Danny Yee
@dannyyee.bsky.social
Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy. For just the book reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyreviews.bsky.social
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Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
This is why the redevelopment of the railway station has to provide a proper bus interchange.
Day 2 of the 3/3A buses serving Oxford station, and there are now DEFINITELY too many buses here.
There isn't room on their bus stop, so they fill up everywhere else instead. 🙄
There isn't room on their bus stop, so they fill up everywhere else instead. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is why the redevelopment of the railway station has to provide a proper bus interchange.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
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Hello bluesky! Are you thinking about heading home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat the Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share!
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Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge
Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our ha...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hello bluesky! Are you thinking about heading home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat the Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share!
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
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It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.
road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10/29/a...
AVZ Blog – Road collisions and casualties—how many? How much do they cost?
29th October 2025 How many? Imagine if for every person reported seriously injured in a collision, there were another three seriously injured, but that these were not reported to and by the police.…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10/29/a...
the Ukrainian use of aerostats www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...
More than just balloons: how Ukraine produces aerostats and why they matter in modern warfare
It's a cold autumn morning. A small group of soldiers fuss around a winch, trying to conceal it under a tree. An instructor and a commander supervise the process. Once the winch is hidden and the cabl...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the Ukrainian use of aerostats www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...
Both these schools need School Streets schemes. Being in a low traffic neighbourhood doesn't stop parents trying to drive right up to the school gates.
Cllr Saj Malik (IOA, Cowley) asks for School Streets at Church Cowley St James, and St Christopher School on Temple Road. Cllr Gant says the former is already part of an LTN but he’s happy to arrange a further meeting for St Christopher: “We are committed to safety around the school gate.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Both these schools need School Streets schemes. Being in a low traffic neighbourhood doesn't stop parents trying to drive right up to the school gates.
the two-child benefit cap: increasing child poverty while failing to achieve its goals largerfamilies.study/publications...
Benefit changes and larger families
We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.
largerfamilies.study
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
the two-child benefit cap: increasing child poverty while failing to achieve its goals largerfamilies.study/publications...
Success of Oxford congestion charge rests on interpretation of style manual, will be decided by panel of eminent editors.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Oxford congestion charge signs to be amended after error - BBC News
The signs advertising Oxford's new congestion charge say motorists can pay the fee "on line", instead of "online".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Success of Oxford congestion charge rests on interpretation of style manual, will be decided by panel of eminent editors.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wa... (my review)
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wa... (my review)
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All Oxford’s news in the Clarion newsletter. Including:
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekly, 24 October 2025
This week’s long reads
The Cowley Branch Line is reopening! The Government this week pledged £120m to bring passenger trains back to Cowley and Littlemore. Our long read has everything you need to kn...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
All Oxford’s news in the Clarion newsletter. Including:
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
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Cycle lanes are so dangerous that the mere existence of the Netherlands is endangering bus passengers in East Anglia.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Cycle lanes are so dangerous that the mere existence of the Netherlands is endangering bus passengers in East Anglia.
We're big on bus-cycle cooperation in Oxford.
Police used bicycles to separate the protesters and ensure buses could pass through the demonstration safely.
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We're big on bus-cycle cooperation in Oxford.
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A short list of classic locations for parking where it's actually not part of the adjacent property, so should get bollarded (or maybe tree'd!) by the council:
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A short list of classic locations for parking where it's actually not part of the adjacent property, so should get bollarded (or maybe tree'd!) by the council:
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
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Weesperzijde, Amsterdam in 1974 and today. The road has been closed to motor vehicles and is now a bike only route, outside a primary school. The car parking to the right was removed within the last few years to create a small riverside park
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Weesperzijde, Amsterdam in 1974 and today. The road has been closed to motor vehicles and is now a bike only route, outside a primary school. The car parking to the right was removed within the last few years to create a small riverside park
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Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.
October 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_Tr... (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"
October 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_Tr... (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"
advances in enumerative geometry www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-rev... (Quanta)
New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems | Quanta Magazine
Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
advances in enumerative geometry www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-rev... (Quanta)
I began campaigning for this when my daughter started Reception. She’s now in Year 8… A big thanks to ex-councillor @damohaywood.bsky.social for getting this happening.
Work removing one (1) parking space in East Oxford to facilitate pedestrian and cycle access to a nearby school is due to start tomorrow. Two (2) resident consultations took place ahead of the works to accommodate resident feedback. We wrote about this in July 👉 oxfordclarion.uk/why-wasnt-i-...
September 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I began campaigning for this when my daughter started Reception. She’s now in Year 8… A big thanks to ex-councillor @damohaywood.bsky.social for getting this happening.
Stockholm's approach to getting cars out of the city www.politico.eu/article/stoc... (Politico)
Stockholm’s plan to get cars out of the city
Instead of imposing permanent pedestrianizations, authorities are backing pop-up schemes to make streets temporarily car-free.
www.politico.eu
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stockholm's approach to getting cars out of the city www.politico.eu/article/stoc... (Politico)
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I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP
September 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP
the closure of a methodist chapel www.newstatesman.com/politics/rel... (New Statesman)
The death of a church
The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside tells a story of England’s dwindling congregations – and highlights the loss of a vibrant community life that cannot be replaced.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
the closure of a methodist chapel www.newstatesman.com/politics/rel... (New Statesman)
I had a great time today helping marshal Oxford's Kidical Mass ride. We had over 200 riders, half of them children, which was a record. oxfordclarion.uk/kids-claim-t...
Kids claim the streets of Oxford
The latest Kidical Mass family bike ride attracted a record turnout, according to organisers Cyclox. More than 200 cyclists of all ages converged in Oxford ringing bells as they circled the city centr...
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September 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I had a great time today helping marshal Oxford's Kidical Mass ride. We had over 200 riders, half of them children, which was a record. oxfordclarion.uk/kids-claim-t...