Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

I'm infuriated that I have to pay £5 to bring my £180,000 range rover into central oxford... (narrator: The vehicle takes about 2 hours to simply depreciate in value that much).

This is brilliant.

Once bittern, twice shy: Oxfordshire’s new Local Nature Recovery Strategy was unveiled this week at a launch with minister Mary Creagh. OCC’s Chloe Edwards described it as “a powerful framework to direct energy and resources towards habitat and species work where they could offer great benefits”.

Oxford is so lucky to have the @coveredmarketox.bsky.social - I popped in to get some Christmas presents and top up our tea supplies. Lovely to be able to buy from local independent business owners, have a cup of tea, maybe grab lunch or a pint, all in the same place.

This is now the season where meetings often start with the rustle of waterproof trousers as everyone disrobes. Wellies are a thing on the schoolrun too. I love Oxford fashion.

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite? They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2) www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...

Urban cable-car fans, looks like the Paris one will open mid-December! Keen for insights from users on this when it opens and extra points for any photos. I remain of the opinion that doing a study on this in Oxford could be a good idea. www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/in-p...

Consultation Klaxon! Do you live or work a. near Bicester, or b. near Didcot? If so, it's really worth you contributing to the linked consultations on the next 25 year strategy for movement and place. OCC has 12 sub-divisions & is gradually rolling out plans. Please do engage & comment.

Sadly missed it but absolute credit to @lb-southwark.bsky.social running a 'Guided Cycle Consultation' where Officers actually got out & cycled with residents to consult changes. People saying it was the best consultation they've ever seen. FANTASTIC progress that every Council should copy.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

I'm looking forward to seeing Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden's Wassail at the Oxford Playhouse on Friday... esp cos it reminds me of my all-time-favourite Wassail, which local residents did to the LTN bollards. 🎶 "Our bollard is made out of some sort of tree..." 🎶 oxfordclarion.uk/here-we-go-a...

Pavement Parking: does anyone else have these white lines actually on the pavement (!) to indicate that cars should park there? This is in Oxfordshire, I'm interested in what other LAs have them. Extra points if you can give me a location on google maps so I can see it. :) Thanks!

Woah. Thanks for all the love! Huge thanks to The Last Leg, Judi & Grace and all the production crew for making such a brilliant show. You can watch the whole thing here: www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040 E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours Pricing to compete with low cost flights Reduce emissions by 80% Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

People will stop going to Oxford because of the congestion charge, they told us? 🤔

We often forget how far we have come: Today almost 3/4 of EU electricity generation is from non-fossil energy sources. It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix. This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation. Source is @ember-energy.org

Here's to hope! Thanks Vogue! www.vogue.co.uk/article/zohr...

I am a little late to this, but I have also requested my name and face to be removed from @cyclinguk.bsky.social publicity due to the decision to remove trans women from their awards. Trans women are women, gender is on a spectrum (and I did a genetics degree), and cycling is for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲❤️

That's incredibly disappointing and rather spineless. Trans rights are human rights.

Want to see four lovely new SRETs being build on Oxford’s Iffley Road ? Of course you do! Pics below. A note on SRETs (side road entry treatments). Basically these make roads safer by slowing car drivers down as they turn, using raised platforms and tightening radii (1/2)

Hello bluesky! Are you thinking about heading home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat the Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share! oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers. Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

So this is cool: @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org has got a coalition of 16 safe streets orgs together to ask for 10 manifesto commitments (which are easy-to-explain) ahead of next May's elections. Best of luck with it guys.

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just read the below on Zohran Mamdani, NY's new mayor who actually understands the increasing risks and danger of SUVs and other larger cars on our streets. Fascinating. Thanks @timmorton2.bsky.social

People talk about public services being decimated, I just pulled out 1975 as a year to look at taxation...1975: The basic rate of income tax35%. Withmultiple higher rates, he top rate on "earned" income was 83%, the top rate on "unearned" (investment) income reached 98% (due to a 15% surcharge).

From an Oxford bus driver ⬇️

Mamdani: ▫️won more than a million votes ▫️1st candidate to do so since 1969 ▫️more than 2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots ▫️almost double that of the last election 4 yrs ago ▫️first Muslim mayor ▫️youngest person in over a century to lead the largest city in the US www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Everyone in Oxfordshire loves Tolkien and traffic debates, right? 😉 Here's my full speech:

Well hello, sensibly-sized-for-a-city little blue car. Anyone know anything about this tiny car I saw in Oxford on the iffley road today? I loved it!

sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year

Yep, Labour voting with the Tories and Reform to scrap Oxford's Congestion Charge after 6 days, without bothering to wait and see any results. Given early signs indicate that the buses are speeding up (but not confirmed yet), this is directly opposing improved buses.

Oxford “Ghost Town” klaxon. 👇 Yet again Labour want the benefits of reduced congestion (faster buses) but refuse to address the cause (too many private cars). Anyway I didn’t vote cos I had to go home and pick up my kids but incase anyone is in any doubt, I am in favour of the CC.

Buses are getting around Oxford faster as a result of the congestion charge, according to Oxford Bus Company. MD Luke Marion said “We’ve already seen encouraging improvements to traffic flow and bus journey times in the scheme’s first week.”

Obsessed with this live "bus tracker" map. Filtered for Oxford Bus Company but other companies and individual bus stops also available. bustimes.org/operators/ox...

Oxford Congestion Charge: a friend timed their bus journey from Redbridge P&R to Folly bridge and it took 4.5mins during peak hour this morning. The quickest ever! The Iffley Road, however, was less congested but still lots of traffic; St. Clements was pretty clear.

Day 2 of anecdata on my bit of the new temporary congestion charge in Oxford. I also had a tradesman appointment yesterday afternoon and took the opportunity to ask him about traffic. He said that within the ring road it was very clear, but that the ring road itself was basically at peak, all day.

About Teen Vogue, I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.

Safety wings! Made from cotton, reflective tech fabric, and layers of quilted poly batting and interfacing. Mine have performed perfectly in 20 mile rides and pouring rain. Can also do dragon wings! £90, each set made custom. #sewing #sewsky #bikesky www.instagram.com/p/DQmKUwYCgg...

"We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings." Crucial @mjtoma.bsky.social piece about need to reckon with how bad the info-space has gotten: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Public transport often treats bikes as a luxury—or worse a competitor—but without them leaves revenue on the table. For 25 years, the Dutch have extended the reach of their railways through investments in (300,000) parking spaces and (25,000) shared bikes. The result? A doubling of train ridership.

Bus has to wait FOUR TIMES to keep to the timetable due to lack of congestion after Oxford's Congestion Charge went in. ⬇️ I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.

First Monday of the congestion charge here in Oxf: Hollow Way is seeing clear roads with a smallish amount of free flowing traffic, no stationary cars queuing to get to the junction of Hollow Way with Cowley Road. Last week the charge started during half term, today it’s a school day.

Tell me how your bus journeys are going since Oxford's Congestion Charge was launched! Just had the below message. "Oh my God... The buses on Cowley Road are so much faster. Like my journey to the station this morning was fully 20-25 mins faster than pre charge."

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

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