👀
@socialmediaisdumb.bsky.social
Reposted by 👀
PSA:
Don't stop your car just before an infamously lethal roundabout (St Clements -> the Plain) and have a passenger open the door into the bike lane when a bike (me, in this case) is approaching.
I'd like to not contribute to the road collision stats. Thanks.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
Don't stop your car just before an infamously lethal roundabout (St Clements -> the Plain) and have a passenger open the door into the bike lane when a bike (me, in this case) is approaching.
I'd like to not contribute to the road collision stats. Thanks.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
PSA:
Don't stop your car just before an infamously lethal roundabout (St Clements -> the Plain) and have a passenger open the door into the bike lane when a bike (me, in this case) is approaching.
I'd like to not contribute to the road collision stats. Thanks.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
Don't stop your car just before an infamously lethal roundabout (St Clements -> the Plain) and have a passenger open the door into the bike lane when a bike (me, in this case) is approaching.
I'd like to not contribute to the road collision stats. Thanks.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
Reposted by 👀
Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
Reposted by 👀
Reposted by 👀
Another packed Clarion Weekend. Featuring today:
📚 Waterstones opens
💩 Sewage “will still overflow”
🏥 JR gets new operating theatres
🛶 Canal locks unearthed
🎄 Christmas markets
There’s lots in the newsletter that doesn’t make it to Bluesky! Read online or subscribe: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
📚 Waterstones opens
💩 Sewage “will still overflow”
🏥 JR gets new operating theatres
🛶 Canal locks unearthed
🎄 Christmas markets
There’s lots in the newsletter that doesn’t make it to Bluesky! Read online or subscribe: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekend, 28 November 2025
Is this our Black Friday edition? Accidentally, perhaps so. Oxford has the most incredible independent retailers – so we've rounded up some festive inspiration if you're shopping over the weekend. And...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Another packed Clarion Weekend. Featuring today:
📚 Waterstones opens
💩 Sewage “will still overflow”
🏥 JR gets new operating theatres
🛶 Canal locks unearthed
🎄 Christmas markets
There’s lots in the newsletter that doesn’t make it to Bluesky! Read online or subscribe: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
📚 Waterstones opens
💩 Sewage “will still overflow”
🏥 JR gets new operating theatres
🛶 Canal locks unearthed
🎄 Christmas markets
There’s lots in the newsletter that doesn’t make it to Bluesky! Read online or subscribe: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Reposted by 👀
Tomorrow is Black Friday. If you're Christmas shopping, here's our fabulously festive (and mainly indie) gift guide. Oxford's independent retailers are the jewels in the crown of this incredible city. Let's support them this Christmas.
oxfordclarion.uk/christmas-sh...
oxfordclarion.uk/christmas-sh...
Shop local this Christmas
We love this city every day of the year, but at Christmas it is extra special.
The Christmas lights; the way the frost sparkles on the Corallian limestone of the colleges; people from city, county, c...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Tomorrow is Black Friday. If you're Christmas shopping, here's our fabulously festive (and mainly indie) gift guide. Oxford's independent retailers are the jewels in the crown of this incredible city. Let's support them this Christmas.
oxfordclarion.uk/christmas-sh...
oxfordclarion.uk/christmas-sh...
Reposted by 👀
A 39-year old man from the Guildford area has been arrested in connection with the Kidlington fly tip, following investigations by the Environment Agency and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit. EA director Anna Burns called it “the first step in delivering justice for residents”.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A 39-year old man from the Guildford area has been arrested in connection with the Kidlington fly tip, following investigations by the Environment Agency and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit. EA director Anna Burns called it “the first step in delivering justice for residents”.
Reposted by 👀
Oxford City Farm was broken into on Saturday night. Approximately £2,200 of pork (120kg) was stolen after three storage areas were forcibly entered. The meat was from two pigs carefully reared over the summer by the farm’s dedicated volunteers and staff.
www.oxfordcityfarm.org.uk/latest-news/...
www.oxfordcityfarm.org.uk/latest-news/...
PRESS RELEASE — Oxford City Farm
Oxford City Farm Suffers Devastating Break-In and Theft
www.oxfordcityfarm.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Oxford City Farm was broken into on Saturday night. Approximately £2,200 of pork (120kg) was stolen after three storage areas were forcibly entered. The meat was from two pigs carefully reared over the summer by the farm’s dedicated volunteers and staff.
www.oxfordcityfarm.org.uk/latest-news/...
www.oxfordcityfarm.org.uk/latest-news/...
