@tonyshield.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/em...
Immediate 20mph speed restrictions for all of Bath
Most people already personally know someone injured in a road crash.
20mph is not a silver bullet- it is a basic plank of road safety just like people wearing seatbelts in cars. It is proven to redu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/em...
It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing to Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ch...
Change the law to fix music streaming
It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing to Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming!
www.megaphone.org.uk
August 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing to Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ch...
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
www.campaignforthearts.org
June 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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If this government was really serious about growth, it would start negotiating a new UK-EU trade deal with a bespoke customs union at its heart.
This is the single biggest lever ministers could pull to turbocharge our economy. The refusal of the Chancellor to even consider is worrying.
This is the single biggest lever ministers could pull to turbocharge our economy. The refusal of the Chancellor to even consider is worrying.
January 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If this government was really serious about growth, it would start negotiating a new UK-EU trade deal with a bespoke customs union at its heart.
This is the single biggest lever ministers could pull to turbocharge our economy. The refusal of the Chancellor to even consider is worrying.
This is the single biggest lever ministers could pull to turbocharge our economy. The refusal of the Chancellor to even consider is worrying.
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January 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This would be a start at least…..
UK should seek new customs union with EU, Lib Dems to say
UK should seek new customs union with EU, Lib Dems to say
Leader Ed Davey to call for talks to begin immediately, urging ministers to be ‘far more positive, far more ambitious’
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This would be a start at least…..
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Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
Why Do We Keep Widening Highways If It Doesn’t Reduce Traffic?
Decades of research shows that expanding highways, despite its promise to reduce congestion, actually increases travel times.
buff.ly
January 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
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According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150,000 trees have been planted and 45 hectares of parks created in the city, to improve quality-of-life today, and also to help the city adapt to and manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
On top of everything else Paris has been doing.
On top of everything else Paris has been doing.
December 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150,000 trees have been planted and 45 hectares of parks created in the city, to improve quality-of-life today, and also to help the city adapt to and manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
On top of everything else Paris has been doing.
On top of everything else Paris has been doing.
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Full Fact’s Twelve Days of Christmas Quiz 2024
Ready, set, quiz!
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December 29, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy
Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations
Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
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The way Louise Haigh MP is being treated by parts of the established media and political classes over a minor spent conviction is like watching a modern day witch trial.
November 29, 2024 at 10:22 AM
The way Louise Haigh MP is being treated by parts of the established media and political classes over a minor spent conviction is like watching a modern day witch trial.
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A female MP in a Cabinet post, who is doing a good job and also not afraid to speak her mind. Far too dangerous for the Tory-biased media. Something had to be found to discredit her. Job done, now on to the next one.
November 29, 2024 at 11:01 AM
A female MP in a Cabinet post, who is doing a good job and also not afraid to speak her mind. Far too dangerous for the Tory-biased media. Something had to be found to discredit her. Job done, now on to the next one.
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"The Yorkshire Post reported that talented young cyclists were struggling to make their way in the sport because every piece of equipment that they take across the new border has to have its own individual piece of paper...
“Brexit is a nightmare, it makes it much harder and more expensive.”"
“Brexit is a nightmare, it makes it much harder and more expensive.”"
Pitiful trade deals and delays at Dover: Brexit realities coming home
The deluded fantasies of the Brexit elite are finally being exposed by the way the real world actually works
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 8:36 PM
"The Yorkshire Post reported that talented young cyclists were struggling to make their way in the sport because every piece of equipment that they take across the new border has to have its own individual piece of paper...
“Brexit is a nightmare, it makes it much harder and more expensive.”"
“Brexit is a nightmare, it makes it much harder and more expensive.”"
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According to these figures, Labour seems to have blown it. The support for their pro-Brexit agenda simply doesn't exist. Pro-Brexit voters prefer the Tories and Reform. Labour only have a majority together with Rejoin parties.
Con+Ref=46%
Lab+LibDem+Gr+SNP=49%
Con+Ref=46%
Lab+LibDem+Gr+SNP=49%
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 28% (-1)
CON: 27% (=)
RFM: 18% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 6% (-1)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via Techne UK, 27-28 Nov.
Changes w/ 20-21 Nov.
LAB: 28% (-1)
CON: 27% (=)
RFM: 18% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 6% (-1)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via Techne UK, 27-28 Nov.
Changes w/ 20-21 Nov.
November 28, 2024 at 10:15 PM
According to these figures, Labour seems to have blown it. The support for their pro-Brexit agenda simply doesn't exist. Pro-Brexit voters prefer the Tories and Reform. Labour only have a majority together with Rejoin parties.
Con+Ref=46%
Lab+LibDem+Gr+SNP=49%
Con+Ref=46%
Lab+LibDem+Gr+SNP=49%