Ray Wilkes
raywilkes.bsky.social
Ray Wilkes
@raywilkes.bsky.social
I like hiking.
It's a white elephant and should be scrapped along with WYCA. What is needed is traffic management, bus priority in a bus partnership
Plans to build a long-awaited £2.5bn Leeds tram system are at risk of never happening as the project is already embroiled in delays and cost rows with echoes of the doomed HS2 project, insiders have warned trib.al/DGEOPOe
January 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
A guarantee of an unwanted Reform government
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Every day is a better day without sport. Go walking instead.
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Double-decker DalesBus 59 runs every Saturday between Harrogate, Blubberhouses, Bolton Bridge and Skipton.

All single fares are just £3 (£1 for under 19s).

Dep. Harrogate Bus Station: 0935, 1150, 1445 & 1645
Dep. Skipton Bus Station: 1045, 1250, 1545 & 1745
December 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It's a sad reflection on our education system that so many people are looking to charlatans on the left and right.
Young voters are frustrated by the two-party system and are looking left for an alternative, experts say

Labour’s support among young people is being stripped away by the “eco-populism” of the new Greens leader, Zack Polanski.

trib.al/drLw9ui
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Bus 572 to Barnard Castle is back, now being run by Lonsdale Buses from Kendal (0913) and Kirkby Stephen (1016) every Wednesday, with support from Westmorland & Furness Council. The bus returns from Barnard Castle at 1430 and Kirkby Stephen at 1517.

westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk/buses/service/572
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Brexit robbed young people of countless opportunities - rejoining Erasmus is the right step to undo some of the damage.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/01/uk-agreement-rejoin-erasmus-eu-student-exchange-scheme-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Let us show the millions of unpaid carers that we care.

Last week, I led a debate in Parliament on the inequalities faces by unpaid carers to mark #CarersRightsDay.

We must tackling the inequalities that affect millions of carers across the UK.
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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On this World Day of Remembrance, we mourn all those that have been killed in traffic crashes, and continue the fight to make our streets safer for all of us.
a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it
ALT: a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not a proper full scale appraisal
They’ve done an episode on Neoliberalism and there’s a lot about Popper there.
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's high time we recognised mental illness as a driver of terrorism we could then get into prevention
🔴 Exclusive | The mosque attended by Manchester synagogue terrorist Jihad al-Shamie has denied any role in his apparent radicalisation and instead questioned his “mental state”

Read more: trib.al/MPYFqVN
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@gmail-support.bsky.social all my blueyonder emails to gmail addresses including my own go to spam.
Marking as not spam does not work
I think it is a widespread problem and you should fix it please
September 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If it was about testosterone, how come the women's teams are showing all the blokes up? Not that I have the slightest interest in sport.
"The locker room isn’t just a space for friendship, testosterone, and banter – it’s about companionship. In that locker room, we saw our most vulnerable selves, at our best and our worst", writes Chris Robshaw trib.al/jBvngro
September 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Someone needs to tell them it's Starmer or Farage. We may or may not like the options but that's what they are
At least five Labour MPs have told party whips they have no confidence in Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister

Read more: trib.al/FmxJY4K
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Our autumn commuter campaign aims to capture the imagination and is all about modal shift, including digital billboard messages triggered by traffic queues on key arterial routes in/out of busy towns and cities.

The message is to switch to “Train Mode On”!

#Northern #GoDoYourThing 💙
September 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
They are paying interest on massive loans from these shareholders. It cannot be avoided. If publicity owned these payments would continue via gilts. Probably at higher interest rates
When you know your outfit is 10/10 but your face is still thinking about how successive governments refuse to bring water companies back in to public ownership so our hard earned money is paying offshore shareholders billions of pounds instead of investing in decaying water infrastructure xx
September 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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We are urgently looking for new volunteers to help us to provide, promote and develop DalesBus services into and around the Yorkshire Dales.

If you might be interested in helping find out more at: dalesbus.org/dbcic-news/volunteers-wanted

We would really appreciate offers of help at all levels.
September 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The police. His suggestion is illegal
So who will protect us from Tice?
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Fair enough. But all drivers of any age should have to have eye and health checks. Even at 94, you don't want a termination of your active life by a driver of any age
August 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
August 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I'm celebrating Yorkshire Day with the launch of my new book The Yorkshire Coast. Hot off the press and now available at christophergoddard.net/product/the-...
August 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM