Alex Shapland-Howes

Co-founder @Ride_Tandem. #COYG.

[Alex Shapland-Howes @alexshsh]

Hey @AerLingus , I thought window seats with no window was more of a Ryanair thing. 7hr45 flight too!

[Ian Wright @IanWright0]

CAN WE CELEBRATE NOW????❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1]

On Thursday night, we heard that government was making big concessions on its planning bill, putting lots more controls on its nature recovery plans.

I find this disappointing. And to explain why, I have to tell a story I’ve been holding off from sharing.

[Jason Furman @jasonfurman]

Serious question: if you believe there was >25% chance that Dario Amodei was right about AI eliminating tens of millions of jobs over the next 1-5 years including half of all entry-level white collar jobs. What would government do now? What would it do if this really happened?

[Jack Pitt-Brooke @JackPittBrooke]

Very cool that a decision can get upheld by VAR at the time but then overturned anyway two days later. I'm starting to wonder whether destroying football as we knew it in pursuit of the chimera of 100% accuracy was really worth the hassle!

[Tom Bridges @bridges_tom]

Early start for the Leeds to Nottingham train. This service connects the West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Midlands conurbations which have a combined population of £6.3m and 3 core cities along a 70 mile corridor. The journey time is around two hours. Ave speed: 36mph 🧵

[Andy Silvester @silvesterldn]

*screams into the void*

Buckinghamshire’s general election candidates have celebrated the refusal of planning permission for a proposed film studio backed by Avatar director James Cameron

https://t.co/JqIVzjQP42

[Alex Shapland-Howes @alexshsh]

I wrote an article this morning explaining why I and the team @ride_tandem are so proud to have been certified as a B Corp.

We're the first smart commuter shuttle company anywhere in the world to achieve that milestone.

https://t.co/Xmo7prNgNG

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.

The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

🧵 Received wisdom: ‘Football doesn’t need a regulator! It will ruin smooth running of Premier League’

Also received wisdom

In Feb 23 Man City face PL charges they funnelled £ from Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority to club to get round FFP rules 2009-18. Club denies this…

[Nick Harris @sportingintel]

I get that VAR will help eliminate avoidable wrong decisions. Until recently, I sincerely believed that. But you get to a point where it's ruining football's spontaneity, destroying joy, and also being so, so fallible. The Championship without it: yay.

[@jamestplunkett.bsky.social @jamestplunkett]

A Sunday game for digital geeks:
What institutions are we missing when it comes to public digital infrastructure?
I’m thinking long-term - ones we should build in the next 10 years. My starter list to critique/build on: 🧵

[Jennifer Williams @JenWilliams_FT]

A year ago, I started following how the cost of living crisis was playing out at an Oldham school, checking in with the fantastic @NewmanRC_Head every few weeks. I ended up learning a lot about the British state, and its education system, to boot.
https://t.co/4SMEa6J6lH

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

This is the key chart for comparing transport in US vs Europe:

US cities have chosen car travel. They do it pretty well (with obvious negative externalities)

Euro cities (+ London) have chosen public transport, and do it pretty well

UK-ex London does neither well, and suffers.

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

Manchester getting its buses back under public control isn't just a local story, it has national historical significance. it marks the beginning of the end of an experiment nobody asked for, which failed immediately, but which took nearly 40 years to start to unpick

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Ah Monday morning. Watching the bus driver take a twenty pound note, get out a plastic laminating pouch, print a ticket, and stick it into the pouch. A weekly ticket. In 2023. All while 70 people on the bus wait.

[Nick Harris @sportingintel]

Every time Man City play a match, in any competition, anyone reporting on them should remember Uefa have already fined them 30m euros, un-appealed, for cheating, for 2014 and 2020 breaches. And they face 115 charges of PL rule breaches, ongoing.

[Kasra Naji @BBCKasraNaji]

World Press Photo winner this year: a photograph by Iranian freelance photographer Ahmad Halabisaz. An Iranian woman sits on a chair in front of a busy square in Tehran, defying the mandatory hijab law a few days after Mahsa Amini’s death. @WorldPressPhoto @Iran