Reposted by 👀
Our Tuesday newsletter is out! News and politics including:
🗻 Rubbish mountain latest
🛣️ Road junction angst
🏛️ Free museum petition
🚆 All the train news
🐄 A lovely cow
Read online, or get the Clarion in your inbox twice a week: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
🗻 Rubbish mountain latest
🛣️ Road junction angst
🏛️ Free museum petition
🚆 All the train news
🐄 A lovely cow
Read online, or get the Clarion in your inbox twice a week: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 25 November 2025
Welcome to our news and politics edition where we round up the very best city, county and university news, plus what our MPs have been up to. After the craziness of our much-shared little article on c...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our Tuesday newsletter is out! News and politics including:
🗻 Rubbish mountain latest
🛣️ Road junction angst
🏛️ Free museum petition
🚆 All the train news
🐄 A lovely cow
Read online, or get the Clarion in your inbox twice a week: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
🗻 Rubbish mountain latest
🛣️ Road junction angst
🏛️ Free museum petition
🚆 All the train news
🐄 A lovely cow
Read online, or get the Clarion in your inbox twice a week: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
Reposted by 👀
Labour is actively wasting our money for the sole purpose of being cruel to people who have done nothing wrong
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Labour is actively wasting our money for the sole purpose of being cruel to people who have done nothing wrong
Reposted by 👀
Aideen’s story has sparked an overwhelming response, showing the real impact that pavement parking has on people’s daily lives across the UK.
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
Woman calls for pavement parking ban after falling out wheelchair on school run
Aideen Blackborough was left lying in the road after being forced to manoeuvre her way around a vehicle blocking the pavement in Great Barr
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Aideen’s story has sparked an overwhelming response, showing the real impact that pavement parking has on people’s daily lives across the UK.
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
Reposted by 👀
Cowley Road’s cinema, the Ultimate Picture Palace, has launched a fundraising appeal to “secure our long-term tenancy in our historic cinema”. The community-owned cinema has been seeking a longer lease from landlords Oriel College. uppoxford.savoysystems.co.uk/UPPOxford.dl...
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Cowley Road’s cinema, the Ultimate Picture Palace, has launched a fundraising appeal to “secure our long-term tenancy in our historic cinema”. The community-owned cinema has been seeking a longer lease from landlords Oriel College. uppoxford.savoysystems.co.uk/UPPOxford.dl...
Reposted by 👀
Oxfordshire councils are expecting a rough deal from “the most significant changes to local government funding in more than a decade”. The County Council says it expects to lose £35m over a three-year period while Cherwell District Council anticipates “a significant reduction in resources”.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Oxfordshire councils are expecting a rough deal from “the most significant changes to local government funding in more than a decade”. The County Council says it expects to lose £35m over a three-year period while Cherwell District Council anticipates “a significant reduction in resources”.
Reposted by 👀
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Reposted by 👀
I don’t think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.
Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn’t do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician‘s core views just to emphasise the urgency.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I don’t think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.
Reposted by 👀
Your Oxford Clarion weekend newsletter is out! Featuring:
🎾 Green Belt padel court refused
🛻 Who will clean up the Kidlington dump?
👩👧 SEND latest
☕️ Vaults & Garden on the move…
📚 …and Waterstones reopening imminent
Come for the cats, stay for the best in local news: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🎾 Green Belt padel court refused
🛻 Who will clean up the Kidlington dump?
👩👧 SEND latest
☕️ Vaults & Garden on the move…
📚 …and Waterstones reopening imminent
Come for the cats, stay for the best in local news: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekend, 21 November 2025
Weekly weekend warmth from the Clarion right this way. It may be cold, but in here are gems of stories to warm your heart. Plus the latest on the illegal rubbish dump in Kidlington and bird flu in Wit...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Your Oxford Clarion weekend newsletter is out! Featuring:
🎾 Green Belt padel court refused
🛻 Who will clean up the Kidlington dump?
👩👧 SEND latest
☕️ Vaults & Garden on the move…
📚 …and Waterstones reopening imminent
Come for the cats, stay for the best in local news: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🎾 Green Belt padel court refused
🛻 Who will clean up the Kidlington dump?
👩👧 SEND latest
☕️ Vaults & Garden on the move…
📚 …and Waterstones reopening imminent
Come for the cats, stay for the best in local news: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Reposted by 👀
London's most dangerous junction for cycling has had thirty injuries in the last five years. Oxford's Plain roundabout has had forty injuries in that time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
London's most dangerous junction for cycling has had thirty injuries in the last five years. Oxford's Plain roundabout has had forty injuries in that time.
Reposted by 👀
The footway parking ban in England consultation closed 5 years ago tomorrow. The Tories' inaction is now Labour's inaction.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Pavement parking: options for change
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The footway parking ban in England consultation closed 5 years ago tomorrow. The Tories' inaction is now Labour's inaction.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Reposted by 👀
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
Reposted by 👀
Police arrested over 20 people protesting in Oxford against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as ‘a terrorist organisation’ The protests were part of a day of action, in what Defend our Juries describe as “the most widespread civil disobedience campaign in modern British history.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Police arrested over 20 people protesting in Oxford against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as ‘a terrorist organisation’ The protests were part of a day of action, in what Defend our Juries describe as “the most widespread civil disobedience campaign in modern British history.”
Reposted by 👀
The Clarion's weekly hit of news, politics and university updates is out. This week:
🚯We visited Kidlington's illegal dump
🫶March for Unity
🗳️Highlights from your MPs
🌏Oxford East COP30 row
🧀Devolution latest
📚OUP redundancies
Read online or by email.
oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
🚯We visited Kidlington's illegal dump
🫶March for Unity
🗳️Highlights from your MPs
🌏Oxford East COP30 row
🧀Devolution latest
📚OUP redundancies
Read online or by email.
oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 18 November 2025
Week two of two newsletters in a week; welcome to our news and politics edition. This weekend, we went to see both the illegal dump in Kidlington, and the Unity March in Oxford. Both were… quite somet...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Clarion's weekly hit of news, politics and university updates is out. This week:
🚯We visited Kidlington's illegal dump
🫶March for Unity
🗳️Highlights from your MPs
🌏Oxford East COP30 row
🧀Devolution latest
📚OUP redundancies
Read online or by email.
oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
🚯We visited Kidlington's illegal dump
🫶March for Unity
🗳️Highlights from your MPs
🌏Oxford East COP30 row
🧀Devolution latest
📚OUP redundancies
Read online or by email.
oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
Reposted by 👀
If only @matthewbarber.co.uk knew someone who was in charge of policing at a high level who could try to do something about road danger _before_ it resulted in victims.
Barber commented: “Road safety forms a key part of my Police and Crime Plan. By commissioning a dedicated, local road victim support service, this will further support the work set out in my Road Safety Strategy in an effort to reduce the impact of road traffic collisions on residents.”
www.thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If only @matthewbarber.co.uk knew someone who was in charge of policing at a high level who could try to do something about road danger _before_ it resulted in victims.
Reposted by 👀
I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
Reposted by 👀
Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.
Reposted by 👀
Extinction Rebellion Oxford held a demonstration in Cornmarket yesterday as part of a global day of climate action, coinciding with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30. The protest focused on stopping further exploration of the North Sea Rosebank oilfield.
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Extinction Rebellion Oxford held a demonstration in Cornmarket yesterday as part of a global day of climate action, coinciding with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30. The protest focused on stopping further exploration of the North Sea Rosebank oilfield.
Reposted by 👀
All Oxfordshire’s news, a curated selection of events, and obligatory 🐈⬛ cat photos in the Clarion Weekend. Including:
🔬 Massive new research campus
☀️ Botley West inquiry ends
🛶 Museum up for sale
🚙 Can’t park here mate
🦜 Put a bird on it!
Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🔬 Massive new research campus
☀️ Botley West inquiry ends
🛶 Museum up for sale
🚙 Can’t park here mate
🦜 Put a bird on it!
Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekend, 14 November 2025
When we started the Clarion as a Twitter account in 2022, we didn’t anticipate that we’d be reporting almost every week on massive new tech developments around Oxford. But the life science and AI boom...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
All Oxfordshire’s news, a curated selection of events, and obligatory 🐈⬛ cat photos in the Clarion Weekend. Including:
🔬 Massive new research campus
☀️ Botley West inquiry ends
🛶 Museum up for sale
🚙 Can’t park here mate
🦜 Put a bird on it!
Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🔬 Massive new research campus
☀️ Botley West inquiry ends
🛶 Museum up for sale
🚙 Can’t park here mate
🦜 Put a bird on it!
Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...