Right, for all of you who missed it earlier, I'm starting a list of cycling blogs, which I'll publish on WillCycle.com. The list will NOT be a judgement of how good or deserving a blog is. As long as it's about cycling, and doesn't have right-wing crap, I'll probably add it, so let me know.
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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Just gone and order a new bike. I need to upgrade my cameras but unwilling to pay a premium for Cycliq. Any one had experience of Chilli Tech?
In other news National Highways finds a way of making active travel safer lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...
Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · 2d agoFor “economic growth in every postcode” to go from being a promise to reality, National Highways surely needs to start investing in local connections that make a tangible difference to communities throughout the country. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...
“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...
National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads
Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution
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Top class from Private eye as ever.
Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.
No longer a joke candidate, Count Binface offers a manifesto that delivers far more for Clacton than Farage ever has.
"Most of us rarely do anything that could easily kill another person – except when we drive." A thought-provoking article from @profkyd.bsky.social, on why we need to treat driving as the serious responsibility that it is and take stronger action to prevent deaths and injuries on our streets.
Too many drivers see road safety rules as a personal affront. It’s time to tighten up UK laws | Sally Kyd
Two court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standards, says law professor Sally Kyd
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Codify rules for MPs' attendance in Parliament & their constituency in statute
Codify in statute clear and binding obligations for MPs on time spent in their constituency and in Parliament. We think that leaving it to convention unfortunately allows a minority to abuse the syste...
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Why don't cyclists use the cycle paths? PS, don't forget to vote on Thusday.
The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.
Why do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally Kyd
Why do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally Kyd
Two court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standards, says law professor Sally Kyd
theguardian.com
Every Wednesday 10.30 to 12.30 sessions are being organised at CATCH by the NHS to support people with mental wellbeing and low mood please do come along, lets break that stigma together the Green Party will continue to help people in our community for a whole host of issues.
'Wes Streeting is facing criticism after accepting £55,000 donation from a firm linked to private healthcare. One doctor summed up the frustration “I can’t accept a plastic pen because it might influence my decisions — but MPs can accept ££££s from private healthcare interests?”' via The £Daily Scar
Netanyahu and the Knesset are genocidal maniacs
Post from Novara Media - YouTube
"It's a depth of evil beyond humanity itself."
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Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...
Vote Jay for St Thomas Ward 💚 Jay will work hard to make Portsmouth an affordable and accessible city for all, listening to resident concerns and campaigning tirelessly on their behalf. Vote Jay this May for a safer, cleaner and greener Portsmouth!
I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave
It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.
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Time to end rip-off Britain. Time to decouple electricity prices from gas and bring down bills.
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.
March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Of course not helped by kids being ferried to their schools in cars
More than 220m children will be obese by 2040 without drastic action, report warns
World Obesity Federation says half a billion children will be overweight and calls on governments to act to create healthier environments
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Sure, some excellent Labour MPs have not been letting the issue lie. And DEFRA have committed to exploring options for reform through a Green paper (but no timetable on that). But where's the leadership? This stuff is a completely unforced capitulation to the powerful.
Labour MPs press for right to roam policy in England after supreme court ruling
Backbencher says ‘it’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all’
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In a nutshell Why Labour has left me and a lot of others behind
Jon Moses@jon-moses.bsky.social · 5mo ago"We talk tough but govern timid. We protect vested interests when we should be taking them on." Reminded of the time Labour backtracked on committing to a right to roam. They didn't have the courtesy to tell us. Instead they announced it at a conference of the wealthiest landowners in Britain 🤷♂️
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski
