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Paul James
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Love riding my bike me, and Lime bikes when it's not with me.

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Mahmood is wrong, it's not "illegal" immigration tearing the UK apart, it's arseholes like Yaxley Lennon and Farage doing that.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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On today's World Day of Remembrance for Road Victims it is worth noting that in the two years since Wales implemented a national default 20mph (32km/h) there have been 25% fewer casualties on such roads with over 1,000 fewer people killed or injured. youtu.be/efr3uVKpOwY
UN World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims - Theme: Remember. Support. Act. - English
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
And shhh, don't tell the @dailymail.co.uk that most streets are so narrow because they have loads of cars parked both sides...
Hi @waroncars.bsky.social

Have you got a spinoff division called war on motorists?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hi @waroncars.bsky.social

Have you got a spinoff division called war on motorists?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Lady, this is your 5th driving offence (4th speeding) in 8 years.

If losing the privilege of driving would cause you exceptional hardship, then perhaps you should have been less careless with that privilege.

www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/kirs...
Kirsty Gallacher says judge has 'no empathy' after being banned from driving
The presenter asked the court to spare her from a driving ban, saying it would prevent her from taking care of her teenage sons
www.standard.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The local cycling WhatsApp has been alight today with warnings about the slippery leaves in the chiswick cycle lane - & puzzled speculation over what idiots could have made weird big piles of leaves in the lane, making it even more dangerous.
Answer: NextDoor motonormative vigilante street-sweepers
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I guess writing emails whilst having an angry wank can result in this.
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Worth remembering that freezing fuel duty, which could well happen again, costs about 30x more than the cycle to work scheme per year.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
...unlike my sourdough starter which died like most of my plants do...
you can tell this is a site for over 30s because my throwaway post about old sourdough yeast is STILL GOING. is this irony. the yeast that will not die
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
What a cunt.
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"

Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Could I love the NHS more.

@nhsmillion.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.

No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.

The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Beautiful.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The government must remove its accounts from X.
It’s colluding with a threat to national security.
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm home.

LET THE EATING BEGIN!
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's a congestion charge, not a pollution charge...
In our Oxford new congestion charge the EVs pay. And the reason for that, and hear me out here, is because they CAUSE CONGESTION. They don’t pay to go in the clean air zone cos they don’t produce tailpipe emissions. 🤷‍♀️
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So many people think congestion charging is about reducing pollution, it's not, that's just a side effect, it's to reduce congestion, which cost us all a fortune in delays etc...
Well Edmund "failed Think Bike campaign" King of the AA doesn't like it so it must be a good idea.

If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Electric vehicles set to pay London Congestion Charge
Electric vehicles will no longer be exempt due to their rising numbers, Transport for London says.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM