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@EngFocus Climate change deniers are a small percentage of the electorate. They are probably all Reform supporters already. This kind of tactic is unlikely to win the right new support.

@RailNutter Climate change deniers typically tend to be right wing. So they're using this also as a way to attack Ed and the Labour party. 2 birds 1 stone, GB News gets to attack Labour and keep oil giants happy, which is important as GB News' biggest investor also has a big stake in oil.

This probably isn't going to be a viral post, but judging by the comments people believe it. Even though with a cursory Google it can be disproved. It's frustrating how quickly lies proliferate and even when challenged with the facts, by that time, people are like "so what"

@EngFocus It is an attempt to stop the push towards green energy. Yet green energy is much easier to bring on stream than new oil production and once available it frees us from being held to ransom by dodgy oil states. But yea, you might have to switch from a petrol car to an electric one

@RailNutter True, but StopHS2 was only ever really a nuisance. But it has since been supercharger and used to great effect by people with much more sinister motives. The 'just pup oil' argument is just a thinly disguised way to push people further towards the right.

@EngFocus Leaving aside the fact that however much oil we produce, it won’t be enough to make up for the 20% of global supply that passes through the Straits of Hormuz, so the oil price will still be high and UK consumers will have to pay it.

@EngFocus With all your experience of HS2 antis, it still surprises you that made up nonsense circulates on social media?

@EngFocus @joncstone @RAIL Agreed.

@RailNutter @joncstone @RAIL Liverpool St is highly contentious and it is difficult to get right, especially with the requirement for OSD while trying to introduce natural light, but I think their effort just looks forced.

I do not understand the oversized neo gothic arches. As far as I can tell they don't reflect any nearby architecture? Perhaps the station roof? But this is more church like, than station. Creating a pastiche has the potential to age very badly. Pics from latest issue of @RAIL

@EngFocus @joncstone @RAIL To quote our monarch and liege lord (May God save him!), it looks like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a well-loved friend.

@EngFocus @joncstone @RAIL Your first photo says it all. It looks completely ludicrous. Just build the office block and have a modern entrance. It couldn’t look worse.

@EngFocus @RAIL No, nothing I am aware of. The thing I hate most is the way the modern glass office block is perched on top of the gothic arches. I think it looks ridiculous. I can’t believe there isn’t a better way of doing it. I’d almost rather have a modern -looking entrance.

@TheMonologist @OverTheHill2025 Fun fact: they filmed the scenes in the water at Ruislip Lido in winter. The actors didn’t have to act being frozen: they really were. The ship’s side was also a real ship. Titanic survivors were advisors to the film. Walter Lord’s original book is highly recommended.

Compared with James Cameron’s smash hit this British version of the RMS TITANIC’s maiden voyage did poor box office but is not only regarded as a classic but is also much more highly regarded by historians, survivors & film critics. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958)

@Gorty674623 There goes pretty much the entire road upgrade programme, then

@RailNutter Its simply NOT worth billions of Pounds (of extremely limited resources) to save half an hour on a journey

Good morning from Southeastern Highspeed! One day travelling on #HS2 will be like this (only 60% faster….)

Eurostar setting off from St Pancras

@schneider @GarethDennis @Anne_Hidalgo And she swam in the Seine before the Paris Olympics, while Macron bottled out.

The mayor of Paris @Anne_Hidalgo is my personal hero. She turned a global city with some of the most chaotic streets filled with cars into a paradise for pedestrians and cyclists. She did it not because it was politically easy (it wasn’t) but because it was the right thing to do.

@FT Unfortunate choice of visual here, because the Champs-Elysees is a scary road to cycle up. It has cycle lanes either side but very narrow ones compared to other Paris thoroughfares. I did it just to say I had done it, but would not do it again.

The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n

@EngFocus That’s all right: I don’t mind! Another very interesting one: I have not seen this information anywhere else, so it was fascinating to learn about it. I am so glad they are building the full crossover so it can all be scaled up later when the world is more sensible.

🚨 Latest Video 🚨 HS2 Complex Approach Tunnels, London's Big Dig? youtu.be/jTQ2r2oE0BI #HS2 #Euston

@kitchentowel @EngFocus @theipaper @guardian @FT Not those two, no

@RailNutter @EngFocus @theipaper @guardian @FT Jim Pickard and Gill Plimmer.

Very disappointing from @theipaper, no mention that #HS2 trains will serve Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland via the connection at Handsacre. And 2 sentences together make it seem as if the A38 bridge, which is under construction will never be used! But it will be!

@kitchentowel @EngFocus @theipaper @guardian @FT I doubt it, but it us behind a paywall, so I don’t know

@RailNutter @EngFocus @theipaper @guardian @FT Yes, its shocking how little they seem to care about accuracy. Was one of the senior journalists you were talking to involved in the story that John here is referring to? x.com/i/status/20324…

@andrewjtye @yimbyalliance It looks like they are now fitting it out

@yimbyalliance Is it even in use yet?

🚨 Google names its new London headquarters next to King's Cross railway station as 'Platform 37'.

@theipaper Phase one of HS1 (the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) ended with this link (circa 1.5 miles) to the normal rail network near Longfield in Kent. It was used for four years until phase 2 into St Pancras opened in 2007. It sits there unused to this day.

HS2, the world’s most expensive railway, currently ends in a field The Labour government says it would like to see a new line between Birmingham and Manchester. But, the track will stay incomplete until the 2040s Read the full article here: trib.al/F6dhLQQ

@paultrowntree @EngFocus @theipaper Ha, yes! Lots of motorways end by disgorging their traffic into “an ordinary country lane”.

@EngFocus @theipaper Just like the M23 ends at Junction 7 at Hooley.