@angeladevas.bsky.social
Also cycling and biking could be massively improved, at virtually no cost, by turning many rural lanes into green routes with a maximum speed of 15 mph. Lots of lanes duplicate other routes. @transportaction.bsky.social
That's a bit of a black and white opinion. Where I live public transport is almost non-existent, and an increased duty on fuel would be a huge burden in what is already a poor community. Do you have a solution to that?
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Also cycling and biking could be massively improved, at virtually no cost, by turning many rural lanes into green routes with a maximum speed of 15 mph. Lots of lanes duplicate other routes. @transportaction.bsky.social
Yes but sometimes this: two of us walked into a hotel in Alfriston, deep in rural Sussex. 'Terrible, no public transport here!' Said receptionist. We'd literally just alighted from the bus.
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
That's a bit of a black and white opinion. Where I live public transport is almost non-existent, and an increased duty on fuel would be a huge burden in what is already a poor community. Do you have a solution to that?
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yes but sometimes this: two of us walked into a hotel in Alfriston, deep in rural Sussex. 'Terrible, no public transport here!' Said receptionist. We'd literally just alighted from the bus.
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
Car-normativity ensures total ignorance of buses and bus routes @transportaction.bsky.social
I was at @bricycles.bsky.social AGM yesterday. We campaign for better cycle routes. Also there was representative from @livingstreets.bsky.social Katy Rodda.
Well done Iowa City .. this is what the world needs!
Not as in Brighton & Hove where its council @brighton-hove.gov.uk hiked the bus fares to double of last year in a city saturated with cars & where lung cancer is now one the main causes of death!
Not as in Brighton & Hove where its council @brighton-hove.gov.uk hiked the bus fares to double of last year in a city saturated with cars & where lung cancer is now one the main causes of death!
Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was at @bricycles.bsky.social AGM yesterday. We campaign for better cycle routes. Also there was representative from @livingstreets.bsky.social Katy Rodda.
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Saturday | 10:05 PT We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Saturday | 10:05 PT We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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We could change the design of our roads to address this crisis, like other cities are doing, but that might inconvenience car owners, so planners and politicians are choosing this option instead.
Families of road death victims in West Midlands safety campaign
Letters from families who lost their loved ones are on display for Road Safety Week.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We could change the design of our roads to address this crisis, like other cities are doing, but that might inconvenience car owners, so planners and politicians are choosing this option instead.
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So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.
The God of car- normativity demans a sufficient number of child human sacrifices every month. 20 MPH was not delivering @transportaction.bsky.social @bettertransport.bsky.social . Apologies to Jonathan Swift
Physics and biomechanics don't care about your comprehensive review.
Speed limits could be returned to 30mph on 20 roads across a Welsh local authority following a 'comprehensive review'
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The God of car- normativity demans a sufficient number of child human sacrifices every month. 20 MPH was not delivering @transportaction.bsky.social @bettertransport.bsky.social . Apologies to Jonathan Swift
Where do I get a cicisbeo?
The answer, in any case, is obviously 14
1x master
1x spouse
1x mistress
1x cicisbeo
1x for each child (2)
1x dressing room for each adult (4)
1x butler
1x housekeeper
1 for maids to share
1 for footmen
If, of course, the butler and the housekeeper are married to EACH OTHER, it's a great saving
1x master
1x spouse
1x mistress
1x cicisbeo
1x for each child (2)
1x dressing room for each adult (4)
1x butler
1x housekeeper
1 for maids to share
1 for footmen
If, of course, the butler and the housekeeper are married to EACH OTHER, it's a great saving
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Where do I get a cicisbeo?
Brighton and Hove too. Downhill worse
For anyone cycling in London today: it's colder than you think. I'm normally an advocate for not overdoing the layers or coats. Ignore that - go nuclear.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Brighton and Hove too. Downhill worse
Congratulations to @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social for her steadfast commitment to reporting council affairs
Huge congratulations to @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social for winning Local Democracy Reporter of the year!
Holding our council to account and keeping #Brighton residents very well informed. An essential part of a good democracy. 👏👏
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/11/14/b...
Holding our council to account and keeping #Brighton residents very well informed. An essential part of a good democracy. 👏👏
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/11/14/b...
Brighton and Hove journalist wins Local Democracy Reporter of the Year award
Brighton and Hove journalist Sarah Booker-Lewis has won the Local Democracy Reporter of the Year award. The prize was presented
www.brightonandhovenews.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Congratulations to @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social for her steadfast commitment to reporting council affairs
So glad Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying the right thing. What @bhlabour.bsky.social the Labour Party is doing is despicable
Thank you Zack Polanski for saying what needs to be said
‘This is extreme. This is inhumane. This is government of cowards.
‘I am furious - so many people are furious’ 👏
‘This is extreme. This is inhumane. This is government of cowards.
‘I am furious - so many people are furious’ 👏
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So glad Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying the right thing. What @bhlabour.bsky.social the Labour Party is doing is despicable
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Congratulations to the Labour Party for reinventing Less Eligibility at Max Cruelty levels.
It is simply impossible to stop illegal migration by making the system awful, because the system - however bad - will be preferable to the torture, rape and genocide people are fleeing.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Congratulations to the Labour Party for reinventing Less Eligibility at Max Cruelty levels.
