Three cheers for state efficiency. Passport renewal appointment = 380 seconds. Wait for train to morning meeting = 180 seconds. Customs House to Paddington (a journey of 11 miles) 25 minutes on the Lizzie line. #notbroken
For next time you're traveling in London here's a brilliant live tube map, where you can zoom in and out of the network to see where all trains are. Created by Ben James https://t.co/qUBsCrFZEH
.@BBCBlindGazza ends his acceptance speech at last night’s RTS Television Journalism Awards by reflecting on the barriers he faced as a blind broadcaster #RTSAwards
It’s hard for anyone who was not then alive to know how full the 1990s were with hope. Britain’s economic decline had reversed. Martial prowess had been rediscovered in the Falklands War. Communism had failed. Investment was inward. Wallets had more money in them.…
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UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade
Highlights:
🏭end of coal power after 142yrs
🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share
🌄renewables at record-high 45%
https://t.co/zsH79J7HeK
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In Baku today it is as if there are five @DavidLammy clones. He is everywhere at COP & making a huge & hugely positive impression.
I can’t exaggerate how great it is to have such a senior figure drag the focus away from the technocratic one-dimensional focus on carbon counting towards championing the actual natural world we all depend on and without which we haven’t a hope of stabilising the climate.
It is wonderful to see & so good to have the UK back & leading on this, the most important cause of all 👏🌎👏
The success of the King's Cross area of London is one of the world's finest examples of a big state using bucketloads of cash and institutions to crowd in huge amounts of private sector investment. Was it a one off? Or can we do the same elsewhere? https://t.co/iilRc6jHyf
the 2024 tube passenger stats are out: useful context that shows when we talk about passengers being 'down' since Covid, they are 'down' to 2012-13 levels and growing from there, not some fatal historic shift in how people travel. Covid bought the tube a decade of breathing room
My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share
RIP Bobby Charlton. This picture (teenage Bobby challenging his mum, Cissy, in the air in their backyard in Ashington) may be my favourite football image of all time. #RIPBobby