"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend" And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...

It’s the Clarion Christmas newsletter! Featuring: 🚠 Cable cars for Oxford 🫡 Remembering Ian Hudspeth 🗳 Elections to be postponed? 🧀 Queuing for cheese 🎶 Beautiful Oxfordshire Christmas music Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

This year I sung twice the more inclusive Hark the Herald lyrics: once in Brasenose College Chapel, and once in 900 year old Bartlemas Chapel (in my same name division). Big fan of the small change.

My letter to the Oxford Mail today on… the cable car. 🚡🚠💚

A year in polling of UK politics

Interview with Oxfordshire’s active travel champion @emilykerr36.bsky.social www.cyclox.org/index.php/20...

The "political genius" of Morgan McSweeney in one chart

How do you empower a new generation of Oxfordshire girls to access sports and reach their full potential? According to Oxford United Women’s Captain, Naomi Bedeau, by inspiring them through thought provoking workshops aimed to help them discover more about themselves and what’s important to them.

Look at this!! A Clarion article on the Cable Car... should we have one in Oxford? I think we should look at the feasibility at least.

Following the news that Paris has launched a cable car, a councillor is calling to explore this in Oxford. Green City & County Councillor Emily Kerr said “Cable cars are cheap, fun, and low-environmental impact. We should be following transport innovators like Paris in considering all options."

Look at this!! A Clarion article on the Cable Car... should we have one in Oxford? I think we should look at the feasibility at least.

When oh when are the British people going to receive an apology from Nigel Farage and the other UKIP liars!

🎉 Absolutely delighted to welcome Jamie Driscoll to the Green Party. 👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them. 💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk

As regular readers will know, I'm a huge fan of considering cable cars as part of the urban transit solution. And here's Paris, which has just opened a new cable car. DAZZLING. ✨🚠 metro.co.uk/2025/12/16/e...

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

Can’t help agreeing with this. The FT produces some quality and fact-based journalism.

From a professional comms perspective, I'd say a good start for Labour combatting far right rhetoric would be to stop repeating it, saying they "understand it" or including its stock tropes in official documents pretty much any time they talk about migration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Very interesting on government plans to grow oxford: spoiler, the growth commission thinks, like I do, that we need to revisit “view cones” and stop preventing developers building more Oxford houses due to impact on distant views.

New bike parking going up on Meadow Lane - after much discussion. I’m particularly pleased about these cos I want the teenagers who visit this space to use the sporting stuff to feel welcome - and many of them cycle.

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford. therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...

Few things I love as much as a public transport Xmas jumper, here worn by one of our fab Oxford bus drivers. Mine is a TfL one (less interesting tbh, but still good!)

Had a lovely evening in Oxford last night, despite the smoky air. Great to see two local pubs – the Old Bookbinders and the Lamb & Flag – doing their bit by not burning wood and keeping the air clean! #FireplaceFlip #WoodBurning @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @emilykerr36.bsky.social 💚

Solidarity with the hunger strikers. It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction. All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.

93% of children and young people agree say that ‘being in nature makes me very happy’ (from Natural England's Children’s People and Nature Survey for England, out today) www.gov.uk/government/s...

Here's the 2025 @ategov.bsky.social authority ratings. Some nice movement there: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69385d...

Very excited to see that @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social has just been upgraded to an ATE L3 for Active Travel. That makes it one of only 11 nationwide, and one of only two County Councils. Means more money and more focus on this key area of active travel. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...

Oxfordshire County Council has just published data on the first month of the congestion charge! Love the level of granularity. In summary, huge speed up in bus times in city centre, slight increase on some outer roads; massive city centre footfall growth. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/promising-st...

A great Full Council today. Personal highlights were hearing from @andrewgant.bsky.social about how much of a difference Oxfordshire’s free bus travel for asylum seekers is making; @maggieflpv.bsky.social & Emma Markham’s pro-migrant motion, and wearing my public transport Xmas jumper in chamber.

More details in the Clarion's post below, and whilst I obviously love the pic of me & 3 activists from other parties singing carols, just LOOK at these train ridership growth figures! Oxford station +20% vs 7% nationally. Love to see it. ❤️🚂 bsky.app/profile/oxfo...

Oxfordshire County Council is “urgently reviewing” its use of X, formerly Twitter, as a result of “very recent news regarding Elon Musk and his use of his platform”. Devon, Southampton, and Warwick councils have all recently quit the platform.

Our latest newsletter with everything that’s happening in Oxfordshire: 🔥 Fire service protests ☔️ Leaky shopping centre 🪺 Curlews reach their target 🚆 SO much train news 🙊 Monkey licences Plus university and politics news. Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Great day cycling in Oxford; many thanks @active-ata.bsky.social for organising it. @joyridersuk.bsky.social @cohsat.bsky.social

Delighted to be showing some London friends around Oxfords somewhat variable cycling infrastructure.

🔖 Bookmark this page for @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social main upcoming events: greenoxford.com/events/ 🎄 And come along to our final big Campaign Day before Christmas, in West Oxford. Free lunch included! actionnetwork.org/events/west-...

Carol singing in the rain at the Magdalen Road Frost Fest earlier today. Do head down if you live in East Oxford and support our great local retailers.

50 seats... Time to grow the Green Party even more. Let's go. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A 30-year old Oxford resident, imprisoned for taking part in the Palestine Action paint attack at RAF Brize Norton, is entering the fifth week of their hunger strike. Amu Gib is protesting against “the victimisation faced by prisoners accused of taking direct action” for the Palestinian cause.

Onwards and downwards to the future, fellow Londoners! 🚀

I met a Real Estate developer from Hong Kong at a party in London at the weekend, and was fascinated to learn they’re using AI to go back thru hours of recorded planning meetings to analyse each councillor for the councils they’re investing in. Am fun at parties, obvs.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Come to our Frost Fest on the 6th December. Magdalen Road is amazing! www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2566245...

Potentially good news for the nation's health: woodburning stoves are a huge source of air pollution. They damage the lungs of people inside the house as well, especially those who sleep in upstairs bedrooms who are exposed at high levels overnight. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Really interesting SD article specifically on the East Oxford LTNs, assessing support and opposition from those who live inside and on the boundary roads. It would also be interesting to see how this now looks given the Congestion Charge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dozens of charities and community groups came together in the Town Hall for the annual Green Fair organised by the Oxford Green Party. [📷 Roger Close]

So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get. Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good article in this week’s @henleystandard.bsky.social by Alex Carter regarding a car free cycling route between Goring and Wallingford. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social @emilykerr36.bsky.social @maggieflpv.bsky.social @freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social @beealing.bsky.social www.henleystandard.co.uk

“What’s your relationship with cycling?” “It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”

install a conservatory to own the libs. perfect. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Come and support independent businesses in East Oxford Saturday 6th December for the Magdalen Road Frost Fest, featuring carols (at 12 outside Caper), Santa's Grotto, and a fun apres-ski themed day at Missing Bean. There will be a lot of other stuff going on from our lovely local shops.