Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@mikecookson.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Son and Ex Local Liberal Democrat Councillor for, Ouseburn Ward in Newcastle upon Tyne. Released from public service by the electorate. If you need me, I'll be on the bike, or away in the campervan.
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Suggest where to have Cycle Parking in North Tyneside
To support active travel in North Tyneside, our Sustainable Transport team are proposing to install cycle stands at some new locations around the borough. These stands, commonly known as Sheffield sta...
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This is misleading. If you say the Rhine’ s “water levels drop to lowest level since 1880,” that implies that the river was this dry in 1880. But 1880 is just when we started keeping records! So what you need to say is: the river is at its lowest level since records began.
Six years of lost progress here in Newcastle. Let's hope the new Administration can reverse that.
Momentum Magazine@momentummag.bsky.social · yesterdayStudy Finds Cities That Kept Building Bike Lanes Saw Cycling Continue to Grow After the Pandemic. momentummag.com/study-finds-...
Wow, who knew that simply asking drivers not to drive wouldn't work. We got straight back across the Tyne with no delay on Saturday, but that's because we went through the Tyne Tunnel. Wonder if Gateshead ever actually spent any of the @ategov.bsky.social money to mitigate the Tyne Bridge works?
ChronicleLive - The Chronicle@chroniclelive.co.uk · 23h agoCentral Gateshead has become a 'nightmare' traffic hotspot since the closure of a busy roundabout
I grew up among Conservative politics. This is beyond that now. Defending a neo-nazi candidate shows how far Badenoch has shifted them to the far right. There is now no difference between her party and that of Restore and Reform. That should not be normalised. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
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What if we ban walking and cycling to solve air pollution?
Laura Laker@lauralaker.bsky.social · yesterday“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...
These people are criminal thugs and should be treated as such.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders 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.
If you drive through a zebra crossing, when I'm halfway across it, don't be surprised if my response to your cheerful wave as you continue to drive is one of displeasure. Might have to start carrying a pedestrian brick ™️ youtube.com/shorts/nfdER...
Why did the pedestrian carry a brick across the road? 🧱🚸 #RoadSafety
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French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election - Enough said… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Wow, first bit of rain in weeks?
Sewage Data Alerts@alerts.sewagedata.co.uk · 2d ago✅ DISCHARGE ENDED NEAR Blyth South Beach 💩 Northumbrian Water Ltd has stopped discharging raw sewage 1.50mi from this bathing wa… 📋 This bathing water was rated Excellent by the EA ⏰ This discharge started at 03:59 04/08/2026, and ended at 04:39 04/08/2026 🔗 https://sewagedata.co.uk/?asset=NWL00164
Nigel Farage says Reform UK would use the Navy to stop people asking questions about their financial scandals.
Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy
Thank God there were no kids playing in that park this morning. Overturned car leaves Barton playground badly damaged | The Northern Echo share.google/jWxl0a1Ra76n... Drivers being drivers. And there are still those who'll try to resist a 20mph speed limit.
Pictures show damage as car 'flips and smashes into park' in village near Darlington
Fencing and playground equipment were left damaged, and a telephone pole was felled in a village near Darlington after a car is believed to have…
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Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs - BBC News share.google/ipEqcSL8xSQl... <Shocked face>
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
President Donald Trump had blamed "sick" vandals, and a former Olympian had been charged, but prosecutors now say contractors caused the damage.
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Reform's vote share in Greater Manchester went from 31% in the local elections in May to 21% in the Mayoral election. I can only think of five million reasons for this.
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
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%.
🟢 "In a 2023 review in the Journal of Pediatrics, Gray and his co-authors argue that as children’s chances for independent activity fell, young people’s mental wellbeing fell too. " 🥲 Heartbreaking but essential reading for those with young children. artfulparent.com/m-the-childr...
The children of the 1960s and 70s weren't born tougher — they grew up with the kind of unstructured, unsupervised time one researcher thinks quietly builds resilience - The Artful Parent
We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or child-development researchers. What follows is our reading of the research on childhood and resilience, not advice for any particular…
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When you don't recognise that all human life is priceless, I guess it's easy to go from othering minorities to accepting higher levels of human sacrifice at the altar of capitalist greed. All builders deserve to go home safe, at the end of every shift.
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · last wk.Richard Tice would like us to go back to a time when there were seven times as many deaths on construction sites, so a few people make an even bigger profit.
Farage self proclaimed man of the people focuses on the number one issue worrying every household in UK It’s not Cost of Living Crisis, it’s not worrying about losing jobs, education, or healthcare It’s Millionaires leaving UK.. yup 😱 Fun Fact - Millionaire Farage used a tax haven to avoid tax🤷🏼♂️
A weather model suggests temperatures of almost 50 degrees are possible in France. Anyone who claims there is no climate change, who disparages science in this field, or who denies that human activity is the cause, is making a statement that has nothing to do with reality #ClimateEmergency #FarRight
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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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.
