Reposted by Peter ClinchHarry @harry-is-human.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The UK governments habit of insisting on science having an economic return provable upfront has, ironically, been dragging back the UK economy for decades. Its why our space industry basically doesn't exist for instance. 2145 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchAndy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 04/06/2026What motive could a crypto billionaire possibly have for funding a political party to champion light regulation of corrupt practices? Asking for a nation of cynics. 14813 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Not enough space frames in your day so far? Here's a couple of good ones, taken on my ride home from Pedal On Parliament '26 in Embra yesterday... 140 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Thought Tony Blair had drifted into irrelevance some time ago, but turns out he's still there and very determined to head deep into negative figures. FFS... 🤦♂️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to TrumpIn highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election 010 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I didn't mean to turn this into a short thread, but once I started ranting ... So here it is, on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...skywriter.bluePage by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.socialAlmost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the liv... 13481128 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026media.tenor.coma man in a suit is dancing on a stage while holding a microphone .Alt: David Byrne of Talking Heads dancing as only David Byrne dances wearing his Big Suit in the concert film Stop Making Sense. 000 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I'll be getting my bus pass this year, so I'm old enough to remember when Labour (Scottish and down in Englandshire where I come from) were actually worth voting for other than tactically to keep the Scum out, if you can imagine such a thing! 020 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The fallacies of breaking traffic law not being a "real crime" part 3285... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhy do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally KydTwo court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standards, says law professor Sally Kyd 084 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026With Wales showing a lead here, hopefully Scotland can follow... 020 0
Reposted by Peter Clinchkim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026Say no to Palantir in the NHS notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema… NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza. 018 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Back in the day I signed Charter 88, looking for a fair voting system (among other things like a written constitution). Decades later we still need one... I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQactionstorm.org 010 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I did "the school run" by car for 5 weeks when a move meant it was necessary before a new school was sorted out. And aside from the reasons given here, not doing it by car means... *not doing it by car*! By car is awful. Why would anyone do that to themselves if they had a realistic choice? 000 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/12/2025“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”momentummag.comNew Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling RevolutionCycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few. 7490175 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 29/11/2025First bike I bought myself, an Edinburgh Bike Co-op Country tourer; Ultimately replaced by an HP Velotechnik Streetmachine GT recumbent tourer; A Brompton L3 folder; A Burrows 8 Freight cargo bike; A Thorn Me'n'U2 kiddyback triplet. 1st donated to a recycler, 5th sold on, others still used by me. 030 0
Reposted by Peter Clinch🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli sez keep on, keepin' on. 🐈⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content. 319106687929 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025As a member of CUK I agree this is a Must Do Better and I've just sent in a Moan. If the legal technicalities of a campaign name have become problematical then change the name until the law ceases to be an ass, retain the inclusivity and don't further erode the dignity of trans people. 000 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/11/20251. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵 291072514 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchMike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Any time anyone starts talking about taking us out of the ECHR, ask them two questions: 1. Which of these rights don't you believe in? 2. What exactly would you replace it with. And don't take any vague promises like Brexit benefits. 34125 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏 3013011051 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchDr Robert Davis @chairrdrf.bsky.social · 14/08/2025In which Larry Elliott is absolutely right. theguardian.com/commentisfre... . In addition, IMO it's morally right to charge drivers a lot more because of the adverse effects of current levels of driving - not just potholes and congestion. We have been saying this for some time... 1./theguardian.comA policy that benefited the richest and cost the UK £100bn: it's long past time to end the fuel duty freeze | Larry ElliottSuccessive chancellors have steered clear of increasing taxes for motorists for 15 years, but this should be a no-brainer for cash-strapped Rachel Reeves, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott 3114 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/07/2025“When people who oppose all forms of violence, who are trying to stop war and terrorism, are arrested on terrorism charges, nothing makes sense any more” - spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.socialtheguardian.comI went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George MonbiotAround the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ... 9556156 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchTilted Owl @tiltowl.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Generally, the Guardian's been a good resource, but their actions re: the Observer were trash. Reposting this to celebrate independent media and reporting rising from the ashes of those actions. 339369 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/07/20252000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost? 1373486842 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchJon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Three years ago, I wrote this article on how radically reimagining our cities can drastically reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of heatwaves. With yet another ‘once in a lifetime’ heatwave impacting Europe, it is as relevant as ever. www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...bigissue.com40C heatwaves are now reality. It's time to transform our citiesWhat can we do to reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme heatwaves? Quite a lot actually, writes Jon Burke 15517 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Aside from needing alternatives to driving, induced demand tells us this scheme will actually make life worse for drivers in time, as well as baking in our car dependency and debilitating other options. We've been trying an everyone drives everywhere policy for decades and it carries on not working. 