This isn't good enough, though it's difficult if the resources aren't there. Can't CCTV reviews be given to admin staff rather than officers? Can technology help, with automated movement detection isolating when a theft might have occurred? A solution is needed rather than saying "sorry, tough".

Excellent - #Cassetteboy has come for #KierStarmer! Things must be bad! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uO... #UKPolitics

Love this idea, but currently it's a no from me. Reading by app is a sub-par experience to an e-reader. So, until books are made available in a standard ePub format which I can download and keep, I'll sadly have to continue with other options (Kobo store usually). Pity.

ICYMI: I want to see legal obligations on councils and highways authorities where, by default, they MUST properly provide for active travel in ALL highways schemes. If you support this, will you write to your MP to push for change? Spread the word! Details + my letter at: fiets.uk/2025-09-26/r...

The two tests of cycling infrastructure should be 1 - would this be okay for a 12 year old child on their own? AND 2 - would this be okay for lone woman at night? If the answer to either of these is NO then it's not adequate.

We need to put an end to councils ignoring active travel in their highways schemes. Will you write to your MP to ask for a legal obligation on councils to cater for people walking, wheeling, and cycling? I have, but my voice alone means very little. See my letter here: fiets.uk/2025-09-26/r...

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

We need to put an end to councils ignoring active travel in their highways schemes. Will you write to your MP to ask for a legal obligation on councils to cater for people walking, wheeling, and cycling? I have, but my voice alone means very little. See my letter here: fiets.uk/2025-09-26/r...

the twin task is honestly one of their greatest yet #Taskmaster

New on the blog today: More on Warwickshire's omission of a cycle link in a major roundabout "upgrade", and writing to my MP about creating obligations on local authorities to properly provide for active travel in all highways schemes. #ActiveTravel #Cycling

New on the blog today: More on Warwickshire's omission of a cycle link in a major roundabout "upgrade", and writing to my MP about creating obligations on local authorities to properly provide for active travel in all highways schemes. #ActiveTravel #Cycling

So, digital ID is it? I'm not inherently opposed to national ID with caveats, but on smartphones? Creates obvious issues: 1: Not everyone has/wants/can use a smartphone. 2: Ongoing app security and compatibility. 3: Android/iOS lock-in. 4: App permissions? Tracking? 5: De facto mandatory carry.

Imbecile Reform-led Council approves massive roundabout upgrade between Bedworth and Coventry with ZERO cycle provision. Teenage leader Cllr Finch (local to Bedworth) ignores safety and travel needs of people outside cars; suggests no-one uses cycles for work.

Again, giving people a sense of ownership of public space outside homes is a v.bad idea; cable gullies in pavements is a v.bad idea. Trailing cables is a v.bad idea. Put chargers in lampposts for universal capacity; accept that home charging is not always viable. Rooftop solar is besides the point.

Why would you put the post here, intruding on the access path? It's not a big reduction in space (still over 2m) - but it's still in the way and just looks wrong!

Stupid big "cars" - as big as the electric camper van in the middle, and carrying no more than the little Skoda on the right.

Hive mind - when a to-be 12yo asks for a "DJ set" for his birthday, being a fan of watching DJs at Glasto etc., what's a good starting point and what do we need? Don't want to get him a toy but also not something expensive; something beginner that he can try and develop if he takes to it.

It's been a while, but there's a quick new post on the blog regarding the budget for Warwickshire County Council and prioritising active travel.

Stop connecting every damn appliance to the internet! A fridge-freezer has no business being online and definitely has no place showing adverts. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

It's been a while, but there's a quick new post on the blog regarding the budget for Warwickshire County Council and prioritising active travel.

Orders are published relating to @warwickshirecc.bsky.social's redevelopment around the Wheat Street area of Nuneaton - with a 20mph zone and *a bit* of separated cycle infrastructure. This has been in planning for years so it looks like we'll finally see work happening.

This isn't leadership. This is pandering to a criminal, disgraced president and rolling over to accept US dominance at the expense of UK resources, and homegrown and European industry. The visit should never have happened, and the deal never made. Shameful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I predict no sustained "boom" in cycling after Warwickshire's Tour of Britain stage. Why? Because 1) it treats cycling as just sport/leisure and not everybody wants that; 2) we still are not getting infrastructure to support cycling as everyday transport. www.warwickshire.gov.uk/news/article...

Spotted on a long walk today. Bridge looks really concerning, with a risk of collapse? It's a CRT bridge but I can't see how to report to them; @warwickshirecc.bsky.social's website doesn't want to know, despite the lane being publicly maintainable. Put on FixMyStreet; hopefully it'll get attention.

"I said they are just ordinary people with legitimate concerns, peacefully protesting. What did I say Roy?" "You said they're a bunch of far right racist twats"

Yes, Wales! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪 😂 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Sooner the better. One's just gone up outside my house and I am extremely cross about it - yes, they got a yelling at from me, to which of course they just shrugged and carried on.

Don't think much of the new Starling Bank logo - lacking vertical symmetry and losing the professional style. The latest company to employ a pointless rebrand it would seem. It's just a logo of course, but it doesn't scream "trustworthy finance institution" to me. #StarlingBank #Finance #FinTech

Maybe the worst of the flag nonsense I've seen yet - on lampposts, strung up across the street, and in one window not even a slim veneer of hiding the bigotry with a sign saying "Send them back!!" - but with a happy smiley face, so that must make it okay(!). A street to avoid in future I think.

Genuine lols

Has "{Place} is not London" become the new "{Place} is not Amsterdam"?

It's everybody's right not to use a bus, yes; it's nobody's right to drive anywhere, at any time, and especially at the expense of others. People can travel by foot, cycle, public transport with as much intention to spend as someone in a car. Foot and cycle is more conducive to impulse visits.

I wish there was a national standard + mandated colour for cycle routes, familiar to all regardless of region. Better for recognition (including for drivers where routes intersect with roads), wayfinding, and presumably cost. Then again, at least this has a colour. No such luck in Cov and Warks!

Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams

What? How can someone* think this ridiculous comparison is in any way appropriate, let alone make any logical sense? Absolute lunacy. * Cllr Nick Leverton (Con, Carterton South)

Also from today's walk - a (hopefully unfinished) cut-through to the towpath from a new shared-use path beside a new housing estate. A pity nobody thought to provide a cut-through to the estate itself though. Fence hopping or a long diversion for anyone living here. @warwickshirecc.bsky.social

Good thing I didn't bring my bike up this way today. Side access is rightly blocked as the path is falling away, but the gate hasn't been left unlocked. Anyone without a radar key will be stuck or forced to lift a bike over. National Cycle Network route too. @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social

Yay. At long last, I can once again bookmark posts before almost never again going back to revisit them!

So, about that "yeah, but China" argument against cleaning up our own emissions...

Are smartphones are eroding the experience of {INSERT ANYTHING HERE}? Probably, yes.

I've put my concerns to the school. I'll see what they say. This is probably risking me being labelled as difficult and paranoid, perhaps a luddite or technophobe, but I don't think it's wrong to question systems like this.

Facial recognition in school canteens for payments - yay or nay? Can't decide if I'm being overly paranoid/awkward but my initial reaction is one of discomfort and I'm inclined to refuse - but suspect I might be in the minority in doing so, and The Boy might stand out as a result. Thoughts? 1/4

Perhaps the most sophisticated cover of Addicted to Love, from @nerinapallot.bsky.social - and talk of maybe releasing a covers album, and a new original album in the works! Exciting! youtu.be/_YeCXE0ajEI?...

Missed this. New name is too long and clunky. If they're worried about "Sustrans" not working (or worse, as some suggest, are worried about bigoted connotations because of the "trans" part), why not just use "Sustainable Travel Trust"? Want to lose "sustainable"? Why not "Active Travel Trust"?

Emergency alert test in about 15 minutes. Last time I didn't get anything (Three-based network which failed). This time, given I have a second line on another network and assuming Three fixed the problem, I wonder if I'll get it twice if there are slight timing differences?

Timeline cleanse

This campaign should be adopted here - a really clear and impactful demonstration of how significant speed is in collisions with people outside of cars.

Looks like the gullible, hard-right, fascist, racist, and/or xenophobic flagshaggers are out again in #Nuneaton; yet more lampposts being littered with flags. This is beyond a joke. I want *my* country back - a tolerant, compassionate, welcoming, diverse Britain. None of this divisive, hateful BS.

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