Bob Melling
Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
- Reposted by Bob MellingInteresting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
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- Reposted by Bob Melling6. The time my dad stabbed Alan Titchmarsh.
- This, but replace it with something practical styled along the lines of the Sleeping Beauty castle at Disneyland Paris. Give it twenty years and the MPs would be banging on about the ancient reinforced concrete and fibreglass symbolising the ancient pact between parliament and people.
- Chris Rokos’s hedge fund ends talks with Mandelson over advisory role - www.ft.com/content/f638... via @FT
- It's quite an odd experience to urgently want to go back in time 100 years to poke some preposterous whiny fuck I'd never heard of in the eye. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- If we're going to accept stupid yank terms like jaywalking can we at least call driving twatrolling or something?
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Obviously, when the council loses the funding for this project in 2028 the traders, and the pretend think tank, will happily stump up the money to fund a multimillion pound renovation of the market more sympathetic to their glorified jumble sale.
- Cities are a stupid category, there are only towns and great towns.
- Reposted by Bob MellingI cannae breathe. Look at this cunt.
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- Reposted by Bob MellingLabour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.
- It would be interesting to cost a Potemkin town centre where 50-60% of retail units are actually a kind of museum, not holding much stock, just enough to allow people to look at stuff before they order it online. See if it made these people happy. Probably not. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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- The alternative timeline where Derek Senior's Memorandum of dissent was adopted. Also, imagine the deep deep joy of the snotty dales dwellers having conniptions at living in Keighley.
- Fascinated by the audiobook production for a highly successful series that results in one actor giving the main character from west Yorkshire a pronounced Durham accent. a different hack pronounces the name Niamh "Nee-yam" about thirty times in fifteen minutes.
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- Nope, is good.
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- Reposted by Bob MellingFascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood
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- Good to know that in the post-apocalypse dystopian London of Afterburn someone from TfL still does the rounds keeping the bus stop flags nice and clean.
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- Rename NPR as S(uper)TRU. Gift for headline writers, the government can STRU money about the North of England.
- Reposted by Bob Melling‘War for Greenland is boring, let’s talk about the Tories’ is genuinely the weirdest thing for a former ambassador *to Denmark* to say, apart from anything else
- Sorted now.
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- What arrangement of dust in your skull leads you to accuse a journalist who has been covering this for so long, and so well, of ripping off someone else's work?
- UK infrastructure projects really connect you to a sense of your own mortality.
- Reposted by Bob MellingAfter years in limbo since Rishi Sunak cut HS2 in 2023, NPR is finally properly defined again. The government has committed £45bn across three phases, with backing from Northern mayors. With the right planning and work, this should be a foundation for real action. 2/9
- Reposted by Bob MellingYesterday's Northern Powerhouse Rail announcement is a big deal for the North of England – with a new Northern Growth Strategy and £45bn for rail attached. I’ve looked into the plan, some history and why it matters below. 🧵 THREAD 1/9
- Middle of a good thread "and TPU, who DID NOT DIE!"
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- Reposted by Bob MellingIs great that the government has published plans for a new Northern Growth Strategy alongside their £45bn commitment to rail infrastructure. Transport is important - but what goes on around it is probably more important - whether it’s housing, education or more! www.gov.uk/government/c...
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- Reposted by Bob MellingPM Starmer tells Emily Darlington MP he has been informed this morning that "X is now acting to to ensure full compliance with UK law". He welcomes this, if true, That may/may not turn out to be true re Grok stripping women without consent. This is demonstrably untrue on racist hate crimes on X
