Bit poor that there's basically no details about what they're planning to do.

Nice ride down to Leam as the sun came up. Not been here for nearly a year - everything still where it was last time 🤪

Getting the 47 to work for a change of scenery. Exciting stuff!

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it.
These cannot both be true. /1

Diddy got 50 months in prison and they turned him into black Rolf Harris

Cherry pickers? That's not a jam jar patriot movement, that's an organised heavily funded provocation movement.

The police protecting this is what happens when you have a Home Sec and PM that encourage flag shagging rather than actual patriotic civic action, like I dunno, literally anything else.

Can Simon Foster or @alcarns.bsky.social explain the legal and practical basis for the police approach here?

Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.

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/...

So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer

Once again Labour's strategy is to say that racism is terrible, and therefore we will defeat the racists by giving them almost everything they want
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/k...

📝 There are surveyors near Pebble Mill Road - Please stop to help understand where cyclists are travelling from to use the Cycleway. ☺️

It's nice that there's somewhere for the dogs to go and buy some treats...

What a state of affairs that 150,000 UK jobs have somehow become dependent on selling overly dangerous, over-polluting vanity wagons

Heh. Just had some prick in a pick-up truck drive his wankermobile at me for having the temerity to use a *pedestrian crossing*. Great work, The Council.

Curious about the one shiny new sign at Whitlocks End that reckons the penalty for trespass is a £2000 fine.

The penalty is actually £1000 but it used to be £200 - as it's a new sign I'm wondering if someone has got their numbers muddled when replacing an out of date sign...

Spending a decade watching a dedicated high speed railway between several of the UK's largest cities get repeatedly downgraded to what can now be described as an "electrified link" (currently being delivered on the existing line and delayed since the early 1990s) is radicalising.

Yeah sure, the pedestrian crossing is a road now - why the hell not? @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Let's hope that paving can withstand buses driving over it all day...

The government know that most people don’t actually care about small boats so they’re trotting out the ”ID cards will fix the potholes” bullshit.

Next story will be “ID cards will improve bin collections” I swear.

So that's a delay to Northern rail plans, Midland Mainline electrification pulled, no support for Bakerloo in London or even smaller stuff like Peckham.

Even if they get close to 1.5m homes, it'll be car based sprawl at this rate.

Oi. BBC. Many experts are not skeptical. It is utter bullshit and you should call it out as such. This is the MMR bollocks x 1 million

almost more insulting than when the AI steps in on and over your web search to give you the wrong answer is when the AI steps in and uses twenty gigawatt-hours and increases the entropy of the universe more than any single person could hope to all to tell you "i don't know"