Tom Walmsley

Hospital Pharmacist. Rugby, Cycling, Coffee. Interested in sustainability ♻️💊🏉🚴‍♂️

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks.

Incredible piece of work this.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Just absolutely brilliant work by @Spiruel here. He digitised the 1957 tram timetables of Leeds and then then did transport accessibility analysis to show how much bigger Leeds was by public transport 70 years ago than it is today. https://t.co/QgGPohxWxo

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Former CIA officer Josephine Gillio said"In Iran, 165 innocent little girls were killed by American Tomahawk missiles fired from destroyers."

"I can say this as a former officer, 'We Are The Terrorists'."

[Charlie Moloney @CharlieMoloney]

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen an interview where a government minister has so clearly laid out that student loans are now being used as a way to raise additional money for other public expenditure, rather than just a way to make grads pay for their own education

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

The govt's Student Loan Plan 2 repayment freeze in April 2027 must be reversed. It isn't moral.

I'm concerned that my debate with Kemi Badenoch this morning distracts from the most immediate problem. In April 2027 Rachel Reeves will freeze the Plan 2 student loan threshold until 2030 which by then will increase graduate repayments by £300/yr more.

This is effectively a unilateral negative breach of the student loan contract. Students were told the threshold would rise with average earnings. No commercial lender would be allowed to do this. The govt shouldn't do it either.

Changing the terms of future students loans is a political decision - people may not like it but it is transparent. Negatively changing the terms of contracts already signed, and long in place, is a breach of natural justice.

[Martin Williams @martinrw]

This is absolutely outrageous from @bbcquestiontime!

One week before a by-election which is a 2-horse race between Reform and the Greens.... and they only invite Reform on to the show?

How can this possibly be regarded as "impartial"?

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

At £125k a year rent what are .@TfL imagining can be sold from that kiosk? Why is everything in this country now absolutely mental?

[Glen Mitchell @GlenMitchell1]

Farage is fundamentally wrong on the evidence on home working but even if he wasn’t it’s has literally nothing to do with him to interfere with private companies working practices. And no amount of cheering on from people a decade into retirement make those any more right.

[👨🏻‍🦯 @hwksyy]

I’ve never seen someone say we need to scrap work life balance 🤣🤣 can’t believe people think he’s the man of the working class

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

It’s worth remembering only 6% of housing in the UK is actually designed by an architect

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

The Reform UK @GoodwinMJ campaign and printer is blaming a “trimming error” for the imprint not being on the letter.

Bearing in mind the letter is A4, what exactly was trimmed.

And why would you print on A4 and trim it? The images show it clearly wasn’t trimmed.

The lie is getting bigger Gorton & Denton.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

In UK election law, sending out election material without a proper imprint is a criminal offence.

That is an offence under section 110 RPA 1983. If proven, consequences can include:
•Criminal conviction
•Unlimited fine (since sentencing reforms)
•Disqualification from holding elected office (for candidates or agents)
•Void election result if the offence is shown to have materially affected the outcome
•Police investigation, not just Electoral Commission review

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

It's not a misstep. It's a beautiful illustration of how we got here in the first place. With the British media's full complicity.

[Aaron Newbury @AJNewbury94]

Particularly enjoyed the 'well how did you guys pay for it' section, when challenged on how to fund education by a panel of people who didn't have to pay for their own.

The pearl clutching around how tuition could possibly be paid for by a political establishment who all had theirs state funded will never cease to amaze me.

Tuition fees and the extortionate costs dumped on our generation should be a national scandal - if it had happened to any other generation, it would be.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Lord Mandelson gave Jeffrey Epstein advance notice of a €500bn bailout to save the Euro

He messaged Epstein about the bailout on the evening of May 9, 2010

It was formally announced the following morning

[Tom Walmsley @TomWam]

@charlie_keane @Marco_mmabjj @hoffman_noa Much of the recent annoyance comes from no one in 2012 forseeing RPI to be running into the double digits for extended periods, leading interest rates to be capped at ~7.3% then 7.9% for successive years. And Reeves keeping repayment thresholds stagnant as cost of living rises

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The British government learnt of the data leak in August 2023.

24k Afghans secretly granted asylum, costing British taxpayers up to £7 billion.

The government covered it up.

Who was in government?

Home Secretary: Suella Braverman

Immigration Minister: Robert Jenrick

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

There’s always a tweet.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

NEW NEWS!!!!

RT to win a @newheightshow hat signed by @tkelce and to help him win the #WPMOYChallenge