Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

School/college and uni students. A new project you may want to consider doing this semester/term. Just an idea. Not an endorsement.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

The clue is in the middle of the sentence…..

“The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the wellbeing of trans and gender‐diverse people” www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

With the Tory conference starting shortly, here are 3 parody speeches from the past. First, Rowan Atkinson. youtu.be/YaGdwfykYGY?...

Now 54,380 signatures of women who stand with trans women. Let’s keep this going! Please sign, if you haven’t already done so. Please share, if you have.

Thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this piece 💔 Pls know this is not a drill. 10yrs after topping ILGA-Europe LGBTQ+ rights ranking, UK has dropped to 22 place out 49. Lemkin Institute has issued a red flag alert on UK #trans and #intersex rights. goodlawproject.org/the-writing-...

Hackney CC has new joint coordinators after tonight's AGM. Congratulations to @microlambert.bsky.social and @liamduffy.dev who take over leading HCC's campaign to enable all-age, all-ability cycling. 🎉👏 And a big thank you to HCC's out-going coordinator @garmonap.bsky.social. 🙏

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

Now our election and we have a new pair of coordinators as @microlambert.bsky.social and @liamduffy.dev become joint role holders. Congratulations to them and a huge thanks to both @garmonap.bsky.social and @netwench.bsky.social who will be stepping away from @hackneylcc.bsky.social soon.

Hey hey! It's autumn 🍂 it is Hackney Cyvling campaign AGM and I thought let's share some news! Thread incoming...

The sky this morning is a set of magical colours.

Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value

Tony finally did it - can he retire now? Just know there will be a massive political fight over how these record "sex".

So I took down about five. Someone came out and gave me a bottle of wine

All this just to force an innocent minority group into segregated "diseased freak" toilets. Jesus fucking Christ, this government will be the end of this country.

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding. Note: Healthcare is still free. If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport. 👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

This has got to me a bit today so here we go. No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators. 1/26

So please Rebecca, do not preach to us to remove the heat, to be calm as we're erased from existence, we're in a war. 26/26

"don't even take my word for it, as a politician, listen to British doctors, British scientists" says Wes Streeting about paracetamol. Never heard him say that once about trans healthcare.

‘Skeptical’ - as if the announcement of a moron(s) is some sort of gold standard Cochrane review. And this is from Channel 4 News. We are truly in deep poo. Bring on the rapture later today, I can’t stand it any more.

"The British Psychological Society has warned that recent changes to equality law guidance risk causing confusion and damaging the wellbeing of trans people." www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Getting ready to be racially profiled… 😊 www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/star...

Lib Dems reject debate on blocking trans women from diversity quotas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nobody who works for or listens to 6 Music wants this. It's mad.

Jon Stewart doesn't miss ☠️☠️☠️

UN Geneva "The Commission finds that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children."

How far would it need to deteriorate before Mordaunt decided that it was too much?

Hundreds of UK businesses say trans bathroom ban would be 'unworkable' https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/trans-toilet-ban-650-businesses-trans-solidarity-alliance-safe-space-uk/?utm_content=1758171601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Plus a builder of cars stuffed full of video cameras.

You can always improve things even when they are rather good already

This is a staggering statement by a Supreme Court Justice, to assert that the government department that took legislation through parliament immediately misinterpreted it.... Does he think that's even remotely logical?

Thread about yesterday's counter protest. Writing it mostly to collect my thoughts and ideas. I don't have much knowledge about the organizations organizing yesterday, these are just my thoughts. 1. Yesterday we lost. We came out defiant, chanting, but we lost that day.

Well this is exemplary stuff. Cycled 50 miles today with @materials89.bsky.social

Details of our comments: hackneycycling.org.uk/consultation...

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.

This is cheery

Nice to be somewhere where I have the same rights that I had back on 15 April 2025. The UK is such a shit show - I despair

Can't say it clearer than this, can you - "transphobia will absolutely not be tolerated under my leadership, and it will never be acceptable in the Green Party."

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

Is that @netwench.bsky.social I spy at the front there ! 👍keeping up the great work

#TransRights #UK Fucking hell. The "Equal Treatment Bench Book" from the judiciary was update in May of this year. It removes gender identity from any protection, and overtly encourages judges to aim to humiliate and out transgender people. Start reading from page 183. IT's nauseating stuff.

yes. they're appalling.

lots of great CTAs, including this one www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud but choose your own path.

So we now have a transphobic Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Health Secretary, Education Secretary, Equalities Minister, PR officer… Media, NHS management…