Iain Roberts

Alt text: An odd street sign, with each letter in a cube, along with arrows and a marker symbol. The street name is vertical.

Chalton Street, Euston #SignsOnSaturday #Photography #ClassicMono

I've no great insight, but I have visited Murton a couple of times. It's a proud mining village, fallen on hard times. It's had quite a bit on money invested in it since the pits closed, and lots of renewable/battery storage schemes in the area offering new job opportunities.

The War Double Album, by Mitch Benn 20 track album

It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY, when BC waives its usual cut so the artist gets your whole payment…

Out today on my Bandcamp site for no particular reason: The WAR DOUBLE ALBUM. 20 tracks about bellicose idiocy in all its forms: mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...

I would thoroughly recommend @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's Origin Story on Ayn Rand. Like Jesus, they suffered so I didn't have to. open.spotify.com/episode/2KUw...

All true

The Rowling Tax - and only women are required to pay it.

Sunlight shines on parts of a fairly desolate-looking moorland with a low fence running across.

Yorkshire moors #Photography #Scape #EastCoastKin

I've always thought this was true of human psychology generally. Most people, for example, are far more concerned at earning slightly less than a colleague doing similar work, than about earning a tiny fraction of the CEO's income. We first compare ourselves to our peers.

Helen inventing a new cheese: "And for that perfect top-note, a drop of raw sewage."

#TheArchers

Disposable income growth in the 10 years since Brexit expected be about zero, lower than any period in the 65 years before Brexit.

Hardworking taxpayers fund our armed forces.

Meanwhile influencers like Isabel Oakeshott live overseas, contribute nothing, and still benefit from the protection of the UK.

If she's going to pick a fight with @calummillerld.bsky.social, she should at least get her facts right.

My wife said that without the car, it could easily have been a photo from from the 1970s.

white painted bike lane Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km.

"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation — Streetsblog USA The Three Tenors of Urbanism explain their latest effort: The Urban Truth Collective.

NEW: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, & that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”

@grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social & I have a blunt new @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed telling the story of why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social.

Please help share it! @nyc.streetsblog.org

True of any technology, surely. Nothing special about LLMs that they can be put to bad uses as well as good, and have limitations.

Looking down a bowling alley with red-lit Lane edges.

Bowling alley #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInteriors #Photography

Just disappointing you couldn't go the whole way by hovercraft: down the M2, into the channel then along the autoroute to Paris.

Daily Mirror photo from a century ago today: "Burlesque in new review". A man and a woman dressed in what look like normal clothes.

Burlesque a century ago gives the impression of being a little tamer than burlesque today.

GH-2000 London-Paris/Brussels Seaspeed costs less than a plane and it's faster than a ship It's a fact, you save time and money with Seaspeed's daily capital services. London to Paris by train-hovercraft-train takes only 6 hours and costs just £14-40. London to Brussels by train-hovercraft-coach takes just 7% hours and costs only £12-75. And either way the channel crossing takes only half an hour. With Seaspeed you get the best of both worlds. Seaspeed Hovercraft the fast no fuss way to Europe for bookings phone 01-606 3681 or Dover (0304) 202266, Seaspeed Travel Agents or principal B.R. Stations.

In 1976 you could travel from London to Paris by train and hovercraft in just six hours for just £14.40. Those were the days.

BOMBS BLITZ THE bombers struck two blows at the heart of London last night. But the city -shaken by the Cannon Street train bombing yesterday morning --again got off lightly. A busload of children had a lucky escape from one of last night's blasts, The children, who had been at a publishers Children's miracle escape from blast four reception, drove off from the target area about minutes before the explosion. And the only casualty was woman who suffered shock. a The night attacks came within hours of the end-ing of a terrorist trial at the Old Bailey. Members of an Irish family and three others were convicted of possess ing explosives. Two of them got maxi-mum 14-year sentences. London's day of terror began when an empty commuter train Was blown up as it left Can-non Street Station for a siding. Only minutes earlier the train had been carry-ing 1,200 passengers. Last night came the second part of the blitz. BOMB No., I was planted under a parked King Street, Covent Garden, outside Penny's Place wine bar. car in It wrecked three cars, shattered shop fronts but missed the children. It also missed actor Andrew Cruickshank, Dr. Cameron of "Dr. Fin-lay's Casebook," and Mr. George Thomson, Brit-ain's Commissioner for the Common Market. They were dining at Continued on Back Page

As right-wing shills tell us how dangerous London is these days, remember that for much of the late-20th century London was being regularly bombed. This headline is from 50 years ago today: an empty train was blown up as it left Cannon Street station, then a bomb was set off in Covent Garden.

This is sort of good, but by the end of the Parliament, child poverty will be back to 2023 levels, so clearly much more to do.

A small pub sits underneath a concrete overpass.

Under the bridge, Halifax #Photography #Urban #Monochrome

BOMBS BLITZ THE bombers struck two blows at the heart of London last night. But the city -shaken by the Cannon Street train bombing yesterday morning --again got off lightly. A busload of children had a lucky escape from one of last night's blasts, The children, who had been at a publishers Children's miracle escape from blast four reception, drove off from the target area about minutes before the explosion. And the only casualty was woman who suffered shock. a The night attacks came within hours of the end-ing of a terrorist trial at the Old Bailey. Members of an Irish family and three others were convicted of possess ing explosives. Two of them got maxi-mum 14-year sentences. London's day of terror began when an empty commuter train Was blown up as it left Can-non Street Station for a siding. Only minutes earlier the train had been carry-ing 1,200 passengers. Last night came the second part of the blitz. BOMB No., I was planted under a parked King Street, Covent Garden, outside Penny's Place wine bar. car in It wrecked three cars, shattered shop fronts but missed the children. It also missed actor Andrew Cruickshank, Dr. Cameron of "Dr. Fin-lay's Casebook," and Mr. George Thomson, Brit-ain's Commissioner for the Common Market. They were dining at Continued on Back Page

As right-wing shills tell us how dangerous London is these days, remember that for much of the late-20th century London was being regularly bombed. This headline is from 50 years ago today: an empty train was blown up as it left Cannon Street station, then a bomb was set off in Covent Garden.

indeed - and that's the issue. It's fine to have a national policy, but on the ground Greens are finding reasons to go against it. So if I elect a Green MP, what will I get?

Green Party fractured over pylons after leader comments Green Party leader Zack Polanski, MP Adrian Ramsay and East Suffolk Council leader Caroline Topping have spoken about the project.

Here's one example www.eadt.co.uk/news/2563220...

You must be aware of Green MPs opposing pylons in their constituencies.

If the Greens take the threat so seriously, why are Green MPs campaigning against infrastructure like pylons that's essential to decarbonise our power supply?

About £100.

GH-2000 London-Paris/Brussels Seaspeed costs less than a plane and it's faster than a ship It's a fact, you save time and money with Seaspeed's daily capital services. London to Paris by train-hovercraft-train takes only 6 hours and costs just £14-40. London to Brussels by train-hovercraft-coach takes just 7% hours and costs only £12-75. And either way the channel crossing takes only half an hour. With Seaspeed you get the best of both worlds. Seaspeed Hovercraft the fast no fuss way to Europe for bookings phone 01-606 3681 or Dover (0304) 202266, Seaspeed Travel Agents or principal B.R. Stations.

In 1976 you could travel from London to Paris by train and hovercraft in just six hours for just £14.40. Those were the days.