I’ve written an article for @worksinprogress.bsky.social about through running. It’s the most cost-effective way of upgrading railway lines in nearly all British cities.
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ma...
Seriously – Potsdam is well worth a day trip! The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is fun too.
berghain
1760:
🇫🇷25 million people
🏴5.5 million
2025
🇫🇷68 million
🏴56 million
If France’s population growth had kept pace with England’s, there would be 250 million Frenchmen and another 320 million abroad.
What happened? 🧵
www.worksinprogress.news/p/570-millio...
The image of crusading lawyers arguing before political courts has to be replaced with a stereotype that the law is all deeply dull, exciting only to a few nerds.
I’ve seen so many people saying that the Supreme Court are a bunch of TERFs.
That’s not what happened. Instead, Parliament passed two Acts that weren’t easily reconciled, and the UKSC had to work out what the provisions meant.
I’ve written a Substack post about why Leeds should have a tram-metro (aka a Stadtbahn), not just a tram.
This is what Hannover has. Hannover is the same size as Leeds, and offers a compelling model for better public transport.
open.substack.com/pub/springbe...
I don’t believe it would require any homes being destroyed; it’s mainly greenery on both sides of the line.
The challenges would I think be rebuilding Earlsfield station and the road bridges.
I think both of those are fair points!
Streatham station is currently a bit of a pain given the issues with the Wimbledon Loop but I have a plan to fix that…
I’ve previously written about how we should descope Crossrail 2, so it no longer serves Chelsea and Hackney. This will enable it to be built more cheaply. www.greaterlondon.co/p/crossrail-...
But there is still a need to connect Chelsea and Hackney (and various other places!) to the Tube network.
I’ve got my crayons out, and have proposed a new Tube line: the Chelsea–Hackney Line.
open.substack.com/pub/springbe...
Am I correct in thinking it just wasn’t allowing presale signups for the European shows?
Isn’t a citizen’s arrest warrant a contradiction?
If you’re referring to the same video I saw – they didn’t even successfully apprehend them! Truly remarkable.
Thanks! I hadn’t realised you had invented the term: could you pop me a link to wherever you first used it so I can credit you with it?
you started a music PhD?! man of mystery
Didn’t have the MASSIVE PLANT back then!
I’d go with /ˌɔːxənˈrɒx/, but I’d imagine some Scots (and most English) would go with /ˌɔːkənˈrɒk/.
That’s not the argument I’m making. I’m saying that as a matter of law, we are not bound by the ICJ.
That is of course a separate question from the moral and strategic arguments. But we shouldn’t pretend that we are in any legal sense ‘required’ to hand back the Chagos Islands.
The ICJ opinion was advisory. It’s not legally binding unless all parties consent to be bound by the Court’s decision.
You can disagree with the consent requirement, of course, but that’s what the rules are. As a matter of law it’s just wrong to say that Britain ‘has’ to give up the Chagos Islands.
Did you also do the last verse?
“Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
“And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!
“Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead”
In an ideal world we’d have built Boris Island, but that idea is dead in the water so Heathrow it is.
I’m convinced Arab Sheikhs see litigation (and disputes more generally) as a hobby. At least it makes plenty of money for the commercial Bar!
I’m sorry but this just sounds like an offcut lyric from either ‘The Best Day’ or ‘Never Grow Up’.
If you went to uni,
1. What was your career goal when you started?
2. Your initial program?
3. If you changed programs, what did you change to?
4. What do you do now?
1. Something in politics or IR
2. Arabic & Hebrew
3. Linguistics while I as at university, and later law
4. Studying for the Bar
Marc Andreessen sat on a wall
Marc Andreessen had a great fall
All of Trump’s forces and all of Trump’s men
Couldn’t make America build again
I suppose of the TikTok ban, one has to ask: would you approve of your young sons, young daughters—because girls can scroll as well as boys—scrolling this app? Is it an app you would have lying around your own house? Is it an app that you would even wish your wife or your servants to scroll?
Just a tad
Nice shorts
Keir Starmer. He told us how proud he was to have stopped the CPS prosecuting people who took their relatives abroad for assisted dying…
