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It's probably just a coincidence that 'Escape from Alcatraz' aired multiple times on a local South Florida station just as our TV-obsessed president was staying at Mar-a-Lago and suddenly decided that the prison needed to be reopened. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 8 hours ago • 208 comments

111 points though. 😎

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember Carson Yeung? Birmingham City fans will. A fascinating dive by Martin Purbrick into the Wo Hop To trade society, whose shadow looms large over Yeung's business affairs. asiacrimecentury.substack.com/p/the-wo-hop...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

@dom5.bsky.social 🧐

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Since the election, Labour has lost more than three times as many voters to the Lib Dems as to Reform" (Rachel Sylvester writes in the Observer today). They don't act like they are concerned about those lost votes

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

This story, and this particular nugget from it, exemplifies the avoidable failures of this government so far. The Carer's Allowance overpayment issue was known about for years, was elevated to front page status months before the GE - and yet still it carries on www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Almost beginning to find us a bit unbearable.... 🙃 #bcfc

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Don't be coming around here with your investment and jobs. This is a local county for local people.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

An excellent video on why Newcastle & the wider region should bring back trams, by Edificity! Love the thought of a pedestrian and tram only Blackett Street too! 😍 WATCH HERE > youtu.be/NqNsRSMyY9s?...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Also, again, to the polling vs outcomes thing - if the voters of East Anglia dislike pylons and panels, they are going to fucking hate being under three metres of water.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Will be digging into the weeds of these results some more in coming days, here's one graph to ponder - average shares for Reform and Lib Dems by share of graduates in the wards. The education divide looms ever larger...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I'm sure the failure to act on the HE crisis is helping this. Many of the places with the most grads also have Universities

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

David Cameron destroyed the UK’s place in Europe to try to prevent this, less than a decade ago. Amazing.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Never miss an opportunity to draw the wrong conclusion.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Newcastle didn't have elections today but that's where I live so I checked what sort of effect Farage's favourite plans would have. In Jan - March 2025 £126,060.76 was spent on 'Inclusive Employment'. That's 0.08% of the total spend of £153,472,093.67. 'Climate Change Strategy' came to £43255, 0.03%

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An illustration of how FPP goes from sandbag to springboard - Reform votes and seats in different councils: Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Apart from everything else, lots of councils are now going to be run by groups of people with almost zero experience between them. It's an incredibly complex job (been there....) so this is just another element of the overall municipal disaster. 🙄

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Lib Dems are enjoying themselves, anyway.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Can't wait for Spurs v Man U Europa League Final. 🔥

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#ICYMI Our newest blogpost explores the history of bridges across the River Tyne in Newcastle and links to their history found in a few of our collections: Read it here: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Yes: think it's this and Bowie the serious contenders. 🤔 Good Q!

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One of the subplots of today’s elections will be how much the first past the post system creaks amid multi-party contests. It’s not inconceivable that a powerful mayoralty could be won with a 30%ish vote share on a 30%ish turnout. That’s the explicit backing of only just above one in ten voters.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I’ll be at the Hexham Book Festival this Sunday evening. Come along if this is your part of the world!

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

They're not even using a different URL

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

1️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Birmingham 2024/25* 1️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ Reading 2005/06 1️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ Sunderland 1998/99 1️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ Wolves 2013/14 Birmingham have set a new record for the most points in a single EFL season… and they still have one game remaining! 😅 #BCFC #EFL

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If you choose to buy and drive an SUV or "light truck" then you are also choosing to put vulnerable road users, particularly children, at greater risk of death. You can spin it all you want about interior space, driving position or personal safety, but that's what it is.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

The University of Derby employs more people than Toyota's UK factory. If you had to chose one to go bust what would it be?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

He doesn't know what tattoos look like, he doesn't know what photoshop does, he doesn't know what asylum means, he just knows the first thing he thinks of about whatever you've just put in front of his big, dumb face. If he was a dog, he'd still be looking for that ball you pretended to throw.

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My standard rule is that before anyone is allowed to talk shit about a university's economic role, they have to tell me how many people they think it employs. They're normally wrong by a factor of ten. This should also be the first question to any MP offering thoughts on the topic.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

www.claremontroadrunners.co.uk/2025/04/28/s... Finished second in a two-horse race last night, but away goals count double or something... 🤔

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Compare what this article says about BBC coverage of a proposed new bike lane with the news of the BBC ordering that the Happy Heat Pump podcast be stopped on the grounds of bias.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments