Vital analysis of how the EHRC have misled global human rights regulators and parliament about the nature of criticisms of the UK and the EHRC from the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity.

If anyone's curious, this is from an email I wrote a couple of years ago trying to dissuade a large business from doing yet another active travel reward points system

Just walk slowly...

It is ... very interesting that this keeps happening. Juries are by definition made up of a random sample from the electoral roll, and they continue to express support for climate protestors when put in a contemplative environment juststopoil.org/2026/07/03/a...

Is there anything more pathetic than a Telegraph journalist?

Active travel is so important for health, that the NHS is going to reward people to do it. But would it not be better for DfT and Councils to invest in pavements and cycle routes that are fit for purpose first? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The fact delivery robots - despite being small motor vehicles - aren't on the roads with all the other motor vehicles is inadvertently very revealing about the dangerous state of our roads

Hospital roofs replaced by rockets and guns. Buried in the smallprint - Starmer's defence plan means slashing funding for hospitals to pay for bullets and bombs. Will @andyburnham.bsky.social go along with this?

A £5 million "unconditional gift" from a crypto billionaire. A promise to launch a crypto revolution in Britain. Yeah, nothing to see here from Nigel "nine-jobs, five-houses" Farage. 👀

So yes then? Starmer’s most famous speech as pm will always be “island of strangers“

Ban these stupid robots.

Motorbikes are a serious problem when it comes to speeding. They should be banned from bus lanes.

Probably also a racist...

Starmer and Streeting screwing the NHS. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

& that's what you see everywhere almost to a man in the maga movement & we're seeing the same pattern in the racist rioters in the uk www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

This is such an important point.

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

The Green Party is clear on what real change looks like: • Proportional representation • Taxing billionaire wealth • No new oil and gas • Public ownership of water • Rent controls • Ending arms sales to Israel

@bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @edplowden.bsky.social

Somehow missed this last year: "protected bicycle lanes experienced bicycle commuter increases 1.8 times larger than standard bicycle lane[s], 1.6 times larger than shared-lane marking [lanes] and 4.3 times larger than block groups [than no] bicycle facilities" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Both objective and subjective productivity followed inverted-U-shaped patterns, declining when temperatures deviated from optimal levels". Our new study of indoor environment effects on comfort and work performance is now out, available open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wonder what happens if you manage to turn one of these things onto their back?

Time to fight back. Kick these robots into the road where they belong.

The Today Programme is well past its sell by date, having become an outlet for right wing propaganda over the past two decades. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

I hope Burnham will put a stop to this idiocy and ban these robots. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The violent thugs and criminals putting up flags have lost. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Another AI failure... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is what Bristol has banned from the outset. London should never have allowed them on the streets.

Another Waymo hits a biker. On the Old Kent Road. Waymo turning right. Bike going straight with right of way…

The arts sector is enhanced by contributions of trans and queer people. Clare from @wshed.bsky.social is right to call out the disappointing response from the sector in standing up for trans inclusion. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/watersh...

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

The Waymo imposition is just further proof: When something reinforces existing hierarchies, "consultation" is absent. When something challenges existing hierarchies, "consultation" to neutralize that challenge is present.

Long post about conversion therapy. We need to understand; 1. There is nothing to celebrate about the Non-Ban 2. The REAL purpose of the Non-Ban 3. No-one will persuade Labour to close its loopholes, like cruelty, they are the point. Instead we should get on with opposing CT's use in the NHS.

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

Important point: the proposed UK law to ban Conversion Practices has a massive, fatal loophole for anyone claiming to be doing it as a "healthcare" practitioner. The existing law in France:

While I read the UK license on conversion therapy, Spain national assembly literally yesterday voted to make an attempt at conversion therapy a criminal offense with jail time. It was already a banned practice, now it's flat out criminal, and if you wonder if it's worded well, read the pedo's panic

From 1925: a prediction that, as more people choose to drive to the countryside, cars will end up destroying the very beauty that people go to see.

At the risk of sounding all LinkedIn, this is also such a great illustration of what good leadership can look like. Take a capable person, assure them that you've 100% got their back and send them off to do what needs to be done

I've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

What about routes that people cycle every day to get to work, school, etc? These organisations need to focus on everyday cycling not the once a year cycle holiday routes.

The Labour Government enabling state sanctioned torture.

Under the Government’s draft bill to ban conversion abuse, this tortuous practice will be allowed to continue. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

Not a Ban! FGENs statement on the Draft conversion practices bill published today https://feministgenderequality.network/not-a-ban/

As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion practices in Britain has to confront the fact that the NHS never stopped doing it. This draft bill not only fails, it explicitly gives “healthcare providers” permission to continue.

The UK June record was duly broken yesterday with 36.1C at Gosport, and it will fall again today. This spell also features high humidity and overnight temperatures. My husband commented with surprise on the dewy grass when he took his breakfast out. Very unusual to have dew points widely over 20C.

Draft bill on conversion practices is out. Lots of loopholes in it www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-conversion-practices-bill/conversion-practices-draft-bill

I lived though 1976. It was a memorable year for lots of reasons, including two back to back visits to North Wales. It was nothing like this heatwave. It was dry and warm for many weeks. It was never so hot that people had to stay indoors and do nothing.

planning a stern letter to the climate change denialists

Ten years after Brexit, the economic consequences are plain to see. Rejoining the EU is the best way to repair the damage and deliver renewed opportunity for Londoners.