Nick Rosenthal
@nickrosenthal.bsky.social
Translator. Crime fiction fan. Cyclist. Ancien du PBP
I'm reading a novel, translated from another language. And feeling a tad disappointed that I can see the syntax and structure of the source language shining through far too clearly in this translation. #xl8
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm reading a novel, translated from another language. And feeling a tad disappointed that I can see the syntax and structure of the source language shining through far too clearly in this translation. #xl8
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Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".
And now everything is broken.
And now everything is broken.
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".
And now everything is broken.
And now everything is broken.
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🚨New research published today🚨
Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier.
Full story 👉 buff.ly/OAMzq06
Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier.
Full story 👉 buff.ly/OAMzq06
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚨New research published today🚨
Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier.
Full story 👉 buff.ly/OAMzq06
Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier.
Full story 👉 buff.ly/OAMzq06
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What does passing a RoSPA Advanced Driving (or riding) test at Gold standard mean? Take a look below.
"Gold is only awarded to a driver who shows a consistently high standard of driving throughout the test."
Keeping our roads safe. #rospa #advanceddriving #greatermanchester #roadsafety
"Gold is only awarded to a driver who shows a consistently high standard of driving throughout the test."
Keeping our roads safe. #rospa #advanceddriving #greatermanchester #roadsafety
February 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What does passing a RoSPA Advanced Driving (or riding) test at Gold standard mean? Take a look below.
"Gold is only awarded to a driver who shows a consistently high standard of driving throughout the test."
Keeping our roads safe. #rospa #advanceddriving #greatermanchester #roadsafety
"Gold is only awarded to a driver who shows a consistently high standard of driving throughout the test."
Keeping our roads safe. #rospa #advanceddriving #greatermanchester #roadsafety
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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It’s a quirk of history that Berlin’s former U Bahn stock were sold off North Korea, where they’re used on the Pyongyang metro.
The former Berlin trainsets were given a new red and cream livery, and all advertising was replaced by portraits of leaders.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongya...
The former Berlin trainsets were given a new red and cream livery, and all advertising was replaced by portraits of leaders.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongya...
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It’s a quirk of history that Berlin’s former U Bahn stock were sold off North Korea, where they’re used on the Pyongyang metro.
The former Berlin trainsets were given a new red and cream livery, and all advertising was replaced by portraits of leaders.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongya...
The former Berlin trainsets were given a new red and cream livery, and all advertising was replaced by portraits of leaders.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongya...
Gotta love it when you stay home so you can receive an Amazon delivery due "13:15 - 16:15"
Then it gets to 15:30, and suddenly Amazon have changed it to "3:45 to 7:45 pm".
Gee, thanks for nothing Amazon! Sigh ...
Then it gets to 15:30, and suddenly Amazon have changed it to "3:45 to 7:45 pm".
Gee, thanks for nothing Amazon! Sigh ...
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gotta love it when you stay home so you can receive an Amazon delivery due "13:15 - 16:15"
Then it gets to 15:30, and suddenly Amazon have changed it to "3:45 to 7:45 pm".
Gee, thanks for nothing Amazon! Sigh ...
Then it gets to 15:30, and suddenly Amazon have changed it to "3:45 to 7:45 pm".
Gee, thanks for nothing Amazon! Sigh ...
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Rétro Station Service ⛽️ ESSO ⛽️ Avec pompes & VW Cox sur l'Alpenstra ße à la limite sud de Salzbourg 1967
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Rétro Station Service ⛽️ ESSO ⛽️ Avec pompes & VW Cox sur l'Alpenstra ße à la limite sud de Salzbourg 1967
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I'm "your listener", Chris Mason. I want to know why Boris Johnson isn't in jail, not whether Rachel Reeves left some details out of a few interviews. #r4today
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I'm "your listener", Chris Mason. I want to know why Boris Johnson isn't in jail, not whether Rachel Reeves left some details out of a few interviews. #r4today
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Indeed. This is not the BBC's job and to make it worse, in the same piece, Chris Mason again lurches into opinion and gives government carte blanche when he absolutely should not have!
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Indeed. This is not the BBC's job and to make it worse, in the same piece, Chris Mason again lurches into opinion and gives government carte blanche when he absolutely should not have!
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Eine Berliner Erfindung, ohne die kaum eine deutsche Stadt auskommt: Das S-Bahn-Logo. Weißes S auf grünem Hintergrund. Anfang Dezember 1930 wurde es eingeführt, um ein starkes Markenzeichen in Abgrenzung zur U-Bahn zu schaffen.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Eine Berliner Erfindung, ohne die kaum eine deutsche Stadt auskommt: Das S-Bahn-Logo. Weißes S auf grünem Hintergrund. Anfang Dezember 1930 wurde es eingeführt, um ein starkes Markenzeichen in Abgrenzung zur U-Bahn zu schaffen.
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I am glad common sense has prevailed.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Avanti service was to be pulled from timetable from mid-December but would have still run because of needs out of Euston
The express Manchester-London 7am Avanti service will take passengers after all, after the rail regulator conceded defeat in the face of public outcry over a ruling that would have left it running as an empty “ghost train” each day.
The 7am train, the only service linking the cities in under two hours, was set to be axed from the passenger table from mid-December – but would, as the Guardian reported on Saturday, have kept running empty from Piccadilly each day so it could run morning trains back out of Euston. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I am glad common sense has prevailed.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
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A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives.
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A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives
If you’re looking for yet another reason to hop on your bicycle today—especially if you’re in your 60s or beyond—new research out of Japan has delivered a big one.
momentummag.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives.
momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...
momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...
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#Kunde* kauft ein Fieberthermometer.
#DerApotheker: Wichtig: Die rektale Messung ist die genaueste!
#Kunde: Ah, OK! Vielen Dank!
Zu seiner Frau: Kannst du es mir hinten reinstecken?
#DerApotheker: Oh, bitte erst zuhause messen! 😜
#Kunde: In meinen Rucksack, meinte ich! 😂😂😂
#DerApotheker: Wichtig: Die rektale Messung ist die genaueste!
#Kunde: Ah, OK! Vielen Dank!
Zu seiner Frau: Kannst du es mir hinten reinstecken?
#DerApotheker: Oh, bitte erst zuhause messen! 😜
#Kunde: In meinen Rucksack, meinte ich! 😂😂😂
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#Kunde* kauft ein Fieberthermometer.
#DerApotheker: Wichtig: Die rektale Messung ist die genaueste!
#Kunde: Ah, OK! Vielen Dank!
Zu seiner Frau: Kannst du es mir hinten reinstecken?
#DerApotheker: Oh, bitte erst zuhause messen! 😜
#Kunde: In meinen Rucksack, meinte ich! 😂😂😂
#DerApotheker: Wichtig: Die rektale Messung ist die genaueste!
#Kunde: Ah, OK! Vielen Dank!
Zu seiner Frau: Kannst du es mir hinten reinstecken?
#DerApotheker: Oh, bitte erst zuhause messen! 😜
#Kunde: In meinen Rucksack, meinte ich! 😂😂😂
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Even Brexiters are beginning to acknowledge the damage Brexit has done to the economy, and Westminster needs to catch up. Facing reality is the first step towards repairing the harm and rebuilding a serious relationship with Europe.
We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe
Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Even Brexiters are beginning to acknowledge the damage Brexit has done to the economy, and Westminster needs to catch up. Facing reality is the first step towards repairing the harm and rebuilding a serious relationship with Europe.
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So we are already back to the levels of migration of the early 2010s and declining faster... let's hope all those new restrictions, based on previous higher numbers, don't make Britain massively unattractive to those migrants the government DOES wish to attract.
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So we are already back to the levels of migration of the early 2010s and declining faster... let's hope all those new restrictions, based on previous higher numbers, don't make Britain massively unattractive to those migrants the government DOES wish to attract.
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The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
I am not sure that "encouraging" people to invest in stock markets if they wish to have tax-free savings is wise.
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am not sure that "encouraging" people to invest in stock markets if they wish to have tax-free savings is wise.
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
Off out into town this evening for a Chinese meal with "the lad". Bit of quality father and son time!
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Off out into town this evening for a Chinese meal with "the lad". Bit of quality father and son time!
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Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...
UK's Motability scheme no longer includes premium brands such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes | Autocar
Announcement comes just weeks after chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to axe luxury models from the programme
www.autocar.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...
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Did you know that government levies have driven more than half of the rise in electricity bills in recent years?
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Did you know that government levies have driven more than half of the rise in electricity bills in recent years?
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
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I was helping out a friend who's looking for publishers to submit her translation (into French) and it was really eye opening how all the French indie presses I looked at had detailed transparent and open submissions guidelines compared to their anglophone equivalents
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I was helping out a friend who's looking for publishers to submit her translation (into French) and it was really eye opening how all the French indie presses I looked at had detailed transparent and open submissions guidelines compared to their anglophone equivalents
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🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
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REMINDER: Our report shall be published on Sunday 23 November. From this date, open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to access the following:
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
Autism Act 2009 Committee - News - Committees - UK Parliament
News for Autism Act 2009 Committee
committees.parliament.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
REMINDER: Our report shall be published on Sunday 23 November. From this date, open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to access the following:
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)