A bit of community service and a 3 year driving ban for killing someone whilst driving. Previous for phone use too. This person should not be allowed to drive ever again. Life ban when convicted of killing whilst driving should be mandatory. He can bus. Or cycle. road.cc/news/van-dri...

“No idea how he hadn’t seen him”: Van driver avoids jail after killing cyclist riding with two rear lights

A van driver who killed a cyclist after failing to see him on the road, despite the 54-year-old riding with two rear lights, has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence.Graham Nash was riding...

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Concerns raised as thousands of British drivers avoid ban despite 12 or more penalty points | The Independent share.google/HKRotaox4M5p...

Concerns raised as thousands of drivers avoid ban despite 12 or more penalty points

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"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Deeply concerning, off scale misinformation campaign sponsored by far right foreign actors via social media, then exploited and amplified by the usual Western populists, again and again. Certainly not an isolated event. A BBC facts check podcast well worth a listen. bbc.com/audio/play/w...

BBC Audio | The Global Story | Who is to blame for the chaos on Spain’s border?

Spain faces a backlash from Europe, while Trump warns of an ‘invasion’

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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

What a surprise, locks in government departments to a proprietary system and mysteriously pays hardly any tax www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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Swiss federal government makes constructing cycle track networks a requirement for all cities substack.com/@cyclingprof...

Meredith Glaser (@cyclingprofessor)

🚀 Switzerland is officially giving up its neutrality... when it comes to cycling infrastructure they’re choosing a side. 🇨🇭🚴‍♂️ Building bike networks is now a federal mandate. The Swiss Federal Act...

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The myth of nuclear power being more reliable that a traditional mix of renewables.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 3d ago

Hungary faces “the most critical five days” ahead as a record drought in Central Europe has forced Budapest to shut down a nuclear power plant that generates 40 percent of the country’s electricity, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said today.

*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Essex's Southend campus shuts and staff say goodbye

The university says the closure is due to financial pressures, leading to 400 staff redundancies.

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In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

14 Nuclear Reactors in 6 countries in Europe are closed because they have run out of water for cooling. Nuclear Power is no solution, Solar and Wind ARE.

“Russia… launched a propaganda campaign using photographs from Ceuta to “sow destabilisation” across Europe. He said that more than 1,500 news items on the issue had been published on outlets identified as pro-Russian” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/468...

The viral migrant crisis that’s splitting Europe in half

More than 60,000 migrants overwhelmed the border between Morocco and Spain. And Europe is split over who to blame

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2019 - Boris Johnson announced his 'ready made plan for social care'. 2019 - No tax rises in Tory manifesto. 2021 - Johnson to increase NI by 1.25% to fund social care 2022 - Truss cancels NI increase 2024 - Tories leave social care problem to Labour to sort out 2026 - Tories whine over cost.

As Nigel Farage expresses performative outrage over a cartoon on a t-shirt, I'm old enough to remember 2019 when Nigel Farage said he would "take the knife to civil servants" just five weeks after a civil servant was knifed in an attack outside the Home Office. #r4today

Quitting the ECHR would unleash a populist nightmare in Britain, argues Simon Nixon ../2

Go Binface

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

The far right, predictably completely silent when it's white men accused of rape Their silence speaks volumes - Nick Lowles nicklowles.substack.com/p/their-sile...

Their silence speaks volumes

How the far-right’s silence about the arrest of Andrew Tate for rape, assault and indecent images of a child tells you all you need to know about who these men are, and their political motivations.

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"A recent report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found that solar and wind paired with battery storage can now deliver round‑the‑clock power cheaper than new fossil fuel generation." nixons.substack.com/p/this-septi...

This Septic Isle

Who's afraid of Marine Le Pen, how corrupt is Farage's Britain, why investors should keep an eye on Japan, and could cheap batteries bankrupt the grid

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Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

You know things are bad for Russia when Samuel Charap starts writing articles blaming Ukraine for not wanting to end the war. What he doesn’t say is that it’s 100% Russia’s fault that there is a war and that it hasn’t ended

🤨🤐 ‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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It just goes on and on and on! Reform stinks.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w ago

Betting account in Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources ft.trib.al/8PXAsSa

Today, along with 120 other millionaires our letter to the new Prime Minister asks for one thing: tax us, the super rich. As millionaires, we're proud to pay and we're here to stay. 👉 Swipe to see some of the well-known faces who have signed the letter.

Want to break free of the dodgy countries now controlling oil supply? Phase out reliance on diesel and petrol. A huge step for national security, and better for the planet, too.

Mums for Lungs@mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 2w ago

"There is simply no justification for prolonging our dependence on petrol and diesel." This lobbying comes as no surprise - we need our new Prime Minister to stand firm on this. #AirPollution #ZeroEmission @andyburnham.bsky.social @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social @heidialexander.bsky.social

Genuinely fascinating to see the press hold Count Binface to more accountability than Farage.

Woo-hoo! My new @bmj.com article On how to fix health. By enabling physical activity eg active travel + public transport. Discusses #motonormativity, incentives, culture www.bmj.com/content/394/... x @livingstreets.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @fsem-uk.bsky.social

Scarlett McNally: The NHS rewarding walking doesn’t go far enough to encourage physical activity

NHS England recently announced plans to launch a new incentive scheme that will reward people who achieve 30 minutes of walking a day, adding up to a “marathon in a month.”1 I see several weaknesses i...

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"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"