This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

👉20,000 new members in a month 👉3,000 over conference weekend 👉2,000 in 24 hours after party political broadcast came out 👉Up by a third since @zackpolanski.bsky.social became leader And honestly, this is just the start. join.greenparty.org.uk

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Urban trees can lower temps by up to 12°C, but it’s not just about quantity. Species, layout and local climate all play a role in how effective they are. Strategic planting leads to cooler streets, cleaner air and healthier communities, especially in neighborhoods vulnerable to rising temperatures.

If you want places to be accessible to older and disabled people installing benches is one very helpful thing to do. Seems a few people are worried that young people will sit on a bench and be a bit annoying, so the bench won’t be installed after all.

There's nothing "un-British" about protesting genocide. Britain fought a war against genocidal fascists between 1939 & 1945. And there's nothing "antisemitic" about doing this on 7 October. Conflating opposition to genocide with antisemitism & terrorism is irresponsible & dangerous.

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes" We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’ In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.” They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this summer have warned that plans to change disability benefit assessments could trigger another mass rebellion Others called for a vote to be delayed until a review into the assessments is complete By me, for Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

89 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

Interesting research on attitudes towards & use of e-cargo bikes in the UK. Particularly noteworthy for demonstrating the level of interest in e-cargo bikes nationally and the extent to which they replace car journeys. In a trial in suburban areas over 50% of the distance travelled replaced car use

You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester. Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.

📣 “Bikes stolen from train stations left for more than 2 hours will not be investigated,” says British Transport Police. 🗣️ Cycling UK’s Sophie Gordon: “Bike theft isn’t petty — it can be devastating.” 👉 Read more: road.cc/content/news...

If only the government pushed rail as enthusiastically as pretty much anything to do with driving or flying.

Separately, the Clarion understands East-West Rail trains are unlikely to start running until 2026, raising the possibility that electric taxis will be flying between Oxford and Cambridge before the first passenger train has reached Milton Keynes.

🎙️ "If we accept that reporters die in #Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of war," writes #IFJ General Secretary @abellanger.bsky.social. Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard.

With the discussion about protests this weekend, here is some information on police powers and the law 👮 In order for a protest to be banned from taking place, the home secretary needs to grant a police application showing it would cause "serious public disorder".The legal bar is intentionally high

More than 60,000 people have signed a new petition within 24 hours calling for PPE-scandal peer Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords www.change.org/p/strip-mich...

My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)

Huge thanks to Tameside council officers for joining our guided walk in Stalybridge. We discussed the importance of inclusive street design, and why it’s vital that decision makers experience the barriers blind and partially sighted people face every day.

Nadine is correct and this Palestinian wants nothing, whatsoever, to do with you or your performative bs “solidarity”. You’re a repugnant rotter and a stain on our just cause. Our suffering is not your springboard to dismiss, excuse and “what-about” the legitimate pain, suffering and fears of Jews

This is not another case of a police force not understanding that you don't need to watch *all* of the footage to narrow it down? In any case. It's a clownshow.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer on Tuesday: "We must stand against racism" Starmer on Wednesday: "Human rights laws are stopping us sending people to face torture so we need to rethink them." Labour on Tuesday: "Labour is the party of working people" Labour on Wednesday: "If your boss mistreats you, tough shit"

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young. Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

"The main objective of these changes is to make it safer for children to walk to school by limiting car traffic. “We want Paris to regain streets where it is possible to let go of a child's hand,” said Patrick Bloche (PS), deputy mayor, at the Fête des rues aux écoles (Street Festival at Schools)."

Doing the right thing, where there’s a risk, is something that should be done more often.

Public views of Reform,July 2024 Need to do more to keep out candidates with racist views: 64% to 9% (+55) Risk bringing prejudice to immigration debate 51% to 20% (+31) Say things they shouldn't say 45% to 24% (+21) Mainly dangerous + divisive 43% to 28% (+15) Racist 41% to 30% 29% on fence

Nick Robinson asks "Can you have a racist policy without being racist yourself?" Macpherson definition: racism not only simply intention - but discriminatory impacts too. Farage policy on ILR discriminates: he protects Europeans but threatens those from Commonwealth countries (India, Nigeria)

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

We seem very keen not to tax wealthy people in case they leave, yet very keen to insult highly capable, also potentially wealthy, people without any awareness they too will leave.

I think Jonathan is being too polite: this policy is straightforwardly stupid. Other countries will make attractive offers that encourage hard-working, capable, and interesting people to choose them over us, and the UK will be worse off for it. And for what?

I don't mean to go overdramatic, but is the Labour government demanding unpaid labour from immigrants here? And what will count as 'volunteering', because the racists won't be happy when that's 'organising a nice seminar for fellow immigrants from that country and creating a joined community', is it

flock of flamingos balanced on slender stemware or mad flight of hats, magenta origami, by Schiaparelli, above ground, you stand poised as flames on candlewicks, but under earth I know you’re a heavy dark mass “Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sometimes bikes deliver freedom beyond what car ads can ever promise. Cc @tomflood.bsky.social

UK inflation is caused by profiteering Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%. Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%. Shipping up by 650 times. Health and social work up by 118%. People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Active travel is a public health issue. We really really need politicians at all levels to understand that building decent bike lanes won't just help a few Lycra-clad blokes: it will have a massive impact on people's health long term.

"By any sensible definition, 'racist' is a word you can't apply to someone who doesn't want Romanians living next door." Says Fraser Nelson, who happily published Taki's Nazi fandom, racist liar Liddle, and white nationalist Douglas Murray. Beyond satire. frasernelson.substack.com/p/who-thinks...

Good thing the troops are coming. War. Ravaged. alt: Dozens of people on bicycles, including a person on a yellow cargo bike with a white dog wearing magenta ski goggles bike across one of Portland’s many bridges. They’re taking up both lanes of eastbound traffic, but that’s not actually illegal.

Shrewd use of cargo bikes for military purposes. I bet they have ample drone capability as well.

🚨 BREAKING | Greens now have 80,000 members. This is an increase of 10,000 since @zackpolanski.bsky.social won the leadership in a landslide victory (85-15). (Source: @greenparty.org.uk)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC... Watching the official music video for Talking Heads - "Burning Down the House" from the album 'Speaking in Tongues' (1983) Director: David Byrne Strange?

So grateful to live somewhere that a bunch of kids that don't know each other, can turn up at a park, chuck their bikes down and just play football together, for free. (Incidentally, anyone who says that "multicultural is a failed experiment" clearly has never seen a random group of kids play)

Tony Harrison. Not just a northern legend, a British legend. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...