Slowly getting back to flying on BlueSky after a hiatus, how's things going - still a mostly positive platform?

Happy May Morning from the historic Oxford celebration of nature and people dating back over 500 years

There is ‘a will and a way’ to green Paris - Eurocities Christophe Najdovski, Paris Deputy Mayor speaks about the recent vote to close 500 streets to cars and reallocate them to pedestrians, cyclists and green space.

🌿Paris is turning the car-centric model of urban design on its head. Following a historic vote, Parisians voted to close 500 streets to cars and reallocate them to pedestrians, cyclists, and green space. → eurocities.eu/latest/there...

#UrbanMobility #GreenerCities #SustainableCities #PublicSpace

Canada elects Mark Carney. Mexico has Claudia Sheinbaum. Two climate champs now flank a denier. This is a moment for bold, coordinated action. Let’s go. 🌎🔥 #ClimateAction #GameOn #Carney #Sheinbaum #Trump

If you need motivation to vote, this should do it! We will never be the 51st state! Vote #TeamCarney everywhere. We need to stand up to our southern bully! #CanadaStrong 💪❤️🇨🇦 #elxn2025

Stop the Tories and Reform Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.

Worth checking:
stopreformuk.vote

UK insights: Climate and Net Zero are positives in most voters minds. Labour should be focused on not loosing Green and Lib Dem minded voters more than Reform.

Here's what the all-new Ice Bucket Challenge is all about The Ice Bucket Challenge Returns: Now Aiming for Mental Health Awareness — And It's Raising Over £140,000 in its First Week

The ice bucket challenge is back, and so it seems is political polarisation over climate change - I'm hoping we have learnt how to deal with the latter better, but worry we're still acting like it's a bucket of water in our face rather than somethign we can navigate www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-bucket-c...

Amazing afternoon on the tandem with the legend that is @DomWhiting & 1000+ riders enjoying the tunes around Oxford. Never seen so many smiles

a chart showing rising cliamte dneial in aus

The highest level of reported climate denial in Australia for a looong time

Has been rising consistently since 2021

essentialreport.com.au/questions/cl...

'If the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood got taken away, I would be really upset' Angharad Hughes says those in support of the EBLN are often unfairly targeted online

"I love my car. I can’t manage without it, but it’s not actually a God given right to have a car and drive around." View from a Bristolian, with a blue badge. who is desperate to keep their LTN. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Wow, the Trump effect on the Canadian's voting intentions is colossal.

After two years of huge polling leads, the Conservatives have hemorrhaged support because of the perceptions of their closeness to Trump and following his anti-Canada rhetoric

Track the terrifying progress of Trump's Project 2025 playbook. When I first heard of this handbook of democratic and decency destruction I was horrified - they’re already about a third of the way through it.

www.project2025.observer?utm_source=w...

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla saw car sales drop by 59% year-on-year in Germany last month
Will the richest man on the planet be that bothered? Does the social distancing Tesla is receiving damage the brand or fuel an elitist narrative?
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/19/o...

'It has been a disaster!' Fisherman blasts Brexit in scathing analysis: 'This has cost us dearly' It has been five years today since Britain decided to leave the EU

This is what populism does;
1. Create a simple enemy (EU)
2. Repeatedly communicate its threat to a cherished national industry/identity/way of living (fishing)
3. offer a simple solution (Brexit)
4. Take no responsibility when the people u used r screwed over

www.gbnews.com/news/brexit-...

Reform Revises Energy Policies to ‘Direction of Travel’ Only Yesterday, Reform UK unveiled a set of energy ‘policies’ to issue a 'stark warning' in a press conference on Net Zero, hosted by Richard Tice and Farage.

Reform's ridiculous energy plans ripped up less than 24 hours after they were announced

order-order.com/2025/02/13/r...

School streets are a start, but ultimately need to be integrated with safer feeder streets and wider initiatives like bus buses

They've already hit their target of rolling out 300 school streets, half of them relanscaped

Over 600 school streets rolled out in London already

Paris has absolutely smashed school streets outside schools and leisure centres, starting with gating off streets and then completely re landscaping for the kids not the cars

90% of Lambeth's primary schools now have school streets in place - next stop secondary and independent schools.
Packed start to the National School Streets conference

So what difference does a school street make? A quick before and after video of the impact of one of our community schemes in Oxford

Graves damaged by 'appalling' drivers using Bristol cemetery as shortcut Drivers are using the cemetery regularly to avoid traffic jams.

If drivers can do this to the dead no wonder we need traffic restrictions for the living. I'm often staggared by driver pyscology but in what mindset is it OK to drive through a cemetry and damage graves to be able to avoid a traffic jam. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

I'm also looking forward to seeing the funding behind your work, transparency is clearly important to you so please do share who's bankrolling your campaigns.

I'm quite surprised at the personal vitriol in the post from a transport professional whose organisation has such a close association with a climate change projects. