Gareth Dennis
@garethdennis.uk
Railway engineer and author of HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways). Hosts @railnatter.uk. Chairs Yorkshire PWI and NEREF. Co-founder of the Campaign for Level Boarding. He/him.
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me thinking about global heating accelerating faster than most predictions, as a dying economic system murders its way into oblivion and builds warehouses dedicated to increasing emissions
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If you want to know what's going on with Northern Powerhouse Rail (?) in detail then you've about 20 minutes to tune into @railnatter.uk, LIVE, at the usual place: youtube.com/live/spxdGpK...
What is the actual Northern Powerhouse Rail plan? | #Railnatter 291
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January 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
If you want to know what's going on with Northern Powerhouse Rail (?) in detail then you've about 20 minutes to tune into @railnatter.uk, LIVE, at the usual place: youtube.com/live/spxdGpK...
Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
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preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 PM
preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6
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Read through this for mention of "the public" "people" and think: does this seem to refer to anyone except the tiny, incestuous group of hacks who cluster around Westminster?
January 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Read through this for mention of "the public" "people" and think: does this seem to refer to anyone except the tiny, incestuous group of hacks who cluster around Westminster?
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nothing more properly honors Scott's memory than a crude cartoon drawn incompetently by a plagiarism robot
January 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
nothing more properly honors Scott's memory than a crude cartoon drawn incompetently by a plagiarism robot
if you can't control your vehicle a̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶e̶d̶, you need your licence shredding
Thank you, @garethdennis.uk. PS they should try 3mph in the shed if they think that’s difficult 🥲
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
if you can't control your vehicle a̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶e̶d̶, you need your licence shredding
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As we hit the home straight on 300 episodes, it's nice to dwell on a few milestones given we remain INDEPENDENT and MOSTLY RUN BY A SINGLE IDIOT.
We've had 1.2 million views/listens so far, we've been selected more than once as the leading railway podcast IN THE WORLD, and...
We've had 1.2 million views/listens so far, we've been selected more than once as the leading railway podcast IN THE WORLD, and...
January 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
As we hit the home straight on 300 episodes, it's nice to dwell on a few milestones given we remain INDEPENDENT and MOSTLY RUN BY A SINGLE IDIOT.
We've had 1.2 million views/listens so far, we've been selected more than once as the leading railway podcast IN THE WORLD, and...
We've had 1.2 million views/listens so far, we've been selected more than once as the leading railway podcast IN THE WORLD, and...
Tchaik 6 still goes hard as hell, happy Sunday
January 11, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Tchaik 6 still goes hard as hell, happy Sunday
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Every once in a while, a celebrity, like Chris O' Dowd or Richard Ayoade or Jimmy Carr* will inch their heads above the parapet and support Graham Linehan.
Why isn't it the job of a journalist to go back to those people and ask them to comment on his supporting ICE shooting a woman in the head?
Why isn't it the job of a journalist to go back to those people and ask them to comment on his supporting ICE shooting a woman in the head?
Graham Linehan claims he detonated his career, his family, his entire life, to protect women. He often asks people to "apologise to their daughters" if they disagree with him on trans rights.
And yet, when someone's daughter is executed by ICE, he shares Right-Wing propaganda that she deserved it.
And yet, when someone's daughter is executed by ICE, he shares Right-Wing propaganda that she deserved it.
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Every once in a while, a celebrity, like Chris O' Dowd or Richard Ayoade or Jimmy Carr* will inch their heads above the parapet and support Graham Linehan.
Why isn't it the job of a journalist to go back to those people and ask them to comment on his supporting ICE shooting a woman in the head?
Why isn't it the job of a journalist to go back to those people and ask them to comment on his supporting ICE shooting a woman in the head?
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Protest against complicity in genocide in Keir Starmer's and Labour's UK now carries an extra-judicial death sentence. All the Palestine Action prisoners are asking is for a judicial process worthy of a normal democracy. This will never be forgiven or forgotten.
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Protest against complicity in genocide in Keir Starmer's and Labour's UK now carries an extra-judicial death sentence. All the Palestine Action prisoners are asking is for a judicial process worthy of a normal democracy. This will never be forgiven or forgotten.
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TONIGHT we are digging into the RAIB report into the derailment of a freight train in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester back in 2024. Is it time for us to more quickly phase out waybeam bridges?
Watch LIVE at 8pm: youtube.com/live/BytsYlw...
Watch LIVE at 8pm: youtube.com/live/BytsYlw...
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
TONIGHT we are digging into the RAIB report into the derailment of a freight train in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester back in 2024. Is it time for us to more quickly phase out waybeam bridges?
