Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)
@markonthemaps.bsky.social
🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌. In ‘transit’ from X as @markovenden.
I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!
Just raise the fuel duty up to where it was when the tories cut it. Just that!
I do wonder if labour are just chucking ideas at the wall to see what sticks, and what the reaction is.
They just seem to be fiddling at the edges and avoiding the big issues.
JUST RAISE BLOODY FUEL DUTY
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They just seem to be fiddling at the edges and avoiding the big issues.
JUST RAISE BLOODY FUEL DUTY
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Just raise the fuel duty up to where it was when the tories cut it. Just that!
Someone please tell Transport Sec @heidialexander.bsky.social / #Treasury / #RachelReeves that "growth" doesn't come magically: transport improvements are key to it. Halting this crucial project is insane. Funding #RailInvestment brings growth. Stop being so timid/this is what you were elected for!
Midland Main Line electrification to the north ‘not affordable' https://bit.ly/4hRyukG
Midland Main Line electrification to the north ‘not affordable’
Midland Main Line electrification to the north ‘not affordable' https://bit.ly/4hRyukG
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November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Someone please tell Transport Sec @heidialexander.bsky.social / #Treasury / #RachelReeves that "growth" doesn't come magically: transport improvements are key to it. Halting this crucial project is insane. Funding #RailInvestment brings growth. Stop being so timid/this is what you were elected for!
Wonderfully clever 1980s advert for UK's InterCity rail service.
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Wonderfully clever 1980s advert for UK's InterCity rail service.
Typography lovers: this discussion about the poor kerning of Trumps latest garish installation is truly joyous!
huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
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Note "The" is not kerned correctly
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November 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Typography lovers: this discussion about the poor kerning of Trumps latest garish installation is truly joyous!
Agreed. Time for #BBC to stop the newspaper reviews. Maybe a round up of news sites across the diversity of opinions? Including sites like @bylinetimes.bsky.social etc? Now that would be more impartial surely?
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Agreed. Time for #BBC to stop the newspaper reviews. Maybe a round up of news sites across the diversity of opinions? Including sites like @bylinetimes.bsky.social etc? Now that would be more impartial surely?
Dear #RachelReeves, if you're serious about generating growth, you would be well advised to watch this excellent video on why investment in #publictransport is crucial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADr...
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Is Manchester finally getting an underground network?
YouTube video by CityEd.
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Dear #RachelReeves, if you're serious about generating growth, you would be well advised to watch this excellent video on why investment in #publictransport is crucial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADr...
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Relief for our #LGBT friends in the USA but the opinionated little biggot who failed to get same-sex marriage overthrown says she and her right wing backers will keep trying to overturn the Supreme Courts 2015 ruling. What is it with these small minded extremists? www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Relief for our #LGBT friends in the USA but the opinionated little biggot who failed to get same-sex marriage overthrown says she and her right wing backers will keep trying to overturn the Supreme Courts 2015 ruling. What is it with these small minded extremists? www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
Sad to leave Honkers after meeting so many old and new friends in #transit #mapping world. What an incredible diversity of transit from light rail to heavy, metro to streetcar. Major congrats to Jug Cerovic and @richardarchambault.com for getting us together to discuss wayfinding and design.
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sad to leave Honkers after meeting so many old and new friends in #transit #mapping world. What an incredible diversity of transit from light rail to heavy, metro to streetcar. Major congrats to Jug Cerovic and @richardarchambault.com for getting us together to discuss wayfinding and design.
Nailed it @implausibleblog.bsky.social
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nailed it @implausibleblog.bsky.social
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
Greetings from the #transitmapping symposium in #hongkong. A superbly informative day looking at transit hubs and wayfinding. Bravo to organisers @richardarchambault.com and Jug Cerovic for gathering so many transit map designers from around the world. :-)
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Greetings from the #transitmapping symposium in #hongkong. A superbly informative day looking at transit hubs and wayfinding. Bravo to organisers @richardarchambault.com and Jug Cerovic for gathering so many transit map designers from around the world. :-)
Never ever allow these monster machines onto the UK roads or anywhere else.
