When you try to fly a kite but it goes straight into a powerline

Two weeks after the murder of a political activist in the US, a 'senior' figure in The Reform Party talks of shooting civil servants in car parks. These people are a disgrace. @reformexposed.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/76a4...

ICYMI: two weeks ago, Jeremy Kyle asked the infinitely flexible former Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik why he joined Reform. Opik says: "I go where the money is."

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Enjoyed this from Minute cryptic

Scenes.

The Tories used to be the party of law and order and now they’re backing someone who called for hotels to be set fire to. They are desperately struggling for relevance.

It’s time

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

No-one really knows suffering like poor old Robert in his Highgate mansion having to cope with people parking bikes near it. Bad as that other actor guy having to deal with people enjoying a concert near his Herne Hill mansion. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

"DEATH BY E-BIKE" www.msn.com/en-gb/entert...

Dan Lawrence, ruddy hell!

Was a real pleasure to go to the launch of this book on Tues - if it's anything like Laura's other books, it promises to be an incredible read, so please do BUY IT!

❗ New car bonnets are becoming 0.5cm higher every year, growing from an average of 76.9 cm in 2010 to 83.8 cm in 2024. These supersized cars crowd out space in cities and are more dangerous in a crash. Our new study with @transenv.bsky.social 👇 cleancitiescampaign.org/research-lis... #carspreading

Why did they get the primary school newsletter designer to do Man City’s kit?

Requiescat in pace.

New analysis of relationship between car weight and fatal collision rates in the UK finds “ppl driving heavier cars are disproportionately involved in more fatal collisions”. Particularly the case for those involving other cars or pedestrians. Available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Oh I see we’re mocking people for having porcine surnames now. Nice.

Ecumenical question: what’s the worst thing you can do in run up to a major Christian festival?

Amazing turnout for the @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social mass bike ride today to campaign against giant SUVs #carspreading and causing danger for children, cyclists and pedestrians. Great to see @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @ibikelondon.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org

Thanks to @zagdaily.com for covering this!

Milestone moment, taking the 7 yo to cycle round central London on Sunday. To raise awareness of the risks from SUVs. More details here: zagdaily.com/places/londo... organised by @ibikelondon.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org

Not now mutant cows

so of Reform's five MPs, one was chucked out of the Conservative Party over an Islamophobia scandal, one is being investigated as a workplace bully, one was convicted of violent assault against his ex-girlfriend, one lives part-time in Dubai, and one is good friends with a Russian asset.

NEW: Car manufacturers want to hide the truth about their dirty diesel emissions. Along with MPs, over 50 major charities & organisations and hundreds of individuals, we demand court documents are made public. #Dieselgate #AirPollution

👏👏👏 Transparency has to be the bare minimum after everything that people have endured since dieselgate 🚗💨🫁😷

Important work from @mumsforlungs.bsky.social - new research shows that diesel cars are STILL massively breaching legal limits ahead of the biggest ever class action on illegal defeat devices. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This is fascinating on how to make a mega city like Tokyo work where a lack of on street parking and a proliferation of small vehicles make the streets feel humane. cityofsound.com/2023/01/09/s... from Dan Hill via @richardleeming.bsky.social

Once you see #carspreading, you see it everywhere. If you've spotted this trend in your city, snap a pic & share it with us @cleancitiescampaign.org 🙏 Learn more here cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/ 🧵8/8

Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8

#carspreading - find out more about this new campaign to see how to manage SUVs in our cities. Register for this @cleancitiescampaign.org webinar next week 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 newsbywire.com/rise-of-cars...

Nightmare to park? Kids frightened to cross the road? Let us know if you have been affected by the rise of #Carspreading Send your images and tag @cleancitiescampaign.org UK car owners say supersized SUVs “not necessary in towns and cities" newsbywire.com/rise-of-cars...

This lunchtime, cycling down a narrow road on my way to Lordship Lane , an SUV pulled out from a side street and accelerated towards me straddling the white line in the middle of the road. Dangerous, arrogant, frightening #carspreading newsbywire.com/rise-of-cars...

We’ve googled you Dad, you’re like famous. I mean like kind of laptop famous but not YouTube famous like Mr Beast. Also why is there a painting of you?

The harbinger of economic growth is free trade. If this isn’t the lesson of the last 200 years, I don’t know what is.

Who made this 🤣

Elon Musk goes masks off and does a Nazi salute.

Ok I’ll listen to New Order again.

New from me, on Rachel Reeves's influential chief economic adviser John Van Reenen, and some of the ideas behind Labour's approach to growth: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Boris Johnson, 2019: “awful lot of money & an awful lot of police time now goes into these historic offences...£60m I saw was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic child abuse...what on earth is that going to do to protect the public now?” www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Despite working in comms, have now deleted X / Twitter and will advise clients to do the same. No need to support disinformation and conspiracies and little engagement any more.

We build vehicles that weigh 9000 pounds with 1000HP, can go 0-60mph in 3 seconds and market them recklessly. We then ask people to wear construction vests to cross the street. This is all so beyond absurd and it's truly incredible that we've normalized this.

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

RFK Jr’s transition team lawyer is currently petitioning the US government to pause distribution of vaccines for polio, hepatitis A, diphtheria, tetanus and nine others. America is on the brink of the Middle Ages.

In today’s middle class angst I used child labour instead of the exploited workers at my local car wash.

Happy thanksgiving to all Berkeley feministas and fellow travellers 🦃 www.facebook.com/watch/?v=678...

Thinking I might get tickets to the Libertines next year. Their new album which I finally listened to last night is pretty decent. Anyone else keen on a trip to Margate? youtu.be/Idv8E-cg-us?...

Technological developments are out-stripping our capacity to tackle violence against women and girls. Sexually-explicit deepfakes are becoming an increasingly worrying issue - in and out of schools. So, I am today calling on the Government to ban nudifying tools and apps.