Will Bramhill

@willbramhill.bsky.social

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Happy husband and family man; vegetarian for 60 years; utility and leisure cyclist; transport activist; genealogist; gardener; retired sub-editor; NUJ life member. Hates semicolons. Pic: Sodom and Gomorrah, Suffolk. linktr.ee/willbramhill 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

Blurred picture taken c1980 of cyclists in Beijing going beneath an underpass.
Mock-up of Penguin Classics book. The author is allegedly Alexandre Dumas and the title is The Count of Dodgy Crypto. The picture shows a man in 18th century clothes with contemporary hairstyle who has a remarkable likeness to Nigel Farage.
Jersey tiger moth, Colchester, UK, July 12 2026
Chart of the Yale Environmental Performance Index 2026. showing UK third after Estonia and Luxembourg.
A crowded House of Commons with Count Binface, right, celebrating his victory.
Carol Vorderman on Countdown writes out the figure £5,000,000.
Names and speech bubbles Nigel Farage: People of Clacton, vote for me! People of Clacton: Why? Who are you?
Flat, round, white flower (Queen Anne’s Lace, aka wild carrot) towers over fading wildflowers, set against green of laurel hedge
Abberton reservoir Essex showing water level gauged by outcrop of land centre-right
The Brexit bus E14 ACK
Clip from gov.uk showing MOT status of E14 ACK, "the Brexit bus".
DaveWalker.com cartoon showing transport choices
Screen snap of newspaper’s digital front page, which says “the SEVEN new destinations from Stansted in budget airline’s summer expansion”
He’s swapped designer jeans and flashy cars For designer spacesuits and trips to Mars Where he watches Earth turn on its axis With its stupid people paying taxes He’s indulging all his whims and vices He’s a trillionaire in a midlife crisis He’s got plans to end world poverty Once his new hair’s lost its novelty He’s dropping rap tracks and dissing pronouns His kids have names they cannot pronounce He’s choosing who his next young wife is He’s a trillionaire in a midlife crisis He’s an outspoken champion of free speech With a mute button in easy reach He’s building an army of online abusers More spambots equals more X-users Cause he’s been left too long to his own devices If truth be told, he’s not the nicest I hope he comes down with gastroenteritis He’s a trillionaire in a midlife crisis
Roundabout with colourful dry-garden plants in Colchester UK
Advertisement for Jet2Holidays’ winter offers.
Crowd of people outside Colchester Secure Cycle Park, housed in a previously unused shop unit.
Aminah, Leicester I came to Leicester from Pakistan in 2023 to do a PhD in Economics. Back home, I always drove, but here I couldn’t manage the cost and hassle of a car. I had stomach and blood pressure issues when I arrived, but it was hard to get a doctor’s appointment. I started walking the 45 minutes to university every day and by the time I saw a doctor, my health issues had gone. I’d thought medication was just part of ageing, but this experience changed my mindset.
FT news story: US in talks to expand nuclear weapons deployments in Europe
John Travolta in cream beret with black jacket and white tie; Kevin Rowland in dusky pink beret with crisp white shirt and patterned tie
Triumph Herald, a British car from the late 1950s, in two-tone light green and khaki.
Small "sinkhole" in road next to kerb with tiny white flag saying "avoid"
News story saying John Healey believes Sir Keir Starmer “can still turn it around”
Three storey jettied building with sign to polling station and bike outside.
Truck advertising the Reform UK political party is parked on a cycleway next to a roundabout
Food label saying “Not for EU”
Metal flower holder in shape of bicycle. A notice on it reads “unloved, unwanted, free of charge”
Author Sir Terry Pratchett in bookshop with boy in purple school blazer
20mph sign and message "... will mean fewer dead pet cats"
X tweet from Giles Coren praising the new Lime Bike as "the greatest vehicle I have ridden in my life".
News headline from The Times: Iran war latest: US could ‘review’y Falklands claim to punish Britain
Headline: Trump’s travails compared with Jesus Christ.
Gotten: do not use except in direct quotes or, if you must, in ill-gotten gains
Purists have long decried the creeping influence of American slang on language in Britain, blaming Hollywood and more recently YouTube. Awesome, playdate, fries, “like” as a filler word, my bad and gotten have all set traditionalists’ teeth on edge.
Uk fuel prices — cheapest is 246.5 per litre
Sandringham branded biscuits and shortbread
AP and Al Jazeera news alerts. Both are factual, one is passive and minimal and the other is active and far more informative
Nigel Farage objecting to Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square
Freedom of Information letter from Essex County Council giving the recovery value of damage to street furniture.
Piece from Guardian report that says Trump has bone spurs “in an unidentified foot“.
The folding front passenger seat is perfect for your laptop as a mobile office desk
Ambulance parked fully on shared use cycleway, completely covering cycle side and limiting pedestrian side
News headline in which DT says the Iran war is “pretty much over”
BP petrol sign showing price of 143p a litre.
BBC chart showing total monthly encounters on US-Mexico border by the US border patrol.
Cafe with yellow wall and beams Pattern on plaster.
Ship's captain on bridge with bosun at ship's wheel. Late 1950s.
A moustachioed Sir David Jason as Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost. He is wearing a tweed trilby and a cream car coat over a shirt and tie
Two women and a man pose for picture in front of garish 1970s red, orange, brown, white flower design curtains.
Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs, upending the central plank of his economic agenda
Seven tanker planes over East Anglia yesterday
The Times website: UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran
Duolingo screen shot