The same street in Levenshulme, Manchester, one hundred years apart. The private motor vehicle is an invasive species, which gradually crowds out and suffocates the rich social life of our cities. When cars don’t dominate the streets, life flourishes.

For the 5th consecutive year child casualties have flat-lined at around 13,000 road casualties of age 16 and under. In what other area of life would the death or injury of 13,000 children be "acceptable"? The government has a Road Safety Strategy that aims to reduce child KSIs by 70%.

“Do not think that he who loves his own country must hate and despise other nations, or wish for war, which is a remnant of barbarism.” - Socialist Commandment IX

I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

The next generation of iron-air batteries can do *at least* 6,000 cycles - equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation - with zero storage capacity loss. This will destroy the fossil fuel industry. That’s why the campaign to ‘kill net zero’ has dramatically ramped up.

The next generation of iron-air batteries can do *at least* 6,000 cycles - equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation - with zero storage capacity loss. This will destroy the fossil fuel industry. That’s why the campaign to ‘kill net zero’ has dramatically ramped up.

🚨 Huge energy news! 🚨 Ore Energy has just signed a deal with Dutch energy firm Budget Thuis to deploy 1GWh of energy storage from iron-air batteries that: 🔋 Store electricity for days, not just hours. 🔋 Don’t require critical minerals. 🔋 Can be built entirely in Europe.

Thank you to the MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis in the last week. The public deserves to know. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined: nebriefing.org/parliamentary-call #NationalEmergencyBriefing

🚨 Huge energy news! 🚨 Ore Energy has just signed a deal with Dutch energy firm Budget Thuis to deploy 1GWh of energy storage from iron-air batteries that: 🔋 Store electricity for days, not just hours. 🔋 Don’t require critical minerals. 🔋 Can be built entirely in Europe.

What is “moronic” and “terrible” about the Labour Party representing the interests and living standards of human labour? What is progressive about driverless taxis allowing tech companies to accrue money that currently feeds taxi drivers’ families?

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · last mo.

Absolutely moronic and a terrible sign of things to come if true.

Or Utrecht - the home of the elevated cycle path.

There’s always one guy on holiday taking photos of cycle lanes, street trees, and drinking fountains for design ideas to bring back to Britain. I am that guy.

OBB Nightjet from Amsterdam to Salzburg. Europe by sleeper train is the best. That’s why I’m 11 years #flightfree.

Welcome to Amsterdam. Home of the People Carrier.

Silicon Valley tax-dodgers own the U.S Government.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

Trump warns of 100% tariff on countries implementing digital services tax ft.trib.al/bq9dLe3

Another satisfied customer…😊

@jonburkeuk.bsky.social Planted lots of trees in Hackneyland. We're forever grateful. 💚

When England win a game at the World Cup and you’re walking down the road the next morning.

"All things are ready, if our minds be so." Come on, England!!! 🦁🦁🦁

Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, told the Commons this week: "Did I...treat...Mandelson differently because I perceived him to have influence and power in the Labour Party?...yes, I did. Have I benefited...yes." In a normal democracy, this would be a resigning matter.

Your periodic reminder net zero is a scientific term referring to the balance of anthropogenic emissions and carbon sinks required to stop temperatures spiralling out of control, bringing with them drastically increased risk of food insecurity, catastrophic weather, and civilisation-level disaster.

In Bloomberg Land, they think we’re all awaiting the world’s first trillionaire with giddy anticipation.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo ago

SpaceX's upcoming IPO will make billions for Elon Musk — but at $135 per share, the world might have to wait a little longer for its first trillionaire bloom.bg/4anbAPB 📷️: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

If only there were alternatives that *hadn't* risen in price by 66%! Alternatives whose price had gone steadily down for decades now & were projected to continue declining for decades to come! Ah well.

Cost to Build a Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Surges 66%, BNEF Says

Costs to build natural gas-fired power plants in the US increased 66% between 2023 and 2025 as developers propose building more projects nationwide to meet rising electricity demand, adding to custome...

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Panic over, my birthday wish has solved global warming…🥳

i dunno, but maybe it's time the government recognised a foreign white supremacist is using his global social media app to bolster the far-right, bury other voices, and hopefully radicalise users to disrupt the political landscape of other nations

Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 2mo ago

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

It means your children will be servants of the ruling techno elite, working menial 'jobs' for food and and health credits. If you weren't willing to prevent your kids being exposed to social media - if, indeed, you facilitated it - you aren't doing anything about this, either.

What if I told you one study in Manchester found that shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C, and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C during a heatwave? You might not believe me. But it's true…👇

What if I told you one study in Manchester found that shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C, and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C during a heatwave? You might not believe me. But it's true…👇

It's nice to see the political class finally waking up, but the fact that I - and others - were talking about the harm social media is doing to our children more than half a decade ago shows why a country led by ditherers instead of doers keeps lurching from crisis to crisis.