I won't defend assholes that behave poorly on any mobility device, but bikes on sidewalks are a symptom of hostile infrastructure design. No one willingly chooses the friction of sidewalk riding when proper, protected, efficient bike lanes exist. Ebikes aren't the problem, it's the infrastructure.

There is a better way. www.frontiersin.org/journals/med...

"Those who ought to stand against this sort of thing engage in frankly specious reasoning about what the “root causes” are...anything other than standing up and saying that it is wrong to attack entire groups for the real or perceived crimes of specific individuals." www.ft.com/content/4209...

Some thoughts on the implications of NICE Cost Effectiveness Threshold as an instrument of industrial policy. christophermccabe.substack.com/p/time-to-ge...

The lesson that ought to be learned is that small states are not just pawns in your great power games, but have agency and may use it. If collective security frays, threatened states and their citizens seek ... other ... solutions to their security problems. So, do you support collective security?

A good reminder that the reason why we have issues in processing asylum seekers is because of bad decisions by successive governments on policy and funding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This warms my heart. 35 some years after studying this during my masters degree at Newcastle University. And people complain about it taking 17 years for innovations to get to market.

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The Irish presidential system gets many things right. Not least a requirement to secure nominations to prevent unhinged roasters gaining a platform despite having no roots in communities at all. We should take that example. Scrap deposits, bring in signatures from local residents.

Dog whistling against migrants won't halt the rise of the far right, curbing the ECHR won't halt the rise of the far right, cutting immigration won't halt the rise of the far right. Nowhere in history did stepping towards to far right work. I do not understand why Labour think it will for them.

Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely. www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...

TBH I'm more concerned with the death of adulthood right now

Question: how are people in need of international protection supposed to access it? Where exactly are those famous "regular pathways?" (The Starmer/Frederiksen op-ed in @theguardian.com is as bad as you'd expect, no need to read it.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Global inequality has hit a new extreme. So how much wealth is too much?🤔 The extreme poverty line is used to define unacceptable levels of poverty. What if we also created an extreme wealth line? @patmillsuk.bsky.social 1/2

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

once again asking what would be different if we had a Reform government

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

Happy #HumanRightsDay! Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"

6 in 10 people facing hunger in the UK don't access any charitable food support. New @trusselluk.bsky.social research show the main reason: hunger & hardship have become so normalised people don't think their situation is bad enough to justify asking for help..1/2 cms.trussell.org.uk/sites/defaul...

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A key strategy of commercial actors is to influence and distort the evidence base relating to the harms of their products This is done through funding misleading industry-friendly science & through the active promotion of misinformation @markpetticrew.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social #AIMOS2025

Yet ANOTHER evidence-free & disastrous policy move by Alberta. NO evidence will help system. On the contrary: > costs < equity > inefficiencies < quality Are they TRYING to ruin AB? Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public & private services www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or food bills. So why are they paid less? 700,000 18-20 year olds could be missing out on an average of £2,400 a year on average because they're not covered by the main minimum wage.

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

I mean, I don't see how you can claim any savings at all from cutting off benefit access to people *who are entitled to become citizens whenever they want and carry on claiming*

"Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks... Regulation would start with universal laws for A.I. companions, including clear warning labels, time limits, 18-plus age verification..."

Charlie hits this out of the park. Building homes, and not forcing municipalities to thrme dirty work via threats, needs to be a part of this "nation-building" activities too. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

From the great new NBER paper by Bloom et al on the cost of Brexit. It ain't pretty - they estimate UK GDP is down between 6-8%. Consistent with the doppelgang model of @johnspringford.bsky.social for CER. A lot of 'free' GDP available availabe for Labour if it had the courage to reset properly.

Richard Tice wants to hurt children because his fragile baby feelings can't handle seeing a pair of headphones

The joy of commercial big data. Thomson Reuters helps ICE to see in realtime which drivers are Democrats.

At the #COP30 Leaders Summit plenary, President Lula called for “a road map for humanity to overcome, in a just and planned way, its dependence on fossil fuels.” President Lula is right but pledges, speeches, statements and declarations are not a road map.

One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia. As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards. Now government policy

How to lose friends and alienate people.

Labour has comprehensively trapped itself by agreeing to play entirely by their opponents’ rules. The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win. A moral & political death-spiral.

Italy has enacted its first AI regulation laws including detail around consent of data use & legislating against deep fakes - some real substance here & positive steps - full legal analysis here: www.hoganlovells.com/en/publicati...

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

Traffic deaths are policy choices.

They do know that many cultures don’t have rings as marriage symbols but other artefacts that in this “bags of gold rings” ignorance they will obviously be seizing. Also whether you “seize” at a border or during a raid of a damp barracks it’s the seizing that’s wrong. Utterly wrong.

The spectacle of cruelty towards those seeking refuge is fully on display: no camouflage, no shame, no decency - only indifference and indignation👇🏾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU's first omnibus simplification package." Note the euphemism - "simplification" includes abandonment of mandatory climate transition plans. www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

Important to remember the power of foreign state actors in shaping vaccine hesitancy... Social media and vaccine hesitancy gh.bmj.com/content/5/10... "...a substantial relationship between foreign disinformation campaigns and declining vaccination coverage."

Today marks the start of Transgender Awareness Week, where we come together to celebrate, uplift, and honor our trans and non-binary community. There is no LGBTQ+ without the “T” — PERIOD. Learn more and join us in the fight for equality: hrc.im/transawarenessweek #Trans #TransAwarenessWeek

COMMENTARIAT: Streeting is statemanlike, a man of the people. He has really impressed me today. STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

This should have been the conclusion in *2016*.

“We find no evidence of consumers learning to price shop after two years in high-deductible coverage.” “[S]pending reductions are entirely due to outright reductions in quantity.”

"electrification is also the key to a dramatic improvement in energy efficiency, potentially reducing global final energy demand by 24% over the next 25 years, even as global GDP doubles" A truly stunning point. This is why I write about energy efficiency so much! www.ft.com/content/7258...

For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable