Everywhere you look in the UK it's like this - schools, universities, hospitals, police, work place...sexual abuse is rampant. If the UK govt tried to address this with the same vigour they have for targetting trans people, perhaps they could actually make a real difference for all women and girls.

I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic. My letter in the Oxford Times today

I did not know about this 'university hall' 20 miles from Oxford!

Taking over Oxford’s streets, bicycles of all shapes and sizes, such a joyful community event. Excellently organised by @cycloxoxford.bsky.social - let’s make it even bigger next year!

Amazing turn out of ~200 for #KidicalMass today! A huge thank you to @cycloxoxford.bsky.social and the Marshall. It's really moving seeing small children pedal around their city independently. Safe cycling routes means more freedom for everyone - perhaps especially children. 2/

Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)

Oxford folk. #KidicalMass tomorrow. Please join us

Turning this description over to my colleague with the headline “frisky business” which I recognize is probably too much of a deep cut pun—but cheers to all my frisket fans out there.

My university has sent round 'a beginner's guide to getting started on the GenAI journey': 'It can give you entirely accurate information on almost all the steps but be subtly or completely wrong about one or two points that may lead to harm.' Can't wait to get started on the GenAI journey!

What is there to do but despair. What does it matter if I turn off my light switch if corporate ChatGPT is being rolled out to every company worldwide? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🅿️ Removing parking is one of the most effective ways to reduce car use: theconversation.com/12-best-ways... 🤦‍♀️ @ox.ac.uk Warneford Hospital proposes adding ~50% more car parking.. 📝 Sign Headington Liveable Streets' petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no... www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2546328...

Southern Water will have 'robust conversations' with billionaire Stephen Schwarzman about transporting water across county lines. The BBC reports that tankers are filling a lake on his estate in Wiltshire in spite of a hosepipe ban. Oxford University's Schwarzman Centre opens on 29 September.

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

‘What is this that roareth thus?’

“oooh its got annotations-“ shut up no one cares what some dead dweeb thought about the book im trying to have my own thoughts about it

No. Appeasing fascists has only one outcome.

Kidical Mass is back in Oxford this 21 September! Cycle safely with your children on a big friendly ride through the city. Join one of 4 feeder rides 2pm, or at Gloucester Green 2:30 for 3pm ride.

Politicians, stop conflating 'residents' with 'drivers'. Nearly a third of Oxford households do not have a car!

Not exactly a high bar, but I've never been so bloody disappointed by a local MP. On all of the most important questions facing this city and its diverse population she has been silent or sorely lacking.

Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.

Cllr Sean Gaul: “I spent the first 10 years of my life growing up in Barton. We were one of many families who could not afford a car: we were wholly reliant on buses. As someone who wants to do the most with those who have the least, I’m struggling to see how I could _not_ support this proposal.”

this is interesting to me because I don’t actually think people have the right to drive where ever they want to go! You certainly have the right to not use the bus, that is true. But that does not equate to “cars get to go everywhere because I don’t want to take the bus”.

Ines Smyth, XR Oxford, said: “Once again, the public showed their support for better action on the Climate [...] today. The Government’s own climate advisers have urged the Government not to license further exploitation of fossil fuels if it is to meet its own climate targets"

An unpleasant scene in central Oxford. On the left, anti-immigrant shouts of 'send them back' and (I'm pretty sure) 'shoot the f**kers'. On the right, singing of 'stop the hate/ stop the fear' through a tannoy. Crowd on the right about double the size of that on the left.

Climate news. The National Rose Collection (can you imagine anything more iconic?) has to pack up and move north to rainy Cumbria

If you don't know, this was the tweet: " “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” This is not only hate speech, it is also the definition of incitement to violence.

Headington Liveable Streets are campaigning against a proposal for hundreds of extra staff parking spaces at a new university research centre in Oxford. Read more and sign the petition at www.headingtonliveablestreets.org.uk/warneford-pa...

The UK now has a clear and unambiguous left-wing alternative. You don't need to endorse the vile concessions of a Labour party that has desecrated its legacy by bending to racists and transphobes. You don't need to endorse untested parties with no name. @greenparty.org.uk is the left alternative.

Petition against the additional 230 parking spaces proposed for Warneford Park: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

I too used to dismiss concern about overpopulation as lazy racism - but it turns out I was the one being lazy and there’s a social/global/feminist justice case for addressing it: populationmatters.org/global-justi...

A reminder that if you’re looking for a socialist party that stands firmly with the trans community (and ä also wants to keep our planet habitable) - you can always join the Green Party.

New College is open free of charge to Oxford residents, and I hope this will continue! www.new.ox.ac.uk/visiting-the...

Climate change is affecting our lives in an increasing number of ways. But Oxford has been at the forefront of the science, from the earliest weather records 250 years ago, to the latest satellites. We took a look both at the 200-year old science of climate change, and Oxford’s part in it.👇

Nigel Farage, who repeatedly campaigned for Donald Trump to be elected and called alleged serial rapist Andrew Tate an "important voice" for men, says he wants mass deportations of migrants in order to make women safe

I'm not going to post a report with a photo of N Farage grandstanding at Kidlington airfield and trying to incite hate. But this context needs to be shared, as reported below. I would like to see those numbers on the BBC, ITV, Sky News etc as well!

The union jack really is the perfect flag for a nation of boring pedants, isn't it? The fact flying it upside down is supposedly an SOS when hardly anyone would be able to tell, the fact you can pick people up on that, 'union jack' being colloquial - don't you mean 'union flag'? URGH

I admit I'm struggling to see what pedestrians would do differently if this sign wasn't here.

Speaking truth to power

A rally is to be held on 24 August to celebrate Ukraine's Independence Day. The rally will take place between 2pm and 3.30pm in Radcliffe Square, Oxford.

Further flags over the A34 were replaced overnight with a banner reading 'Asylum Seekers Welcome', following a protest at the Kassam yesterday. Oxfordshire has been a county of sanctuary since February 2024. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...

Flags bearing the St. George's Cross placed in roadside locations around Oxford have been amended overnight. Two flags at Headington were amended to say 'Love Immigrants'. A national flag flying campaign 'Operation Raise the Colours' has provoked controversy👇 socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

TIL this unexpected fact about romance novelist Barbara Cartland!

Reminded of one of my friends, who taking advantage of the UL being a deposit library, ordered up to the reading room "Mr Bump's Bathtime", which is an inflatable book, and silently blew it up, surrounded by people focusing on their scholarly works.

About 210,000 people will do Park Run this weekend, in 1346 different events I wonder how many - if any - of the 30 attempts to hold an asylum protest will be as big as the nearest parkrun

UK online safety law in practice.

In a mythbusting post, they say “life in asylum ‘hotels’ is nothing like the media claims”, with shared rooms, no privacy, no cooking facilities, and less than £1.50/day support: “hateful views often come from people who’ve never met an asylum seeker”. us20.campaign-archive.com?u=64c615b787...

Asylum seekers in Oxfordshire still face “hostile headlines and political rhetoric, and physical intimidation” according to local charity Asylum Welcome. In a post marking one year since a rally to defend them against far-right groups, they say “We are doing all we can – but we are very stretched.”

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

(LTNs as an alternative) 4) Using residential streets as relief roads for major routes is dangerous and bad for human health, so is 'inappropriate'. In the way that killing people is usually inappropriate. And where would you start and stop?