“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

We have 400 volunteers on the streets of Gorton and Denton today. Labour are out of it. It's Greens vs Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For those just realizing how right I was about creeps like Lawrence Krauss & Richard Dawkins, you should know that I’m also right about good guys like Robin.

Local residents removed 8 flags hung around Oxford last night in response to an organised campaign from a group calling themselves the ’Raise the Colours Oxford’, who brought activists from the Midlands and Sheffield to ‘make Oxford look patriotic’

An excuse to remind you of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGo...

Former Cherwell columnist, failed candidate for Oxford University Chancellor, ‘Prince of Darkness’, St. Catherine’s alumnus and architect of ‘New Labour’ Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of the Labour Party over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Rent controls. Now. dev.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

Am I reading this right? 1. Developer claims new homes not viable without government help. 2. Gov. says fine here's £10m with some minor strings attached. 3. Developer suddenly discovers they didn't need that money after all, whoops!

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

Labour government: "We can't really afford to feed children right now" Also Labour government "Hey AI companies here's some cash we just had laying around" This is what political choice looks like. There's always money, they're just deciding to give it to big business rather than look after people.

When will this regression end? Conversion therapy? It was someone who was on the board of sex matters who played a major part in me resigning from Monkey Cage because they like to bully people into silence

“We are putting Palantir on notice. This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski on why Palantir must be kept out of the National Health Service.

Fantastic news, huge thanks and congratulations to this campaign

This is like when I ask my daughter if she wants a snack and she replies "if you want me to."

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

You know what? Sometimes the worst thing is to be pragmatic. When you're dealing with a toddler who just asks for more jelly beans, you have to stop trying to appease him. It won't last. The tantrum is going to be less bad than the appeasement.

Good - time for other councils to do this too www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Free bus travel for under 22s is just one step to help support those areas devastated by years of austerity. KMPG analysis shows that for every £1 invested in bus services, we get an economic benefit ranging from £4.55 to £5. news.sky.com/story/green-...

Come snow, sleet, rain or shine we're starting the new year out RIGHT campaigning in east Oxford!!

We have choices to make. Do we invest in our communities and people who live across the country? Or do we provide tax breaks & subsides to billionaires? The Green Party will always push the right choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two more councils have withdrawn from X (Twitter). South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse said that the platform had become “progressively ineffective at communicating with local communities, but recent events have caused the councils to take things a step further”.

The man being invited by Wes Streeting to give advice on social media. Once again, IQ is debunked pseudoscience that directly derives from eugenics, phrenology and other "scientific racism". There is absolutely nothing more to it. Anyone telling you there is is, at the very best, misguided.

Finally, a response to the pavement parking consultation! The Labour govt should set national standards - with some flexibility for local areas. Leaving it all up to councils risks a patchwork of different standards causing confusion and not freeing up our streets for everyone to get around.

Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran has become the first Oxfordshire MP to quit X (formerly Twitter). She said “I can’t sleep knowing that I’m leading traffic to a site that actively enables sexual exploitation of women and children.” Her Bluesky profile is @laylamoran.bsky.social .

We're not really a 'keep your hands to yourself' kind of Museum. Come explore our variety of touchable specimens including hippo skulls, meteorites and real dinosaur fossils!

“make big tech afraid” has to be just as much of a priority as “prosecute the criminals of the previous regime” for the next Dem admin the tech fascists are way too far out over their skis and what remains of global stability will not survive that state of affairs continuing

Clarion news: We’re leaving Twitter (’X’). We can’t condone the objectionable content it now promotes, which goes against everything we believe and the Clarion tradition. Our live posting is now here on Bluesky, with all this plus much more in our email newsletter twice a week.

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.

If you’re still on X because you think it’s “where the conversation is”, it isn’t. Ofcom’s Online Nation Report 2025 shows X is no longer a mainstream platform in the UK. Fewer people use it, engagement is tiny, and harm is concentrated. 🔗 tinyurl.com/OfcomON 🧵Here's what the data says ...

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

Worth repeating again. No British Politician should be on X anymore. The Government needs to leave immediately. Violence Against Women and Girls is an epidemic. Being on X and tackling this are not compatible.

I was going to complain that our political class has been silent, but no Starmer has managed to do something even worse

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

it’s honestly incredible to hear a mayor talk like this about transportation and the harm that comes from cars

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is. It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

Happy New Year you lovely people. A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)

I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL

“Give way” … one bus equals 80 cars and 80 people (on the back of all the city buses in Baku).

Defending multi millionaire and billionaires is a thing? Will they really suffer from paying 1% tax? No one’s asking for it to solve all ills, but it could solve some, like paying for free school meals. #HopeisHere 💚 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How on earth does the email "not indicate any wrongdoing"? Pathetically craven from the BBC.

'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.

The UK is now facing an emigration crisis and a shrinking population. It must, must, must reverse engines on immigration immediately - throw the doors open and wave people in. Otherwise we are inviting disaster.

I strongly suspect many people would be a lot less aggressively anti-AI at this point if they hadn’t just spent two years feeling constantly pressured, often by very unpleasant people and actors, to use it Or Else

Former Green Councillor Hannah Copley speaking to BBC News from the picket line yesterday: “We are asking the government to fix the crisis of jobs, not let doctors who want to work contribute to the NHS be unemployed, and have our pay keep up with inflation”

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

I’m very proud to have been part of this report with @pactsuk.bsky.social and @sarahcoombesmp.bsky.social on the serious and growing problem of Ghost Plates. The past couple of months have been incredibly eye-opening, to say the least: transportsafetyappg.org.uk/inquiries/ve...

racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Yet another evidence review argues very strongly that simply providing alternatives to driving doesn't reduce driving This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...