Campaign Against Arms Trade are a great source of reliable information and high quality analysis on UK arms sales. They have important resources on UK arms to Israel in the context of the Gaza genocide. Vital that we keep ourselves informed about these things. caat.org.uk/publications...

I don’t think “Reform and the Greens are the same actually” is ever going to fly. Voters aren’t fools.

Bear in mind: this is how they choose to behave in public, the face they present to the electorate. Do you imagine their conduct in private is better than this?

Dalia Gebrial on #NovaraLive: "Its frankly laughable to watch Jess Phillips appoint her the expert on a word she can't even pronounce, on a context she doesn't understand and a language she cannot speak.. what we see there is an analysis that is dripping in racism..."

Always loved this building.

BIG NEWS: Lower Thames Crossing delayed to 2034! Important to note: 🛣️There have been NO legal challenges. 🛣️The scheme will proceed before it is known if it is good value for taxpayers (as a Full Business Case won’t be produced until 2028) transportactionnetwork.org.uk/opening-of-p...

Some more assessment of this from over on LinkedIn

In the final days of consultation on England’s new five year plan for cycling and walking, the Government has made further funding cuts! transportactionnetwork.org.uk/government-m...

Sensible measured messaging from UKHSA. In sharp contrast to what we’ve seen elsewhere.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

A&E waiting times are shocking. Over 50,000 people in England waited more than 12 hours in November, after the decision to admit. But that has been the case for each of the last 3 winters! And the system is failing to recover in the summer. We need to acknowledge the systemic issue, not blame flu.

🗳️ The 2026 local elections are a pivotal opportunity to secure commitments from candidates to grow cycling in their areas... 🫶 Donate to support our Streets for Cycling campaign today to put cycling on the ballot paper: bit.ly/4rDZ1GJ

If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?

Oxfordshire County Council has just published data on the first month of the congestion charge! Love the level of granularity. In summary, huge speed up in bus times in city centre, slight increase on some outer roads; massive city centre footfall growth. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/promising-st...

I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers. He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff. Trumpian

Keirs strategy to attack the Greens as "nuts."🙄 This isn't debate; it's diversion. He frames the choice as "responsible manager" vs. "extremist," to avoid the real argument: his project administers systemic inequality. You can't emancipate a generation with a spreadsheet.

ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country" Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB

Fascism Transition Team

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

“defendants who are convicted by volunteer magistrates will not have the automatic right to have their case re-heard at the Crown Court” I predict that people denied a trial by jury by Lammy will also be judged by ‘volunteer’ magistrates because there aren’t enough qualified judges. End of justice!

Scrapping jury trials for offences under three years erodes a fundamental safeguard. Delays stem from years of underinvestment, not from juries. Restricting community judgment will not restore trust or fix the backlog.

BREAKING NEWS Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution. They say: "If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again." 1/2

1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚 A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure. Trials every day in every court are affected.

This is brilliant. Would any previous opponents of this policy like to respond? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

Another argument against restricting the right to jury trial is that citizen engagement with the justice system is good for them too, not just the defendant. It is a positive volunteering experience and part of active citizenship.

I must of missed the petition for every road junction getting tactile drop kerbs, elimination of bell mouth junctions in urban areas and better policing of the mode of transport that kills an average of 7 pedestrians and maims 104 per week...

That meme of Usdaw complaining about Green Party peers weakening this bill in one division in the Lords dated pretty quickly.

Paris figures are 11% mode share but that is the City area. Central London is actually higher I reckon at about 16%. When talking about Paris v London there's a real risk of comparing Greater London Vs Paris central.

What's frustrating about #Budget2025 is the wasted year. Labour could have scrapped the two-child limit, cut energy bills and done a freeze on rail fares in last year's Budget. Instead they tried to target pensioners and disabled people, and were forced into embarassing u-turns and lost goodwill.

💼 Stealth taxes are workers paying the price, this is the wrong choice. The chancellor has picked a side. Health workers, engineers, and tanker drivers will pay by stealth taxes, while city bankers and billionaires are unscathed. #Budget2026

Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025

File under: believe it when I see it.

It’s not juries that are causing the decay in court buildings, the delay in court cases, the low pay of criminal lawyers, the shambles in court IT. Juries are the citizens’ protection against judicial and legislative over-reach.

The leaked OBR assessment states that Rachel Reeves decision to freeze income tax thresholds will raise £8.3 billion in 2029-30. So income tax will be going up, contrary to the election pledge, but stealthily, rather than openly

Abolish the OBR

More seriously, even if this is not at all the fault of anyone in government this is bad news for ministers. When a government gains a reputation for haplessness, deserved or not, it’s very hard to shift.

It certainly feels different but the next step up will be hard as existing facilities are filling up.

I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.

Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office. www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...

Took the new 3A route to the rail station today with all the family. Fast and direct, and made possible by the Congestion Charge. Buses seemed fuller, driver said CC had reduced congestion. Surprising I know.

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

Greens hit their highest polling ever amongst 18 to 24 year olds - 47%! Reform at its lowest since March.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 27% (+1) LAB: 19% (=) CON: 17% (-1) GRN: 17% (+2) LDM: 13% (-1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @yougov.co.uk, 16-17 Nov. Changes w/ 9-10 Nov.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

More Labour MPs starting to express public unease at these proposals. Lots more saying so privately...

At least one Labour MP seems to have kept a grip on decency and common sense.

The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

Just another of those days when I hate this government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...