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Peter
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Theme Parks & Railways! See it, say it, sorted. None of this is affiliated with my employer ducky.
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when you want to sleep but you have Work Thoughts
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
What happened there?!
Now what they really need to do is sell it as a nice lil feature for your home too.

I'd have one!

Or my watchface please!!
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On my way back north after attending the unveiling of the new rail clock at London Bridge; the timepiece is all at once disarmingly simple and delightfully ingenious…
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Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
@nebula.tv please fix these issues with chromecast 😭😭 its so buggy. I just wanna watch episodes without it crashing out constantly please x
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A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work.

They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.

Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
On a bus. Fares across Worcestershire are £1 per journey every weekend in October.

Four seniors boarded. They are loudly complaining. Quote: "They shouldn't do this £1 fare. It's workshy folk getting stuff for free yet again. No-one gives us pensioners anything."

The seniors all used bus passes.
WHY! I live on it nowadays 😅
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Smol Paul got brain freeze again
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For some perspective, 1,680 football pitches is 0.018% of UK protected land. To say that temporary HS2 construction sites are visible from space is desecration is insane. On google maps a dinner plate on a table in my back garden is visible from space.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The first website i had EVER gone on..

That was in 1999 in school!
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now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"
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One of a series of images you can 100% absolutely hear. You're welcome.
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Today was one of my favourite lectures, on how evidence influences debates.

Case A: 79 people died as a consequence of smart motorways (2010-2024). That's sufficient to pause the policy.

Case B: In the first year of the Welsh 20mph scheme 900 fewer people were injured. There's still contestation.
I love these articles Jim. Really well written, a riveting read. I'm subscribed despite not living anywhere near London just for the interesting stories!