Replace VED with: T = M × £0.01 × W³ (M = annual mileage from MOT, W = gross weight in tonnes). Road damage scales with weight to the fourth power, so heavy vehicles remain subsidised - just less so. Light cars pay pennies, luxury SUVs pay thousands.

However, @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social also say that ‘unless the Government also removes the benefit cap, some of the poorest households will see little or no gain, as any newly available support would be likely clawed back through the benefit cap’. 🔗⬇️ www.wbg.org.uk/article/some...

"People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people"

I agree with the call to policy makers. However, this trend also supports the theory that psychiatry has massively overreached in recent decades, by pathologising the subjective experience of poverty. Being unhappy with failure to meet your basic needs, for want of funds, is not a disorder.

"Floating bus stops need to be banned because cyclists don't stop at crossings"

New Zealand bans puberty for gender dysphoria or incongruence. Ban effective from 19th December. The drugs will still be available in New Zealand for those with early onset puberty, endometriosis or prostate cancer, as well as for current users.

We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood. Meanwhile in Denmark:

Amnesty argued at the Supreme Court, in the For Women Scotland case, that all protections for homosexuality under the Equality Act be rendered meaningless and gay only associations be made unlawful.

BREAKING: protesters attacked, one man dies, at Palestine Action prison demo...

There are people on this platform giving dangerous misinformation to trans people, that could land them in trouble. It is not true that a police officer commits an offense if they tell their colleague that you are trans, and you have not been charged. It can be true, sometimes.

I was surprised to see this in the news. I had thought it was common knowledge that NHS Find a Dentist was as truthful as a Keir Starmer pledge or a Donald Trump boast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perhaps Kwasi Kwarteng can help this Labour government get its shit in order?

US household debt hit $18+ trillion in Q3 of 2025, up sharply from last year. Credit-card balances are climbing, delinquencies ticking higher, and for many households, the gap between income and expenses narrows month by month. This when the regime has stopped publishing basic economic information.

'Taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for luxury leisure' Agreed. #cycletoworkscheme #carcentrism

100% this, something so odd about the fact that he was seen as this insanely well connected guy for years, like that one man everyone powerful knew and liked for some reason, when we're yet to see evidence of even one trace of like, basic wit, warmth or charm in those emails

BREAKING: Donald Trump 'knew about the girls', Jeffrey Epstein said in a 2019 email The paedophile also said in 2011 that the US president had 'spent hours' with a woman later identified as a sex trafficking victim

Dame Jenni Murray: "I left Womans Hour after 33 years due to the trans issue. I rejected the word ‘cis’, said I wanted single-sex spaces and received threats of violence in return. The BBC response was ‘never talk about this issue again’ " Another victim both of the BBC and of the rampant contagion.

One step closer to death camps. UK government rethinking that genocide denialism yet? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sex Matters letter to BBC's board 👇 5 CALLS: Root out oppressive influence of transgender ideology in the BBC Replace gender ideology activist language Stop output normalising trans ideology ensure all BBC journalists can fearlessly tell the unvarnished truth. Retrain staff #TimeToAct

Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice share.google/kz1pBRLO7CU3...

Because this is Bluesky, very little commentary on the BBC's disgraceful capitulation to Transactivism over the past decade. Senior figures either too afraid, or too cowardly to stand up to the post-modernist censorious bullies. This is a far greater scandal than the Trump editing nonsense.

This would do far more to counter the illicit economy than digital ID cards will ever be capable of.

Just seen Owen Jones moralising about Get The L Out. It is the Woke Man's Burden to guide women in how to do feminism right. I think Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about it?

A friend of mine was born missing the fingers of his right hand. Human beings have 10 fingers. Therefore, he isn't human since he only has 5. This is how you sound.

Organ harvesting scandal — UK surgeon says Israel returned bodies with organs missing...

Dept. of Everything Old Is New Again: History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us.

The solipsism of TRAs fascinates me. It's astonishing how often some of them will declare of each and every GCF they encounter that they are a bot.

