Simon Kendler
@simonzev.bsky.social
Rail Freight Manager & sustainable transport advocate
Travel, rail, transport & languages enthusiast. Mainly here for the trains... He/him
Views my own 🌈🛤🚲🕎
Travel, rail, transport & languages enthusiast. Mainly here for the trains... He/him
Views my own 🌈🛤🚲🕎
When seeing “Danish-style”, we should be emulating their welfare system, paid parental leave, excellent bike lanes & well funded health+social care systems.
We should NOT be copying their awful worsening immigration system. I would know. I was an immigrant living there…
We should NOT be copying their awful worsening immigration system. I would know. I was an immigrant living there…
'Shabana Mahmood is going to make life measurably harder for genuine refugees. Why?'
James O'Brien asks who the Home Secretary is appealing to with tougher, Danish-style immigration controls.
James O'Brien asks who the Home Secretary is appealing to with tougher, Danish-style immigration controls.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
When seeing “Danish-style”, we should be emulating their welfare system, paid parental leave, excellent bike lanes & well funded health+social care systems.
We should NOT be copying their awful worsening immigration system. I would know. I was an immigrant living there…
We should NOT be copying their awful worsening immigration system. I would know. I was an immigrant living there…
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Unrelatedly, I’m currently reading Last Call at Hotel Imperial, and I’ve just reached the point where Dorothy Thompson is kicked out of Nazi Germany for having written unflattering things about Hitler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US revokes six foreigners’ visas over social media comments criticizing Charlie Kirk
State department says it has ‘no obligation’ to host foreign nationals who ‘celebrate heinous’ death of far-right activist
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Unrelatedly, I’m currently reading Last Call at Hotel Imperial, and I’ve just reached the point where Dorothy Thompson is kicked out of Nazi Germany for having written unflattering things about Hitler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
October 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
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From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation
What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies
What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies
NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.
Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"
Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"
Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say
Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation
What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies
What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies
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For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
An apt metaphor for the #Flotilla
Israel have used piracy to defend their #GazaGenocide
It’s unacceptable, it must be called out & they must release those they’ve kidnapped. Their treatment of them is abhorrent and an affront to international law
#Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸
Israel have used piracy to defend their #GazaGenocide
It’s unacceptable, it must be called out & they must release those they’ve kidnapped. Their treatment of them is abhorrent and an affront to international law
#Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸
October 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
An apt metaphor for the #Flotilla
Israel have used piracy to defend their #GazaGenocide
It’s unacceptable, it must be called out & they must release those they’ve kidnapped. Their treatment of them is abhorrent and an affront to international law
#Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸
Israel have used piracy to defend their #GazaGenocide
It’s unacceptable, it must be called out & they must release those they’ve kidnapped. Their treatment of them is abhorrent and an affront to international law
#Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸
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My friend, the activist Ewa Jasiewicz was onboard the Gaza Peace Flotilla and is now in Israeli detention, we're asking the UK government to use its influence to guarantee her safe return.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
British woman on Gaza flotilla captured by Israel calls on UK government to intervene
Ewa Jasiewicz, a British-Polish activist and journalist, was on board the 2010 Gaza aid flotilla in which nine activists were killed. After being captured while sailing to Gaza for a second time, she ...
www.independent.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My friend, the activist Ewa Jasiewicz was onboard the Gaza Peace Flotilla and is now in Israeli detention, we're asking the UK government to use its influence to guarantee her safe return.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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A constituent's son, part of the flotilla, has been detained by the Israeli navy.
I have written to the Foreign Secretary to ask how the Govt is supporting those detained, who bravely risked everything to oppose the collective punishment of Gazans and this illegal blockade.
I have written to the Foreign Secretary to ask how the Govt is supporting those detained, who bravely risked everything to oppose the collective punishment of Gazans and this illegal blockade.
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A constituent's son, part of the flotilla, has been detained by the Israeli navy.
I have written to the Foreign Secretary to ask how the Govt is supporting those detained, who bravely risked everything to oppose the collective punishment of Gazans and this illegal blockade.
