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@WunderRiKU Not yesterday this was last year. It looked like this all over Manchester. This weather front did actually have damaging tornados in it. I thought I saw one forming as I took this picture. The second this front hit it was wild.

British weather is no joke a few days ago it was 18°C, spring had sprung, the blossoms were out, the sun was shining and the pollen was high and today it is BACK TO 0°C with a forecast that can only be described as "Bright, mild and sunny with INTERMITTENT GALE FORCE HAIL STORMS" In the time it has taken me to write this tweet it started SNOWING THICK FAST AND HEAVY and then STOPPED and now the sky is clear and the sun is shining again I feel like I'm going crazy WHAT SEASON IS THIS

@PassionOwl263 @WunderRiKU We can get that in the same hour 😂. Well not the extreme heat changes but certainly can go up and down 10c in matter of minutes.

@WunderRiKU Lol thats funny try living in the midwest usa in spring. One day its 70 degress the next its 28 with 4 feet of snow only for it to be 60 and sunny 4 days later with hurricane like winds

@WunderRiKU I had snow, hail, heavy rain, 40mph wind, sun. 10c dropped to 2c and I think a saw a tornado forming on a 35min around the motorways of the north west. It was pretty wild.

@hellohimate Why do you hate the countryside so much 🤷🏼‍♂️

‘historic farming village’ and it’s just 30 houses that look like this

@CyclingKent101 So anti helmet types actually don’t want people to wear them. The Dutch being the best example 😂

Before the angry mob arrive, nobody, or at least very few are suggesting helmets are a bad idea - it's just a personal choice based on your preference, own reasons etc - it's nobody else's business. Just like most people choose not to wear helmets in cars.

Over ten years ago, compulsive cyclist hater Nick Freeman was calling for cycle helmet law to be introduced. Predictably, he was unsuccessful and never will be. The question is, why are those who shout the loudest on this subject invariably non-cyclists?

@DrMoragKerr @KateFantom If you don’t want to get rid of the oil system. Have a look at installing an air to air unit (aircon) to use secondary heating. Basically a fan heater but x4 cheaper to run.

@KateFantom I'll be fine. I use very little over the summer and I can always just get a couple of hundred litres to tide me over. But honestly, VtL from the car (at 3.5p/unit) into the living room and the fan heater is looking tempting from next week.

Inside of our house is sat at 19 degrees. Outside it is 5 degress Our heat pump is ticking over at 900W All the energy it requires is being supplied from our battery that was topped up from our solar earlier today. This will be common place for the next 8 months. Heat pumps work Solar works Battery storage works If you can, this is very worthwhile investment.

@domdyer70 With exports and imports added on the UK was net zero most of yesterday. I’ve never seen so much solar and wind combined like that.

Well done Spain

@KateFantom Literally have Octopus installing my heat pump right now.Lets not pretend this is a solution for everyone. I’m not on gas and have had to really plan this.But even then it’s taking up much more space than I realised it would. I can’t have battery yet ether but do have solar.

@paulpowlesland @BobFromAccounts @MayorofLondon @willnorman It’s not the lane that needs improvements it’s the connecting traffic lights and junctions,

@BobFromAccounts @MayorofLondon @willnorman The embankment cycle lane is often already over capacity: feels like it needs a cycle lane in each direction?

At the current rate, I predict this summer will surpass all records for cycling in London; it seems we will need bigger and better bike lanes @MayorofLondon @willnorman. Please note the lack of Lycra.

@BobFromAccounts @MayorofLondon @willnorman Why you so obsessed with what people wear to cycle in 🤷🏼‍♂️ Cycle numbers aren’t higher than in 2019 before most of the new crap lanes like this one came in. Look how crap the flow is.

@nicholadrummond Iraq had a population 3x or even more smaller….

