No identified cost savings from bringing in digital ID, but does get us closer to serving Tony Blair's private interests in the post liberal international order. www.theregister.com/2025/11/28/d...

For interest of @chittimarco.bsky.social - York's planning trials to remove through traffic on its central bus corridor and surrounding streets w. targeted traffic controls next summer ourbigconversation.york.gov.uk/business-int...

If the standard is "you liked a bad Facebook post ten years ago and that makes you an unforgivable racist" and also "this person wants to massively ramp up deportations and that's why she's actually a left wing progressive" then *very obviously* there is no standard and it's all bullshit.

Jesus to his disciples:

"Safe, reliable mobility is essential for lives and livelihoods in the city." An intersting study of young men pedestrians in Cape Town and London.

Traffic calming, Devon style 💪

Don’t thank drivers for letting you cross the street at a zebra crossing it’s your right of way

Join me in donating to support our refugee communities - until 12pm your donation goes twice as far

Take all of your life experiences and received wisdom about how xenophobic Switzerland is (you're probably more correct than incorrect) and then consider the UK is apparently trying to make it exponentially harder to naturalize. And also making the process as subjective as possible for obv reasons

I realize I talk about this place a lot, but: there are some local authorities in Switzerland that require this sort of thing for *naturalization,* but NONE of them require it for permanent residency. What's being described here is profoundly extreme even in the context of absurd European xenophobia

So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code. These are legal requirements. Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.

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Like the mass murder of bison on the Plains or the clearing of the Eastern Woodlands for animal agriculture, colonialism annihilates and replaces ecosystems as well as peoples, polities, and cultures.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

There's an anti-immigration protest taking place in Bournemouth tomorrow, and this poster is for the counter demonstration.

If it comes down to Corbyn and a bunch of no-mark landlords and terverts, or Zarah Sultana, I know exactly whose side I'm taking.

“we’re not racist” (a few seconds later) *says virulently racist things including ethnic cleansing*

Hello folks, we need to get an old friend's family out of Gaza, please donate if you can www.gofundme.com/f/a-heartfel...

If you know anyone who has to keep a phone secret, and can safely let them know, it is going to be really, really, important that they know to make sure those phones are switched off, or on airplane mode, before the alert goes through at 3pm.

Head in hands that Sunder Katwala describes this man as passing the good faith test yorkmix.com/meet-the-man...

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Again with it - it's remarkably unremarked on that Britain is largely ruled by people one (two at a push) generations removed from colonial administrators in their own families.

Yes and - it's remarkably unremarked on that Britain is ruled by people one (two at a push) generations removed from colonial administrators.

Many of us would much rather share our country with people that risked their life to be here, than those who are born here but spend all of their time & energy on resentment, hatred, and conspiring to harm.

This means new cars cost the UK like £5bn+ last month? Just new cars not any of the other costs of motor travel. You could build 850 schools for that

You know what, normally I’d agree. But my sympathies run really fucking thin when she with Kendall and Starmer have spent the last few weeks terrorising disabled people by attempting to remove their support and threatening them with poverty and insecurity (and all the consequences thereof).

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Sahar Delijani on brand

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

Accusing people advocating for more public and active transport options of not considering disabled people while ignoring the way that the current paucity of public and active transport options limit disabled people's mobility isn't disability justice advocacy, it's enforced car dependency advocacy.

I don't know how many people understand that disabled people are looking at losing £450 a month, every month, potentially for life. Money that pays for the help, aids, and adjustments that they need to exist in the world. There are disabled people who wouldn't survive these cuts.

It's mad that Labour extended the fuel duty cut from the previous Conservative government but put bus fare up by 50%. Just goes to show that the wonks in Westminster absolutely don't live in the real world and wouldn't know anything about "working people" if it bit them on the arse.

Annual affordable housing spend after SR: 2022/23 = £2.6 bn 2023/24 = £3 bn 2024/25 = £2.4 bn 2025/26 = £2.4bn 2026/27 = £2.6 bn 2027/28 = £3.1bn. Slightly more than Tories but less in real terms after inflation 2028/29 = £3.6 bn. Around the same as 23/24 in real terms Most spend pushed to 2030s

Bunhill Row (near Old Street). Always wonderful to see that protected cycling space is useful for lots of folks. Although it speaks volumes about the footway conditions with a total absence of flush kerbs at the access to the left.

Sarah Edwards Labour MP for Tamworth did exactly the same last year telling racists where people seeking asylum were staying. A few days later it was set on fire. She deleted her tweet and has faced no consequences.

If nothing else it's a failure on H&S Execs part that people are using pickups for works vehicles

NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears. This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash. 🧵

For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis Brazenly immoral, legally untrue

I want to be clear that I think the sanctions posed on Ben Gvir and Smotrich are at least partly meant to distract from the fact that these countries maintain normal relations with a genocidal state.

Keir Starmer can find billions for weapons factories, drones and a submarine but not for disability benefits or the two child limit. One more time for those at the back: Poverty Is A Political Choice.

Israel bombed Southern Lebanon several times today and continues well into the night.

Bike infrastructure design is my passion

> Microsoft confirm they've supplied AI tech to the Israeli military for use in Gaza" > But they've found "no evidence" it's being used to target or harm Palestinians I laughed out loud at that. How brazen of Microsoft to even try that bullshit line on us.

Research by Which? found half of drivers turn off existing tech because it's annoying or outright dangerous... lane keep tech that steers into oncoming traffic or speed assist that incorrectly reads signs and causes the vehicle to speed. This does not sound like a tech that will be ready in 2 years