This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

YES! No one needs to speed except emergency services (another benefit - car theft & other car-related crime would plummet).

Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be key metrics of a city's success.

"Weekly spin class ‘better than physio’ for people with common hip issue" Yet another endorsement of regular cycling. So many people with health issues could avoid blighted lives & expensive therapy/gym membership by cycling their everyday journeys. www.standard.co.uk/news/science...

Musician Brian May enjoying one of London's Santander bike share bicycles Happy #BicycleBirthday, Brian! Born July 19, 1947

The UK's train companies don't employ staff to help you avoid expensive mistakes (or sell you a ticket on the train you've just boarded). They pay lawyers to sue you when you make a mistake trying to navigate their labyrinthine pricing & ticketing options...

"$2 billion investment to promote cycling throughout [France] over the next four years" @heidialexander.bsky.social - France has confirmed its "unprecedented investment in cycling & walking". When are you going to confirm ours?

Thousands of winged ants have just swarmed out of my compost bin...

#Wimbledon, will free water be available at this year’s Championships, which is likely to be held during a possible record heatwave, or will visitors have to face getting fleeced for Evian…?

Escape-pea...

"It's why someone who would normally hand over their seat on a bus will speed through a zebra crossing as an older pedestrian or child crosses the road." Great piece in @echolive.bsky.social about Car Brain by Catherine Conlon feat. @ianwalker.bsky.social's research www.echolive.ie/corkviews/ar...

The question: “How can we save the car industry?"

What’s the future looking like for overweight kids - never-ending jabs? It seems we’ll do anything to them apart from letting them live natural active lives...

Don’t say I didn’t warn y’all...

Liveable Neighbourhood has 'brought calm to our streets' www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Get me to the match on time... www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...

@theguardian.com overlooked the greatest "money hack" of all when it comes to avoiding the high cost of motoring: use a 🚲 for your everyday travel needs. I estimate my 2 bikes saved me around £37,000 over the years. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

Another group of people on foot, another car ploughs into them. Have cars lost their freakin' minds?? Or is it time to take stock of our motonormative society & more tightly regulate access to these death machines...? www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...

The devastating impact of the congestion zone, hire bike scheme & protected bike lanes on average motor traffic speeds in London. Won’t somebody think of the drivers...

Who could have guessed?! momentummag.com/the-happiest...

Concern over several dozen Liverpool fans being rammed & hospitalised by an angry driver is presumably also “woke”...

Can anyone imagine London mayor Sadiq Khan slagging off the city’s public transport system quite like the US secretary of transportation does here for New York’s? He thinks it’s "dirty", plagued by "criminals" from "homeless shelters" & "insane asylums”. If he cared, he could fix it.

Wheelchair user. The scourge of dickheads parking cars and vans across the pavement and completely blocking my way is getting worse. I'm completely helpless and am so frustrated, angry and upset by its impact on my daily life, I now carry a penknife in my chair to puncture tyres.

Almost 300 killed or badly hurt by speeding drivers in N Ireland in 4 years "a sad & stark reminder of the human cost of speeding". I see it as a stark reminder of the cost of car brain. We could reduce that to near zero, but we choose not to. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/belf...

A tragic & unnecessary death caused by a teenager on a “Sur Ron electric motorcycle". The message is starting to get through to the media & the police that these machines are not bicycles. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nort...

Greek salad for dinner yesterday evening. Looks like a lot of onions but they were the last thing I added before the herbs & olive oil (& I love onions!).

Another malcontent uses a car as a weapon. We control guns very effectively in the UK - the same measures are needed for cars. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITPnews

Anyone who is more concerned about bikes on pavements than cars on the road is deeply unserious about pedestrian safety.

At last, we have strong evidence from Transport for London’s latest research that 20mph speed limits significantly reduce the numbers of people dying and being seriously injured on our roads. I've been campaigning for 20mph limits for over 25 years. view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx...

Darshna Soni, "Look what happened after Brexit" "This line shows the new points based system introduced under Boris Johnson, and net migration soared to more than 900,000" #C4News casually calling out Boris Johnson's Brexit lie that he would bring migration down

Two brilliant letters in the Irish Times this morning on how cars are weapons.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

"A proud feeling? That's a bike ride away!" The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure launched a new TV ad to encourage people to take their bike instead of the car for short journeys. Whatever the occasion or weather conditions! 🚲 👌🏼

Takeaways from a trip to Dunstable. When towns prioritise cars, they not only make it difficult for drivers, forcing them to navigate impenetrable, meandering mazes with misleading, confusing or missing signage, but they make it virtually impossible for everyone *not* in a car.

Just what is it with billionaires? All that money & they still can’t buy themselves good PR...

This is how you create an "island of strangers", #UKLabour/#Keir_Starmer. Claim to be "on the side of drivers", enforce a culture of car dependency, ignore active travel & the benefits it brings the NHS, & sit back as community severance does the rest...

Unstable in Dunstable...

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

If this all feels too much to fight, start small. Take "aspiring writer" out of your bio and replace it with "writer." Stop saying things like "I don't have a proper job." Support creators; translators; illustrators. Boycott AI generated junk. We are many. They are few. And we have the words.

In the news: In which we learn that our leaders find it easier to believe "AI is the future" than to believe that actual, living human beings who make art for a living have rights and deserve respect. Our consent doesn't matter to them. Only appeasing the tech bros matters.

The UK famously underwent a period of tectonic plate collision from the mid-1950s onward, leading to large scale movement of the Earth's crust, folding, faulting, igneous intrusion & the formation of mountains - all of which rendered cycling almost impossible in modern times...

How 15-minute-city conspiracy theorists love spending their time...

Ride a bike they said, it'll be fun they said! Kidding, we embrace and celebrate the radicalization. If only the anti-bike lane folks would take a ride in our shoes, we're certain their perspectives would change. It's the humanity of it. As always, genius 📷 by @tomflood.bsky.social

“Parity” will be when people on bikes get to kill & seriously injure thousands of drivers every year with little or no fear of consequence...

"Nobody wants to cycle." They do when cycling gets sustained investment & safe space that protects people on bikes from drivers.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!

The latest carbon emission figures for 2023, released last month, show that transport (not including international aviation and shipping) is responsible for 29% of the UK's domestic emissions, with most of that (89%) due to road transport.

We should hold the government responsible for regulating this appalling development much more tightly instead of cravenly cosying up to drivers. Car makers rarely self regulate.