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Dave Cox

@davidcox65.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof ex Chair South B’ham PCT and Cycling UK. Chair Push Bikes. Dirty air damages heart and lungs ❤️ NHS saved my life twice. #WalkCyclePlay you know you want to

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B31 Voices @b31voices.bsky.social · 15h
Leslie Coupland: "New on Northfield High Street" "Probably a great addition for many of us, a local vet right on our doorstep 🙏🏻"  - #B31VoicesReaderSays  #KingsNorton #Cotteridge #Birmingham #BirminghamUK #Bromsgrove #B31Voices #BVoices
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 17h
Our compilation returns, examining the state of play when it comes to sentencing for driving offences committed towards cyclists in the UK... road.cc/news/augsept...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Sally Kyd @profkyd.bsky.social · 16h
westbridgfordwire.com/dangerous-dr... A rare case of a driver being disqualified for life!
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Dangerous driver who killed motorist in Nottingham jailed | West Bridgford Wire
A dangerous driver reached speeds of more than 80mph before killing another motorist who was waiting in traffic.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21h
Go For It Ladies.......
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 20h
Good - but without enforcement, behaviour change won't happen.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15h
Additionally, three women and a man, residents of neighboring houses, were injured by the blast wave. In the Solomyanskyi district, a drone strike killed an employee at a commercial facility and injured two others.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15h
3 people were killed and 7 injured in Kyiv as a result of multiple strikes by Russian jet-powered drones, police reported. ​"As a result of an enemy drone hitting a private home in the Svyatoshynskyi district, two women aged 46 and 95 were killed.
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 20h
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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'We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Ben Stanford @drbenstanford.bsky.social · 17h
Never, ever listen to these people when they preach from the rooftops about free speech, cancel culture and lefty snowflakes. The only speech they care about is that which agrees with them.
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Anna Grz @agrzyb.eurosky.social · 19h
America only
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 19h
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “Doubtless there will be appeals upon appeals” “But it is in the interests not just of City’s rivals and not just of football itself, but of everyone with a interest in the rule of law that they do not succeed”
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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew
When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations By Samantha Asumadu Read below. ↓
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) has hosted panels featuring, and sponsored by, big tech companies that are driving a dramatic expansion of fossil fuel production in order to power their energy intensive data centres. www.desmog.com/2026/09/29/t...
desmog.com
Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference
LIVERPOOL – The think tank led by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has hosted a number of events sponsored by Trump-donating tech firms at this year’s party conference. The Tony Blair…
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brilliant new episode well worth a listen @cyclinguk.bsky.social @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org @biketalk.bsky.social
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Properly pedestrianize this fucking street already.
bbc.co.uk
Car hits woman before ploughing into central Birmingham building
Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident to get in touch.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
99%? My EV is a Peugeot and it also does everything automatically when I turn the car off. To move it must be on & drive engaged. I'm of the opinion she's talking rot & cynically trying to use incompetence as a defence. She must have pressed the accelerator and the car's shot forward quickly.
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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still, at least she will be able to get back in the Panzer to drive the kid to school after he finishes at nursery. This kind of vehicle should have a special driving test and licence, like an HGV or PCV. And she should be banned forever from getting one.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 29/09/2026
🔴 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 More than 100 Israeli settlers stormed a village in the occupied #WestBank early on Tuesday, setting fire to Palestinian properties and wounding three members of Israel's security forces.
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great British Energy - according to Octopus boss, we need electricity supply to service "new sources of consumption" 🤔 there you have it - Burnham is proposing spending taxpayer cash to facilitate foreign owned #DataCentres (AKA sources of consumption)
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
quite. Would be better IMO to have a debate about what kind of care system we want, and then about how we finance it, rather than vice versa..
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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'After the incident with Usman, Robb told Muse to stop giving his address. To test the bot, he asked a few friends to see if Muse would still share it. “And it literally gave my address out to five people,” he said' Meta thing acts like Meta 🤷 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Miliband: "I want to say, to the millions of people in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you" So why are you still arresting them?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 28/09/2026
Dump truck driver hits and kills cyclist on 34th Street in Midtown, NYPD says gothamist.com/news/cyclist...
