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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 14h
If you want to help Wheels for Wellbeing with their incredible work, a small donation would make a big difference: cafdonate.cafonline.org/11192#!/Dona...
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
37 members who think they know better than physics and biomechanics. 37 members who think dead and injured constituents are a fair price to pay for nominally driving a bit faster.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh and give me optimism any day of the week over hate and the misery agenda that defines Reform/Restore/Badenochism
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Quite a lot to unpack here! haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/wandsworth-i...
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Wandsworth Town Centre bus and walking improvements
Find out about TfL’s consultation on proposals about Wandsworth Town Centre Bus & Walking Improvements
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Very sad to see Gabriel's Wharf close down www.coinstreet.org/gabriels-wha...
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Gabriel’s Wharf; an exciting new chapter
Gabriel’s Wharf is entering a new chapter with a refreshed meanwhile use.
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 28/09/2026
In two minds on this treatment. Certainly makes zebra crossing more distinctive when otherwise hard to distinguish from background. But already kicked up a lot - only been in a day (hopefully just settling in). Also, beacons not working - crossing been there since July. Alt text has location.
Newly laid red treatment of road in front of zebra crossing on Burntwood Lane outside Garratt Green. Belisha beacons not working.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says
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Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says
Alan Milburn said 16- to 24-year-olds with most complex needs should not have to keep proving they cannot work Young people whose complex disabilities mean they have little prospect of getting a paid job should get fast-track access to disability benefits, an official review of youth employment will say. The review, by the former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn, will say 16- to 24-year-olds with the most severe lifelong needs should be guaranteed swift and unconditional benefit support rather than having to prove they cannot work. Continue reading...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A #WarOnWalking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on any transportation choice other than driving. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. Cars still get most of the space, rights, budget, prioritization, etc. And any effort to add more choice is immediately attacked.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Intervals.icu @intervals.icu · 23/09/2026
Intervals.icu now has an improved mobile experience, weather forecasts on any route and more, #cycling #running forum.intervals.icu/t/intervals-...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia
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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While long-term funding is key to the National Cycle Network's success, £104m over four years is £26m a year... the equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction. CWIS3, the government's four-year strategy mentioned '7,000 additional or improved [NCN] miles by 2030'...so £14,857 per mile?
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Learning about pensions is a bit like going to the gym: you know you should do it, you feel guilty for not doing it, but you're just not sure where to begin. Here are two big facts about the UK system that everyone needs to know. torstenbell.substack.com/p/two-things...
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Two Things Everyone Should Know About Pensions
Learning about pensions is a bit like going to the gym: you know you should do it but you're just not sure where to begin. Here are two facts everyone should know.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 21/09/2026
@nicolesykes.bsky.social some of your friends in Streatham Cemetery (Tooting)
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Summer of terrifying drought and wildfire, bus drivers sweltering in shocking temperatures, everyone losing sleep unable to get cool at night and *this* is the policy they come up with? Just makes things worse and does nothing to address inequality or enable people to walk, cycle or catch a bus. 🤷‍♀️
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking
Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth
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UK Metric Association @ukma.org.uk · 20/09/2026
We are proud to announce that UKMA patron, Professor Jim Al-Khalili will be presenting this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures -  on the awe-inspiring physics of time. @jimalkhalili.bsky.social @rigb.org #XmasLectures metricviews.uk/2026/09/20/u...
Professor Jim Al-Khalili will tackle the awe-inspiring science of time in the 2026 CHRISTMAS LECTURES® from the Royal Institution
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a good point.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lib Dem pledge to cut fuel duty by 10p is depressingly bad policy: poorly targeted, expensive (£5bn), and it weakens incentives to switch to EVs and reduce usage.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't like anyone breaking road law or behaving dangerously towards other road users, be they on foot, bike, motorcycle (regardless of energy source) or motor vehicle. They are all individuals though, and if you're painting cyclists as the major risk then you're not serious about road danger
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Bonkers: "A Klingon warrior does not squeeze oats and call it milk" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NHe...
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PART II: Star Trek but it’s an Unhinged Foreign Film (Bad Subtitles)
YouTube video by Picard Looking
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Two con artists in one—a marriage made in Hell.
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 14/09/2026
£72m gets you 25 top of the range Shannon-class lifeboats rnli.org/footer/faqs/...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Can't park there(?) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Driver wedges Kia SUV on Wales Coast Path at Mumbles
It was jammed between a concrete fence post and a bench, and had been abandoned by the driver.
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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Who you gonna call? lauralaker.substack.com/p/ghost-plat...
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Ghost Plate Busters*
Some welcome action on a massive problem on our roads
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That Road Safety Foundation graphic is either horrific AI slop or an utter work of genius on the difficulty some folks have in navigating our streets.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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cpeterson-artist.bsky.social @cpeterson-artist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There is NOTHING 'christian' about racist hate and violence. NOTHING.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 08/09/2026
Star Trek first aired #OnThisDay 1966! 🖖 To celebrate, we’ve launched a brand new humanist science fiction tour that charts the relationship between humanist thinking and science. Take the tour now. heritage.humanists.uk/exhibition/s...
'It isn't all over. Everything has not been invented. The human adventure is just beginning. Gene Roddenberry Star Trek Creator and humanist.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/09/2026
Three years on from the ULEZ expansion, the evidence is clear: cleaner air, healthier children, fewer lives cut short.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Hopefully will also tackle the increasing number who have their plate "temporarily" on their dash BBC News - New police team to crack down on illegal number plates across England www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New police team to crackdown on illegal number plates across England
It will bring together forces across England to target organised crime groups and drivers who dodge fines.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I will always swing back to that New Yorker cartoon.
"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 30/08/2026
"'Click, don't pick' warning as fungi posts mushroom" - hard to parse title (on page itself) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Epping Forest internet fungi foragers urged to 'click, not pick'
Amid fears social media is hitting Epping Forest's ecosystem, foragers are urged not to pick fungi.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's obviously false to claim that he was suspended solely for criticism of Arday's appointment, as some people purport to believe
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I would argue calling for a (very likely violent) racial revolution would be a reasonable red line even if advocating for that is technically legal. I don’t see how an org could retain someone like that and not suffer serious damage to their mission.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's deeply frustrating that the mainstream debate centres on fresh drilling in the North Sea when Labour is in a position to properly hurt Reform and the Tories on climate change.
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 17/08/2026
So Reform wants the long term unemployed to sweep the streets, thus putting existing employed street sweepers out of work and condemning them to the long term unemployed. I don't think they have thought this through, you know.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Here's something England's National Highways could learn about.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In a more rational world we'd be having a conversation about motor manufacturers paying reparations for all the avoidable harm they've created, not delaying the marginal de-grotification of their business model because they'd find it inconvenient
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David Knight @dwknight.co.uk · 14/08/2026
There is an almost certain risk of extreme temperatures internationally. Governments should not undertake any activity that could make it worse, including drilling for oil or reducing EV quotas. Follow scientists and report climate idiocy immediately by calling 999.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 14/08/2026
The coolest technology in a heatwave? Trees. Every tree planted today helps create a cooler, greener and healthier London tomorrow. We've already planted more than 640,000 trees since 2016, and we're continuing to grow and protect our urban forest to help London adapt to hotter summers.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Haywain 2026
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