Mark Strong
@ibikebrighton.bsky.social
#ActiveTravel professional @transport-initiatives.com
Data ✅ stories 🙂
Transport & Public Realm rep www.communityworks.org.uk
Co-optee @brighton-hove.gov.uk Place Overview & Scrutiny Cttee
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Son of ✡️ #refugee
Born #Scouser #YNWA now #Brighton
Data ✅ stories 🙂
Transport & Public Realm rep www.communityworks.org.uk
Co-optee @brighton-hove.gov.uk Place Overview & Scrutiny Cttee
Travel by🚶🚲🚍🚄🚗
Son of ✡️ #refugee
Born #Scouser #YNWA now #Brighton
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Mark Strong
@ibikebrighton.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I've just created a #StarterPack with #Brighton & #Hove people & organisations I've found on #BlueSky. I'm not claiming this is comprehensive though! #BrightonSky go.bsky.app/PE2SxZ3
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#Brighton library's 25-year contact still has £15million outstanding for the final four years #LDreporter
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
Taxpayers still have more than £15 million to shell out for library
Taxpayers still have more than £15 million to pay off of the contract to build and run the Jubilee Library, in Brighton.
www.theargus.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#Brighton library's 25-year contact still has £15million outstanding for the final four years #LDreporter
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
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Watch live at 4:30 today as we co-host an event with @appgcw.bsky.social on the impact of pavement parking 5 years on from the Govt consultation 🚴🚶
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Watch live at 4:30 today as we co-host an event with @appgcw.bsky.social on the impact of pavement parking 5 years on from the Govt consultation 🚴🚶
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
In #Liverpool to say #Kaddish on my mum's Yahrzeit. Now stuck. There are worse places to be I suppose...
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In #Liverpool to say #Kaddish on my mum's Yahrzeit. Now stuck. There are worse places to be I suppose...
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"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
Great to welcome my former MP @russell-moyle.co.uk to @greenparty.org.uk 💚. He was a staunch local voice for #Kemptown #Brighton & has kept firm to his principles in the face of unjust attacks.
Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Great to welcome my former MP @russell-moyle.co.uk to @greenparty.org.uk 💚. He was a staunch local voice for #Kemptown #Brighton & has kept firm to his principles in the face of unjust attacks.
An important step forward for a great socialist folk singer #DickGaughan
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
An important step forward for a great socialist folk singer #DickGaughan
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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There were some difficulties with reading this when it was first posted, it should be easier now:
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
“Dear Rachel Reeves…”: An open letter to the Chancellor on why she should increase the price of driving in her Budget 2025.
Dear Chancellor, Please consider the increases in the financial costs of driving described below in your Autumn Budget 2025 for the following reasons: Raising significant much-needed revenue for th…
rdrf.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
There were some difficulties with reading this when it was first posted, it should be easier now:
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
Going to be a bit chilly first thing tomorrow for #QueensPark & St Lukes Community #Speedwatch ❄️ Still, it's important to be there helping to keep our community safe(r) from #RoadDanger as part of @brakecharity.bsky.social #RoadSafetyWeek www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-...!
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Going to be a bit chilly first thing tomorrow for #QueensPark & St Lukes Community #Speedwatch ❄️ Still, it's important to be there helping to keep our community safe(r) from #RoadDanger as part of @brakecharity.bsky.social #RoadSafetyWeek www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-...!
