There's always money to support the car industry

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 'big' Tesco in Watford really needs to improve it's bike parking...

"The political logic of treating migrants as permanent second-class citizens is not clear." @robfordmancs.bsky.social shows making it harder for migrants working and paying taxes to settle here is *incredibly* unpopular. Also applies to Labour/Tory proposals! (1/2) ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

@americanfietser.bsky.social impulse bought a dehumidifier - don't need a car for that !

Nice little cycle infra safari in London today (50km). We are a long way behind in Hertfordshire....

Trudeau named not reforming the voting system as his big regret. Starmer shouldn't repeat his mistake. The stakes are now much higher than just who wins the next election. When there's such a disconnect between how people vote and who wins seats, trust in democracy is at risk.

After this morning's ramping up of cruel rhetoric, it's time to refer to them as "the far-right party, Reform UK Ltd".

Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher

This is how the UK squanders talent, and brings boring groupthink into its institutions. This is one of the key reasons why we are so unproductive, and why destructive economic ideas like austerity are deeply rooted in the civil service and the public sphere.

All avoidable injuries are bad, but context is essential. Alongside this story, it's surely essential to say that there were 133,000 car-related injuries in 2024 in the UK, including 1624 fatalities & 28k "serious" injuries. E-bikes aren't the major problem. Data: www.chas.co.uk/blog/uk-car-...

STOP APPEASING FASCISTS. Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

I wonder if the Prime Minister might have anything to say today about how the world's richest man urged a huge fascist mob to effect a change in government and incited them to violence, because I feel like that's not something we should encourage

Keir Starmer should be old enough to remember that we didn't use to call them patriots, we called them football hooligans.

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Fed up with pavement parking? We're supporting @livingstreets.bsky.social to show where pavements are used as car parks to the detriment of all who walk/wheel. Go & take photos (make sure you cover over reg numbers) & upload them to the Living Streets map: lnkd.in/ekEmPn3q Contribute by 22 Nov

Such is the atmosphere stoked by politicians and media, that if you’re a coachload of young men from varied ethnic backgrounds arriving in an English town, it’s currently about 50-50 whether you’ll face abuse, threats or potentially worse.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Horrifying.

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Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

Can we convince you to continue your campaign against those who seek to get out of paying stamp duty, @thesun.co.uk? How about you, @telegraphnews.bsky.social? Surely, you're outraged about this, @dailymail.co.uk? Anyone?

Farage uses every tool to avoid paying his fair share: ✅ Set up offshore trust ✅ Avoided stamp 2nd home stamp duty ✅ Uses a company to reduce income tax https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

Do you remember Sunak, after failing properly to declare various interests on many occasions, repeatedly using the excuse that he had no idea what his family had shares in, because it was part of a complicated investment portfolio?

If this had been done in support of a population being wiped out by genocide, or to save the climate, then no stone would be unturned to find and jail the culprits. Why are we not hunting down racist Nazis with the same enthusiasm? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Local and national governments should act to stop the spread of these oversized cars. As Anna Goodman says: “This has important implications for congestion, public space and road safety. The evidence is clear that SUVs increase road danger for people walking and cycling, particularly for children”

In the next decade the richest people in the UK are set to emit 13 times more carbon emissions from transport than the poorest. 🤯 Instead of causing climate chaos by expanding airports, the government should introduce an ultra-frequent flyers levy. More👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

Imagine if the Green Party got a front page headline every day to warn that climate change is ultimately bad news or the Lib dems got one to point out the long term crisis in social care funding

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

What the headlines don't tell you: 👉 Numbers much lower than the Tory peak 👉 Spending on hotels has dropped significantly 👉 Applications are being processed faster https://www.thenational.scot/news/25408148.uk-media-gone-big-asylum-seeker-hotel-figures/

Try explaining to someone outside the UK that this road, shared with walkers, cyclists and horse riders, legally has a 60mph speed limit. Madness, really.

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

I'll tell you what an eyesore is: limitless and subsidised on-street parking for cars www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nobody standing up against Tommy Robinson’s incitements to racial hatred. Instead Conservatives and right wing press idolising a woman who pleaded guilty of inciting racial hatred and violence. Horst Wessel stuff. Measure the temperature as the hatred heats up

The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA

On stubborn UK inflation, my instinct is that if you take a highly optimised supply chain and then add barriers - particularly on short-term labour market flows, but regulatory divergence and border checks will also play a part - then expect this result www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

London's mayor in the @theguardian.com: "The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75% (from four to one)."

A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent. Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA

It's not a 'war on motorists', it's a war against needless deaths. It is perplexing to me that the same commentators who want a smaller state also want Whitehall to decide whether a few bollards can be placed in Birmingham. Opinion piece by me in The Standard 👇 www.standard.co.uk/comment/low-...

Physical inactivity is estimated to cost the UK £7.4 billion annually (including £0.9 billion to the NHS alone). Active travel is one of the best return on investment decisions governments can make. Yet people are still having to campaign for better infrastructure and funding.

If only there was a way of telling how it was leaving the EU single market that is the biggest reason for the lack of economic growth. NI has been impacted by Covid, Ukraine, high energy prices and global downturns too, like the rest of UK, but, is still in the EU SM for goods. Oh! 4/4

Dominic Grieve. 👏👏👏

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...