Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

In Abingdon they already have this, it's called a "Marked Cycle Lane" 🙄

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

World Book Day... nearly bumped into a kid coming the other way on the school run dressed fantastically as Gandalf the Grey. Inexplicably we both missed the opportunity to yell "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

There is a stunning golden moon, rising in the east over Headington, Oxford, right now… @headingtonnews.bsky.social #moon #fullmoon #oxford

Good overview of what makes a city great for cycling, spoiler alert it's not just about cycle lanes. www.ox.ac.uk/news/feature...

➡ In our new blog post, we look at why the kerbside is so often overlooked in relation to road safety, what makes it such a dangerous place for children crossing the road, and what changes we are asking for to improve safety in this area. #streetsforkids 👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/keep-cl...

It was never about the technology. It was always about who owns it. Renewables for the grid = socialism. Renewables for Musk's data centers = innovation. Same panels. Different owners. That's the whole story.

Every Home Secretary of the past 15 years: "migrants contribute little and we need fewer of them" Every Chancellor:

I'm a fan of these bike racks which make a point about efficiency of space within cities. But also Car gardens: www.caranddriver.com/features/a61...

Gonna get a lot of use out of this

It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.

Important distinction between "regime change" and "conditions for regime change" 👇

(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

politicians ambitious to solve crises of affordability with transformative public spending/investment always get hit by 'how do we pay for it?' some of us have said, for a long time, this is the ultimate neoliberal shackle, a Trojan horse for 'you cannot do it'

Some interesting London cycling stats in this TfL FOI, if that's your thing tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...

Oh look, Trump has found a way to accelerate the renewables revolution, and solve China's excess solar capacity problem. Dont know why you keep calling him a petrostate authoritarian. www.ft.com/content/e026...

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Syria really is the best example until up last night, in my opinion. The Syrians overthrow a dictatorship which altogether was not very friendly to Israel and in response the Israelis invaded, occupied, and have in some ways already de facto annexed more Syrian territory while bombing Damascus.

this is a wild angle i hadnt thought about before but, makes sense

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled. Better cars = higher emissions.

Sadly for Robert, his mother wouldn’t let him wear real mail to school like the cool kids, insisting that this knitted replica would look just as good - 12th century, Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108, f. 85r

I like Tap Social brews, I like Newground coffee... Not convinced by them together... #bskybeer

Keep teaching the world the same lesson: Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Iran didn't, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel did--US beats you up if you *don't* build nukes, not if you do.

Huge congratulations to @greenparty.org.uk and to Hannah Spencer MP on a truly historic result in Gorton and Denton 🎉 As we build on momentum, all of us on the British left must now avoid falling into a very familiar trap. 🧵 1/

A very dangerous world, in which the FIFA Peace Prize no longer carries the weight of integrity it once did.

The average diet of a Rural Oxfordshire family, 1912 - mostly bread and butter Grim Nostalgia is a cruel deceiver From, apparently, How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, 1917

In short, the US and Israel have started this war with vague and unachievable objectives, with no int law base, and little or no support from Gulf states or other US allies. If Iran succeeds in hitting US/Israeli targets or disrupts oil exports, Trump will find using mil force is not risk free. End

There is no proper legal framework for use of #FacialRecognition technology known to be biased. "Far higher rate of false positives for black (5.5 %) and Asian (4.0 %) faces than for white faces (0.04 %)" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

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The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

Worth noting the combined Green/Labour vote was more than double Reform. Didn't even need tactical voting to beat them in the end. Maybe if they hadn't picked such a useless candidate they would have done better.

There are so many things wrong with the FPTP (first-past-the-post) voting system but an interesting thing is that when it collapses, it *really collapses*..

You can see that swing from space!

All of a sudden I am optimistic about 2026...

\/\/\/\/ Zigzag lines \/\/\/\/ on roads indicate a strict no-parking and no-overtaking zone. They are designed to ensure clear visibility for pedestrians and drivers, and parking or overtaking here is illegal and dangerous. Windmill School @headingtonnews.bsky.social

With @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (among others) continuing to draw attention to the indefensible injustices of the UK’s atrocious student loans system, it’s as good as time as any to reshare this 🪡

This but as seen in UK towns and cities.

Note that there are 14 (fourteen) bus services stopping at St Clements... That's a lot of person journeys improved.

I'm checking the calendar... it must be April 1st...

What is it with verges?! Verges, verges, verges and yet it only ever by roads... forget keeping footpaths and cycleways clear.

Unlike X and Twitter before it, this site isn’t designed to snowball posts towards virality. Thus it’s more welcome for slow thinkers like the kind @beijingpalmer.bsky.social names and less useful as a one-stop shop for Today’s Zeitgeist—which has become an indispensable crutch for journalists.

If only we weren’t so siloed in our budgeting. The gains for public health budgets from enabling a physically active population are immense. Safe routes for cycling are an investment in health more than a cost for transport budgets. 👇

I’m new to the idea that humans live in a society. Any entry-level concepts for someone like me? Along the lines of “20 years of eating food to get smart”

Last thursday, @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social launched their latest recruitment campaign for their growing Telraam network of citizen-powered traffic monitoring devices. In just under 72h, they've already received 48(!) applications from all over Oxfordshire. ➡️ telraam.net/en/network/o...

"hospital ship"