This is a great statement made by the leader of Greenland, Tillie Martinussen.

Meet Emmanuel, aka the Black Train Boy, a transport content creator whose favourite station in London is Farringdon. I've started a new branch of the Tube Mapper project exploring people's favourite stations on the London Underground Map. What is your favourite station, & why? #london #railway

2026 - an interesting year for The Rockets. Some big additions to the team and personnel that hopefully will see the results step up another notch. youtu.be/5Emg1ekXUl8?...

Routes for the 2027 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift Grand Départs in Britain have been confirmed. thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2026/01/15/t...

Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Some extra Be-Mine fun Belgian Cyclo-cross Championships - Beringen www.instagram.com/p/DTa7JvfjHu...

‘If European govts didn’t spend money on free healthcare and free childcare, we wouldn’t need to invade Greenland and ‘develop’ it’ - ex US diplomat to Denmark (Trump 1st term). Bloody European citizens enjoying a better quality of life - how dare they, the damn socialists youtu.be/3ha8ltcSR6I?...

Please read this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

Just catching up on a fascinating @thewaroncars.bsky.social episode on the birth of US car dependency. Corporate greed shaping society to give those in society something they didn’t need, didn’t want and sure didn’t ask for. As it was ever thus… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

Efforts to tackle homelessness in 2026 will see the Vagrancy Act finally scrapped. But politicians must make it more than a symbolic gesture.

With Trump very transparently saying that the invasion of Venezuela was to take their oil, let's dive into oil markets. TL;DR - it's not at all clear to me that Trump or the people around him have any coherent long term strategy.

The lack of public facilities in the U.K. is terrible. Peeing privatised, with loos in cafes/fast food outlets often the only choice. The only place with copious public loos I come across regularly is when promenading along B’mth/Poole seafront with a loo every half mile or so. Loo leash is real.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

I want to share this with you because this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen: this is Carol of The Bells - we call it Shchedryk - performed by Ukrainian military and a veteran in Kyiv main railway station . But I must warn you: it will break your heart. And then, it will heal it again.

Looking back on 2025 and realising it was the coolest year of the rest of our lives. This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like. Best seen by #bicycle. 1/13 January, Southern California, USA

Perhaps an obvious point, but beyond a certain level of wealth, these numbers become meaningless. Those eight billionaires are mostly wielding political capital at this point; the bank balances are irrelevant. What this is a record of is therefore only what they *took* from everyone else.

NEW When should social media posts have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Alaa Abd El-Fattah By me, at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Runner up is A-Ha’s fabulous Take on Me, as is Sabotage, Beastie Boys, Bjork, All is Full of Love - pretty much any Chris Cunningham or Michel Gondry video - but for the feels I put Avalanches, Since I Left You at top spot. youtu.be/wpqm-05R2Jk?...

I always wear pants when WFH. And sometimes I also consider wearing trousers! (Gets a bit breezy otherwise). But seriously, some sage advice to consider as you make your way on this journey known as life.

Service dogs celebrate winter holidays, too🦮🥳 Zoe and Blert wish everyone a happy holiday season, sending their warmest greetings❤️

I need some positivity. Quote or reply with your favorite bike memory of 2025. It can be a great ride, an advocacy accomplishment, whatever. Let's celebrate bikes. My personal favorite was finally doing a bikepacking ride up to Portland, Maine! It has me excited for bigger adventures in 2026.

This requires you to believe that e.g. Ronald Reagan was a big-hearted altruist sacrificing the interests of his party to provide succour to foreigners

The 2025 season in 25 pictures 📸 These 25 images capture what results and statistics cannot: the emotion, the tension and the fragile beauty of a year on the road. 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/features/...

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Cycling in booming in London but fairly stagnant UK-wide. What’s going on? I spoke to some people who know about these sorts of things. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

This is your city on driverless cars. A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock. sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

Would appear God does love inflicting ‘acts of’ on their own houses of worship. Cheeky blighter.

In this story, I reported how counter-terror police warned the Palestine Action ban was creating "a lot of noise in the system that risks detracting from our core mission" New stats show it drove terror arrests up from 248 to 1,886 in the last year www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

Interesting La Vuelta route for 2026. Starting in Monaco. Finishing in Granada. And luckily for me, stage 12 passes 10 mins from my parents house. And stage 13, finishes in the town, Loja, they lived near for 15 years. So Spain in September is calling 😊 www.lavuelta.es/en/

If you’ve not seen this before, it’s well worth 2 minutes of your day. One take drone footage. Also a great soundtrack. #Bikes

This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it. Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A new women-led team, The Hera Project, has entered the UK domestic scene ahead of 2026. thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/12/16/n...

An article in the Financial Times argued that Britain should “fall in love with cars again” and invest in more motorways. Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not. open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...

Your pilot today, aboard this AA154 flight to Washington, is inexperienced and unqualified. We wish you a safe journey. It’ll be fine. It’s probably a good thing.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

The liberal wokerati are cancelling Christmas!! In other news, passed by at least 25 Father Christmas and a spattering of elves on my morning bike ride. Bloody wokies riding their bloody bikes!

Illuminating article on a Reform local council. ‘I ask him why he voted Reform. “I thought it was going to change Great Britain for the good.” ‘ oh well, maybe next time…and the next, and the next.

it can pick your kids up from school’…or we could order society around the idea that kids deserve autonomy & freedom & can walk/bike to school safely, first with parents and then, once old enough, independently. And then parents are also free to run errands, walking, biking, public transport etc

Cannot recommend this enough. Chilling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5QG...

None of this could Bullshizz. E-bikes/bikes WILL continue to revolutionise urban transportation and be far less damaging than a techlord’s wet dream flying taxi fantasy.

NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues… The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...