Not "grubby" in the slightest.

It's 37c out there, feels like 38, and streets given over entirely to cars, without trees, are unbearably hot. We need a rethink

Our kids would be safer if they'd banned Land Rovers instead of Instagram.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

10 years ago, days before the Brexit referendum. There was a deadly terrorist attack in Britain. Afterwards, nothing happened and very few people today will refer to what happened by its name. 1/

PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.

Of course the teenagers whose online communities are most important to them are kids like LGBTQ+ kids. Whose offline lives are also lined up for destruction by this Government that clearly simply hates young people.

Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.

I have a hard time believing that some bored wainwright didn’t make a balance bike, and have the greatest time, in utter obscurity, in the previous three millennia of wheels.

On June 12, 1817, German inventor Karl Drais rode his dandy horse (Draisine or Laufmaschine) - the first design that put two wheels in a line - 14 kilometers in and around Mannheim for the world's first bicycle ride. Happy 209th #BicycleBirthday, BICYCLE! 🚲 🎉

“The wild briar rose and elder are the flowers which most distinctly speak of June and midsummer” (What to Look for in Summer, 1960) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe writer: EL Grant Watson

There once was a land where children's entertainment declined to be vile and and dangerous and unwatchable. But the foolish government instead of ensuring the content returned to being safe and sound, simply banned the children from watching it.

27 people made homeless last night in Belfast because rioters burning foreigners out of their homes, minister says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Oh. “I do agree with what Farage is saying.” That’s not a sentence you hope to hear from the guy who’s supposed to fix what ails Labour. www.thenational.scot/news/2617801...

A video like this is often framed as proof the Dutch are somehow superhuman. They’re not. The real miracle isn't the Dutch cyclist. It's the built environment that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Build the infrastructure, and you'll find your city is full of capable cyclists too.

Today is the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Were bikes there? There were indeed. 🧵

The City of London Corporation posted this lovely announcement by their Policy Chairman Chris Hayward. The swimming ponds on Hampstead Heath will remain trans-inclusive. 😊🏳️‍⚧️🌳🏊🏻‍♀️🌈🍃

The tick-tock of this clock is getting louder and louder - this is where it starts, it is not where it ends. Reform UK is a clear and present danger to LGBTQ+ people.

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

It’s #volunteersweek here in the UK and I am seeking a volunteer, or volunteers, to help me with some grunt data work with a historical flavour. It’s a neat project I’m doing for the Cycling History & Educational Trust. I am a trustee. www.nationalcyclearchive.org.uk/trust/

I know we're not here to be disappointed by Labour but OH MY GOD I am so profoundly disappointed by Labour.

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

Nigel_Farage you asked for "pure cold rage." Here you go. Henry's father begged for unity. You demanded division. That's not leadership. That's incitement. And history won't be kind to those who lit the match and called it passion. 🔥

What a day for my 8 year old son to ask "so, dad, how would a Reform government make our lives worse?"

Michael Gove publishes, in The Spectator, the explicit promotion of the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, white nationalism and a call for Enoch Powell and NF "remigration" policies.

Michael Gove has published David Shipley's article proposing Enoch Powell style "remigration", citing the stat that 40% of children born in the UK has at least one "foreign born parent". The actual King, King Charles III, was a baby born with one foreign born parent.

An avowed white supremacist political organisation is currently leading in the UK opinion polls. The UK media enabled this.

This is a big deal. The government is committing to transform the economy over the next 15 years through the rapid deployment of modern technologies that will curb energy costs, improve quality of life, enhance energy security, and slash carbon emissions. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530484...

Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov...

Why Farage's 'White Lives Matter' speech and Reform's increasingly desperate descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is a sign of the party's growing fears that their time at the top of British politics may soon be coming to an end bylinetimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.

The slow disappearance of public amenities in general -- benches, toilets, etc -- has made a lot of public spaces relentlessly and intentionally hostile

I'm currently in Lille, and the transformation of the City Centre is incredible. A network of cycle lanes, LOTS of planting including SUDs. And the effect is amazing, it's quite quiet, and easy to walk around. And still seems really vibrant, very few empty units. Cont.

I find it absolutely mad that the conversation has shifted to the point where it's expected that people will be able to effectively own the bit of public street outside their home to use as a personal fuel station www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

Check out my 10 Rules For Better Public Spaces 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 This is not intended to be an exhaustive list; I didn’t include public space healing, which is a significant part of my practice. But I’ve captured several key ideas. Thoughts? Additional ideas? #cities #public #space

Newcastle's Green Group and Liberal Democrat Group have reached an agreement for the upcoming council arrangement! 📣

In the distant haze it's like the return of huge masted sailing ships in the Forth #renewables #windturbine

Never forget which side you are on.

Our power is off 8am till 5pm today. We’ve got the internet running off an e-bike battery. Checkmate, petrolheads.

Subsidising luxury items such as theme parks, chocolate, & driving… Seriously? Why not remove VAT on bikes to allow people to get around at low-cost? Or create low-cost playstreets so kids can have independent, unstructured play with their neighbours & friends? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Also a Green member here, and there just needs to be a big mandatory call with all current and prospective MPs, councillors etc. that lays out really fucking clearly that this shit belongs in Reform and laying out really clearly the difference between criticism of Israel and antisemitic freak shit.