for the worse.
• Every week, at least one person is killed by a driver who is not insured. That's more than 50 people a year whose lives are cut short, more than 50 families a year who lose a loved one.
• Every day, there is an average of 300,000 uninsured vehicles on UK roads. The total number across the year is over 1
million.
• Every year, using government figures, we estimate that uninsured and hit-and-run drivers cost the economy almost
£2.4 billion.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is a good piece. We simply accept 1000s of unnecessary deaths because we won't force all of us who drive to accept we have a dangerous machine in our hands. And then fail to enforce that fact as police have basically stopped policing the roads. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Why do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally Kyd

Two court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standards, says law professor Sally Kyd

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 03/04/2026

Have said this before but it feels indicative of Britain's approach to a lot of stuff that commercially produced and sold e-scooters are basically illegal to use, yet our roads are full of dubiously modded bikes that are a traffic hazard and also incendiary bombs.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

UK politics now in a bidding war of universal fuel subsidies (sorry, "support") to, per ed davey "keep britain moving". The reality - that consumption must fall - is going to be a nasty surprise

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

You may not like hearing this but actually free on-street car parking is objectively a ridiculous idea when you think about it for a second. Imagine if I plonked literally any other bulky item of personal property in front of my house and expected it to not require permission or payment!

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It’s just so stupid on so many levels. The *fundamental* problem is that the world has less oil. We need to use less to account for that. Making petrol a fraction cheaper doesn’t help with the real issue, costs the government money and does very little for households.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I'm going to go by Phen from now on.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I met a traveller from a virtual land. Who said: Two bland and legless trunks of pixels. Stand in the desert.. Nothing beside remains.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is the way.

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In the news today, a cyclist on the pavement who killed a man is charged with manslaughter. By contrast, here's a van driver who killed a little girl. He was driving on the pavement: common, and illegal. Killed her. Only charged with dangerous driving. Fully let off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

bbc.co.uk

Cheshire van driver cleared of dangerous driving after four-year-old's death

Four-year-old Esmé Rose Weir was run over as she rode her scooter along the pavement to pre-school.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This should be called the Leroy Jenkins defense. If one of your allies decides to do something stupid you still have to deal with the consequences.

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Steve Cromwell @steveocrom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This should be called the Leroy Jenkins defense. If one of your allies decides to do something stupid you still have to deal with the consequences.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

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