🔥 Four years. Millions of people. A result that changes the conversation. France’s national health agencies dug deep into long-term mortality after Covid-19 mRNA vaccination. The signal they found is strong – and very hard to ignore 👇

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

Reverence

Here's the 2025 @ategov.bsky.social authority ratings. Some nice movement there: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69385d...

No local authority in England has demonstrated an "established culture of active travel"

The great Covid frauds lost £11bn partly because of government errors and Ministers overruling official advice bit.ly/48Kl06q most of the money is lost to the thieves forever.

15 years ago today the Tory & Lib Dem government tripled tuition fees. Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000. Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.

Much of the £10.9bn in taxpayer money lost to fraud and error in Covid support schemes is now "beyond recovery", a report has said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Send a strong message to the Labour government today. Respond to this consultation and urge them to commit to a strategy for healthy travel that is bold, credible and properly funded. actionnetwork.org/letters/help...

Norfolk’s leaders chose not to intervene. Residents paid the price. People removing flags now face abuse, racist harassment and organised groups appearing on the streets. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/loc...

If you want to get involved in the #CWIS3 consultation but don't know how, I've put together some suggestions substack.com/home/post/p-... ...and a list of paths you could refer to ...

"Cycling alone in the dark – particularly as a woman – can be terrifying. In fact, I have a different route home in summer than I do in the dark, winter months." metro.co.uk/2025/12/07/c...

The famous yellow and blue Dutch public transport bicycle (OV-fiets), with which nearly 6 million trips were made last year, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. For this special occasion, it's now available as a limited-edition balance bike for toddlers! 😍🤌

Copenhagen 🇩🇰 cyclists saved society $1.61 per mile traveled in 2022. Cars cost society $0.29 per mile traveled.

Exclusive: More than 50 groups connected to transport and public health have urged the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, to set specific targets for levels of walking and cycling in England, warning that plans as they stand are too vague. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

139 flag complaints received by the county council, but FOI shows only one was removed. Hundreds were left to residents who faced intimidation and a serious assault when trying to remove them.

De Snelbinder cycle bridge. Opened in 2004, attached to the side of an existing 1879 railway bridge, it runs for 2km linking Nijmegen to Lent by bike, alongside trains. Same crossing, different century. This is what decades of serious investment in cycling and sustainable urban planning looks like.

Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting what Crick notes. Farage like Mogg and Johnson are really just grown up versions of their teenage selves. Lots of public school boys leave fully formed - and armed with an entitlement and a sense of empowerment that takes them through the rest of their lives.

Russia cannot be beaten. "But Putin can. He’s losing, not winning. And sooner or later, like the tsars and totalitarians of old, that same eternal Russia whose name he glorifies will chew him up and spit him out." Outstanding piece on Putin's deluded gambit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New London ferry can transport 100 people + bikes across the River Thames, linking Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf. share.google/zgQ5ltdX3iZI...

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years

Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

What I find incredible and I had to pinch myself when I was reminded of it... was that Russia Today CONTINUED to broadcast in the UK after the Skripal attack. Seriously what the fuck was going on there?

‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social

"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...

Noise pollution is harmful, unwanted, disruptive and negatively impacts people's health. And is often caused by motorised traffic 🚘 🛻 🚖 That why cities deserve rush hour traffic where the loudest sound is that of squeaking bicycle brakes 🚲

If in a parallel world the allegations against Nigel Farage were criminal eg historic sexual offences, I’d say the breadth and consistency of testimony would be enough that prosecutors would most likely charge him & believe they had a decent chance at conviction. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage is a vile, thin skinned, little man.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

No big white suit but David Byrne at 73(!) still rocks! youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...

Residents in Haddenham and Thame are calling on authorities to end a 25 year wait for a greenway (walking & cycling route) between the two communities. A petition with over 4000 signatures has been submitted to Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire County Councils. www.change.org/p/support-fo...

Daria’s crew is the first in #Ukraine’s national guard to operate entirely without men She&the 4 women under her command build own explosives&launch armed drones along the southeastern front Viktoriia,Tetiana,Oleksandra,Maryna, Daria- members of drone unit Typhoon 📷Oksana Parafeniuk /for The WP

The OSCE was established to keep war away from Europe. Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles. The EU will stay the course. Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance. My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓

The mental health system is under immense strain. Something has to change. This review is a chance to understand what’s driving the increase in mental health problems. This must not be used as a way to justify who deserves support and who doesn’t. 1/2

Just a vicious, lawless regime. The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY? Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

Your reminder that political spending isn't regulated or recorded outside an election year So public will probably have no idea how the biggest donation in British political history is spent Why we urgently need political finance reform - sign petition here you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Respond now on CWIS3 for better cycling infrastructure! 🚴‍♀️ Deadline 15th December! @cyclinguk.bsky.social www.cyclinguk.org/blog/cwis3-c...

People say the UK leads on animal welfare, yet many animals are still kept in awful conditions that others in Europe have already moved away from. Today I brought together thirty-six MPs and Lords to urge the SoS at Defra to end farrowing crates and cages.

It's like a comedy sketch, although no-one is laughing.