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[JB Brap @BrapJb]

All driving is dangerous, so treat it accordingly

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@ClarkeMicah It’s a mystery up there with lord lucan or time travel 👏

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@rhysrmann 6

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@AltDelete74 @Lost___London @BygoneBritain @PubHistoryTours It’s not a shithole now

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, I presented state awards of Ukraine to the people without whom Operation “Spiderweb” would not have happened. We have no right to name them – everything remains absolutely classified and will remain so for a long time. This is already a historic operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, one that was carefully prepared, and on this very day one year ago, it entered its final stage – striking Russian military equipment. Farther than Ukrainian long-range capabilities had ever reached before. As precisely as no one in Russia expected. And as justly as the enemy’s strategic aviation deserves.

“Spiderweb” destroyed or at least damaged 41 aircraft. Never before had Russia lost such equipment, in such numbers, and as a result of strikes by drones that were incomparably cheaper. Ukraine has once again proved that it knows how to act asymmetrically, that it defends itself actively and truly creatively, and that Russia has no chance of overcoming Ukrainian courage. Ukraine will always be one step ahead – in technology, in bravery, and in the ability to capture the world’s attention and rally the support of millions of human hearts.

Ukraine is now applying long-range sanctions against Russia for this war literally every day. We did not start this war, we did not provoke it, and the only thing we wanted for Ukraine and Ukrainians was peace. But as long as the Russians choose the opposite, and as long as Russia does everything to drag out this war and expand it, Ukrainians will continue to find responses that will definitely work. I thank all our warriors for their precision! I thank the Security Service of Ukraine for its long-range leadership! I thank everyone who helps us! Glory to Ukraine!

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@Cobylefko @Danopolitan

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@Cobylefko @Danopolitan Mansion blocks are grandeur!

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@Cobylefko @Danopolitan 2/ Elephant and Castle is a much better example, still evolving

[JB Brap @BrapJb]

@Cobylefko @Danopolitan 1/ The biggest problem (amongst many) with the Nine Elms dev is that it doesn’t pay any attention to street level, much like emirati cities. As much as a Haarlem set up looks attractive, busy transport hubs like Vauxhall should have medium rise and focus on street level quality

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

This situation will only worsen until councils recognise the increasing popularity of cycling in the city and re-evaluate their priorities, favouring a select few vehicles parking over hundreds of bikes. Remove parking spaces, add bike spaces. Times have changed.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Long live the Polish-British alliance! The Northolt Treaty has been signed.

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

You can do a lot with Gripen fighter jets.

But they’re built for one thing.

Good luck, Ukraine.

[BBC London @BBCLondonNews]

School Streets scheme to include 200 more roads ➡️ https://t.co/aVwidhSnXY

[JB Brap @BrapJb]

@willnorman @CamdenCouncil @TfL @SadiqKhan Love to see it

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Reform MP Sarah Pochin has been caught out and has now deleted a video from her social media showing her helping Ethel McGill, once dubbed “Britain’s biggest benefits cheat”.

Ethel faked dementia and mobility problems, hid her father’s death for 12 years, and claimed around £750,000 in benefits.

She was receiving her father’s pension and other benefits after failing to report his death. She also falsely claimed disability allowance for more than a decade.

She even asked Liverpool Housing Trust for a bigger property, claiming her family needed to live together to provide round-the-clock care for her father, who was already dead.

She also got someone to pretend to be her late father and told social workers not to speak to him because he could become aggressive.

She was jailed for six years in 2019.

[JB Brap @BrapJb]

@HCH_Hill @AaronBastani This isn’t Planet of the Apes, there’s space for both and this one has been dedicated for birds so leave it to them. If you have a shit then advocate for better swimming space elsewhere

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

13 years ago, Rotherham, England turned 8 miles of mowed roadside grass into a "river of flowers." In 2021, they added even more miles.

The original scheme was commissioned by Rotherham Council in 2013, designed by Professor Nigel Dunnett at the University of Sheffield, and seeded with a 180-species wildflower mix along the central reservations of the town's main ring road. It replaced mowing that had been costing the council around £80,000 a year.

Since then: the wildflower verges have saved roughly £23,000 to £25,000 per two-year mowing cycle, increased pollinator abundance, and inspired similar programs in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Sheffield.

In 2021, Rotherham added 3.5 more miles across 12 new sites including Herringthorpe, Swinton, Harthill, and Maltby. They just keep expanding it.

The UK has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows in the last 100 years. Most of what was lost was paved, plowed, or mowed. The verges nobody was using anyway turned out to be one of the largest untapped habitats in the country.

[JB Brap @BrapJb]

@Corballyred Also seems thick, unable to learn

[Tom Miller @TommyYesItsMe]

@Boenau E-bikes and electric scooters cause chaos and damage everywhere they go.

#bollards

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful?

​Let’s look at the facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

You pressured Ukraine by cutting off weapons support entirely, constantly badmouthing us, and showing up at our doorstep waving Russian "peace plan" you demanded we sign immediately.

​And now, after Ukraine stands more firmly on its feet without your support, you realize you can't pressure us anymore. So your excuse is that you are tired and leaving?

​How about, for once, you actually support the victim, which is Ukraine instead of terrorist Russian regime? Send your team to Kyiv, support our fight, and apply real pressure on aggressor.

Sanction Russia and seize their shadow fleet instead of handing out sanction waivers. Do that, and maybe negotiations will magically become "fruitful."

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

There are good results from the warriors of the SSU Special Operations Center “A.” A Russian FSB headquarters has been struck, and a Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile system has been destroyed in our temporarily occupied territory. Thanks to just this one operation, Russian losses amount to around a hundred occupiers killed and wounded. Russians must feel that they must bring this war of theirs to an end. Ukraine’s medium- and long-range sanctions will keep working.