1238 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchSteven King @biggreybox.net · 01/06/2025McDonald's says their new restaurant will be accessible to cyclists. What it will actually do is create a dangerous junction crossing Dundee's only serious cyclepath. It should not be given permission. @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social @dundeecycling.co.uk 032 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Wot Skunk Cabbage Sez... Bikes are a highly efficient way to get about. One can easily go faster than most runners for less effort than walking, while carrying quite a lot of stuff. The modern urban bike is in significant part a *labour saving device* and that's without e-assist. 030 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025@livingstreets.bsky.social and @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social have released www.bikeability.org.uk/wp-content/u... which scores well on content but has a 🤦♂️cover image that suggests a crash helmet is a precursor to road safety. They really ought to have done better with their picture selection 🙁bikeability.org.uk 100 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025@peterwalker99.bsky.social typically on-point here, and the comments are, predictably, full of people sweeping anyone on a bike, entirely oblivious to what was actually written, into a generic "cyclist and therefore bampot" category 🙄 110 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comPhasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM 1021943875 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchNed Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I have written a thing about Jeremy Vine and cycling campaigning. (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/nedboult... 199013 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Once you know it starts "Ah, it's cycle helmet day again" you can probably the guess the rest without a translator... (your regular reminder that the main effect cycle helmets have on cycle safety is taking useful bandwidth away from stuff that would actually make a significant difference to it) 000 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/02/2025NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...broligarchy.substack.comUS Coup Gains SpeedEurope shakes as a new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now 501996821 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025“How is the government failing to understand that you can’t implement an ambitious programme of change without robust government bodies? You can’t simultaneously appease corporate lobbyists, the Daily Mail, Times & Telegraph & deliver effective & beneficial policy?” 👏👏 👏@georgemonbiot.bsky.socialtheguardian.comIt’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George MonbiotIf Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 221850 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025My ride is here. All aboard the Bennie Railplane! 030 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Absolutely this! (Reading while watching the cars queuing for the "free" parking at Ninewells... 🤦♂️) 010 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchLaura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 05/02/2025By me: Cycle paths are pointless if women don't feel safe using them at night. If you want to give people the choice to cycle, there need to be good options for everyone (note: I had the headline amended as research shows almost a quarter of routes are deemed socially unsafe after dark, not half)bikeradar.comHalf of London's cycleways are unsafe after dark – and this curtails women's freedomMore than a quarter of Transport for London cycleways are deemed socially unsafe after dark 1216748 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery 020 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025And we have another "you can't go up a hill without waterproof boots" nonsense review in the @theguardian.com 🙄 I can only assume that the folk they get to write these would have their minds utterly vaporised if they saw what folk get up to in mountain marathons. www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...theguardian.comThe best women’s walking boots to hit the trails in style and comfort, tested by our expert hikerFrom waterproof versions to leather designs, we put women’s walking boots to the test to find the best for every adventure 000 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025One of these where protestations of the Sky Falling In if we do it not seeming to apply in the numerous places where this is normal practice. Not a "total game changer" in itself, but one of many things that all help towards a better society. 010 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchGary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Can't we arrest these people and send them to prison, the way we do with other folk who obstruct roads? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comGritters stopped by 200 cars double parked on Peak District road, says councilDerbyshire council says crews blocked from gritting roads on Saturday due to double parking at walking spots near Edale 4365 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I think he means "so we can ignore people's human rights"... Nasty Playbook 101, get people to remove their own human rights by encouraging them to remove those of outgroups with a bit of targeted dehumanising. I'll stick with human rights for humans in general: clue in the name! 000 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchLaura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025This is happening in TWO WEEKS! Please come and join me at this south London cycling institution, Herne Hill Velodrome. I'll be chatting with the woman, the legend, Jenni Gwiazdowski about my book, carrying a shrub on a bike across Cornwall and who knows what else @hernehillvelodrome.bsky.social 0106 0
Reposted by Peter ClinchPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 30/12/2024NEW: I interviewed Chris Boardman about his many careers, including his current role at Active Travel England. He told me that fact-free anti-cycling media stories are harming the UK's health, as they put off politicians from making brave but necessary decisions. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...theguardian.comAnti-cycling stories are bad for the UK’s health, says Chris BoardmanRacing champion turned active travel advocate criticises parts of the media for safety scaremongering 926798 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024And this is a lot of why the "Vision" bit of ScotGov transport/health policy recognises more active travel and less private motoring is good. If only the "Actually Doing Stuff" bit of ScotGov got a Round Tuit to actually make solid progress on the ground... 000 0
Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024In Being Active Is Good For You News, study tells us what we pretty much already knew (but with interesting extra evidence and perspectives) part 8372... www.theguardian.com/science/2024...theguardian.comExercising for 30 minutes improves memory, study suggestsResearch shows walk or cycle improves cognitive performance for day ahead – and day after 000 0