Tom Ward

Train from Amsterdam delayed by the Dutch border asking everyone passing through for their marathon times.

Great news. Time to get my son his own lifetime membership.

One reason why I am a nut for devolution is this: central government ministers shouldn't spend their working hours thinking about the correct design of bus stops.

Very much looking forward to both this and The History of Concrete. Two great looking documentaries for this autumn.

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

At 19 I went inter-railing for a month, visiting cities between Budapest and Barcelona. No mobile phones, or internet cafés, I think I spoke to my parents twice? They didn't even know what country I was in most of the time. I'd love my own kids to be able to experience that independence.

ALDI German Pilsner Beer crisps. Weirdly not as bad as I thought they’d be. Almost moreish.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Annoying I can't take my myth obsessed 13-year-old to see The Odyssey. We could do with the 15A rating they have in Ireland.

Last ever primary school drop-off complete. Daughter joining my son in secondary school from September. A new era.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Adieu Bonnie Tyler www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryjZ...

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

Every time I read about US Supreme Court decisions they seem to be basically: Racism: 6-3 FOR Transphobia: 6-3 FOR Trump gets away with stuff: 6-3 FOR Corruption: 6-3 FOR Corporations get away with stuff: 6-3 FOR Literally destroying democracy: 5-4 AGAINST Nearly destroying democracy: 6-3 FOR

Hope we're all a bit in love with this guy x

X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

Have the police even said this re: Southampton? It's Elon Musk, Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, etc. saying "The police were incompetent because they were afraid...". They're not covering for them, they want pressure on the police to be even more racist.

Events in Southampton would be terrifying enough, but made more so by being less than 50m from where I grew up. For 10 years I lived on Belmont Road where Henry Nowak was killed. Could see Portswood Police station from our back garden.

“Streeting? Burnham? Who cares? Just get after Farage while he’s vulnerable” says STEWART LEE www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

I am so furious about the toilet BS, which creates a totally bizarre environment in which nosey people can stop anyone from having a wee. What sort of govt feels good about creating the means to stop people having a wee? We need more free public toilets, not ways to make it harder to go to the loo

Just one indignity after another supporting Southampton. They better sack whoever is responsible for this shit. After the miserable season in the Premier League and poor start this year, even the fun of the last few months now taken from us. I'm absolutely fuming.

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Thought they'd do well, but still surprised the Greens have taken control of Waltham Forest (including all three seats in my ward). The Labour council did a good job, but it's a thankless task, no money, no real power, and taking the blame for thousands of things out of your control.

What a view after a steep hike

I’m on a (bullet) train!

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

This "School Wars" bullshit has reached my son's school in Waltham Forest. I don't know who's behind it, but it's causing a huge amount of unnecessary worry for parents and students. Trying to stir up violence amongst schoolchildren is just sick.

Someone I know did several months specialised work on the Windsor estate, and their main takeaway was that Prince Andrew was a massive prick.

Sound off, I thought this was a wheelie bin

I've written a piece for the @econ-observatory.bsky.social on the history of GDS. Notably, why you need change both top down and bottom up incentives if you're aiming to help a large, federated organisation adopt radical change.

What an absolutely vile human you’d have to be to make these fake race-baiting TikToks. That’s the world we’re living in I guess, where you can make serious money stirring up racial hatred. Great reporting from @londoncentric.media, glad to be a subscriber.

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

We did this journey last summer (though starting from Euston and staying a couple of nights in Aviemore en route). Gorgeous scenery north of Inverness, and unexpectedly the best on-train WiFi I've ever used.

Always find it staggering that Donald Trump is only three years younger than John Major, a Prime Minister who left office almost 30 years ago. None of our more recent Prime Ministers are older than this. I couldn't understand the "is Biden too old?" shit because they both seemed senile to me.

I just don't understand why last week, when the porn all started appearing, they just said "we will stop posting on X until it prevents grok porn".

Something for DHH to add to his London post. Maybe it was the “native Brits” doing all the murder? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent Fed Chair?"

Started off a list earlier this week & struggled to find all the MPs that have actually set up profiles on Bluesky rather than just be on X. So built a little utility via TheyWorkForYou and Bluesky APIs to see if I could make it more comprehensive, so far I think I've found about 353 mps.dowu.uk