Instead of banning private jet flights during the fuel crunch to protect people’s summer holidays, we’re doing this

Why aren't they parked? Presumably because parking would cost Waymo more than driving around small residential streets - so Waymo is just getting taxpayers and residents to subsidise it. Coming to the UK imminently.

The UK government has today announced laws to nationalise railways at the same time as privatising roads in the #KingsSpeech Does it make any sense though?

A frail old man with have face full of botox looking at the ashes of his work. The Ukrainian people broke him and his army. In a way he fittingly represents Russia.

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

The charts in this thread are crazy. No more excuses and delays, England needs fair votes now!

Big win for the party that wants to increase gas reliance in the middle of a gas crisis, hates the clean technologies that are enjoying booming demand and will dominate the 21st century, and embraces Trumpist climate denial even as catastrophic climate impacts intensify everywhere.

In a rational world the government would be asking people to respond to the current fossil fuel crisis by car sharing, turning lights off, and generally saving fuel and energy. And yet Ministers can’t even propose better efficiency standards for tumble dryers without the right wing press going mad.

Who funds Britain Remade? The think tanks lobbying the government to rip up wildlife protections aren’t ‘grassroots’. They’re funded by American billionaires like Bill Gates and worse… Full story on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/danicapr...

Study finds 2/3 of microplastics in urban air is caused by car tires phys.org/news/2026-03...

The Daily Mail going to Tony Blair for a take on conflict in the Middle East, is it?

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

I think all of us need to move off google workplace which will be so annoying and painful. I’ve asked before for folks thoughts on this and there aren’t great alternatives but it seems imperative.

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy! Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence. Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.

✍ Sunday, Feb 1, marks 5 years since the military staged a coup in Myanmar, plunging the country back into authoritarian rule & pushing a lively, hard‑won media ecosystem underground. Independent journalism is still standing, but only just. 👉 news.thin-ink.net/p/five-years...

At its headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have been put up everywhere. In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and the heating turned down. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

Latest evidence that UK Treasury has one rule for roads, another for public transport 🛣️⚖️🚋 Leeds tram delayed for a business case, meanwhile business case delayed to get building Lower Thames Crossing. Ministers betting £billions on wrong horse 💸🎠

Privatising Dartford tunnel is a hidden £120m annual cut to transport budget.✂️📉 It means less money for cycling, buses, trams, trains, road safety every year for ever 🚴🚌🚋🚅🚑 Talk about a bad deal!👎

Has @london.gov.uk quietly given up cutting car use in most of the UK's capital? In 2022, the Mayor's Transport Strategy was amended to commit to "reduce car vehicle kilometres travelled on London’s roads by 27 per cent by 2030". Today's London on the move plan appears incompatible with that aim.

30,000+ killed in 48 hours, many more since. What's still happening in #Iran is beyond horrific, no less so with minimal news coming out.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

While everyone is distracted by Circus Trump, European countries let his far-right sponsor and mentor of JD Vance in via the backdoor. No European government should work with Palantir. None.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

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America sneezes. We catch a cold. And the UK is overexposed. As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so. Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️ action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...

Incredible focussed campaigning by @saveoursaferstreets.org made this win happen. 👏 But why has a community had to go through the stress of two court cases, when the Mayor of London could have used his powers to prevent the Mayor of Tower Hamlets making these unlawful changes in the first place?

There's a lot of talk about rearmament and breaking US dependence. I understand the logic completely. But I wonder if people have fully absorbed the economic/consumption implications of serious rearmament, especially when we also consider the state of public opinion and the information environment.

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.

Written on the street wall: Our blood will not be the red carpet for any tyrant. #Iran #IranProtests No to Shah No to Mullah

After a five year wait, ministers finally respond to 2020 pavement (footway) parking consultation. So did they promise swift action? Err no: "we will enable local transport authorities to prohibit pavement parking in their areas at the next legislative opportunity"🙄 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Includes vital global science bodies like IPCC, IPBES

Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.

Trump isn’t predictable or consistent, but this particular action *would* be consistent with the emergence of a G2+1 order where Washington and Beijing, with Moscow as a junior partner, give each other free rein in their purported spheres of influence.

NEW: 50+ transport and health groups have written to the Government calling for clear targets in the upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3, as well as a comprehensive plan for a national active travel network, matching the long-term strategic focus given to roads.

Zipcar's UK closure is devastating loss to shared economy, and to those of us who used it to avoid ever owning a car. UK's low VED (annual car tax), hidden subsidies for residential parking and TfL's ambivalence to car sharing all take share of blame. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Our information space is dominated by a system that demands and rewards continous and immediate emotional gratification, so you can't even begin to have a discussion about complex issues. It's a bright cancer that spreads and multiplies with every interaction.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

We're only just learning that Ultra Processed Foods harm all human organs: how long to work out full costs of AI? "AI could be for human relationships what junk food is to nourishment" observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

The deeper problem isn’t just misinformation, its the collapse of shared verification environments and the rise of influencer-led moral-epistemic systems that feel more authentic than institutions.

Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution. www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...

Was Indonesia moving its capital the first climate migration at the state level? Pretty wild that we’re already at the point of multiple governments moving due to climate conditions making their capitals unlivable. #COP30

Is Oxford Street pedestrianisation a missed opportunity to cut car use and improve cycling in surrounding streets? Despite Mayor Khan's rhetoric for a greener and cleaner London, the proposals have "no material effect on air quality" and cut CO2 by just 2%. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-stree...

I've tried to argue why I think the cut to affordable housing targets in London is a really terrible idea in a considered, rather than shouty, way here. A clumsy patching up of a broken status quo: open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

Residential cycle parking standards in London are being slashed, as Labour's war on blockers to new housing takes an unexpected turn. This deregulation was justified by the rise in e-scooters & dockless bikes. But planning rules don't yet require making space for them. www.gov.uk/government/n...

First offsetting was found wanting, now CCS. What will they come up with next to avoid cleaning up emissions? Carbon Capture & Storage has less than 4% of the potential previously assumed says new study. on.ft.com/4nigq4Z

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...