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Cyclist killed by dump truck driver on 34th Street in Midtown
It's the latest in a string of hit-and-run deaths in the city in recent months.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ahhh if this turns out to be about red diesel, one of my remaining rural obsessions, I will be so happy
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wakefield was a fraud who engaged in deliberate data falsification. Investigations revealed that he had altered patient medical histories, fabricated data, and reported false onset times. He lost his license to practice medicine in the UK in 2010. www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026
“Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson The former Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now” #NoToPalantir broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The policy of mafia states like the US is to destroy the institutions that prosecute their crimes. An example of this is the imposition of sanctions on the ICC. What is less well known is that the US barred former EU Commissioner Breton because he wanted to tackle the American tech mafia.
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US bars former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've always favoured abolition of the House of Lords. But appointing establishment worthies unelected lawmakers for life and then allowing corporations bidding for huge public contracts to hire them on telephone number salaries is obviously as bent as a nine-bob note.
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Eric Einsame @cyclingennui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mamdani arrived at exactly the right time:
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The EU committing €710 million at UNGA81 for crisis relief, Ukraine winter support, and displaced people in Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrates vital global leadership. International solidarity is crucial for peace. Why isolate ourselves from collective action? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE
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President von der Leyen announces €710 million to support displaced people in Africa and global crisis relief
EU announces almost €710M to support displaced communities in Africa, strengthen global health and emergency aid to crisis-affected populations.
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Boudicca of Suburbia @boudicca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He moved country because he doesn’t like LTNs? And they say young people snowflakes 🙄
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why should this list remain private?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026
It sounds like Tesla lawyers tried to intimidate or buy off witnesses in the big class action case about anti-Black racism at the Fremont factory. electrek.co/2026/09/23/t...
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Tesla’s 'hardcore lawyers' went a little too hardcore
On day one of Tesla's racism trial, a witness said a Tesla lawyer misled him, and Tesla's counsel called the N-word a 'term of endearment.'
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Quai2Saône @qsaone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Belle mobilisation en faveur des pistes cyclables à Turin 🇮🇹. Cela fait suite à la mort d'un petit garçon de sept ans tué par un automobiliste alors qu'il se rendait à l'école à vélo avec son papa. 😭
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Torino, bimbo morto investito mentre era in bici: "Non deve mai più capitare"
YouTube video by QuotidianoNazionale
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Abolish The Home Office. (c) @dankaszeta.bsky.social
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Tufnell Park Cycles @tpc2s.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
16 year old Melissa Premaratne was killed while walking to school in Highgate. A driver hit her with his taxi. She was a kind, warm & beautiful spirit & her life full of promise & hope. Please sign this petition to demand action & prevent future tragedies. www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
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ePetition - Make North Road (N6) Safe for Children: Urgent Road Safety Measures Outside Our Schools | Haringey Council
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the most effective tools at countering the creep of invasive surveillance tech in an era of oligarchs and little government regulation has been shame (cc @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social). “Pervert glasses” is a great example. Gotta do the same for this stupid amulet.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE 41 DEGREES Never happened anything like this Almost 41C again in SPAIN today Almost 30C in Germany And it will get much worse. Thousands of records will fall next days in Spain,France,Benelux,Germany,Switzerlands,Scandinavia,Baltics etc..
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Only 10% of the richest 0.01% of the population paid close to the top 47% (45% income tax marginal rate + 2% NIC) rate on earnings. A quarter of that group paid an effective average tax rate of 20% or less. The tax system appears to be progressive for some but is frequently not so at the very top
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Only one in ten top UK earners pay close to top tax rate, says CenTax
CenTax says equalising capital gains tax with income tax could raise £19.7bn by 2030, as HMRC data shows few top earners pay the 47 per cent top rate.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
“Delegates at the Labour party conference in Liverpool are trying to pressure the government into cancelling its £330m NHS contract with the US tech giant Palantir.” #NoToPalantir news.sky.com/story/labour...
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Labour members call on government to cancel Palantir's NHS contract
A conference committee will decide on Saturday whether the emergency motion will be debated and voted on.
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