Watch LIVE at 8pm: youtube.com/live/BytsYlw...
Watch LIVE at 8pm: youtube.com/live/BytsYlw...
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watching Helen Lewis claim she's got the key to understanding American politics is like watching a cat chasing a laser pointer, except the cat is somehow claiming it's figured out how to solve world hunger. also the cat is transphobic and will try to get you fired if you point this out
The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 AM
watching Helen Lewis claim she's got the key to understanding American politics is like watching a cat chasing a laser pointer, except the cat is somehow claiming it's figured out how to solve world hunger. also the cat is transphobic and will try to get you fired if you point this out
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'District Line' (1978) by Guy Beggs
(London Museum)
(London Museum)
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
'District Line' (1978) by Guy Beggs
(London Museum)
(London Museum)
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No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Wes Streeting is asked if Trump has broken international law when it comes to Venezuela. Streeting says he's got nothing to add and he's not here to be a commentator.
I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
January 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM
No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Frozen Foss in York earlier this evening, with bonus snow on top...
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Frozen Foss in York earlier this evening, with bonus snow on top...
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Top 5 Books:
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean – @ghostspecies.bsky.social
Children of the Dead End – Patrick MacGill
How the Railways Will Fix the Future – @garethdennis.uk
The Ancients – @andrewdarby.bsky.social
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
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Deep Water: The World in the Ocean – @ghostspecies.bsky.social
Children of the Dead End – Patrick MacGill
How the Railways Will Fix the Future – @garethdennis.uk
The Ancients – @andrewdarby.bsky.social
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
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January 5, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Top 5 Books:
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean – @ghostspecies.bsky.social
Children of the Dead End – Patrick MacGill
How the Railways Will Fix the Future – @garethdennis.uk
The Ancients – @andrewdarby.bsky.social
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
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Deep Water: The World in the Ocean – @ghostspecies.bsky.social
Children of the Dead End – Patrick MacGill
How the Railways Will Fix the Future – @garethdennis.uk
The Ancients – @andrewdarby.bsky.social
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
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A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way.
Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now.
This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?
Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now.
This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way.
Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now.
This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?
Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now.
This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?
Fighting fossil fuel reliance is directly taking the fight to the US. The rest of the world should see it as an imperative for its immediate survival from a belligerent rogue state as well as from climate collapse.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves — and that’s no coincidence.
This is naked U.S. imperialism: an illegal assault on Caracas aimed at overthrowing a sovereign government and plundering its resources.
Starmer’s Labour government must condemn this unequivocally.
This is naked U.S. imperialism: an illegal assault on Caracas aimed at overthrowing a sovereign government and plundering its resources.
Starmer’s Labour government must condemn this unequivocally.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Fighting fossil fuel reliance is directly taking the fight to the US. The rest of the world should see it as an imperative for its immediate survival from a belligerent rogue state as well as from climate collapse.
me thinking about global heating accelerating faster than most predictions, as a dying economic system murders its way into oblivion and builds warehouses dedicated to increasing emissions
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
me thinking about global heating accelerating faster than most predictions, as a dying economic system murders its way into oblivion and builds warehouses dedicated to increasing emissions
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Amid everything with Venezuela & Maduro and the Trump Regime's various justifications for its extrajudicial & anti-constitutional actions, a quick reminder that - just one month ago - Trump PARDONED former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández for his... wait for it... cocaine trafficking.
Breaking: President Trump pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez serving 45-year sentence on drug charges.
Amid anti-drug push, Trump pardons leader sentenced on cocaine charges
Trump said Nov. 28 that he planned to pardon the former Honduran leader, and a White House official confirmed Dec. 2 that the pardon had been issued.
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January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Amid everything with Venezuela & Maduro and the Trump Regime's various justifications for its extrajudicial & anti-constitutional actions, a quick reminder that - just one month ago - Trump PARDONED former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández for his... wait for it... cocaine trafficking.
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I am so so angry and tired of people in my division/Oxford/the UK/the world getting killed or seriously injured by car drivers.
I wish the injured man from this collision yesterday a full and speedy recovery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wish the injured man from this collision yesterday a full and speedy recovery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pedestrian seriously injured after crash outside Magdalen College
The man, in his 40s, was left seriously injured after the crash in Oxford city centre on Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I am so so angry and tired of people in my division/Oxford/the UK/the world getting killed or seriously injured by car drivers.
I wish the injured man from this collision yesterday a full and speedy recovery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wish the injured man from this collision yesterday a full and speedy recovery.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Craven. Utterly craven.
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Craven. Utterly craven.
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.