One of the few reassuring things about the death of James Watson is that everything I’ve read so far hasn’t tried to ‘whitewash’ his misogyny and racism.

Not all fascists are MAGA youtu.be/0ljdRlGcaYU?...

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem. Thinking like this, that is.

We should actually talk about the toilet thing. The UK SC was forced to rule that non-unisex toilets are exclusively single sex or single gender, due to the wording of the EA. But maybe we don't really need male exclusive spaces. Just as men's sports tend not to bar women, the loos needn't either.

I hope not too many TRAs are confused by the absence of apparent papistry in this post. Gender critical feminism is not a catholic conspiracy plot. Don't get it confused with tomorrow's festivities.

BREAKING: Israeli prosecutor who leaked torture camp rape video goes ‘missing’...

So there are people on here responding to my use of hypotheticals as part of an argument with mockery, because I'm "making shit up". Wondering if this is just bad faith - or, more frighteningly - there truly are a lot of people who don't understand analogy or logic.

Charles Amos argues that if a law prohibits you from doing something with property you are allowed to purchase (e.g. a phone), then the law violates your rights. Should we check the hard drives? Disseminating CP is illegal after all, and yet something his phone is capable of. Utter nonsense.

@greenparty.org.uk GBeebiesNews have done some estimates with the Find Out Now poll and are broadcasting that Keir Starmer will lose his seat. I suspect he'd rather not stand than have to watch his constituents sack him. Holborn and St Pancreas would be Green, by the way!

Hope is contagious Let’s make hope normal again Join @greenparty.org.uk: join.greenparty.org.uk #HopeIsContagious @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @easterngreenparty.bsky.social

The potential withdrawal of #latvia from the European Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) is very concerning +would mark worrisome roll back on commitment to ensure women’s safety,equality and dignity.I urge Latvia to reconsider.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Of all the people who consider Angela Rayner to have been negligent in her SDLT affairs, I wonder how many realise what should have caused her to seek specialist advice? This isn't purely rhetorical, there was a specific reason. I just doubt most are aware.

UK Labour's strategy on immigration is a bit odd. Most people who feel strongly are either in support of giving channel tunnel tickets to those seeking asylum, or building a floating fence off Kent. It's hard to see some firm middle ground between these positions.

So Rachel Reeves has been cleared on the basis there is "no evidence of bad faith". That's fine, but it does raise questions of what evidence there was of Rayner's bad faith. Trusts are not a simple matter and there has been no published evidence that she deliberately mislead HMRC. Worse, Haigh...

There is no peace in Palestine - just death and destruction by a racist and apartheid regime armed by the US/UK. A 9 year old child shot in the head. IOF soldiers celebrate.

If electoral systems are back as a hot topic, here's one worth considering. It's a hybrid of FPTP and PR where you keep a single constituency MP but have better representation of parties. It's called Proportion Past the Post, or 3P. youtu.be/Vzb7hABRHIM?...

Heard on the grapevine, British Airways partnered with Daniella Weiss to draft new preflight safety briefings. Passengers will be notified of where pearls are located and proper clutching procedures. Remember: always clutch your own pearls before assisting the racist next to you.

2> But more needs to be done Since 2004, 67 children have been killed during unsafe contact arrangements with abusive fathers. TAKE ACTION & ADD YOUR NAME TO WOMEN'S AID'S OPEN LETTER ✏️https://takeaction.womensaid.org.uk/keep-children-safe

1> Sex offenders to be denied parental responsibility Thank you to MP Natalie Fleet @NatalieFleetMP, both her & her children are tragic victims of a family court system dangerously steeped in a pro-contact culture. Read more: brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-eight... @evawuk.bsky.social

Starmer removes Syrian ISIS subsidiary HTS from terror ban list Head-chopping terrorist group has bowed the knee to Israel as new Syrian regime but peaceful Palestine Action won't...

Video: Tory MP embarrasses himself trying to back Maccabi Tel Aviv at any cost... (destroyed by Ian Byrne)

Breaking: Israeli tanks open fire on civilians in northern Gaza...