So, here was my year in cinema! My top 10 films of 2025 10. September 5 9. 28 Years Later 8. Wake Up Dead Man 7. Sorry, Baby 6. Memoir Of A Snail 5. Marty Supreme 4. The Brutalist 3. Bugonia 2. The Ballad Of Wallis Island 1. One Battle After Another

Here's an old-fashioned link to an old-fashioned "blogpost" (!) with my personal assessment of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood (EBLN) trial scheme data, and what I think we should do about it. tl;dr - it's worked, and changes can make it work even better. robbryher.com/2026/01/02/m...

Just reading the first 53 pages of the Christmas Radio Times so I know who the current generally accepted national treasures are. Dench - pages 10 to 14 inclusive Nick Park - pages 26-27 Michael Ball concert listing - page 44 Attenborough - pages 47-48 So it goes...

Have a soft spot for the England cricket team but they’ve deserved this Ashes annihilation from the off British press was full of preening ‘this is our year’ nonsense before a ball had even been bowled Bazball is pure ‘Global Britain’ Brexit BS. Full of exceptionalism and hot air

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...

To genuinely listen and genuinely hear someone does not require you to then agree wholesale with what that person is saying. Too many people think it does and they frankly need to get over themselves and realise the world doesn't revolve around them. (I also need to remind myself of this often!)

Never really followed an Ashes series in Australia before this time. Might not do it again...

As Zack Polanski says, we’re here to replace Labour! Our team on the ground is delivering that energy to every member of St. George 💚 A huge thank you to our brilliant team for their hard work and commitment, bringing hope back to Bristol, one doorstep at a time 🌿

So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous. Let me count the ways. 🧵

Anyone know of a supercut version of Home Alone where all of the scenes that do NOT feature Macauley Culkin or John Candy are cut out? Who gives a monkeys about the "plight" of the neglectful, entitled and rich parents? I reckon it'd save at least 20 minutes of runtime.

But this is good: “Over 40 women across the UK have either declined the award or asked to have their names removed from past lists.”

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Bad stuff from Cycling UK www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Iceland went out on a high (see picture) - ROA by VAEB was my most listened to song of 2025 and that shows just how much 4 to 6 year olds loved it! BBC News - Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎄 At last night’s @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social meeting, #Bradford Conservatives brought forward a proposal to bring #Christmas Cheer ... by cutting Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in our district ... 🗣️ I was lost for words. Luckily I had a poem prepared ... #WealthTaxNow

Well done 👏 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Just wrote an article for @bristol247.bsky.social about a v niche but v important topic - therapy for children who have been through the care system. And how Labour are planning to cut this funding 🙄 #fostercare #Bristol #therapy #adoption #specialguardianship 👇 www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure" New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fly them halfway around the world and make them sit indoors and watch it on TV. It's a wild world we live in. Hold the next World Cup in Iceland, I reckon. England World Cup subs might stay indoors - Tuchel - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Allies! woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

This government has no courage to actually change things in a meaninful way. As with the budget, the best it can do is tinker around the edges while the system gets worse.

Good shout in this Channel 5 piece about fly tipping and how Bristol City Council is tackling it. Plus what you can do to ensure a private waste company won't just dump your waste. Nice to see Bristol's Green Cllr and Environment Chair Martin Fodor in there too. www.linkedin.com/posts/keep-b...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Looks like everything is a-ok with the UK's police and criminal justice system eh?

Yeah he's absolutely a Green, you can tell. And I can see him being an MP in the first Green government.

Fantastic analysis

This lad though. Legend.

Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising

so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?

For a century people being endangered on our roads have been told they are the problem. This from 1927.

Eight years ago, I was working as a temp at Royal Mail's Severn Beach distribution centre. This was a day...!

Cars are weapons.

Why do delivery people ring your doorbell and then put a parcel through your door before you even have a chance to get there? Try to make it fit FIRST, then ring the doorbell, surely? What is the thinking behind this? I am assuming, as ever, that the answer will be "the shitness of capitalism"...

Happy "oh these gloves are clearly rubbish" day to all who celebrate!

📅Reminder that Bristol’s Budget 2026/27 consultation closes in one week. 🗣Give your views on council tax and proposals for how the Council can reduce costs and increase income in other ways to help it set a balanced and legal budget. 👉Fill out the consultation by midnight on Wednesday 26 November.

I’m pleased that ahead of Labour’s Budget, Bristol City Council’s leadership Tony Dyer and @heathermackbristol.bsky.social have backed this call from Green Party representatives around the country: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Only the most callous English person would be able to resist the pure drama and joy of this 10 minute video youtube.com/watch?v=73cV...

Fair play to Heather for leading by example and taking this epic train journey. Of course she worked the whole time there and back on the train too.

Interesting article from a conscientious councillor trying to improve mobility options in Bristol. Also, every school street should look like the one in this photo. ⬇️

I live within the EBLN and it's been transformative. I have experienced it as a hugely positive change for the area. The air quality, noise levels, safety, accessibility: improved. fewer people in high powered cars racing. It will be an enormous step back if it's removed to score political points.

Great piece by excellent ward neighbour @caralavan.bsky.social here. A few home truths for our Labour MP... www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

A wealth tax is very much not the same as raising income tax.

Follow! -> @greens4sudan.bsky.social

"Now that we've got this additional burden to meet, that should be shared amongst those who can afford to pay it, not on people who are already struggling." - PMUK's Ian Gregg speaking to BBC's Look North. #TaxTheSuperRich

Ronaldo getting sent off for mocking tears feels like the direct opposite of Cantona doing the kung fu kick. Actions that completely summarise a character: > Cantona is an anti-racist legend > Ronaldo is an egotistical tax-dodging bellend

BBC reporting on itself is always weird.

Councillor Heather Mack takes train to Lithuania in bid to cut down on flight emissions www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

“Sorry that’s not deliverable” Darren tells a child in poverty due to the two child benefit cap. “We can deliver that” Darren tells a billionaire who doesn’t want to pay more tax. Join the Green Party to make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

Hey Darren, quick Q. How do you let down voters who have already been so let down by the current establishment that they have become subterranean?