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Ben

@kitchentowel

EUsceptic indiaphile. EFTA for UK. Love history and technology. I retweet and like tweets written by more well informed and intelligent people than me.

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World of Statistics(@stats_feed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Share of female commercial pilots:

🇮🇳India: 12.4%
🇮🇪Ireland: 9.9%
🇿🇦South Africa: 9.8%
🇦🇺Australia: 7.5%
🇨🇦Canada: 7.0%
🇩🇪Germany: 6.9%
🇺🇸USA: 5.5%
🇬🇧UK: 4.7%
🇳🇿New Zealand: 4.5%
🇶🇦Qatar: 2.4%
🇯🇵Japan: 1.3%
🇸🇬Singapore: 1.0%

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🎄 The Christmas Penguin 🎄(@who_shot_jgr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

anyone who carried any water for this sham should be ashamed, barred from public transit jobs, and never taken seriously again
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Urban Transport Group(@UTG_UK) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are the Secretariat for the new independent Rail and Urban Transport Review.

Led by Juergen Maier CBE, it will focus on how to accelerate connectivity within and between the UK’s key urban areas.

You can submit evidence to the review via our website ⬇️

urbantransportgroup.org/rail-and-urban…

We are the Secretariat for the new independent Rail and Urban Transport Review. Led by @Juergen_Maier, it will focus on how to accelerate connectivity within and between the UK’s key urban areas. You can submit evidence to the review via our website ⬇️ urbantransportgroup.org/rail-and-urban…
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EFTA 4 UK(@EFTA4UK) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great to see two financial powerhouses 🇬🇧🇨🇭 reaching an agreement ✅✅✅
(…even if it isn’t exactly a first of its kind…)
Hopefully more 🇬🇧🇨🇭cooperation to come…

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Glen O'Hara(@gsoh31) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Slash productivity via austerity. Stop people moving about by cancelling HS2. Whack growth by exiting the Single Market. Force unis onto foreign students then frighten them away. Choose life. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase. Choose rotting away at the end of it all.

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Andy Burnham(@AndyBurnhamGM) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I see Department for Transport has deleted its ‘Network North’ post.

But it is too late.

They have already revealed everything that is wrong with the way the country is run.

1/3

I see @transportgovuk has deleted its ‘Network North’ post. But it is too late. They have already revealed everything that is wrong with the way the country is run. 1/3
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Sam Freedman(@Samfr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Starting to think civil service comms teams are doing this stuff on purpose to make the govt look ridiculous...

Starting to think civil service comms teams are doing this stuff on purpose to make the govt look ridiculous...
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Henri Murison(@henrimurison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read The Northern Powerhouse Partnership in The Times and The Sunday Times on how you can’t cut spending for future & mythically magic money to spend in this financial year . It will end be a question for those inc Public Accounts Committee whether this attribution of funding is accurate or misled public Meg Hillier MP

Read @NP_Partnership in @thetimes on how you can’t cut spending for future & mythically magic money to spend in this financial year #buses #roads. It will end be a question for those inc @CommonsPAC whether this attribution of funding is accurate or misled public @Meg_HillierMP
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insane moments in british politics(@PoliticsMoments) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As part of the ‘Network North’ project aimed at improving transport links in the north of England, the government announced £235million for roads in London. (2023)

As part of the ‘Network North’ project aimed at improving transport links in the north of England, the government announced £235million for roads in London. (2023)
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George Davies(@GreatAshbyGeorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So we've cancelled a massive infrastructure investment in the north in order to fund day to day spending in the south?

Absolutely spitting feathers

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The Man in Seat 61(@seatsixtyone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You can’t transfer capex - long term capital investment - to short term revenue expenditure, for maintenance that should have been done anyway, unless you’re completely incompetent.

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Bill Esterson(@Bill_Esterson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seriously Huw. HS2 was going to cut the number of lorry movements by 500,000 a year.

If you are so committed to rail freight why on earth did you scrap the northern leg of HS2?

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Jasmin Ramsey(@JasminRamsey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today, in Iran, this woman was hanged.

Samira Sabzian was a child bride, compelled into marriage with an older man who inflicted relentless abuse upon her.

Her alleged crime—killing the man who forced her into marriage of torture—and her heinous execution epitomize a government…

Today, in Iran, this woman was hanged. Samira Sabzian was a child bride, compelled into marriage with an older man who inflicted relentless abuse upon her. Her alleged crime—killing the man who forced her into marriage of torture—and her heinous execution epitomize a government…
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Aubrey Allegretti(@breeallegretti) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exc: The “Network North” announcement of £235m to improve roads in London has gone down badly among some Tory MPs 😬

Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group show Derbyshire Dales MP Sarah Dines saying money for potholes in her patch is “peanuts compared to London”.

Ben Bradley…

Exc: The “Network North” announcement of £235m to improve roads in London has gone down badly among some Tory MPs 😬 Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group show Derbyshire Dales MP Sarah Dines saying money for potholes in her patch is “peanuts compared to London”. Ben Bradley…
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Bill Esterson(@Bill_Esterson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

HS2, the biggest northern rail investment in a generation.

Improved freight transport.

Fewer emissions.

More road space.

All scrapped in favour of “Network North”.

Rishi Sunak has finally told us what Network North means.

London road repairs.

You couldn’t make it up.

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KeyserSosse(@KeyserSosse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

21st December, 1988

Marks 35 years ago to the day when a terrorist bomb exploded on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 innocent people.

A national tragedy of epic proportions.

RIP all those poor people 🙏

21st December, 1988 Marks 35 years ago to the day when a terrorist bomb exploded on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 innocent people. A national tragedy of epic proportions. RIP all those poor people 🙏
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