Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This is not satire, as I’d initially thought.

This Baa-Baas game would be a bit of a nothing game ... except as a George North swansong and worth it just for that try he's just scored with his first touch. 👏👏👏

Royal Mail boss’s pay package triples to £6.9m. Cost of postage stamps rocketing RM hasn't hit delivery target for 1st-class post since 2017, 2nd-class mail since 2020. Ofcom continues to reduce targets. Bosses rewarded for fleecing people.

Russian authorities have announced a state of emergency in occupied Crimea. They’re telling the people it’s for “economic issues”. Translation: no fuel, electricity supplies failing, food running out. If they think it’s an emergency now, give it a couple more days of Ukrainian strikes.

A shame councils don't have a reporting portal for photos like that. Instant fine.

Both this post and the subsequent one show drivers who are already parked illegally: The double yellow lines' restriction extends across the footway to the boundary of the private property. So how about doing the obvious thing first, and ticket drivers parking here?

If you don’t take serial law breaking drivers off the road at the earliest opportunity, they’ll inevitably go on to kill. The scale of lawbreaking behind the wheel is beyond the police to get under control. Efforts to bring prosecutions all too often get undermined by systemic judicial leniency.

A perfect summation of car brain. Oh dear, a car may get scratched!

There was a great exchange in the recent episode of @thewaroncars.bsky.social where @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @ianloader.bsky.social talk about how cars have become an extension of people's bodies, like an exoskeleton.

I especially love this diagram.

Saying "vision zero" and "keeping our most vulnerable pedestrians (school children) safe" while participating in a video meeting from your phone while driving a car is really quite something.

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Former CEO of Pennon, owner of South West Water, received £270,000 bonus despite a parasite outbreak that contaminated drinking water. SWW dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, neglects investment. Execs rewarded for abusing people. OFWAT didn't stop the bonus. Let customers vote on exec pay

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

Some drivers feel untouchable - soundproofed, tech-laden, insulated from the world outside. That isolation breeds complacency, while pedestrians and cyclists feel the danger every time these vehicles fly past. Drivers need to put safety before convenience and time saved.

Terry Donegan is Reform UK’s candidate in the Dowlais and Pant, Merthyr Tydfil by-election next week. He’s a vaccination conspiracy theorist. Reform UK doesn’t seem to understand the danger it is putting people in by platforming anti-vax candidates. It’s a reckless pursuit of power.

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

Almost certainly wasn’t an EAPC e-bike and therefore can’t be classified as one. If you’re riding an illegal electric motorbike then you’re not a cyclist. Pedal assist also doesn’t enable “high speed”. This mis, poss disinformation continues to thwart e-bike viability. metro.co.uk/2026/06/20/n...

This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.

Cars can be lethal and cars with self-driving features can be lethal too. It seems extraordinary that regulation does not prevent cars with self driving features from causing such catastrophic outcomes.

We've known this for ages. When are the politicians going to twig? How many resources wasted and how much damage done in the meantime?

"The world is not going to be saved by big SUVs that are electric,” says Renault’s chief design officer" - looks like we've fixed things in less than 24 hours 😉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Weird how any negative framing of our auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on aggressive car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

What is the point of Operation Snap? @cardiffcyclecity.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @williamnb.eurosky.social @cf-psychelist.bsky.social

I don't like the ratio of reports to positive outcomes, as I don't here in s.Wales from my own submissions, when they bother to respond. Don't think the wider stats are even published. If we're going to be expected to do this work for free we need a better service.

One department leaving is good. Now all must follow.

Yes this is a real story. He’s being told that organising a group to clean River Roding is illegal. The environment agency is the one threatening him.

Hurrah !! A good start- now the rest, please! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Kids riding buses to explore their city is kind of great, actually

BBC News - Gasps and tears in court as 10 more sentenced over Ely riots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Have the parents who bought the e-motorbike for their child to ride illegally (to his and another's death) been sentenced yet?

🤯 Even given his record.

"These streets weren't made for bikes" says a guy driving a pick-up truck so large it can't fit into a standard parking space

Don’t forget what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth and infrastructure politics. It’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.

I’d love to post some signs like this with pedestrian fatality rates for different vehicle impact speeds around my neighborhood for the drivers to see. I don’t think anyone will be able to read ‘em going that fast …

Nigel Farage is breaking British company law. Missed a deadline to file a confirmation statement with Companies House. Failed to verify his identity, required by law. Failure to comply is a criminal offence. Low attendance in parliament but busy with 2nd jobs, collecting money from foreign donors.

Have done my good deeds for the day - reporting a close pass to Op Snap and a further 3 illegal parkers to @cardiffcouncil.bsky.social, encountered on the school run. One can but hope there is action being taken behind the scenes seeing as feedback doesn't seem to part of the process. 🤷‍♂️

"The dominance of car amongst transport modes is at least partly the result of policy decisions made by successive governments" - Wow, Scottish Government have said it Big thanks to @srd.bsky.social for flagging this brilliant Parliamentary policy briefing spice-spotlight.scot/2026/06/11/t...

The glaring thing about the under-16s social media ban is that it comes alongside our govenrment's ongoing refusal to acknowledge, let alone tackle, the fact that our children are not safe from drivers in their neighborhoods, at their schools, in football parades, on sports pitches, or at nursery.

When I meet people in the real world, they have 0% - and I mean zero - knowledge of the disaster unfolding in British HE. Even if their kids are actually at uni. They look at me as if I've gone mad. This is why. 👇

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... "But data and evidence is what we want to focus on." Can't really argue with that? Good luck with a difficult brief. I'm looking forward to what any new evidence says about intelligent road tolling as it seemed a viable solution last time I reviewed. ;)

Calling protected bike-lanes “vanity projects” should be automatic evidence that a political candidate has no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to public safety, urban mobility and congestion, geometry and urban space, fiscal responsibility, or the successful positioning of cities.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'a car crashed into a nursery playground.' 'the vehicle drove through a fence' 'a vehicle entering an outdoor play area' Yet, 'A 63-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.' The BBC's normal standard of reporting.

wow wait are you telling me you can create a vibrant pedestrian space without 10 years of consultation and a terribly rolled out underfunded pilot? you can just DO it?

The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger | Phillip Inman

Musk is arguably even more of a media creation than Trump

Actually, Brexit was a bad idea from the start. You were not betrayed. You just didn't bother to think through the consequences of your choices.

What a ridiculous creature he is.

For years the growing national security threat to the UK caused by the global far right has been either ignored, tolerated, or actively cheered on by mainstream politicians in the UK. After the horrific scenes in Belfast last night it can be ignored no longer www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

No one ever asks for bus fares to be frozen or scrapped to save businesses do they? www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2617936...