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Matters from @activetravelcaf.bsky.social, the slides are now available online as a PDF here (near the top):
cityinfinity.co.uk/community/
cityinfinity.co.uk/community/
Community
Designing for sustainable mobility. We believe in giving something back to society. After all, society has helped to train engineers and it keeps us all in a job! If you represent a walking or cycl…
cityinfinity.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Matters from @activetravelcaf.bsky.social, the slides are now available online as a PDF here (near the top):
cityinfinity.co.uk/community/
cityinfinity.co.uk/community/
2 years since we said goodbye to mum 😢 Here she is, well dressed as always 🙂 Z'L Sonia Strong - may her memory be for a blessing
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
2 years since we said goodbye to mum 😢 Here she is, well dressed as always 🙂 Z'L Sonia Strong - may her memory be for a blessing
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People warn drivers are flouting parking rules around the busy shopping street
Parking 'nightmare' on street as people 'fear for their life'
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
People warn drivers are flouting parking rules around the busy shopping street
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Look away now 🫣
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Look away now 🫣
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
Happy #TransportPlanningDay to all those that travel! Without transport planning there'd be no plans for safe, affordable & low carbon movement for people & products. So whether you move by🚶🧑🦽🚲🛵🚇🚉🚆🚄 or even 🚗, say thanks to a transport planner today 🙂 #TPDay2025 #TransportPlanningSociety
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy #TransportPlanningDay to all those that travel! Without transport planning there'd be no plans for safe, affordable & low carbon movement for people & products. So whether you move by🚶🧑🦽🚲🛵🚇🚉🚆🚄 or even 🚗, say thanks to a transport planner today 🙂 #TPDay2025 #TransportPlanningSociety
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Inspiring to hear #WhatIf life story from @baronesslolayoung.bsky.social at #Brighton Chamber #BrightonSummit. Great too to hear her talk passionately about science fiction & esp #StarTrek 🖖
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Inspiring to hear #WhatIf life story from @baronesslolayoung.bsky.social at #Brighton Chamber #BrightonSummit. Great too to hear her talk passionately about science fiction & esp #StarTrek 🖖
Fascinating morning so far at #Brighton Chamber of Commerce #BrightonSummit. But now pivoting from business to hearing about migrant experiences & relating it to my own history of being the son & grandson of migrants & refugees
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fascinating morning so far at #Brighton Chamber of Commerce #BrightonSummit. But now pivoting from business to hearing about migrant experiences & relating it to my own history of being the son & grandson of migrants & refugees
Hope no werewolves were scared by #Brighton fireworks tonight 🙂 #BeaverMoon
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hope no werewolves were scared by #Brighton fireworks tonight 🙂 #BeaverMoon
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We discuss our latest research into integrated transport systems in big cities on this week's episode of City Minutes🎙️
Listen now 👇
buff.ly/igJ6ARV
Listen now 👇
buff.ly/igJ6ARV
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We discuss our latest research into integrated transport systems in big cities on this week's episode of City Minutes🎙️
Listen now 👇
buff.ly/igJ6ARV
Listen now 👇
buff.ly/igJ6ARV
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Brighton & Hove Green Party statement on Reform UK Brighton and Hove's antisemitic Facebook post:
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Brighton & Hove Green Party statement on Reform UK Brighton and Hove's antisemitic Facebook post:
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Yesterday, thousands of people filled the streets of Tel Aviv for the commemoration of Yizhak Rabin’s assassination, and we joined in, demanding that this ceasefire becoming a turning point and not a pause before the next round of violence and annihilation. (1/3)
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yesterday, thousands of people filled the streets of Tel Aviv for the commemoration of Yizhak Rabin’s assassination, and we joined in, demanding that this ceasefire becoming a turning point and not a pause before the next round of violence and annihilation. (1/3)
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Such brave, enlightening and necessary conversations going on in this podcast from Standing Together between Sally and Jess, Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel. This is peace work. @standing-together.bsky.social
pca.st/episode/3482...
pca.st/episode/3482...
Trailer
pca.st
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Such brave, enlightening and necessary conversations going on in this podcast from Standing Together between Sally and Jess, Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel. This is peace work. @standing-together.bsky.social
pca.st/episode/3482...
pca.st/episode/3482...
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Another runway means higher emissions, more flights, and little economic benefit.
Instead of doubling down on airport expansion, the UK should focus on sustainable transport and policies that genuinely grow the economy without destroying the climate.
Instead of doubling down on airport expansion, the UK should focus on sustainable transport and policies that genuinely grow the economy without destroying the climate.
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Another runway means higher emissions, more flights, and little economic benefit.
Instead of doubling down on airport expansion, the UK should focus on sustainable transport and policies that genuinely grow the economy without destroying the climate.
Instead of doubling down on airport expansion, the UK should focus on sustainable transport and policies that genuinely grow the economy without destroying the climate.
Great to join loads of local people young & older at (re) opening of #Brighton Youth Centre #BYC www.brightonyouthcentre.org.uk
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Great to join loads of local people young & older at (re) opening of #Brighton Youth Centre #BYC www.brightonyouthcentre.org.uk