When you book a ferry from UK to NL, you are clearly shown harbour tax as well as environmental taxes (latter is 45 euro for a family of 4). When you book a flight from UK to NL you are being congratulated on your children no longer having to pay Airport Passenger Duty 🔥🌎 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social

A windfall tax on the big banks. Support our small businesses.

'The tunnel is only at about 50% capacity - there's huge room for more rail services' @jonworth.eu #FlightFreeMovement #CrossChannelRail

Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 3w ago

The complete interview I did with Green Signals about all the Channel Tunnel news is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6znQ... This was recorded before this week's news about paths for Virgin Trains, a solid step forward for them that should surprise no one #CrossChannelRail

Great to see this major reserach project concluding that children's lungs are developing far better in London following sustained action to reduce air pollution. A significant step to reducing health and social inequities 🫁 @london.gov.uk 👏👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

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I'm with the local green party on this one. Subjective safety is very important to enable cycling for women. And feeling safe is very important so they are absolutely correct in objecting to this. This proposal sounds like it's just convenient and easy to the council. road.cc/news/greens-...

"If you can’t get Greens to back one cycle lane, then what are you ever going to get support for?": Green Party councillors in Bath oppose lit, protected bike lane through park

Local Green Party councillors in Bath have re-stated their opposition to a segregated cycle lane through a park in the city, arguing the additional lighting set to be installed is insufficient to prev...

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In summary, a load of men talking about women's safety and going 'well I'm fine so I don't see what the problem is' while the Green Party line is actually based on evidence and the experience of women.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 3w ago

New Nimby Watch! This time: the Greens have taken on housing developments and pylons, but Bath's Green Party has a new adversary – cycle lanes. capx.co/why-are-bath...

Well that’s one way to avoid Parliamentary Standards scrutiny for a few weeks. Wonder how Clacton will feel about Farage not even turning up to the count? And thank you @countbinface.bsky.social for running a decent and necessary campaign.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 4w ago

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election ➡️ FARAGE: 22,239 (+1,014) - 62.8% 🗑️ BINFACE: 9,455 (NEW) - 26.7% 44.37% turnout Changes w/ 2024

😔“In 2005, about 7.5% of the UK’s front gardens were paved; by 2025 that had risen to 55%” “… changing paved gardens back to grass could reduce night-time temperatures by as much as 0.5C, and adding trees would double the benefit”

Weatherwatch: Paving over front gardens is leading to hotter nights

Changing paved areas to grass and planting trees can reduce urban heat island effect by as much as 1C, study shows

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Anyone thinking Burnham might be alright… he’s immediately coming after disabled people like Starmer tried and failed to do. Anyone thinking he might focus on wealth tax is deluding themselves. It’s just more of the same old austerity and let them eat cake just with a different accent.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last mo.

#GMB: "On welfare.. [Burnham] says he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits.. so in his words 'you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits'"

Every time someone digs up a main road in Manchester, they find the old tram lines buried beneath the pavement. And I cry at what we could have had.

Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · last mo.

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?

My talented brothers in law made it into the Guardian with their video game 🤩 "And this is all being funnelled through a queer and dark lens – like the best vampire stories are." www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Red Kiss – guiding vampires through a blood-soaked cold war Berlin

Inspired by interactive theatre and fuelled by the motion capture tech used by VTubers, the vampire spies in Red Kiss have personality in spades

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Does your council allow / encourage pavement parking? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pavement parking allowed by half of councils in England

Disability charities say the practice makes streets harder to navigate for wheelchair users and people with limited sight.

bbc.co.uk

Teenager injured WHILE SITTING ON BENCH in hit and run in 10mph Royal Victoria Park in Bath 😫 Do we need to shift our campaigning from safe streets to safe benches and parks?! www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2026/07...

Witness appeal after fail to stop collision in Bath | Avon and Somerset Police

Witness appeal after fail to stop collision in Bath

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This is an appalling lack of judgement and the surest sign yet that Britain will continue to be Trump's lackey. The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it. Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.

LiveSquawk@livesquawknews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Burnham Approves Use Of UK Bases For Some US Strikes On Iran - BBG www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you're a Progressive Labour member and were waiting to win back the soul of the party, your last hope just loudly announced his defection to the reactionary right by keeping Mahmood as Home Sec and making Healey chancellor. Join the real progressives: join.greenparty.org.uk

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So much for a fresh start with Burnham. New oil and gas won't cut bills or make Britain more energy secure. But they will lock us into more climate damage. It's time to invest in clean energy, warm homes and the jobs of the future - not to double down on the fuels of the past.

Kidical Mass in Bath today 🎉 We are calling for safer streets! #streetsforkids

Throwback to the June #kidicalmass Bath 🤩 Join us on Sunday for the last ride before the summer holidays. 📅 Sun 19 July 🕒 2pm 📍 Orange Grove (next to the Abbey) Whether you're riding solo, with grandkids, with your own kids, or just want safer streets, come along!

Cycling with disabled children isn't just "can they ride a bike?" It's whether they can make the actual journey needed. Kate Ball shares her family's story: rear-steer tandems, trikes, e-tandems, and years of trial and error. www.cyclesprog.co.uk/inspiration/... @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk

The right cycle for the journey: cycling with disabled children

From rear-steer tandems to e-bikes, Kate Ball shares practical advice on cycling with disabled children for everyday journeys.

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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

🥵 As it’s the 2nd UK heatwave of the year, it’s worth saying that a 4-day week would: - reduce carbon emissions to prevent Summers getting even hotter - give you an extra day to either enjoy the weather, or hide from it somewhere cool, and not have to sweat it away at work!

If you’re out there championing electric vehicles without also championing significantly fewer and smaller vehicles driven less due to better cities providing less car dependency and more legitimate transportation choices, read this thread to understand why you’re less than half right. #EVs

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2y ago

THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS

If you need some morning cheer: baby bottlenose dolphins choose their own name and are called by it by others throughout their lives. We need to #Unlearn so much of what we've been taught about non-human animals #AnimalSentience spacedaily.com/d-within-the...

Within the first few months of life, every bottlenose dolphin invents a unique whistle that becomes its name for the rest of its life — and other dolphins learn that whistle, remember it, and use it t...

The proposition that another animal species besides humans uses personal names was, for essentially the entire history of comparative animal cognition

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Compelling speech from Guy Hodgson yesterday @bath-bicyclist.bsky.social, and when Council Leader Kevin Guy accidently thanks 'Councillor Hodgson' he makes our point perfectly.....when moving at speed, us humans easily make mistakes! That's why... bath20mphcity.org

Children's mental health is at a crisis point, experts fear, as lack of funding and wider societal issues have hit some regions harder.

North of England hit hardest by 'children's mental health crisis' as funding gaps widen

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We support @livingstreets.bsky.social #PavementOverload campaign to get delivery robots off our pavements. Pavements are already inaccessible for many #Disabled people, and these robots will make them less safe and more inaccessible. #TakingTheDis

Living Streets@livingstreets.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delivery robots are taking over UK pavements, causing chaos for pedestrians, despite having no laws allowing their use 🤖 Our Pavement Overload campaign is in the Guardian: https://bit.ly/4pdAuYx

Very glad to see @livingstreets.bsky.social standing up for streetspace for people not delivery robots. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths

Exclusive: Safety campaigners concerned about plan for widespread deployment on already crowded pavements

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The fact delivery robots - despite being small motor vehicles - aren't on the roads with all the other motor vehicles is inadvertently very revealing about the dangerous state of our roads

Living Streets@livingstreets.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delivery robots are taking over UK pavements, causing chaos for pedestrians, despite having no laws allowing their use 🤖 Our Pavement Overload campaign is in the Guardian: https://bit.ly/4pdAuYx

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...