Tootfinder

Every time I walk past my local police station on the way to the bus stop, I think about others too afraid to do that.
I’m rewatching mid-1990s episodes of Thatcher-era UK copaganda “The Bill”, and noticing how “nobody else gets it” is the overarching theme. Having 3 weekly stories though, has enough writers to see a culture in transition, at the same time as the last ’70s-style detectives leave the cast (with their leather jackets and horseshoe haircuts). DV is finally getting a spo…

This is a good article on Greater Manchester's transition to publicly managed bus services from the total mess of Thatcher's privatised free market.
This is who's really paying for Greater Manchester's publicly-run bus network - Manchester Evening News

This is who's really paying for Greater Manchester's publicly-run bus network
City region officials have defended the system after a Tory MP said it was "£226 million in the red" in its first year

"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."

from my link log —
Why the north of England is poor.
https://tomforth.co.uk/whynorthenglandispoor/
saved 2025-01-25 https://

I'm 58, prime gammon age. Fortunately, I was educated by the Marxist Jesuits known as The Militant in the '80s.
So, when I see gammons my age, I know them. They were those weird kids "not into politics" in the '80s. THE '80s - Thatcher and Reagan '80s.
They were cunts then, they're cunts now.