mark fladge

[Queensbury Tunnel @QburyTunnel]

Queensbury Tunnel is the next "impossible restoration" - the terms used to describe the 1970s proposal to reopen the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
Today, the waterway supports local businesses and helps to improve mental and physical health.
Our communities deserve similar benefits.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@ftweekend "..father of psychoanalysis had a profound impact on surrealism & abstract expressionism.."
Abstract expressionism? Not a link I had heard before & sounded unlikely. Indeed the article goes on not to mention abstract expressionism in any shape or form, let alone the link asserted

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@itvfootball The Americans or Fifa are playing hackneyed & rubbish pop-music after goals. What is that supposed to bring to the game? #FIFAWorldCup

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@TrackGazette "He held off Olympic & World Champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi"
He did indeed "hold him off" - the head-on camera told the story. #lutzkenhaus #oslodl

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@FelixRomark America is full of bad actors already. Leonardo di Caprio, Matt LeBlanc, Johnny Galecki, Denzel Washington, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Will Smith - they are all paid & famous far beyond their abilities because they have the marketing juggernaut behind them.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@bbctms If Stokes has to stand down, Bairstow would make a great replacement. He is the best batsman currently playing in England, in all forms of the game, and a natural leader. He is very much the equal of Smith behind the wickets, and could get that position also if he wants it.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@englandcricket 2 wins in 24 hours - shame there wasn't a rugby match as well.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@bbctms @BBCiPlayer I predict England will lose this game. After Brook, Root & Stokes, the batting isn't good enough.
Bairstow should be in the side, batting at 3, & keeping wicket if he wants it. He has continued his great form from the end of last season. He's got more about him than Gay, Smith

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@AthleticsWeekly So impressive to win the 800m when it is run all-out rather than tactically.

[Queensbury Tunnel @QburyTunnel]

150 years ago today, 33-year-old Richard Jones - one of 200 miners working on the construction of Queensbury Tunnel - was killed when the 4cwt stone he was working with a pick broke free and fell on him.
He was buried at St John’s Church, Clayton on 1st June 1876.
(AI visual)

[Queensbury Tunnel @QburyTunnel]

Heritage vandals. @NationalHways has nothing positive to offer.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@BBCNews FootballFocus didn't need to end; it was messed about with too much. It wasn't broken, but the BBC decided to fix it anyway. The diversity always seems to come at the expense of northern presenters not the London lot with their "urban" glottal-stops. There are numerous examples

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@FT The article seems self-congratulatory to anyone from the north, and ultimately risible.

Did the author stop to ask the people in the big grey BMW where their money came from?

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@GBNEWS Why isn't the UK government asking people to drive less and slower like the Australian government (which has also introduced free public transport in 2 states). We are sleep-walking into big supply-chain problems for basic food-stuffs. #petrol

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@BBCNews Oil is up from $73 to $111 a barrel since start of war, a rise of 52%, yet at no stage has petrol at my local Asda been up anything like 52%. Stores need to ensure they pass the *entire* increase in petrol/diesel prices to drivers, rather than quietly putting up prices in-store.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@BBCNews Starmer isn't the problem; he's right to hold on. When people on the doorstep are asked what's wrong with Labour, it's easier to say, "Don't like Starmer", than to say, "I don't like immigration."
I'm worried about immigration too: council-houses, GP appointments, congested roads

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@BBCScotlandNews There are few airports in the UK with better and cheaper public transport connections from the surrounding population - east, west and north, 24 hours.

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@thetimes Starmer isn't the problem. When people on the doorstep are asked why they won't vote Labour, it's easier to say, "I don't like Starmer", than to say, "I don't like immigration." #starmer

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@AthleticsWeekly Surely Hodgkinson isn't going to do a Juantorena in LA?

[mark fladge @fladgy]

@BBCBreaking Personally I am more than impressed that Starmer is prepared to stay on. It must be truly awful being Prime Minister at the moment.
Starmer is doing a very credible job. I'm not interested in what vox-pop "man on the street" says on the News.