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angeladevas.bsky.social
@angeladevas.bsky.social
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Free speech does not entail a right to spread dangerous falsehoods with impunity.

Britain urgently needs a media regulator that is willing & able to enforce its accuracy rules - and do the job it's been tasked with by Parliament /3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
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A new study models 20mph/30kph effects on cycling and traffic. A useful nuance is "negligible impact on journey times...due to lowered speed limits largely being applied on local streets instead of larger, ‘busier’ roads designed to maximise the flow of traffic"

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Reducing speed limits to 20mph protects cyclists and doesn’t delay traffic, new research finds
Researchers in Australia modelled traffic stress levels according to varying speed limits… and the results are no surprise
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Brilliant evening and illuminated by Lea Ypi's exegesis of Luxemburg's ideas. On another note it's difficult for those of us in the provinces to make these screenings. How about a deal with a local hotel? @ppfideas.bsky.social @leaypi.bsky.social
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"That's the difference a Green councillor can make."

Co-Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social speaks to Aaron Bastani of Novara Media.
@playingout.bsky.social children were never asked if they would like to give up their natural playgrounds - the streets - and be cooped up indoors or cooped up in cars
I fervently believe that the fact that children and elders lead lives of isolation in cities and towns (absent daily efforts of their caregivers to ferry them around) should make plain what a terrible job we've done with building cities over the last 70 years.
New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy."
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Listening to Andy Burnham on BBC Radio Manchester and the calls are mainly about: transport. Bolton caller: where’s the tram we were promised (which they were). Doesn’t personally care about the “prime minister debate”, wants to know why they spend 4 hrs commuting when they live 12 miles away
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“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

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UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
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Bus walk Chelwood Gate The Red Lion to Horsted Keynes. Metro bus 270 both ways. Walk through Ashdown Forest in the high weald and then along a valley with a string of hammer ponds to Horsted Keynes. Fabulous in the sunshine and all free on a bus pass
Rue Delambre Paris: pavements widened, parked cars removed and trees planted @bricycles.org.uk @bhlabour.bsky.social
Avant / Après la métamorphose de la Rue Delambre dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris: des trottoirs élargis et des arbres à la place de places de stationnement automobile.
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Happy World Car Free Day to all who observe. Celebrate by preordering your copy of “Life After Cars” wherever books are sold.

www.lifeaftercars.com
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Today we marched through London with @makethempay.bsky.social and over 100 other organisations to demand a wealth tax and to fairly tax polluters 📢
#MakeRichPollutersPay #ClimateJustice
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👀👀 Local Republic activists have staged a stunt on Dartmoor! William takes millions from Dartmoor and charges HMP Dartmoor £1.5 million in rent each year. It's time to #DitchTheDuchies. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
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BREAKING: 🎶 Flash mob takes over King’s Cross Station in a protest against climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.

Rosebank’s future is undecided. But together, we can stop it.

@climatechoirs.bsky.social have used their voices - will you use yours? 📣

Join us 👉 bit.ly/rosebankchoir
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Peter Kyle the Labour government should be massively distancing itself from far right. Stand up for refugees! This is disturbing coming from my MP
What taf Peter Kyle?!!!
This is my MP saying this utter cowardly BS which is not surprising but it IS deeply disturbing.
Blind & deaf as well as endowed with the skin of an Indian rhinoceros.
Every decent politician should be ‘disturbed’ by Tommy Robinson’s fascist march in London and Musk’s calls for violence on our streets.
Every decent politician should stop claiming this horror is an expression of ‘free speech’.
It’s vicious, racist incitement.
DO something about it.
Immigrants are just all of us who once were. People have always moved. @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Whoa! A politician saying humans should be treated with humanity. This is refreshing!
No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain.

The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.

That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
Just two greengages left from a paper bag full yesterday. Bought from Jasmine's, local greengrocer, in Seven Dials. Late summer bounty
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More detail and all the links can be found in this week’s Substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/monkdebunks/p/benefits-taxes-and-misleading-headlines

Free to read and subscribe👍🏼

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Cycle ride with Brighton and Hove Clarion Cycling Club. Leisurely with tea stop at Woodmancote pub with delicious Guiness and ginger cake to enable final surge to Southbourne station. Started at Barham. Perfect for oldies and greedies as we also had lunch and coffee stops. @bricicles.bsky.social
Kill a child and you don't go to prison? @actionvz.bsky.social but you know, hey, one more unfortunate statistic
fuck this shit. A child. Expected to watch out for drivers who can't follow the rules. Fuck this shit. The people who make these rules need locking up alongside the people who can't apply appropriate diligence to their jobs.

I'd get sacked on the spot if I was this bad at my job.
"Thomas himself had “failed to carry out sufficient observations” before crossing""

Always good to attribute some of the responsibility onto the poor dead child, rather than putting it all on the shoulders of the phone fiddling, hgv driving adult child killer.

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