Is your street looking like a moonscape? Potholes are the perennial subject of “just fix it” Facebook outrage – but in 2026, wet winters from climate change, heavier cars, and spiralling pressures on council budgets have combined in a perfect storm. Our long read: oxfordclarion.uk/the-hole-in-...

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions. He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

She highlighted overgrown foliage, plastic gloves stuck in the hedge, litter and graffiti. This had been highlighted back in 2020 when the store was prompted by fellow local councillor Ian Middelton to clear plastic gloves from its petrol station that had accumulated in the alley.

I find this SO weird. What stupidity leads to this short term thinking? Competitive wealth hoarding is completely incomprehensible at the levels we are talking about here. What this patriarchal capitalist shit leads to is the end of their own world - so just WHY? Bizarre, horrific and murderous

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Labour's housing minister's opposition to rent controls welcomed by the country's largest private landlord. Who's side are Labour on? Renters or landlords. The answer is here.

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

I cannot even begin to imagine what he's going to post.....I literally cannot fathom what he'll come up with

But there is just so much of it, and I'm tired. Because I write about this, I get told a lot of stuff in private, so I carry that too. I'm so tired of rapists. I'm so tired of rape culture. I'm so tired of the dehumanization of girls and women.

At least we know where dudes on the right stand and we can avoid them. Some of the worst situations I’ve ever been in were with “safe” progressive men who I thought were my friend and then turned into fucking predators out of nowhere. Sometimes after years. Snakes in the fucking grass.

I am so tired of being deluged with the sordid details of sexual crimes. It feels nonstop since 2014. Yes absolutely those stories should be told. I get that this is how justice begins: with victims having voices, stories being heard, and so forth; I've been supporting that forever.

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.

In recent months, a slew of executive reshufflings, discontinued projects, and other news has raised questions about how stable the company really is — and how long it may be able to stay on top. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social:

A member of the government comes clean. The idea Starmer has ‘kept Britain out of this illegal war’ has been a lie.

Heat batteries are a game changer for decarbonising heat. Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia Oy have partnered to construct what is expected to become the world’s largest sand-based thermal energy storage system, to be built in Vääksy, Finland. www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/worl...

I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.

Oxford has more Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) than any other district in England, according to research by an insurance company for landlords. Just Landlords reported 2,458 applications per year in Oxford, vs 1,491 in Bristol, 1,412 in Southwark and 1,394 in Tower Hamlets.

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

This is key to political understanding: austerity causes a rise in support for the far right. BTW, austerity is *not over*, unless you accept the meaningless official definition. A meaningful definition is "a decline in public services caused by a shortfall in funding". catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf

Your frequent reminder that Farage wants to frack the UK - in multiple ways - and that doing so won’t make a blind bit of difference to energy bills It would, however, make us more dependent on volatile fossil fuels, make the climate crisis worse & industrialise the countryside Don’t vote Reform

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB

Trading Standards have warned of “relentless criminality” as a further 13,000 illegal cigarettes were seized from seven shops in Cowley and Headington. The raids were part of a national HMRC-funded exercise. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/13000-illici...

It looks like Reform-run Nottinghamshire Council are putting up council tax they said they'd cut to pay for flags they said wouldn't cost a penny ... meme via Terry Haines

Sounds like the councillors haven’t heard of induced demand. You can’t solve traffic by adding more capacity.

That Trump prefers to talk about war and death and nothing AT ALL about Artemis tells us all we need to know (as if we didn’t already)

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's former best friend and Spectator journalist, James Delingpole, is speculating on Artemis 2 being fake. Quite how he still has a career is something of a mystery.

Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon. They were wearing blue helmets. They were in UN uniforms. They were peacekeepers. Israel bombed them anyway. Not a peep in Western media. Not a word from the international community. Kick Israel out of the UN.

Park aerobics classes sounds brilliant! I’d love to go, much more fun than park run imo

If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn't a new laptop. It's a new operating system. Read more from @steviebonifield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/905946/...

The Russians lost yet another aircraft last night. An SU-30 over Crimea. Something is going on. They lost 5 aircraft in the last few weeks. There have not been this many Russian air losses in a very long time.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Nice to see this in UK today

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everyday those B52s fly over head and my heart sinks. Everyday I am reminded we are enabling the bombing of children and civilians by allowing US planes to use our airbases. There is a choice, like Spain has made, not to support an illegal war. The government could make that choice too.

Full unedifying interview here. These people shouldn't be anywhere near the media, let alone power. (2/2) www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/excl...

Reform UK. The worst of people. #Grenfell

Just saying it out loud, no shame

Thanks to the i for picking up my interview with Reform’s housing spokesperson >> inews.co.uk/news/grenfel...

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

This is what led to the arrest of Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours A queen of a local passer-by decided to get under their cherry-picker van (while it was parked) so he called the police He & his rabble of flag wankers were served with notice by Oxford CC on Monday against putting flags up...

3/7 The key issue is this: Iran may not need a total blockade anymore. It only needs to prove it can control passage enough to make shipping operate on Iranian terms. That means approvals, delays, checkpoints, selective access and toll-like costs. #Hormuz #Shipping #Oil #Trade #Geopolitics

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran:

. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .