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"City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped."

Wow so it is possible for the media to coreectly identify an electric motorcycle in a news rwport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural https://theonion.com/ice-agent-injured-after-repeatedly-trying-to-detain-people-in-neighborhood-mural/

This is murder, plain and simple. Everyone has the right to surrender. Iranian warship sank by US sub in Indian Ocean, Hegseth says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No plans from Labour to ensure the Representation of the People Bill actually represents the people. Even single transferable vote would have been a signficant step forwards. But nope, Labour miss an open goal yet again.

Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.

Industrial infanticide 😔

Brand new at Mambre Road W6 @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

A chilly evening, under a full moon, on Clapham Common remembering Sarah Everard five years after her murder. Absolute clarity about the urgent need for us all, and especially the police, to root out gender based harm affecting women, girls, non binary and trans people. Rest in peace Sarah.

Putin must be loving it. The UK using extremely limited & expensive weapons to shoot down cheap drones. apple.news/AyeqBmkBdRb-...

Farage. A chancer by trade.

It's a common refrain for ministers to note Nigel Farage's absence from the Commons, but the stats do seem to back it up. So far this year he has spoken five times and voted seven times. As a very rough, smaller-party comparison, Ellie Chowns of the Greens has spoken 46 times and voted 24 times.

if I ever need a lawyer, somebody call this lady

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Apologies to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social for crossposting her tweets from the nasty place, but I felt this deserves airtime on bluesky because of how emphatically they prove the nasty, immoral, opportunistic politics of Reform.

The Almost Hit Hospital has filled up again as the debate on new bike lanes heats up at city hall.

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Question for Starmer: will he arrest those who break international law?

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

Bike Tip: When using zip ties on your bike, use nail clippers to clip the extra length. It leaves a smooth edge that won't be sharp and cut you later.

New cyclist finds out he's an anti-car urban elite who has no life and no job.

“Gorton and Denton…. was a stress test for grievance politics, and grievance cracked first. Reform’s instinct when challenged is not to persuade but to tantrum; not to build trust but to erode it. That’s the playbook. Win, or cry foul” @zoegrunewald.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

I presume the Labour government doesn’t check which voters on the electoral roll have photo ID? “Family voting” far from great, but the state putting barriers up to voting is far worse.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Starmer appointed Mandelson as our most senior diplomat without even doing basic checks, & ignoring both obvious warning signs and a history of unethical behvaiour

If you were going to design a new taxi, you would certainly not design it like this. Perhaps look at a Hackney Carriage for where to start (or frankly a VW Transporter)

I'm guessing Ian Byrne isn't your kind of Labour MP @profjgd.bsky.social

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

Looking forward to the May Local Council elections 😎

Labour’s *majority* in Gorton and Denton in 2024 – just 19 months ago – was 13,000+. Tonight it got fewer than 10,000 votes total, on an almost identical turnout. In its heartland. That’s what a collapse of your core vote looks like.

The great thing about renewables is how incremental it is. Just keep building capacity year on year. The same approach with fossils/nuclear isn’t possible as it broadly depends on large, one-off projects.

The bookies got it right, the polling companies did not. #GortonDenton

And believe the Greens split the vote 😆

@thetimes.com remains a danger to anyone who rides a bicycle for transport

And yet Sadiq Khan still will not deal with illegal driving which is under TfL's control including buses, taxis & PHVs - www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Time to abolish the House of Lords

It’s the Green Party’s fault that Andy Burnham wasn’t allowed to standard as an MP candidate today (apparently)

A couple of weeks ago, Andy Burnham, @mayorofgm.bsky.social, addressed our conference about the need to refocus political debate on the people of Unsung Britain. Watch his speech in full here 👉 buff.ly/iVWFmbY

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social 🤔

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Why do so many local councillors feel they job is to just represent/echo, and take no community leadership role?

Rather than denigrating Net Zero, politicians of all parties should be celebrating this kind of innovation - apple.news/AQt-xB7DsTJq...

Just doing it better - apple.news/AlNR1rugQQpW...

“When they go low, we go as low as possible” seems to be the Labour way

I think about the “Barnet Graph of Doom” a lot. That is all. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Those women were only in their 20s! What a time to be alive 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

Degrees in the UK are now more expensive than all other countries in the OECD

Labour splitting the vote again.