Alex Hamilton
@ajhamilton.bsky.social
Writes corporate words. Parents to entry level standard. Happiest riding uphill. Will offer views on pro cycling whether you like it or not.
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The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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Great powers have always, to some extent, written the rules for themselves. But this should be a reminder that for all we might lament the “rules based order”, it’s largely gone, if it ever existed. Hard power is the only thing which matters now. Europe needs to wake up to the new realities.
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Great powers have always, to some extent, written the rules for themselves. But this should be a reminder that for all we might lament the “rules based order”, it’s largely gone, if it ever existed. Hard power is the only thing which matters now. Europe needs to wake up to the new realities.
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It’s worth mentioning, though it’s been said repeatedly: the Lizzie Line carries 1/6th of UK daily rail passengers (not including the Tube) and has already paid off its entire costs.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
Worked example of the crippling effects or Treasury brain here
Elizabeth Line would ‘never’ be built, Michael Portillo wrote when urging cancellation
Former Treasury minister warned that Crossrail London link was too costly and unnecessary, newly released papers show
www.ft.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It’s worth mentioning, though it’s been said repeatedly: the Lizzie Line carries 1/6th of UK daily rail passengers (not including the Tube) and has already paid off its entire costs.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
Fresh from another parental flatpack toy furniture extravaganza, can I ask that someone tells Great Little Trading Company how to print their instruction leaflets forwards.
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Fresh from another parental flatpack toy furniture extravaganza, can I ask that someone tells Great Little Trading Company how to print their instruction leaflets forwards.
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7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
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When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”?
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”?
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
Dear retailers. I don’t actually need any more little 4mm allen keys. I have bought and constructed things from other retailers previously. Save yourselves the allen key cost.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Dear retailers. I don’t actually need any more little 4mm allen keys. I have bought and constructed things from other retailers previously. Save yourselves the allen key cost.
Can you buy us a new AV system / some flags?
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Can you buy us a new AV system / some flags?
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Dollars to donuts the complainants will be older people sitting on massive amounts of property wealth and not younger high income people facing massively increased childcare costs (salary sac) or higher student loan repayments.
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Dollars to donuts the complainants will be older people sitting on massive amounts of property wealth and not younger high income people facing massively increased childcare costs (salary sac) or higher student loan repayments.
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If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
Ringway 1 would have gone straight through my old flat.
London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ringway 1 would have gone straight through my old flat.
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Now out in Party Politics 🎉
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Now out in Party Politics 🎉
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The reality is that Sultana and co are not actually very interested in workers' rights and struggles in Ukraine. Talking about Zelensky's anti-worker policies is just a way of expressing their hostility to Ukraine's rights.
October 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The reality is that Sultana and co are not actually very interested in workers' rights and struggles in Ukraine. Talking about Zelensky's anti-worker policies is just a way of expressing their hostility to Ukraine's rights.
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"I warn you not to fall in love with someone from another country. And if you do, I very specifically warn you that she mustn't take maternity leave."
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"I warn you not to fall in love with someone from another country. And if you do, I very specifically warn you that she mustn't take maternity leave."
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I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.
October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.
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Punchy opening from Tom Tugendhat, who says the move of young voters from centrist parties is "a logical series of outcomes for an economic system that has effectively become a Ponzi system for the old", eg the pension triple lock.
"Guess what? They have worked it out," Tugendhat says.
"Guess what? They have worked it out," Tugendhat says.
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Punchy opening from Tom Tugendhat, who says the move of young voters from centrist parties is "a logical series of outcomes for an economic system that has effectively become a Ponzi system for the old", eg the pension triple lock.
"Guess what? They have worked it out," Tugendhat says.
"Guess what? They have worked it out," Tugendhat says.
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The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
Note to the government: emergency alert practices should not be scheduled during toddler nap time. Many thanks.
September 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Note to the government: emergency alert practices should not be scheduled during toddler nap time. Many thanks.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
Lionel Shriver tells those of us who live here what our country looks like if you leave it + rely on the media ecosystem of the very online right as a proxy for reality
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
Realising that fast fashion is a trend i totally missed through the medium of reluctantly binning a bag full of clothes that date back to about 2009.
July 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Realising that fast fashion is a trend i totally missed through the medium of reluctantly binning a bag full of clothes that date back to about 2009.
I’m reminded that bits of the commentariat have always tried to explain Trump’s behaviour and decision making as consistent and based on well thought out strategies, and that now feels more futile and desperate than ever.
June 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I’m reminded that bits of the commentariat have always tried to explain Trump’s behaviour and decision making as consistent and based on well thought out strategies, and that now feels more futile and desperate than ever.
Today I found possibly the worst piece of urban design I’ve ever encountered - take a bow Victoria Place car park, Woking.
No signage or obvious routes for pedestrian access in or out, convoluted shape, apparently no access at all on three sides.
I’d love to know what the architect was taking.
No signage or obvious routes for pedestrian access in or out, convoluted shape, apparently no access at all on three sides.
I’d love to know what the architect was taking.
June 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today I found possibly the worst piece of urban design I’ve ever encountered - take a bow Victoria Place car park, Woking.
No signage or obvious routes for pedestrian access in or out, convoluted shape, apparently no access at all on three sides.
I’d love to know what the architect was taking.
No signage or obvious routes for pedestrian access in or out, convoluted shape, apparently no access at all on three sides.
I’d love to know what the architect was taking.
Sorry but if you’re going to give winter fuel payments to pensioners earning under average wage, why are you not giving them to everyone else earning under the average wage, who is:
1) less likely to have other sources of funds
2) more likely to have large housing costs and be supporting children
1) less likely to have other sources of funds
2) more likely to have large housing costs and be supporting children
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Sorry but if you’re going to give winter fuel payments to pensioners earning under average wage, why are you not giving them to everyone else earning under the average wage, who is:
1) less likely to have other sources of funds
2) more likely to have large housing costs and be supporting children
1) less likely to have other sources of funds
2) more likely to have large housing costs and be supporting children