It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

The only target for the number of people killed on the road should be zero. With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.

Nigel Farage is probably delighted today that Reform have the most members of a political party. It doesn't have to be this way. 180,000 and rising. Hope ready to overtake hate. Stand and be counted. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford. therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...

In what universe could you look at this and think yeah let’s reopen this to cars.

Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...

Bike parking right next to the supermarket entrance and cycle lane. Not hidden, not second-class, but prioritised. Want more people to shop by bike? Then make it an easy and accessible option. Convenience drives behavior.

Yeah, we're really serious about cycling in Norfolk.

The Countryside Right of Way (CRoW) Act succeeded in giving partial access across the nation.

Ambulances are a good thing aren't they? Saving lives,etc. But they are very expensive. So why waste them on the 15,000 casualties on England's 30mph roads which could be avoided if UK Gov followed Wales/ Scotland by setting 20mph as an urban/village norm.www.20splenty.org/gb2024stats

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

At today's Road Safety GB National Road Safety Conf #20splenty will be presenting on how "Setting 20mph as an urban/village norm has the power to deliver one of the quickest wins for the UK and in particular England and Northern Ireland".

Algerian-born train hero saves train passengers from attack. Since the right-wing press loves reporting criminals’ race and religion, surely they should report heroes’ too. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

*** New blog post *** Back in July, I went for a cycle around Leicester, 10 years after the last time I cycled around Leicester. Here's my write up, with thanks to @leicestercyclingcg.bsky.social therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/10/live...

Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…

The link goes to a campaign with four strands. One of the strands is, of course, bus stops and continuous footways. I am so exhausted with the nonstop idea that cycling represents the greatest threat to humanity and needs to be designed out of existence but cars and driving is just a fact of life.

NEW: We need to talk about Russia. So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage. My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The proscription as terrorist of a direct action protest group for throwing paint over planes devalues the term 'terrorism'& makes infinitely more difficult the fight against actual terrorists. #proscription

🚜 A poor deal for farmers. A rotten deal for the country. “Brexit was not principally about trade" - we know Michael we know... 🛠️ Let's fix this broken deal and get Britain building again. https://bit.ly/42YNQxG

I don't know how any Starmer supporters can defend him. His 10 pledges in the Labour leadership election were basically Corbyn's manifesto then he ditched them all instantly and became Nigel Farage instead. He is SO obviously a liar, and that's not even the worst thing he is.

We just hit 79,000 members of @greenparty.org.uk Big milestone coming... A bold vision to lower bills, bring water back into public ownership, protect our NHS and end the genocide in Gaza. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Brexit: the unforgivably selfish arseholery of those who lied about what it really meant for the country while dodging the cost, hassle and restrictions they inflicted on everyone else. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reduce bills. Nationalise our water companies. Invest in our public services. youtu.be/jbtkWV8gQgs?...

Ken Murphy is Tesco’s UK CEO and the highest paid supermarket boss. He gets £9,930,000 a year, but is registered to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland. Not a penny of his outrageous salary is collected in tax, despite almost all Tesco’s earnings coming from the UK. It’s theft.

"I haven’t felt this positive about politics ever. I think we can be a really powerful voice." @mothinali.bsky.social speaks to the Guardian following his election as Co-Deputy Leader of the Green Party ⤵️

Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...

My letter in today’s Times:

5 days left to enter the @righttoroam.bsky.social Prize Draw to win some great books by @drmjwarren.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social and, er, yours truly! Most of all, help us win a right of responsible access to the English countryside... bsky.app/profile/righ...

Needed to go to big Asda. Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus. Awful driver. Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings. No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.

Can you even consider yourself as someone who cares about cycling and walking in the UK if you haven't yet signed and shared this petition? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Runaway climate change. Genocide in Gaza. War in Ukraine. The world can seem a very dark place, and it can be easy to lose hope. After all, I can't stop any of the bad things happening. Or can I? I *can* choose to drive less, eat less meat and reduce my plastic usage. 1/x

This is happening more often since train ticket prices have increased Day returns bought on the day cheaper than advance tickets

🔴 "These People Can't Stand What London Represents… It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview" Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims by those in the media and politics of the capital city's apparent decline

I don't suppose any of you have a pair of preferably Microshift 3x9 drop bar shifters you want to sell? Or failing that, a set of Sora ones?

This is why I don't cycle close to parked cars. #DNRPoliceScotland

It's time for a basic income for farmers. 20% of the wealthiest landowners recieve 80% of the subsidies. Meanwhile the farmers who protect our food security are often just trying to survive. I spoke to the Financial Times 👇🏼 www.ft.com/content/b0d8...

Litter An interesting article here www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/litter-... Not only in Scotland

BBC bias laid bare…..

Exactly this. Thatcher introduced privatisation, Blair consolidated it and subsequent govts carried on. Streeting sadly will privatise it even further. This is why we need a Green govt, who will protect our NHS. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

When they don't have a case, they lie.

"What we’re seeing in Epping [are] local grievances being hijacked by very activated audiences around the far-right and nationalist extremist groups" www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...

Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?