While people are splitting hairs over what a suitable commuting bike is (usually on the assumption that everyone's abilities, luggage & routes are broadly the same as their own), the salary sacrifice car scheme has no requirement for you to use it to commute or even that the lessee use it at all.

If the thing giving you the ick from the Epstein story is a consensual sex act between two grown men, please recalibrate your ickometer.

This is why OFWAT needs to be scrapped. They don’t even understand that the ONLY real source of income for water companies is bill payers

I've spent a lot of my political career listening to Labour activists call me, as a Lib Dem, a 'yellow Tory'. Yet here is a Labour Government announcing a bunch of policies that are simply cruel, apparently due to political panic. Any decent Labour members left need to stop this.

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Basic principles for the future of the car in cities: ✅ Fewer ✅ Smaller ✅ Slower ✅ Cleaner This can be achieved with: ✅ Parking controls ✅ LTNs ✅ Road User Pricing ✅ Pedestrianisation ✅ Default 20mph roads ✅ Improved public transport ✅ Segregated cycling

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

Cool so we pay some AI company a ton of ££ to make a machine that we all know is inherently biased towards understanding white people's features, so we don't run the risk of accidentally helping a desperate young person who just isn't young enough for us to pretend to care. WE MUST DO BETTER.

The thing I despise is inhumanity. It’s not really a political position, it’s an existential one. But if your political party manoeuvres itself into a place where it practises and promotes inhumanity, I will despise you.

A couple of years back I had an air source heat pump installed. This wasn't a financial decision: I doubt it changes my fuel bill dramatically. It was to reduce my carbon footprint. Without the £7500 grant from the government it would not have happened.

A CityZone Extra group ticket for up to 5 people costs £17 for a day. The county council would prefer you to drive from Abingdon to Oxford, I assume.

Abingdon councillor celebrates driving from Abingdon to Oxford instead of taking one of the most frequent bus services in the county.

This bus is only free if you drove there. It's not free for people taking public transport for their whole journey, and it's not free if you cycled to the park and ride.

Sensible rubbish disposal in Tower Hamlets is impossible because a few car parking spaces would be lost www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Look away now 🫣 Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision. We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB

I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully. Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling? lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...

My brother and I used to catch the train into Tunbridge Wells before Christmas each year. There were two record stores next to each other. He'd go into Camden Classics, and I'd go into the Longplayer, and we'd each buy a record for ourselves, exchange them outside, and Christmas gifts were sorted.

Wholesome: For years my older brother and I swapped identical Borders gift cards for Christmas, wrapping them in increasingly elaborate and incongruous packaging, and saying “I love it!” when the inevitable prize was revealed. This made my mom feral, which only added to our joy.

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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

All our buses are early again. The bus timetable will need some changes with the reduced congestion.

Also worth remembering that if the scheme is axed, a fair few UK bike shops/outlets could well go bust.

Worth remembering that freezing fuel duty, which could well happen again, costs about 30x more than the cycle to work scheme per year.

xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing. So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly). AND THEN THE FOXES THE FOXES (breathe) ATE MY FUCKEN PANTS

Yeah, so just to clarify: if you're buying Christmas stuff now you are sending an economic signal to retailers that this nonsense is profitable enough to make it worth annoying and panicking people. You are not just part of the problem, you ARE the problem. Resist!

Now is the website of our discontent.

we fight for freedom

But at least everyone who voted for it is happy now.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

If I had a pound for every study I'd read showing that people who have free time feel better, I'd still rather have the time back than have the £££

Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

My brother is an electrician who works in offshore wind. He sent me this photo of the largest turbine installation vessel in the world. Skilled jobs, good pay, and secure futures. While fossil fuels shed jobs and destroy the planet, renewables are delivering for the working class.

Is it fair that public transport fare payers see annual increases in ticket prices, while costs for people driving remain static?

Cutting the insulation schemes that are one of the best ways to permanently reduce energy bills for low income families would be an eyewateringly daft & counterproductive way of seeking to reduce energy bills, as well as driving up emissions & leading to mass job cuts in the insulation sector 🙄

This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it? The answer is annoying. Thread:

What the Bond films get wrong is the idea that these people would need to be evil in secret.

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Calls to not waste 'unique opportunity' for bus station near rail station #Oxon #Oxfordshire 🔗: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/...

I'm not against road pricing for electric vehicles, but can we please restart the fuel price escalator for fossil fuel vehicles too? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Absolute scenes in Oxfordshire. LABOUR voting WITH TORIES and the car brained IOA to remove a traffic intervention designed to speed up buses, and was recommended by 74% in the citizens assembly THEY ASKED FOR, AND that has already been praised by the BUS companies, after SIX days.

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

Yes, I have missed at least three buses because they arrived on time. Grrrr.

It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.

From an Oxford bus driver ⬇️

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

It is perhaps indicative of how effectively the congestion charge is working in Oxford City that my bus this morning had to hold at 4 different stops to regularise the service to the timetable. It's night and day from the bus experience of Cowley road prior to introduction.

We are on the cusp of eradicating cervical cancer, and significantly reducing penile, anal and some head and neck cancers. These are cancers that kill young adults, and it’s a tragedy. Those who spread anti-vax disinformation are killing their children.