Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value

It’s Google’s 27th birthday and they’re celebrating by reminding us of the excellent search engine they used to be. A perfect opportunity to share this excoriating talk on enshittification by Corey Doctorow: youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...

Both funny and depressing how quickly "Your Party" has descended into Judean People's Front-ery. join.greenparty.org.uk

How do we fix this mess?

The Prime Minister can call me names - “plastic progressive”? (Nope, me neither!) Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change. We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.

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

Tim laments about how the UK bike industry is centred around leisure and sports in our new podcast: Carspiracy. This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.

Tim makes the excellent point that in the UK there are currently no incentives for people to buy e-bikes. Tim cites an excellent article by Noel Flay Cass who makes the point that subsidising e-bike purchases will have a greater positive climate impact than EV subsidies.

Jack and Tim talk about a time in living memory when almost everyone cycled to work in industrial Lancashire – at the time – towns including Barrow and Kendal. Listen to the full pilot episode of our podcast – Carspiracy – available now on all podcasting platforms.

I've started a podcast with fellow cargo bike enthusiast Tim – a man who also actually builds them as Ariel Bikes. I know there's a real dearth at the moment of podcasts featuring two middle-aged white men grumbling about the world, so this is me doing my bit to help.

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.

I've started a podcast with fellow cargo bike enthusiast Tim – a man who also actually builds them as Ariel Bikes. I know there's a real dearth at the moment of podcasts featuring two middle-aged white men grumbling about the world, so this is me doing my bit to help.

A mum was pushed into a canal by a man walking his dog as she cycled to work. This didn’t happen in a vacuum; it’s the result of years of anti-cyclist messaging that treats people on bikes as fair game. We say we want more people to cycle, but ignore what it’s like for the people already doing it.

Made the mistake of turning on BBC News. About 15 minutes ago they cut off a guest mid-sentence to flip to Nigel Farage winging it at some self-aggrandising press conference. They've run the whole thing and now doing Q&A. He doesn't seem prepared, just waffling on with his usual talking points.

Can confirm. My #urbanarrow was fundamental to kick starting my eventual 6 stone weight loss, and more importantly, helping me to maintain it.

Our first review showing a cargo bike carrying a bike - it's the @riesemuller.bsky.social Multitinker longtail, scoring a very respectable 4.5/5 with our part-time bike mechanic part-time reviewer Catch the full review on Cycling Electric today: www.cyclingelectric.com/reviews/ries...

These. Aren’t. Ebikes. They. Are. Electric. Motorbikes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Motorists: “Get in the cycle lane!” The cycle lane:

Don't forget to vote today everyone. And preferably vote Green! We're delighted to finally be able to join the #dogsatpollingstations community with Pablo! #votetoday #votegreen #localelections

What?!!!

“A few years ago, it would have looked like mission impossible for even the most capable Russian spy. Divide the U.S. from its allies? Check. Discredit its normative power (human rights, rule of law, democracy, altruism)? Check. Weaken U.S. institutions to make further manipulation easier? Check.”

Singapore’s economy is underpinned by a vast state-owned company called Temasek Holdings. Its subsidiaries include the country’s largest businesses. Nearly 80% of Singaporeans live in high-quality social housing. I suspect Jeremy Hunt doesn’t want to copy these bits? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

A perfect read (for today) from 2005 by @timharford.ft.com musing on his bilateral trade deficit with a babysitter. 👌

At the moment meat is the default. Let's flip the script. plantbasednews.org/culture/poli...

Can the BBC please stop inviting this chuntering hate-monger on to provide Radio 4’s thought for the day?

We do our children a disservice when we don't allow them the opportunity to travel safely and comfortably under their own steam.

This is a deeply personal and moving piece by my colleague, Cllr Ed Fraser, drawing on his late grandfather's experiences as a disability activist, union organiser, and Labour member. I encourage everyone to read it. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Over 150 extreme weather events and more than 800,000 people displaced and made homeless due to extreme weather last year. While the Tories under Badenoch stick their collective heads in the sand, the need for climate action couldn't be more urgent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

why does everyone hate my car | patreon.com/lubchansky

Difficult choices for who? The Prime Minister couldn't answer my question when I asked why he's choosing to make life harder for older people, children and disabled people instead of making the super-rich pay their fair share.

What an utterly unhelpful and ridiculous thing to say. We hoped the days of unqualified ministers stigmatising the mentally unwell and disabled were over. We were wrong. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is so, so good. open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...

Just thinking about what a grim and terrible outcome it will be if renewable energy ends up like Netflix (unusable, enshittified, disconnected from the needs and wants of consumers, doesn't deliver anything meaningful, has become the incumbent evil it once displaced) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

🤯 Labour are said to considering a plan for yet more cuts dubbed "Project Chainsaw". 🤔 Didn't Keir Starmer promise 'no more austerity'? 💚 The Green Party is clear - we can't afford more cuts. We would tax the super-rich fairly to help fund public services.

To his credit, Farage is a good showman. To his discredit, he's a terrible leader who has never managed to hold together even a small team for more than about eight months.

Happy International Women’s Day! I’m proud to be in a Parliament with the most women ever elected, and to be North Herefordshire’s first female MP. When more women are in the room, the conversation changes. But we still have work to do, from ending pay gaps to tackling VAWG.

Happy #IWD2025 💚. This year’s theme is #AccelerateAction. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158 - roughly 5 generations from now - to reach full gender parity. It couldn’t be more urgent to break down the systemic barriers that women face, & to create a future safe for all 💪

Well, Boris Johnson managed to gain the UK world-beating status on one metric…

"What I find callous and completely unjustified..." @adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the Government's cruel decision to cut aid and welfare spending on BBC Question Time.

When you elect clowns, expect a circus. news.sky.com/story/reform...

Fiona Bruce jokes when Richard Tice keeps interrupting that she might have to put a gag on him. How about we stop having Reform on every single TV and radio show possible and constantly giving them a platform? It's so obviously disproportionate. And it's constant. #BBCQT

We were delighted to help Harry with some adaptations on his new R&M Cruiser. Harry has one arm, so as well as opting for a coaster brake, we helped him source and fit new handlebars for a more comfortable riding position, and configure his brake levers and controls to ensure ready access.

JD Vance tried to berate Starmer for locking up people who used social media to incite race riots in the UK just a few days ago. Now the free speech champions have this to offer

I would go further and say this is just Mason being bad at his job. I don't know how you can write this paragraph seriously after we've had threatened invasions of the Panama Canal, Canada, Mexico, Gaza and the reinvasion of Afghanistan. Trump is not a secret pacifist, he just hates Ukraine.

While Europe’s leaders unite in their support for Zelenskyy and Ukraine, our cowardly Prime Minister stays silent hoping the bully won’t notice him. Meanwhile his sycophants keep peddling the notion that he “played a blinder”. And we’re rolling out the carpet for a disgusting excuse of a president.

"What we witnessed today was bullying from one of the most powerful men in the world. Now is the time to make clear we, as a country, stand with Zelensky in working for a lasting just peace." See my full statement here: greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/28/n...

Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side

It’s really something to watch two of the most despicable men in political history lecture someone fighting for their country’s right to exist how “disrespectful” he is. Trump and Vance have absolutely no sense of morality whatsoever. They couldn’t be any more pathetic.

So… Bezos cares so much about personal liberties he’s going to force the journalists he employs to write in support of them every day? Isn’t that… never mind. 🙄