The roads “will cater for much of the traffic now filtering through residential streets”. If only there were another way to prevent traffic going through residential streets? Maybe something to do with filtering?

At Christmas we celebrate the story of a family hunted by a violent regime. This nativity scene seems very appropriate. www.instagram.com/reel/DSDCh0V...

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

Truly the highest glory and virtue of society is preventing hours of disruption to traffic. Priceless.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Now do it in a representative assembly with all the trade-offs included? Self-selecting consultations may be the least valid or useful way to measure public approval. If BBC wants to be impartial they need to reflect this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in. www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

News! A new book. Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. It’s a collection of more than 44 cartoons, as seen in my Diagram Club newsletter. A bit late in the year? Sure, but still available for Christmas delivery. Amazon UK link: amzn.to/4pSA2ym (available internationally too)

👋🏻 Give way as a driver at a zebra crossing (where you are legally required to): expect cheerful waves. Rude not to. 😑 Give way as a pedestrian at a sideroad junction for streams of drivers to turn across ahead of you (which they legally must not): no acknowledgement. Amazed if it ever happens.

Is it common for people to find it much easier to imagine that car travel can always be improved (parking provided, congestion reduced, cheaper fuel) while seeing problems with any other transport as inherent and unchangeable (delayed/costly buses, streets being unsafe to cycle or walk/wheel)?

Maybe Starmer and Lammy think they will look strong to refuse to even meet about those on hunger strike? Maybe they think not many of us are horrified at their attempt to ignore this. This link makes it easy to show them otherwise:

Terrifying how ordinary this was. Not a monster, Paul Doyle is an ordinary man, driving an ordinary car, on an ordinary street. With an ordinary view that people in a street were “fucking pricks” who must “get out the fucking way”. The unusual part is he acted on it. metro.co.uk/2025/12/15/l...

Disabled people across the world are on the frontline of climate breakdown, facing higher rates of injury, illness and death in climate disasters. The climate crisis is a disability justice issue. ⬇️ #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #climatejustice sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2025/12/16/c...

"When future emissions commitments are considered alongside historical emissions, global net climate change impacts increase from US$43.7 trillion to US$49.0 trillion, with the USA and the EU remaining the largest contributors." Link to paper: assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-394...

Striking new preprint study here on responsibility for climate damages. The authors have calculated the total damages caused by emissions from 1950-2022, with damages cumulated to 2100.

“Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.” 🔥 Well said Robin Ince.

If your city leaders say clean air it’s important, even a human right… they’ll want to support congestion pricing.

Good to see. As we’ve heard from @amywestervelt.bsky.social over and over: accountability is the first climate solution drilled.media/news/account...

It's like being in a particularly ableist playground, honestly.

Sense said they wanted to “be seen to hold a neutral position”. Tutu once said something about injustice, elephants, mice and tails. Hope Sense quickly see how badly this goes for them and apologise.

“I’m stuck in the traffic hell you created” raged the Facebook post of a man who later killed a pedestrian in that road after the safety changes were reversed. A devastating piece of journalism www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Sounds in the city — Sheffield at night. 🎶

Starmer’s Labour: “if you don’t like the changes that we’ve made, the door is open and you can leave”

Something about how Jesus was never made less “pure” by spending his time with, and accepting, people the religious establishment judged as “impure”.

We went to Paris to launch a fake brand campaign for the bank Société Générale. Société Générale said they’d stop funding coal. But instead underwrote a $409 million a bond to the world’s largest private coal company (through one of their subsidiaries). Sign the petition at pollutiongenerale.fr

Who can tell what this phone is being used for while driving? The bottom dark rectangle looked like a map in dark mode. I guessed the top part and light background were video call, YouTube, or something?

“If you refuse our mega AI datacentre how else will you get all that free, sustainable heat?” 😬

Girl guides bowing to pressure to exclude some girls because of fears about the safety of members & the peace of mind of their parents is not new. It happened in 1930s South Africa & today in 2025 Great Britain. #ForAllGirls

Daily Mail providing some reliably thoughtful cross-promotion to their other work.

Only 19% of fatal road collisions are recorded as a driver exceeding the speed limit. Does that suggest that a whole lot of deadly speed is accepted within the legal limit? And that our speed limits are not set at safe levels? www.gov.uk/government/s...

It seems short-term car hire/clubs are not easy to make super profitable. So capital gives up. But they are a useful part of giving good transport options and can reduce the pressure to own a car. So why not have govt provide these services? ✨ Public ownership of car clubs ✨

What are your best ways to urgently improve safety?

Looks good - join if you can!

People organise to get UK government to stop handing out money to a fossil giant. And win!

Proud of the people of Sheffield and our unions.

If you haven't yet seen it, here's our report on South Yorkshire Police's decision to arrest 17 people in #Sheffield simply for holding signs, in an action described by local councillor @mineshparekh.bsky.social as "shameful". ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

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Move over, John Lewis ad

High incomes make people wildly out of touch with reality. Now remember that virtually all senior decision makers, in politics, govt, business, law, academia, media, are in this top bracket. It’s one reason randomly selected people’s assemblies are such a good idea.

Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK, by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling

Withdrawing bad goals is good! Another I think would help is clarifying or withdrawing the network management duty on highway authorities to seek the “avoidance, elimination or reduction of road congestion”. Most attempts to solve congestion fail, and increase traffic dominance. We can do better.

Why did the BBC think they should say that a woman in her 90s who has suffered serious injuries “was dressed in dark clothes”? Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

National Emergency Briefing under way with Prof Tim Lenton warning a packed venue full of MPs, Peers and other influential people of #AMOC collapse. #NEB2025

The choice we have for climate action is between “organised-ish technical and social revolution… or change that is “chaotic and violent”

Hard hitting words from Chris Packham to politicians and leaders at the National Emergency Briefing on climate and nature: "You MUST listen to the science. We didn't just elect you. We've given you our trust. You are about to hear from leading scientists. I beseach you to hear their truth"

The more you have, the less you know it. The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.

The more you have, the less you know it. The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.

Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

For a century people being endangered on our roads have been told they are the problem. This from 1927.

Waymo say safety is urgent. What if they’re right? How to reduce road danger as fast as we can? So many things we could do, with trivial tech we have now: Speed limiters Lower speed limits Remove cut-through traffic (LTNs) Retrofit safer road design. Faster, cheaper and simpler than promised AVs