Celestial M Weasel

I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die

[Murky Depths @TheMurkyDepths]

Development Corporations will help aid development but no panacea.

Ebbsfleet DC just revealed latest annual starts. Despite the DC and transport links such as HS1, only a little more than 200 homes started across the year.

Worse than 2020/21. 75 yrs to complete at that rate

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

*BBC Radio 4 voice*
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In 1893 the town of Pudsey built its grand Liberal Club. By 2026, the word Liberal had eroded to almost nothing. Today, on our walk into Leeds, we ponder what this means for liberalism today and discuss what comes next,...

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

The erosion of the graduate premium everywhere in Britain except for London, where housing eats up most of the premium anyway, means that young people are probably right to have got less positive about university. But what will they do instead? https://t.co/M6EjUlEVV3

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"Confidence in the value of a degree hits record low in England" > markets work. Kids are, overall, quite smart. https://t.co/YemdyXq2L6 via @FT

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

the obit is too polite to say this but of course you'll struggle to attract job ads if the front half of the paper is dedicated to insulting and threatening the job candidates and indeed the clients.

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

interesting obit of Guardian exec Caroline Marsland reveals something...you know how so many horrific columnists used to whine all the time about the Guardian job ads?

[Edward Gibbon @EdwardEGibbon]

Equine Studies has 24 times as many first degrees students as gender studies in the UK and I doubt it has ever been mentioned in an opinion piece.

[night brain @_night_brain__]

I really pity the intelligent people who are professionally required to make sense of the grey sludge emerging from Tony Blair's mind

[matt @mattybtweets69]

looking for jobs is awesome man should I apply on bebee or jooble

[Lynsey Parker @LynseyJParker]

What the hell did Brum do?

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

I wonder if the "necessary works" are things that became necessary because someone threatened to hold up the project until they got them....

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

We have had a (twee) Great British Railways ad on YouTube

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@yorksranter https://t.co/ZsSv48ApWH

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@yorksranter "The first trains between Old Oak Common in west London and Birmingham Curzon Street will now start running between 2036 and 2039, with the full railway running from London Euston to join the west coast mainline in Staffordshire scheduled to be completed between 2040 and 2043."

[Noel Dolphin @NoelDolphin]

Leeds is looking lovely today. Light rail conference - lots of speakers kept saying we need to work harder on our business cases - felt like heckling "doesn't matter how hard you work - Treasury will tell you to piss off".

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@yorksranter I would guess that Victoria Plumb was a poor joke and then Victorian Plumbing was then chosen coincidentally for entirely legitimate business reasons

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@thomasforth My main beef (beef tomato?) with it is that it should go further south in Italy

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@richmondie Councils tend not to publicise it as they need / want the money but they have to provide them, usually at a mildly inconvenient time