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Andy

@andydrummond.bsky.social

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Between Knotty Ash and North Cave. Posts about bikes, Lib Dems 🔶 and occasionally intensive care medicine. All views own and probably not that interesting.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 20d

Today marks the start of #OrganDonationWeek 2025. This week, it’s really important that you consider your wishes about organ donation, register a decision on the ODR and tell your loved ones - #LeaveThemCertain #YesIDoNate

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If you needed an organ transplant would you have one? If so please help those in need of a transplant by opting to donate organs and tissue.

www.organdonation.nhs.uk

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 53m

*Labour

(Assume this is Americans not understanding multi-party politics?)

UK Conservatives Roasted After Chocolate Bar Criticizing Liberals Contains Epic Typo

Yiiiiikes 🤦🏻‍♂️

www.comicsands.com

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 3h

As with any sausage, it’s probably better not knowing.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 3d

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 4h

Even Peperamis which are now apparently a ‘protein snack’?

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not wrong about the overvaluing, which is why the tech companies are desperate to push AI onto everything.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 16h

I‘m sure I'm not the only one who’s going to point out that it says ‘Labour‘ on the bar, which is a different party to the liberals, who are called the Liberal Democrats.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is that the electorate wouldn’t have cared and it would have been easy to justify.

Instead they raised employer NICs which made it harder to employ people.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

A trap so obvious that it was visible from space and yet one that Labour happily leapt into and then used every opportunity to limit their ability to climb out of it.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

I've been to Dubai for work a few times. It's like the world's biggest airport lounge. Utterly soulless. Can't imagine wanting to live there whatever the financial benefits. (That's before you get to the ethical issues...)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 1d

For my mind, anyone saying that a new road or adding capacity to a junction will "unlock thousands of new homes" needs to be very stringently asked "how".

Linking a road scheme as necessary to unlocking land for housebuilding should be a huge red flag for the media to probe.

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Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the NI cut was an obvious set up to make Labour raise taxes, they should have reversed it early on and have had multiple chances to do so.

#UKpolitics

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s an argument that if they’re going to sort tax out they should get rid of employee NICs and roll them into reformed income tax

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why they didn’t just say ‘the NI cut wasn’t costed and is unaffordable so we’re going to reverse it’ as an early action.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

Given that a large part of Uber’s business model is about undermining public transport…

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

Uber, though?

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OM the Rails 🇵🇸 @omtherails.bsky.social · 1d

Took this service back in December last year and it was fantastic - a real shame it’s going, definitely not helpful for links between Scandinavia and the rest of Mainland Europe!

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile we’re happy to provide loads of hidden subsidy to driving, whether that’s building roads which rarely make a return on investment, free parking or freezing fuel duty.

Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 2d

The railways are never going to break even. At best London and the SE plus two main lines might subsidise the rest. But there will always be some subsidy.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: SJ to discontinue successful Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper train after 31 August 2026, a month after Swedish government subsidy ends.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes. It just is.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 2d

Greenwich is pronounced *Gren*wich.

Greenock is pronounced *Green*ock.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 2d

Barlick?

See also Skelmersdale.

Anyone pronouncing Greenock as Greenwich will be first again the wall come the revolution.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 3d

Is it worth a complaint?

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 3d

I thought it was better than S2, which needed a longer run for the story arc to unfold properly #BlueLights

Also keeps reminding me I need to have a go at making fifteens with the kids.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 3d

They’re on here you know @apiln.bsky.social

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 3d

I think John Curtice told them that, at their conference. Whether they were listening is another issue entirely.