Maybe we should just ban all cars and drivers within a certain distance around schools. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

I will continue to be excited by graphs like this one. It shows UK electricity demand over the past 24 hours (white line) and the amount that is supplied by renewables (green). It reached 90% in the middle of the night & was 80% for much of the day. 🎉🎉🎉. Still lots more to do, but we’re on the way.

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Got to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

Massie voted straight GOP the vast majority of the time. His only real break with Trump was over the Epstein files. Kentucky voters rejected the guy who wanted to expose the truth about a sex offender because Trump told them to. Think about what that means.

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Positive to see so many folk at today's Keep Our Kids Safe Rally in #Edinburgh supporting the Greenbank > Meadows Quiet Route 🚶🚲🛴

Success! We’re delighted to say that the council voted to make the traffic filters on Whitehouse Loan permanent – the one outside James Gillespie’s Primary school, as well as the one at Strathearn Road But it’s not all rosy - read our blog for more… blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/braid-estate...

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

There is a lot of chat about the danger posed by the introduction of cycle lanes and floating bus stops on Leith Walk from 2021 onward. Pedestrian casualties, Leith Walk, by year: 2015: 15 2016: 13 2017: 9 2018: 10 2019: 12 (including two fatalities) 2020: 3 2021: 0 2022: 2 2023: 0 2024: 2

Another super turnout for today’s bike bus! 🚲 🚌 Kids thrilled by having a police escort, and energised for the best start to the day!

This could be 6 cars instead.

Trump Unwittingly Breaks Chinese Taboo Against Napping Facedown In Soup Bowl

Somebody’s description of this as the night of the short sporks is my favourite way of putting it.

They’ve spent a lot of money to make us fear having the normal things we need nearby. They’ve done everything they can to make everything far away, so we always need a car to get them. Car dependency means more cash for them, and less choice and freedom for us. #UrbanTruth #1HourCityConspiracy

Wherever you make the case for saving lives and improving the quality of lives with active travel infrastructure, people will say "fix the roads first". What this shows is that you can have the best roads in the country still you get this whataboutery. Do the right thing, always. 4/

Bike bus is back again tomorrow, Friday 1st! 🚲 🚌 😻 We ride in a group, making sure everyone is included and kept safe. Details and dates of all the rides for this school year: blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/jgps-travel-...

“In Toderian’s view, the dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk…Others default to caution, delay, and a reflexive belief that change is impossible.” momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

NEW: The One-Hour City Conspiracy! “Here's the REAL conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, crashes, noise, air pollution, social isolation —& less space for everything our streets should be giving us.” Thanks @usa.streetsblog.org #1HourCityConspiracy

Brussels has long carried a reputation as one of Europe’s most congested metropolises: a city of traffic jams, polluted air, and streets dominated by cars. Yet in recent years, the Belgian capital has become an unlikely case study in how bold political leadership can reclaim urban space for people.🧵

@secondmentions.bsky.social "went well beyond the potassium-rich fruit." www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

📌 ICYMI — Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of 'solar zealots' and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride

Parking shapes our streets more than most people realise. Today we’ve launched Ahead of the Kerb: a new report on the hidden costs of parking, and how we can use parking policy better to create people-first cities 👉 transform.scot/2026/04/21/h...

Also: don't park in bus stops or bus lanes.

I really can't stop looking at this photo - We usually think of space as being entirely empty and dark, but our sun has a lot of dust around it, giving the moon this eerie backlit glow. And four people really have been there and witnessed this yesterday, absolutely blows my mind! #Artemis 🔭🧪

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

The previous convictions had a deterrent effect then? "Munro, who had seven prior motoring convictions" and still no life ban. Truly the war on motorists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Pedal on Parliament is back!! If you believe in safer cycling for all in Scotland, then follow them. YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD! 😁

Kids out in force for today’s bike-bus! Reclaiming the streets for the best start! 😍 Thanks also to local PC Lawrence accompanying the crew by bike👮🏻‍♂️🚲

Many of the columnists seemingly egging on English rioters don't even live in the UK. Private Eye again

So, AI companies are… mysteriously exempt from having to provide data on how much water they use from public supplies? Good good nothing could possibly go wrong there…

with every passing day i become more convinced the butlerian jihad is our only way out

First set to Inter on a tiebreak 👏

@timmaughan.bsky.social uhh... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

The media should stop playing along with the phrasing that ties their racist shit to DEI initiatives. The headlines should read "in their efforts to advance white supremacy," not "to curb DEI" or whatever. We already have a term for this shit. Let's use it.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Mauvaka not getting a serious foul play red card is insane. The referees have totally interpreted the rules incorrectly: they've applied the tackle scenario for an off-the-ball dead play incident! It's a headbutt! It's not a tackle that slipped up too high! #FRAvSCO

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

Trump’s position on tax-and-spend here goes *even further* than the arguments put forward by Charles I during his personal rule. This is now not only going before the American revolution, it is going before the ‘English’ (ie British) civil wars. Even the Tudors would probably blanch at this.

Moreover – missed by basically all the news coverage – the costs of this transition are radically lower than the CCC thought just 5yrs ago Investment needs halved from £1.3tn to £0.7tn Net costs down by three-quarters from £0.4tn to £0.1tn Those are huge shifts! 8/10

Statement from Walk Ride GM on the comments made by Andrew Gywnne MP and local councillors about a local campaigner

I have a brilliant plan, all I need is: - the copyright to everything - all the money in the world