The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.

I used to love Twitter, even if I had to really reign in my shitposting when I got elected. It used to be genuinely useful professionally too. It has long ceased to have any positive net benefit, either individually or societally, and anyone in public life who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here. This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls. Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜 notinourname.org.uk

The normalisation of forced car ownership has so many consequences. A revealing and helpful thread by @cargobikeben.bsky.social on thinking through a job offer with an active commute, health and well-being lens.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

The sheer effrontery of the Right in screaming blue murder about “free speech” when anyone gets prosecuted for online racism or transphobia, then *immediately* pivoting to saying people should *lose their literal citizenship* over Bad Tweets: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From Nigel Farage to this caricature, it's been striking to see how little of a shit the right now gives about antisemitism. After all, when a Labour leader was accused of it, they were deeply, gravely concerned.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I fundamentally beleive that it can be done, it is just we lack the political will or logistical competence as a country to do it.

I actually think that the biggest tell for future bigotry is whether or not ppl think binarily. If everything is only one or the other to you, the only logical conclusion becomes bigotry towards at least one group

And if you dismiss people who came to bigotry later in life as “well they must have always been evil”, you are missing how that radicalisation happened. And that’s dangerous, because if we refuse to acknowledge the problem then we can’t address it.

Which locks stand up best to angle grinders? Great review from Cycling UK: www.cyclinguk.org/cycle-magazi... H/t: @robintucker1.bsky.social

Big up to 'Calais Appeal' who do amazing work supporting those with nothing Please donate to their Christmas appeal if you can 🕊️✨🌎

Kids these days.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Finishing Die Hard 2 as a councillor: Damn the flight tower controller overruling his brother's (the aforementioned parking officer) decision and tearing up McClane's parking ticket just because he saved the day. One star.

Watching Die Hard 2 as a councillor: I applaud that officer for diligently enforcing the parking restrictions and resisiting John McClane's charms.

Today I met a tiny leopard.

The failure if leadership by Jewish institutions over the last decade both moral and strategic will if we are lucky be a source of mockery for future generations if we are unlucky a source of horror

🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there. ✍🏼 Dear cabinet....

There is definitely a need for e-bike/e-scooter hire companies to be much more accountable for their services www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Blue badge misuse - just as other anti social parking behaviours - is not a victimless crime. We are glad to see the council raise awareness and crack down on it.

Today, Dec 18, marks the 25th anniversary of TransMilenio. It turned a chaotic "system" of busetas, competing for passengers on the streets of Bogotá, a city of 8 million, into the largest bus rapid transit network in the world. I asked a BRT pioneer, Dario Hídalgo, to write about the system... 🧵

With the almost daily deluge of polls, it's good to stand back and take a longer-term look. Labour is clearly alienating its supporters - and they've moved to the Greens in sizeable numbers in 2025 Reform has continued to take support from the Tories, but at a slower rate than in 2024.

A reminder for everyone getting Christmas presents… stay away from the HP merch!!! uk.news.yahoo.com/j-k-rowling-...?

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

🎉 Absolutely delighted to welcome Jamie Driscoll to the Green Party. 👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them. 💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Cutting yet excellent.

Very interesting on government plans to grow oxford: spoiler, the growth commission thinks, like I do, that we need to revisit “view cones” and stop preventing developers building more Oxford houses due to impact on distant views.

Labour's comms in general are absolutely dire. They can't frame a message to save their lives. There is little to no coordination between depts etc etc. On migration, and other rights based issues, they are particularly bad though, and their framing absolutely reinforces far right narratives.

From a professional comms perspective, I'd say a good start for Labour combatting far right rhetoric would be to stop repeating it, saying they "understand it" or including its stock tropes in official documents pretty much any time they talk about migration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A warm welcome to our five new councillors! 💚

The Bondi beach attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in decades, after the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. The shooting is a heinous attack on the Jewish community. Authorities should invest substantially in efforts to counter threats.

The Tumbling Bay bathing place, on the Bulstake Stream just north of the Botley Road in West Oxford, has reopened. The wild swimming spot was closed in 2024 due to concerns over the condition of the old retaining wall, which has now been replaced.

Nour Odeh reports on the fact that Israel is continuing to demolish Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, as well as how its isolating and caging Palestinian communities there.

The Suffrage flag flew above Oxford Town Hall today, commemorating the anniversary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918, the historic Act that empowered working women with the right to vote.

Today should have been a day of celebration for Jewish communities around the world. Instead, they are mourning. As Greens we stand today, and every day, with our Jewish colleagues and friends.

Rishi Sunak, who I criticised for many, many, many things, kicked Lee Anderson out of his party. We cannot say what his Downing Street would have done in a hypothetical 2024-5. We can, and should judge this government for what it has overseen.

We don’t need to overthink induced demand to do something about it. "Build for cars, and you’ll get more driving; build for transit or biking, and you’ll get more of those too." Read my latest piece from SSTI.

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merry Dutch Christmas! 🚲🌲

I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning. I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss. We stand with you.

This is absolutely abhorrent. Too many people this year (and in other years) have lost their lives to antisemitic terror attacks. Thinking of the victims' loved ones and everyone around the world celebrating Hannukah. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nothing but respect for Robin's courage and principles. Shame on the BBC.

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

Nigel Farage is probably delighted today that Reform have the most members of a political party. It doesn't have to be this way. 180,000 and rising. Hope ready to overtake hate. Stand and be counted. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I want to cook all of these. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/de...

It's good to finally have an answer to the question why BoD and other prominent mainstream Jewish organisations have remained silent regarding Farage's extreme Jew-hatred: they are cowards, and they will take down the entirety of British Jews with them because they are weak and afraid