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Nothing to see here, literally! Just 6ft me standing, you read that right, standing upright in front of a truck.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Never ever allow these monster machines onto the UK roads or anywhere else.
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Know anyone suggesting Refuk has the answers? Just get them to read this please: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Having gone through the dramas of my mum’s care home and end of life, my heart goes out to those Lancashire families worried by what Fürage foot soldiers will do.
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Know anyone suggesting Refuk has the answers? Just get them to read this please: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Having gone through the dramas of my mum’s care home and end of life, my heart goes out to those Lancashire families worried by what Fürage foot soldiers will do.
Stating to get the “Refuk” reference more and more
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
Refuk’s Dubai Dick Tice whines the minimum wage is too generous for young people. Talks “fairness” till Marr asks for numbers, then looks like a clueless idiot. Refuk hates young people, pensioners, nature, people of colour, and even disabled kids. #ukpolitics
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Stating to get the “Refuk” reference more and more
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
Wise words from @garethdennis.uk and some stunning images out of Sydney.
People can and should have nice things.
If someone writes a report saying "we build transport that is too nice and that's why projects are expensive and that's why we don't build more of them" then not only should their analysis be discarded as junk but they should be pilloried.
If someone writes a report saying "we build transport that is too nice and that's why projects are expensive and that's why we don't build more of them" then not only should their analysis be discarded as junk but they should be pilloried.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Wise words from @garethdennis.uk and some stunning images out of Sydney.
Brilliant
If only it wasn’t so utterly gut wrenching
If only it wasn’t so utterly gut wrenching
“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage - the foghorn of failure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace
Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Brilliant
If only it wasn’t so utterly gut wrenching
If only it wasn’t so utterly gut wrenching
So not quite the grassroots, spontaneous outpouring Fürage boasted about then!! No surprise there then!
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So not quite the grassroots, spontaneous outpouring Fürage boasted about then!! No surprise there then!
Could the next step for @tfgmbeenetwork.bsky.social #Manchester #transit to start building an #underground metro to supplement trams, buses and trains? This guy thinks yes. www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/does... Have been saying so for decades (my map from 2005ish) versus their suggestions.
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Could the next step for @tfgmbeenetwork.bsky.social #Manchester #transit to start building an #underground metro to supplement trams, buses and trains? This guy thinks yes. www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/does... Have been saying so for decades (my map from 2005ish) versus their suggestions.
Yep I missed that too Tim and makes interesting reading.
I'd somehow missed this fascinating study. Anyway, here it is:
Research Study: Decoding Populism - Who Are Reform UK's Voters?
Who are Reform UK's Voters? A new study has identified 5 distinct groups among those thinking about voting for Reform at the next GE. Research shows these voters share feelings of frustration but hav...
www.bestforbritain.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Yep I missed that too Tim and makes interesting reading.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We subsidise the rich while they deceive us with fake promises of table crumbs that never come.
This is alarming to say the least! So the dreadful right wing Kruger creature is now against “LGBT-supporting” parties.
If you have any friends even toying with supporting Reform…let the know what the Fuürage brigade really stand for!
If you have any friends even toying with supporting Reform…let the know what the Fuürage brigade really stand for!
Fresh Reform UK Row As MP Warns Against 'LGBT-Supporting' Political Alliances
Fresh Reform UK Row As MP Warns Against 'LGBT-Supporting' Political Alliances
Former Tory Danny Kruger appeared to compare backing LGBT rights to supporting Hamas.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is alarming to say the least! So the dreadful right wing Kruger creature is now against “LGBT-supporting” parties.
If you have any friends even toying with supporting Reform…let the know what the Fuürage brigade really stand for!
If you have any friends even toying with supporting Reform…let the know what the Fuürage brigade really stand for!
Very good
Can't believe Farage fell for the 'Hugh Jaynus' gag.
Farage: epic grifter
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Very good