I have written to the Foreign Secretary to ask how the Govt is supporting those detained, who bravely risked everything to oppose the collective punishment of Gazans and this illegal blockade.
A senseless, disgusting & unfathomable incident.
📰 The Independent
Two dead and suspect shot after 'appalling' attack at Manchester synagogue
⟶ The Independent | headline in context
Two dead and suspect shot after 'appalling' attack at Manchester synagogue
⟶ The Independent | headline in context
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A senseless, disgusting & unfathomable incident.
Forza ✊
Italian unions have called a general strike for October 2 in solidarity with the flotilla. Protests sprang up in a number of cities late on October 1 after reports that the ships had been intercepted by military personnel reut.rs/4gNI4oa
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Forza ✊
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Israeli forces stopped 14 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, flotilla organizers said, but 23 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, according to the flotilla's tracking system reut.rs/487C9bv
October 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Israeli forces stopped 14 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, flotilla organizers said, but 23 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, according to the flotilla's tracking system reut.rs/487C9bv
Oh look, a policy worked…
NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago.
bbc.in/4o4ymAx
#ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir
NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago.
bbc.in/4o4ymAx
#ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir
London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says
The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.
bbc.in
October 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Oh look, a policy worked…
NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago.
bbc.in/4o4ymAx
#ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir
NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago.
bbc.in/4o4ymAx
#ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir
Happy birthday to trains!
Who would’ve thought, 200 years on, that this fine contraption could help me run an errand, on a dual-electric mode sleek urban train that goes underground & overground.
Here’s to the next 200, we’re gonna need more trains… 🎂2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🛤️ 🚂 #Railway200
Who would’ve thought, 200 years on, that this fine contraption could help me run an errand, on a dual-electric mode sleek urban train that goes underground & overground.
Here’s to the next 200, we’re gonna need more trains… 🎂2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🛤️ 🚂 #Railway200
September 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy birthday to trains!
Who would’ve thought, 200 years on, that this fine contraption could help me run an errand, on a dual-electric mode sleek urban train that goes underground & overground.
Here’s to the next 200, we’re gonna need more trains… 🎂2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🛤️ 🚂 #Railway200
Who would’ve thought, 200 years on, that this fine contraption could help me run an errand, on a dual-electric mode sleek urban train that goes underground & overground.
Here’s to the next 200, we’re gonna need more trains… 🎂2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🛤️ 🚂 #Railway200
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🚨URGENT🚨
We’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper & MPs' Will Stone and Tonia Antoniazzi to act now to protect British nationals/their constituents on the Gaza flotilla
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @willstonemp.bsky.social @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social
We’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper & MPs' Will Stone and Tonia Antoniazzi to act now to protect British nationals/their constituents on the Gaza flotilla
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @willstonemp.bsky.social @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨URGENT🚨
We’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper & MPs' Will Stone and Tonia Antoniazzi to act now to protect British nationals/their constituents on the Gaza flotilla
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @willstonemp.bsky.social @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social
We’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper & MPs' Will Stone and Tonia Antoniazzi to act now to protect British nationals/their constituents on the Gaza flotilla
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @willstonemp.bsky.social @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social
So that’s what’s at the end of the rainbow… 🌈 🚆 🛤️
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So that’s what’s at the end of the rainbow… 🌈 🚆 🛤️
@lner.co.uk doing the heavy lifting shifting thousands of people today on all sorts of journeys, including ours to family in Durham. Good smooth journey, uneventful, just how it should be #TrainTravel #BankHoliday
August 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
@lner.co.uk doing the heavy lifting shifting thousands of people today on all sorts of journeys, including ours to family in Durham. Good smooth journey, uneventful, just how it should be #TrainTravel #BankHoliday
It’s hard to sum up how good it was. Sorry I can’t be there today but this event has been amazing. Yes the range of trains/events was amazing but the best bit for me was the people, all brought together & great to see some familiar faces! Thanks to #DCRail for hosting us!
August 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It’s hard to sum up how good it was. Sorry I can’t be there today but this event has been amazing. Yes the range of trains/events was amazing but the best bit for me was the people, all brought together & great to see some familiar faces! Thanks to #DCRail for hosting us!