Who could have thought this? (AKA "Who'd a thunk it?") www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What if Trump hands victory to Putin? open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe... ...and do check out @nickcohen.bsky.social's Substack.

Your 🧵for today from @psimonk.bsky.social : "...the Mayor's bold & brave Transport Strategy targets & Net Zero 'ambition' increasingly look like bad jokes. " I've some queries re-danger measurement, but the fact is that TfL + Mayor are not doing what is required to cut car usage and road danger.

Interesting short 🧵here. Maybe other factors (the immigration policies we hear so much about), but if @carltonreid.com and @colville-andersen.com are right...serves the losers right!

There were some difficulties with reading this when it was first posted, it should be easier now: How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d... Do repost if you think it's worth reading!

Only posted this a few hours ago, but Mr Dashboard says only c.50 of you have read this rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d... and we do think it's important: not just because we need to raise £s, but because it's important to show that motorists do NOT "pay their way". So do read and share!

How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. Post is here rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d.... Do repost if you think it's worth reading!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."

"...undermine the case for airport expansion...". www.thetimes.com/article/e12e.... Sounds good to me!

Bicycles - Why you might need more than one Artist: Dave Walker

Even A-listers worry about getting their shoelace wrapped around their pedal Happy #BicycleBirthday, Leonardo DiCaprio! Born November 11, 1974

How often do the police object to new or upgraded works because it makes illegal driving easier? I appreciate tackling illegal motorcycling isn't easy, but the police shouldn't be just objecting like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Worried about the increasing %age of cars that are SUVs? You should be! Take a look at this BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/391/.... Also check out the SUV Alliance, which RDRF is a member of.

Your quick listen for today : About 7 minutes of good sense from @kevinclimate.bsky.social here on COP 30 etc. HT @leedstours.bsky.social

Lovely 6-min video by @streetfilms.bsky.social, showing how great Low Traffic Neighbourhoods can be! Let's reclaim our streets - and let's also reclaim the term "Low Traffic"! It's hugely desirable for loads of reasons and, despite what some media voices want us to believe, it's hugely popular too.

Nice short explanation of geo-engineering techniques (SAI and marine cloud brightening) and what's potentially wrong with them by @dpcarrington.bsky.social on BBC World at One just now.

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...

Whilst I do appreciate the effort to make this street more inviting, the new hopscotch on Downham Road is just no substitute for a scheme that would’ve eliminated traffic or enabled safe cycling. We need to be much more ambitious.

"Business as usual"! A great defiant slogan.

Interesting short 🧵 from @tricyclemayor.bsky.social

Fossil fuel lobbyists can clearly afford such good lawyers that they can sue in favour of their right to carry on lying through their teeth.

If this standard.co.uk/news/london/... is completely accurate by @rosslydall.bsky.social .... I mean, COME ON TfL and @mayoroflondon.bsky.social !! Secure + convenient bike parking is low cost and necessary - lots of rental riders would prefer to use their own bikes and should be able to do so.

5 men were just jailed in London for their roles in a arson attack masterminded by Russia - part of a wider sabotage campaign. At @apnews.com I have now tracked at least 25 arson or explosives plots across Europe linked to Russia by Western officials since 2022. Map 👉 apnews.com/article/brit...

On Monday a visit to the House of Commons for a presentation by Professor Sally Kydd, Head of Leicester Uni. Law School, (between @ollyglover.bsky.social and @appgcw.bsky.social ) "Behind the Headlines: Sentencing after fatal crashes". Should hopefully be out on APPGCW web site soon.

People like this Exxon CEO are really taking us for idiots, aren't they?

89% of people around the world want their governments to act faster on the #climatecrisis But while being in the majority, most people mistakenly think they are in a minority The #89%project wants to know why climate action matters to you 👇 89percent.org/tell-us-your... 1/2

Useful short🧵here.

Do have a read (it's short!) from @christianwolmar.bsky.social .

I see @christianwolmar.bsky.social has his excellent book (with back cover review by yours truly) quoted by Prof. Clive Coen (who I was at school with) in the Letters in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sigourney Weaver on the set of Call Jane (2022) #BicycleBirthday Born October 8, 1949

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." -Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist #BicycleBirthday October 7 (1931 -2021)

Nice to see @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social have a go at UK roundabout design and the baleful influence of DMRB on this evenings @activetravelcaf.bsky.social , with my old pal Graham Paul Smith (dunno if he's on here) weighing in.

For principles, see summary and full guides at lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/portfolio-it... For best practice in target-setting, see lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/challenge/ We're contacting groups with upcoming LTP consultations to offer support. For an invitation, please email [email protected]

Clear out of books/documents continues: From 45 years ago(!) here is Don Mathew's classic publication for FoE. I think Don is still around, I saw him at a FoE joint publication launch a few years ago...

Pope Leo condemns climate change critics - "Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor" Story by @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social HT @carbonbrief.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act - Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New research - The opening of the Arctic shipping route due to rapid ice melt could increase global shipping traffic and push up emissions by 8.2% by 2100 HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is always more fruit on the magic money tree when it comes to car companies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

rdrf.org.uk/2025/09/27/w... (Two "pages"). We have been promised this from @transportgovuk.bsky.social from earlier this year and it is "imminent". Do check it out and repost.

China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts - Xi suggested US is not rising to the climate challenge, but critics say new cuts fall ‘far short’ of what is necessary #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Good reply by Carlton Reid.

Happy New Year! to my followers. שנה טובה

This week I had to cross Euston Road with my kids at a junction with no pedestrian crossing. No blind person could’ve done it but nobody seems to care. Yet apparently in the case of life-saving & proven safe cycle lanes, concerns stop infrastructure entirely southwarknews.co.uk/area/borough...

Is a global bank collapse coming soon? youtu.be/DaM3c5ybj-w?... A banking collapse is coming, and the cause isn’t speculation. It’s climate change. Uninsurable homes mean worthless mortgages, and worthless mortgages mean broken banks. Unless governments act now society itself is at risk.

Exxon and Shell Sue The Netherlands in Secret Tribunals for Closing Europe’s Biggest Gas Field #climatecrisis Story by @rishpardikar.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/groning...

Home clear out continues with clothes. This hasn't been worn since at least the early noughties because of, er, the "revelations", which cast the phrase in a different light to that no doubt intended by Philosophy Football, lefty sports T shirt people. @cyclingweekly.com

RIP Robert Redford.

A fascinating link between our friends in the Rough Stuff Fellowship and master of sartorial knowledge and comment @dieworkwear.bsky.social . I hope they thank him for the compliments!

Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.