Good news. Exceptional hardship should be removed as an excuse.

The ban is right. I question where else repeated offending attracts mitigation like this. “Exceptional hardship” is lived daily by crash victims and bereaved families. My sympathy will always be with them—not the habitual road offender. Should we remove this provision? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Writing is not just words or communication, it is a mode of human connection. It’s not just that AI writing is bad in the sense of being low-quality and unoriginal, it‘s also that its a soulless cheapening of relationships. In short, if you used AI, I don’t want to read your writing whatever it is.

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

Unprincipled populist nonsense.

Drilling for more oil & gas in the North Sea won't lower bills, it won't make us more energy independent and it won't insulate us from price shocks. A Labour backslide on this would be a huge betrayal. Double down on renewables. Insulate every home. Lower bills, permanently.

Deep in the Government’s new integrated transport strategy is a truth at odds with the rhetoric you hear in the media: driving a car has gotten cheaper in real terms, while public transport has gotten more expensive. The Government is also clear that this will mean more traffic and more congestion.

What has happened to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk recently? Last week it was Churchill on bank notes, this week it's trying to reduce tax on petrol. I hate to break it to any LibDems out there, but the driverists and flag erecting racists are not going to vote for them.

Not again :-( Please stop trying to cut fuel duty, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk. Make buses and trains cheaper, yes, but we need to reduce car use.

Oh so now copyright matters.

Banning children from social media is like building car-centric cities and then forcing children to take traffic safety classes. We need social media platforms and spaces designed safe for children, not adults who create shit and then try to regulate the children.

Websites are broken. Today I tried to copy an email address from a SharePoint site, and I had to go down 38 DIVs and 1 ARTICLE in the inspector to stop JavaScript etc getting in the way.

If you see Ryan Bridge in Oxford, phone 999 to report it.

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE FORCE OF NATURE this woman is. ✊✊

Ryan Bridge heckled as he's dragged away for his arrest after harassing a women near Raise the Colours cherrypicker van.

It's a lie that you can't cancel, users just need to use our app (not available on the website sorry), select "my account" "settings" "privacy" and then opt IN to our 4th party ads. Once enabled you will get a promotional email from our partner "Cancelry" where you can subscribe to their service.

Oxfordshire County Council has issued a formal legal notice to Raise the Colours Oxfordshire in response to the continued placing of flags across the county, on or near highways without consent. This notice requires them to stop the activity. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

Oxfordshire does not want roads covered with union jacks news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

Greater Manchester Police statement: "We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting."

I won't lie, I'm tempted: wegottickets.com/ft/JhBxmShgV4

Screen time for under 5s should be limited to half an hour of Fingermouse per day youtu.be/CIoafYh5HJE?...

Oxfordshire’s council leaders have put their cases in guest articles for the Clarion. One council: oxfordclarion.uk/theres-only-... Two councils: oxfordclarion.uk/two-councils... Three councils: oxfordclarion.uk/oxfordshire-... Our deep dive, illustrated by cheese: oxfordclarion.uk/oxfordshires...

Meanwhile, THANK YOU @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social Highways Team for facing down the harassment and acting quickly to remove flags on Abingdon Rd and St Giles. We're right behind you and appreciate the swift response.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

I mean really the problem is people are just irrational, they want to live on a perfectly quiet street with free parking just for them but have every other street be fast fast fast, also with free parking, and get incandescently angry when this is not possible or desirable

The Oxford congestion charge has been in place for nearly 6mths, and I live in Oxford and work in Oxford and do hobbies and leisure and shopping in Oxford, and I haven't had to use a single one of my 100 passes. This is not the way to get votes.

Oxford Labour: "we'd like to be seen as a climate leader, but we won't actually support any policies to tackle transport emissions because we think we'll get a few more votes that way."

1 Residents already get 100 day-passes 2 The schemes don't apply to anything other than cars 3 Exemptions for cars-as-goods-vehicle, care work, blue-badge, etc already 4 Journeys over 4 miles quicker by the Ring Road anyway Pledge is for those who want to drive <4 miles, more than 2 days a week.

May I politely suggest that the Oxfordshire Labour party have totally lost the plot. These are precisely the journeys (short distance, walkable/bikeable/public transportable), that such a policy sets out to reduce.

Social media apps are not all the same.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

Sadly, I think this might be reality, and not a Fast Show sketch.

The listed cobbled pavement outside the White Hart could be protected from motor vehicle damage with an additional set of bollards and cycle parking on the other side directly in front of the pub. Planters on both sides of the road could provide a pinch point to reduce vehicle speed.

One of the microphones on my @fairphone.com FP4 has stopped working. I'm very disappointed to find that there is no spare part available to purchase to fix this. Things have gone backwards since the FP2, sadly.

I have never seen these bike racks on any of my many visits to the White Hart, and I couldn't find them in aerial photos, so I went to have a look for them today. They're here maps.app.goo.gl/s8iBKevKir5b...

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

"It added that there may be roads where some parking on the pavement is necessary to allow emergency vehicles to pass through." NOPE. Unless you can explain some magic way pavement parking widens the roadway versus no parking, pavement parking is not necessary to allow emergency vehicles through.

@andrewgant.bsky.social Please use the congestion charge money after March for active travel, or non-P&R bus routes. It's time to start encouraging journeys with no car at all rather than no car at the end.

People will really be like "there has to be free parking immediately outside because cars are mobility aids & women need to access them safely!" but also "why can't people just park their bikes [also mobility aids & used by women!] in a dark bike shed in a far corner of a car park half a mile away?"

Sadly, what we have here is a councillor who doesn't understand induced demand or traffic evaporation. I fear this might be a common problem with Labour councillors in Oxford.

The bollard that was driven into here was protecting the things behind it (people, parked bikes) from being driven into. It looks like it did its job well.

Good news, although it does feel a bit like the story is “government discovers that human beings are behind the work they were planning to sell off” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone reports: these racks are fully uses and there are still a dozen cycles attached to nearby street furniture. This suggests to me that three car parking spaces should have been converted to cycle parking, not just one.

Frustrating and undemocratic. The great Victorian cities were driven by a powerful, well-funded local government. Give us the money and the powers you're trying to give this corporation and let us drive the next generation of growth - accountable to our residents, not to the Treasury.

We need some changes here: * planning permission for using garden as parking rental * tax on off-road parking spaces

The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.

"The binary Yes/No vote to allow or forbid safety improvements needs to be tossed out. That doesn’t mean the public should be shut out of transportation decisions, it means the kind of community engagement needs to change."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”