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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 53m

A Hiplok d1000 at £200, laka insurance at £20-30 a month, backpedal’s recovery team for a tenner a month and I’m happy to leave it at central london stations for days on end. Cycle onto the platform at King’s Cross, chuck kids direct from bike seat onto train, lock bike on platform.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 57m

Why don’t they? No reliable second hand market?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1h

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 19h

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3h

A few billion of VAT found that someone had missed, plus that £5bn of seized Bitcoin that had been stolen from impoverished Chinese factory workers, things are looking up for the British economy!

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 3h

There goes my long held view that cash government receipts were accurate because you just had to add some columns in a bank account

on.ft.com/3J0Y6yE ONS revises down government borrowing estimates after data error

ONS revises down UK government borrowing by £2bn after VAT error

[FREE TO READ] Office for National Statistics reduces estimate for current fiscal year just weeks before Rachel Reeves’ Budget

on.ft.com

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4h

Honestly re-read things so many times to avoid this happening…. But it’s a typo. Although an ironic one.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4h

Some strange reseller fees within all that!

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4h

Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14h

So it's this www.savills.co.uk/insight-and-... and Gatwick, right.

Savills UK | Water Neutrality in North Sussex

Savills UK | News

www.savills.co.uk

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 20h

Yeah I had a very bad experience and then a very bad one! But the difference between cycling in the gutter around Manchester in 2008 and now is wild.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

solid effort by Charlie Bibby lining up that photo.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Yeah the locks seem to be a weak spot. Also I just nearly went into the canal a couple of times. The signage is also crap. But having loads of big post war motorways gives you lots of space right. Dunno what happened to the designer on Deansgate they’re on crack.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Cycling around Manchester/Salford is just 100x better than it used to be, even if every so often the route just randomly dumps you on a pavement next to a motorway and goes “yeah this will do”. Their rental bikes are also better than the TfL options... when they work.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

If any journalists need a “humorous drop intro” for Tory conference then there’s a train called Wolf Of Badenoch sat in a siding on the route to Manchester. Can’t quite imagine how you’d make it work but more has been done with much worse material.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Index manipulation.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

Already encountering this! Was nominated for something I didn’t enter and had to explain there wasn’t some separate pot of money I could rinse to attend the gong ceremony.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

To be fair it's important to get the Manning reference in for their audience, has a lot of salience in the US.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

What's really disappointing is not one news outlet seems to have published this, what has happened to low viral standards?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Anyway I don't think you understand what motivates Paul Marshall, the owner of GB News, without looking at the particular flavour of his Church of England faith. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories

Sir Paul Marshall, a co-owner of GB News, is building a media empire and accumulating political power

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

GB News then had a vicar on to give reaction who, I'm pretty sure and happy to be corrected, wasn't Anglican? As someone who was raised going to CofE churches, I'm a bit confused by what people think the Anglican Church is?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

So interesting that GB News is sticking with female archbishop story longer than BBC/Sky, going through her tweets live on air, starting to cancel her for being woke.

They keep talking about the Christian public taking it badly, fits with the growing US-style religious vibe of the British right?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

News organisation explainer: What do we know about the new Archbishop of Canterbury?
Sarah Mullally [1] is the new [citation needed]

(What you actually want to read is Tim Wyatt on her handling of various chaotic things: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...)