Kramer, confiding in George:

The judgment this time last year was widely seen as a turning point. However, newly issued government guidance on transport now allows councils to spend “dedicated funding” for active travel on road schemes. Roads funding cannot be moved the other way. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/government-u...

1. Ensure our roads are inherently dangerous and impractical for current and potential cyclists. 2. Count the # of cyclists using our uninviting infrastructure. 3. Weaponize our observations of limited ridership to argue for maintaining the harmful status quo.

8) The absolute minimum immediate action must be that all of them leave X. Again for the avoidance of doubt: staying there is directly helping keep alive and legitimise what now is a tool designed to advance fascism. If our Govts, MPs, journalists etc cannot say a clear no to that, we are done.

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me there has been "no change" to the Government's policy on using X, despite Elon Musk helping to incite the hateful scenes we saw in Belfast last night. Also no new plans to take action against X for its role in the violence

He had unimpeachable reasons to enter the US and a *diplomatic passport*, yet the regime still refused him entry

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.

To all my colleagues still using X: is this not enough evidence that you must stop using it?

I am no traffic engineer, but I think we should simply design roads that make drivers nervous and scared so they slow the fuck down. We shouldn't want drivers to feel comfortable.

"The Labour candidate for Makerfield is the mayor of Greater Manchester, and is the frontrunner for the Labour leadership. And he does seem to have three very different housing policies, which in places are diametrically opposed to one another." Want to guess who the latest Nimby Watch is about?

They are all very deliberately ignoring the express wishes of Henry Nowak's family; the judge's sentencing report & the obvious, albeit brief, consequences of a crime being reported exclusively by a lying associate of the perpetrator. It may feel futile but this has to be repeated again & again.

I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.

'Hate is a hobby' 🤯

CHONGY! #bskyblades

Rachel Reeves gets heckled by some lout and Reform take the opportunity to confirm they’re right behind threatening, intimidatory behaviour. While of course whimpering about Farage’s need for £5m worth of “security”.

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

First Dog nails it again. “Mayor Mamdani is proof that if your political representatives don’t fix stuff, strengthen your community and make people’s lives better, it is simply and only because they do not want to” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Due to fossil fuels once again being incredibly expensive, the galaxy brain sensible managerial class are doubling down on forcing all taxpayers to subsidise those wealthy enough to afford private transport, and cutting the expansion of the rail network which would help reduce car dependency. 🙃

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

If the flyer is AI I'm not fucking going.

Britain is a wealthy law-abiding country, with a long shared history, a vibrant civic society and robust institutions. It is not in any way ungovernable and suggesting it is lets the people who should be governing it off the hook.

If I had my way, every media mention of Wes Streeting would have to include the phrase 'Mandelson protégé'

As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. How much more do we need to spend before we're certain that god isn't lurking in the word-guessing program? 22/

If I had my way, every media mention of Wes Streeting would have to include the phrase 'Mandelson protégé'

come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones

the line might go up either way, but if you want busy high streets and nightlife, younger poorer people need more after-rent money, if you want more yacht building and private jet travel, keep shoveling it all to rich people. I don't know why this is hard for our greatest minds to comprehend

White privilege is having the most deranged fantasies of inflicting violence on those less fortunate & less white than you treated as the musings of an overactive far right imagination rather than a reason to be hauled in front of the counter terrorism police .

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

An urgent task for mobility justice activists is simply spread the word about the positive reallocations that are taking place in cities around the world. We need to make it harder and harder for people with power to ignore this movement.

What these extraordinary numbers make clear is that Reform is less a political party and more a very highly paid public-facing lobby group for oil and gas interests https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-millions-donations-fossil-fuel-interests-climate-science-deniers/

🇪🇸⚡️ Renewables are already paying off. Spain’s electricity bills have dropped 24.2% in just two years thanks to clean energy growth, and Spain is now 53% less exposed to volatile gas prices. Less fossil fuels = more stability, lower costs. 📉🌱 www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/30/r...

The range and extent of unlawful behaviour (comtempt of court) by Northamptonshire police to cover up grossly unethical & unlawful conduct is astonishing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...

The sooner we stop burning fossil fuels, the better it is for everyone.

We can do something about this at the local level. Implementing infrastructure that reallocates space from cars to walking, wheeling, public transport, and green space is one way cities can intervene to reduce their role in driving resource wars and corporate profit.

Amazing job by www.urbantruthcollective.com 🙌 👍🏼 The real “urban conspiracy” isn’t proximity, it’s distance. The “One-Hour City” traps millions in long commutes, car dependence and lost time. We need cities of proximity, time, and quality of life 🙏🏻 @brenttoderian.bsky.social @urbantruth.bsky.social

They’re fascists.

The way the news reader on six music reads out her daily anti migrant hit pieces like a butlins entertainer should be studied

Presumably they’re unfamiliar with Jim Davidson’s oeuvre

I have three court hearings to attend in three months. Two subjects of our reporting are suing us. Journalism is threatened by abusive legal threats aimed at silencing reporting. The Government needs to #StopSLAPPs. Please share and write to your MP. manchestermill.co.uk/three-courts...

Wonderfully said by @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n...

One thing this leaflet promotes, & indeed is probably a general 'view' of planning, is that you only comment when you want to object. WRONG. You can, & should, always write to Planning to support something if you think it is worthy. It IS recorded, & noted, as part of Officer reports.

Janet Brown would have had a field day with Melania BITD

Here’s a map of road deaths in Manchester since 2020… every single one an unacceptable loss of human life. And preventable. The council and mayor may have adopted a “Vision Zero” strategy, but it actually needs implementing. Otherwise it’s just nice words and continuing death and injury.

When someone says the words "school street," this is what we should mean. Not volunteers asking car owners twice each day to perhaps consider not endangering children outside of their school. #AnyCityCanDoThis

'The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability' 💀

If people had access to cheap or free evening classes they wouldn't be on Facebook being radicalised into blowing up ULEZ cameras because they're bored.

Anyone advocating a fuel duty cut is advocating an upward transfer of wealth domestically and a deepening of our reliance on the extractivism that drives war internationally.

@garmin.com Did you see a cat while you were writing this subject line?