the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

An important reminder that there are tons of truly fantastic, brave and visionary local Labour politicians out there who do *not* deserve to lose their seats / councils in May, but probably will thanks to Starmer’s government. Westminster is v likely to flip back to Tories. Max will be a great loss

Once again a heartfelt thanks to David "cut the Green crap" Cameron and Nick "What's the point in a nuclear power plant that isn't ready until the 2020s" Clegg for their visionary political choices, whose consequences we get to enjoy today.

"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.

In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's growing evidence of safety risks of bigger cars. Heavier with higher bonnets & worse vision, bigger SUVs are: ⚠️14% more likely to kill you than if you're hit by a smaller car ⚠️increasing to 77% for children ⚠️and 200% more likely to kill a kid under 9 #VisionZeroLDN

Reform Kent auctions off second council art collection Linden Kemkaran doesn’t care about heritage.

So in an increasingly-unstable world with rising disinformation and propaganda while trusted sources like Radio Free Europe are being attacked … HMG decides to kneecap the World Service. Well fucking done you utter morons.

One of the 'helping out other teams' things I did in Sudan was being on the interview panel for potential Chevening scholars. All incredibly impressive people that worked really hard to get to that point. To be on the cusp of a huge opportunity and then have it snatched away... Unconscionable.

This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re celebrating 1 year of #MyRideOurRight. Cycling means independence, freedom, and community (and that’s our right). Share our guide with your council to help shape the next generation of cycling https://action.cyclinguk.org/page/186663/action/1?ea.tracking.id=BS

Bring on local government reform freeing Nottingham's suburbs from the control of this idiot.

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

Reminds me of growing up in Worksop (Nottinghamshire) in the 90s. A year 9 geography teacher asked my class which county we were in. Over half answered South Yorkshire. For most, coalfields & public transport were a more important division than local government boundaries.

Cars really mess with people's brains

Fuel Duty has been frozen, and therefore cut, for 15 years in the U.K, turbocharging transport emissions and starving local councils of grant funding to repair our crumbling roads. It’s been a disaster and it’s beyond embarrassing that any mainstream party would campaign to maintain the freeze.

Only a small and comparatively recent element of UK archaeological research is purely academic. Today, the overwhelming majority is conducted within professional archaeology. Meanwhile UK avocational archaeology has 200+ years of national and regional associations, publications, and collections.

I just feel like, ideally, the Labour response to yesterday's result would have tried to talk people *out* of detecting to the Greens, rather than, y'know, the opposite?

also, concerning the outcome of Labour's "go fuck yourselves" strategy - we told you so, you fucking fools

Even if we don't get STV or even SV as a result of this, at the very least I hope Labour will finally realise the horror of how badly they've fucked Left Bloc anti-Reform tactical voting. This should be a landslide crushing

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

Dreadful outcome, but at least we have conclusive proof of what we’ve long suspected: archaeologists are, in fact, ethically superior to historians.

Come for the Barkleys and @keithdunn.bsky.social’s brilliant commentary. Stay for The Green Runners, whose co-founders include Jasmin Paris & Damian Hall @ultradamo.bsky.social thegreenrunners.com

This doesn’t just put heritage at risk — it puts development and growth at risk too. Local authority planning archaeologists help de-risk development by ensuring unexpected (and therefore expensive) show stopping discoveries don't derail construction at the last minute.

🚨 We have heard that the County Archaeologist for Hampshire is being made redundant, with no plans to replace him. 🚨 If you live in Hampshire please write to your MP and Councillors. If you live elsewhere treasure and support your County Archaeologists, and stand by to protect them. 🏺

This is freaking insane and one main reason why I keep on in this space - absolutely absurd what we’ve normalized on our streets.

Excited that my volume on the Early Bronze Age coffined burial from Tetney is now published open access by @antiquaries.bsky.social! Now everyone can read about this amazing find dated to 2032 BC and containing an amazing array of environmental and artefactual data. library.oapen.org/viewer/web/v...

Can we take a moment to remember how at the time this home-made bomb was ignited, the police's first instinct was to rule out terrorism? Would this have happened if the target of a home-made bomb had been literally anything else, I wonder? #motonormativity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

It should be noted for posterity that, for once, I managed to arrive before the start

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

It strikes me as astonishing that there is so little debate about a possible social media ban for under 16s. Almost all of the commentary assumes that those pushing for a ban have all the facts, and the moral high ground. The idea that there’s a counter perspective seems to be barely acknowledged.

This victory lap Zack and supporters are doing would be earned if he’d been derided for saying the US should be kicked out of NATO, but what he was actually derided for was calling for the UK to leave NATO

Robert Jenrick is the MP for Newark - the only constituency that is an anagram of wanker.

Sport England has left X because it promotes misogynistic sexual abuse. Why are other DCMS ALBs still comfortable staying?

One reason I have zero tolerance for transphobia, why I've come to find it completely disqualifying, is that it is in the nasty, tedious forefront of all right-wing rhetoric. Anyone who still thinks this prejudice is compatible with being on the left or being a liberal is not someone I have time for

I’m not sure “there’s nothing we can do about the sexual abuse image factory ask OfCom” is going to hold much water as a line taken by a government which (a) has a huge majority (b) just passed legislation to regulate what people can access online

So predictable … no international events should be taking place in the US.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Starmer has said that what has been allowed to happen at X is "outrageous" and that those responsible should face the "full force of the law," calling their tactics "pathetic" no wait sorry, I got confused, that was him describing Just Stop Oil protesters who put some cornflour on Stonehenge.

Can someone kidnap Trump and run the US till a proper transition takes place?

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

I've published something (finally)! It's been in my head for a long time. Relieved to have it out in the wild. On to the next thing. #medievalwales #pottery www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Walked past Jon Snow picking up a suit from the dry cleaners.

You might think that a man who drove into 100 people, using his car as a weapon, would NEVER be allowed to drive again. It turns out he will be able to, around three years after leaving prison by taking an extended retest. Why should he ever be able to get behind the wheel again?

All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.

Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered? Yeah, as I was saying...

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.