This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle!

Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!

This was done despite fierce opposition.

📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

Repealing the two-child limit in full is the most powerful policy lever the Government can pull to drive down child poverty rates.

Read 'No half measures' now ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs

Very sad to hear of Ming's death - he was such wonderful company, mordantly cynical at times, and with a sensationally dapper wardrobe - he and Elspeth were a very glamorous pair - and it's quite a life story www.ft.com/content/891e...

Why have some Britons always been unable to countenance ID cards? How would digital ID work?

Listen to @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, Edgar Whitley of the LSE and more on a vintage ep of Jam Tomorrow - scroll down the feed to get to it.

listen.podmasters.uk/JTID

Which one's YOUR favourite? This is mine.

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Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs.

So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.

I can confirm that The Ballad of Wallis Island is a really lovely way to spend a couple of hours.

John Prescott was a true friend of local government and inspired so many.

We thank him for all he did.

Goodbye and rest in peace. 🌹🌹🌹

I used to occasionally go to Grimsby with my Grandpa in the 90s, so I may have a slightly rose tinted view of Blundell Park, but crumbs, this is a lovely and affecting piece of writing.

1/ So, where were we? Oh yep, #duvetknowitschristmas. Firstly, some admin: Twitter/X has evidently been run into the ground by a preening, self-radicalised clot, so while there's a slim possibility that this annual celebration might be thriving over there, I won't know cos I won't be looking.

Not everyone has a family to return to at Christmas. Those of us who do shouldn’t take it for granted.

This year's last column is sickeningly sentimental, sorry.

Something #Wicked this way comes... It's the latest Big Issue, out today! @bigissue.bsky.social