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I like school streets that serve some educational purpose and this one in Bordeaux is a great example. Nouvelle-Aquitaine is an important agricultural region and this street creates space for gardens where kids can learn about horticulture.
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I like school streets that serve some educational purpose and this one in Bordeaux is a great example. Nouvelle-Aquitaine is an important agricultural region and this street creates space for gardens where kids can learn about horticulture.
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I’ll wait to see if this is actually announced. But if so… please can the PLP rise up. You owe it to your consciences, your voters, and the institution that is the Labour Party.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I’ll wait to see if this is actually announced. But if so… please can the PLP rise up. You owe it to your consciences, your voters, and the institution that is the Labour Party.
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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
It sounds lovely but totally unsuitable for car free walkers! I lead a monthly walking group that only uses public transport. Luckily in Brighton there is a good bus and train service. Better for the environment @transportaction.bsky.social
Meet Jan Blackstock of the Sussex Walking Group and find out more about all the wonderful walks (& pubs!) they experience. New members welcome.
View from Ditchling Beacon © Phil Saunders, Smooth Puffball fungi at Ebernoe © Milly Manley buff.ly/B8fgyrf
View from Ditchling Beacon © Phil Saunders, Smooth Puffball fungi at Ebernoe © Milly Manley buff.ly/B8fgyrf
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It sounds lovely but totally unsuitable for car free walkers! I lead a monthly walking group that only uses public transport. Luckily in Brighton there is a good bus and train service. Better for the environment @transportaction.bsky.social
Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine all those parking spaces planted with trees, enforced 20 mph in all streets, children playing out @transportaction.bsky.social
loudly sung above the drone
did they hear him?
did the see bells born from walls
or tiny daisies smiling
or more gold dancing
or were they older than I
infirm or ill and chasing time
watching backsides of cars in front
for their convenience
did they hear him?
did they hear him?
did the see bells born from walls
or tiny daisies smiling
or more gold dancing
or were they older than I
infirm or ill and chasing time
watching backsides of cars in front
for their convenience
did they hear him?
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine all those parking spaces planted with trees, enforced 20 mph in all streets, children playing out @transportaction.bsky.social
There is a Baltic series on C4 Walter Presents called The Nordic Murders. It is set on the island of Usedom with Polish German border running through it. Fabulous settings of the island you mention in your book. Probably nearest I'll get to a visit.
Delighted to announce that Borderlines is one of @waterstones.bsky.social paperbacks of the year!
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There is a Baltic series on C4 Walter Presents called The Nordic Murders. It is set on the island of Usedom with Polish German border running through it. Fabulous settings of the island you mention in your book. Probably nearest I'll get to a visit.
Just bought Borderlands at British Library after visiting exhibition on Secret Maps. Really gripping. Already half way through @lewisbaston.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that Borderlines is one of @waterstones.bsky.social paperbacks of the year!
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Just bought Borderlands at British Library after visiting exhibition on Secret Maps. Really gripping. Already half way through @lewisbaston.bsky.social
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The wealthiest, won't mind a frequent flyer tax, they'll just pay it, so it may not reduce emissions. We need an air mile allocation per person, per year. Non-transferable, so it doesn't become a tradable commodity and price the less well off out of being able to fly.
That, and ban private jets.
That, and ban private jets.
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The wealthiest, won't mind a frequent flyer tax, they'll just pay it, so it may not reduce emissions. We need an air mile allocation per person, per year. Non-transferable, so it doesn't become a tradable commodity and price the less well off out of being able to fly.
That, and ban private jets.
That, and ban private jets.
@transportfornewhomes.org.uk But these new homes need to have buses, trains, cycle lanes baked into the planning and not just be a carfest
The task of building 1.5m new homes in a parliament is immense.
We need to 'build baby build' social and council housing to meet it.
Read my latest column for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/10/buil...
We need to 'build baby build' social and council housing to meet it.
Read my latest column for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/10/buil...
Ben Cooper Column: ‘We need to ‘build baby build’ social housing to meet the 1.5m new homes target’ - LabourList
The government needs to unleash the capacity of councils and housing associations to build thousands of good quality, affordable homes.
labourlist.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@transportfornewhomes.org.uk But these new homes need to have buses, trains, cycle lanes baked into the planning and not just be a carfest
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Could Chatham House please invite more foreigners with no …. to give, so they will say exactly what they think. Thank you.
"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
October 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Could Chatham House please invite more foreigners with no …. to give, so they will say exactly what they think. Thank you.
Brilliant but we also need to 'rewild' our cities and towns. Get people out of cars and cycle, walk and wheel through the parks, street trees and changing seasons. @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @bettertransport.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! We’re new here, so here’s a little introductory film that shows what we’re about – #MakingRewildingHappen for nature, climate and people.
We’re excited to be here and connect. As the newcomer at this party, we’ll be hovering by the refreshments, hoping someone will come say hi.
We’re excited to be here and connect. As the newcomer at this party, we’ll be hovering by the refreshments, hoping someone will come say hi.
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Brilliant but we also need to 'rewild' our cities and towns. Get people out of cars and cycle, walk and wheel through the parks, street trees and changing seasons. @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @bettertransport.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter