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Birmingham's Road Safety Emergency @brumroadsafety.bsky.social · 1h

It’s been 440 days since Birmingham City Council declared a road safety emergency.

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Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk · 18h

So much of the conversation about cycling assumes two wheels and lycra. But it’s far broader. For many Disabled people, cycling is mobility. Trikes, recumbents, handcycles, e-bikes, tandems can be aids to freedom and independence.

Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · 3d

In this clip, Wheels4Me loan recipient, Jeremy tells us how having access to cycling has helped him reconnect with his family & get back to doing things that were important to him.

Watch the full video on YouTube & find out how you can trial a cycle yourself at wheels4me.co.uk

youtu.be/q-ZnnXd3M2s

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 10h

Kemi Badenoch wants this for the UK.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17h

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Ben (BicycleBenUK) @ben.fiets.uk · 18h

Who knew - no-one wants to get a chippy dinner home on the bike. It is absolutely essential that food is only ever transported by car. Nobody told me when I've been to my local by bike. I obviously should have joined the mass of cars jamming up the nearby roads and pavements!

Extract of a road.cc article showing local business objections to cycle provision:

"Installing cycle lanes may be 'politically correct, but the reality is that when they impact parking provisions, it has a detrimental effect on local businesses. We do not have the climate to prioritise cycle lanes over cars," Alleddandro Varesse, the boss at the Blue Lagoon chippy told the Daily Record.

Hayley and Ewen Logan, of Logan the Jewellers, added: "We have yet to hear of a single business or resident who supports this idea, keen cyclists included. Even they like to get their takeaways home while they're still hot."

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jaj991.bsky.social @jaj991.bsky.social · 10h

I've rarely managed to transport a chippy dinner home by bike, nearly every time I've tried I find somewhere on the way home that looks like a nice place to stop and eat. That's as far as dinner makes it 🤣

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 11h

If someone invented a miracle pill that reduced your risk of cancer, heart disease and strokes as well as boosting mood, memory, and lifespan it would be the most popular drug ever. Except we already have it and it's called exercise, and most people can't be arsed doing it.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 15h

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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riksredguard.bsky.social @riksredguard.bsky.social · 15h

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Badly Parked Oxford @badlyparkedox.bsky.social · 1d

#banpavementparking across the whole of the UK. Not just Scotland and London.

Charity calls for pavement parking to be banned across UK - BBC News share.google/04I2TSUi5loJ...

@guidedogsuk.bsky.social

Charity calls for pavement parking to be banned across UK

The charity Guide Dogs UK is calling for the banning of pavement parking.

share.google

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jaj991.bsky.social @jaj991.bsky.social · 1d

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social I saw this and thought of you. Bollard with elephant on top, from Coventry.

Same elephant, same bollard just a little further away

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

Important findings in this @ippr.org report by @beccam-c.bsky.social & @msingerhobbs.bsky.social on the inequalities entrenched by #UKCarCulture.

Cycling is the most affordable, efficient means of urban mobility. But planners and politicians have removed that option for a huge number of people....

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 2d

The story of the murder of convicted paedophile Ian Watkins made me realise that the casual throwing around of "nonce" as an insult by certain people (especially right wing) isn't really about children, but of making the person on the receiving end a target of acceptable violence.

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johnc-bha.bsky.social @johnc-bha.bsky.social · 3d

I spent some time (badly) explaining this to a colleague.
Their OMG reaction was the same as mine - yet it's so obvious.

youtube.com/shorts/MOpgV...

Bet all you speed demons didn't know this 🏎🚨 #rorysutherland #behaviouralscience #trending

YouTube video by Rory Sutherland

youtube.com

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jaj991.bsky.social @jaj991.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously it would help if people could remember they'll need their ticket when they reach the turnstiles but so many don't

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jaj991.bsky.social @jaj991.bsky.social · 3d

Train tickets in a app. Arrive at station, start app, go to list of tickets, select ticket, select outbound or return, select view ticket. Get off train, repeat. It doesn't take very long but when there's 20 people in front of you doing this that takes a while.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, you drive a car? Make sure you don't drive drunk or use your phone while you drive!

Saying this every time someone mentions driving would make more sense than bringing up helmets whenever someone mentions biking.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 6d

Throwing myself into researching Farage’s Russian links including Nathan Gill’s treachery, which the mainstream press is refusing to cover.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social is though.

The self proclaimed patriots are traitors. Obviously.

This is a must read 👇🏼

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · Feb 17

We also saw "pluralistic ignorance": MOST PEOPLE SUPPORTED NON-CAR TRAVEL, BUT THOUGHT THEY WERE THE MINORITY! 65-69% said they support non-car travel more than other people, which can't be true. Does the majority assume their own view is odd and so go quiet in debate, thus enabling loud minorities?

Part of a diagram showing some data from the UK. This shows, for example, how when discussing non-car travel, 65% of people thought their own level of support was higher than the public's support, and only 6% thought their own level of support for non-car travel was lower than the general public's support

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 7d

Well, it's benefits election time again...

Starting next year, after we add a child to our health insurance policy, we'll be paying $574/month for health insurance, and that's just our portion. My wife's employer covers the rest.

This post written for my non-US audience. ☝️

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8d

Tories and Reform want to quit the European Convention on Human Rights.

Since 1980, the ECHR court has heard 29 cases of immigrant deportation. UK won 16. No defeats in the last 5 yrs.

Quitting ECHR won't fix illegal immigration, will destroy our freedoms and rights.
archive.ph/eMg3O

Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift

www.thetimes.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 8d

Going 'behind enemy lines' at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normality

The Canary infiltrated a far-right march in Newcastle - and we found the faces of fascism on UK streets - hiding in plain sight in our communities
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Going 'behind enemy lines' at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normality

Going undercover at a far-right protest in Newcastle revealed the faces of fascism on UK streets - hiding in plain sight in our communities.

www.thecanary.co

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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