I'm old enough to remember the Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003. At the time, the doom-mongers amongst us suggested that any land attack against Saddam Hussein's forces, especially his elite Republican Guard units, would end in disaster. They said we would sustain unacceptable casualties, that oil prices would spike, and the world economy would be plunged into recession. But Operation Desert Storm was an outstanding success. George Bush Sr. could have so easily driven to Baghdad to remove Saddam from power. But he left that job to his son. Today, with Iran, I'm seeing all of the same fears being recycled. Sure, Iran has a more capable military than Iraq had and is better prepared to resist a US attack. So, yes, it will likely take longer to dismantle the regime. But the fact that factions within Iran have requested talks shows that results are being achieved. This won't be a "forever war. " What makes sensible discussion about this difficult is what some people are calling "Trump Derangement Syndrome." The idea that someone so outspoken, bombastic, and egotistical as DJT could possibly do something good is anathema to his enemies. They hate the idea that Trump could succeed - by ridding the world of a major sponsor of terrorism and a regime that has slaughtered thousands of its own people - so much, that they happily defend the Ayatollah. I make no comment pro or against Trump. Instead, I note that any Western power might try to do the same thing if it had the means. Of course, it could go wrong, and it could take longer. And, yes, DJT could have consulted his allies first, and, yes, we can review his approach later, and suggest a different course of action, but sometimes the ends justify the means.

@SamCKx This is still post WW2 we know there was much more immigration etc.

People are so outraged by an image of some kids waving flags, that they ignore an entire post and try to find evidence I used an AI photo! Really? Anyway, here's the original footage from Pathe news.

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

@GanchevTony @peterrhague I did comparing child hospital rates compared to USA in another thread. I’m not looking up all 27 EU members. Malta has less deaths though 😉

@DevaPete @peterrhague It would have been so much more impressive a response had you shown any amount of statistics ;)

The emperor of electrical sockets laughs at your inferiority

@renewablesmiffy I mean it’s been turbo windy too.

It’s 09:30 on a miserable March day and the solar fleet that is “useless in the UK, especially in winter” is currently generating 3.5 times the electricity of the entire GB Gas fleet Electricity just £5/MWh

@UrbanCourtyard @lrcaswell Yet English law which ax you call them ‘Anglo countries’ had had laws on this for 100s of years ?

Yes UK has built more apartments in last century. But historically it has had far fewer apartments than continent, where tradition of apartment housing is much stronger My original post was about American setback rules in the 20th century. It was responding to a post about “anglo” side setbacks

Anglo “obsession” with houses that don’t touch is a consequence of side setback rules that were established over long 20th century to address public health concerns over lighting and ventilation. This is in contrast to continental European rules, which designed around rear courtyards to ensure good lighting and ventilation

@YPersisted @Cappyarmy @FinanceLancelot 😂. 6D chess

@Cappyarmy @FinanceLancelot I’ll say it again, I still think this entire Iranian thing is a feint from the true objective, which is Greenland.

So @Cappyarmy appears to confirm my theory that the U.S. Expeditionary Force will invade Qeshm Island instead of Kharg Island, to open the Strait of Hormuz. Secure the airport, land heavy equipment, then invade the mainland, advancing both east & west along the coast of Iran.

@Cappyarmy @FinanceLancelot And like me Cappy, I bet your glad your out 😂

@FinanceLancelot thanks for the shout out, it appears the US is setting the conditions for ground mission to potentially happen. US wants it to appear like a credible threat. Whether it will happen or not may depend on multiple factors that are still playing out!

@UrbanCourtyard @lrcaswell In 2021, 21.7% (5.4 million) of households were in a flat, maisonette or apartment, up from 21.0% (4.9 million) in 2011. Hardly a small percentage. About 75% of all housing is attached to another property.

@DevaPete @lrcaswell Terraces housing is not the same as apartments.

@ArtistCyclist We have way more people and more roads. What’s the problem 🤷🏼‍♂️

In 1986 motorised vehicles drove a total of 125 billion miles in the UK. In 2026 that number is predicted to double to at least 250 billion miles. We have a serious issues regarding the overuse of motor vehicles, it is not sustainable and we need to work on alternatives.

@GanchevTony @peterrhague Well, yes actually.

@DevaPete @peterrhague ...and there we have people, all across the continent, getting electrocuted day after day because of design flaws in the sockets :)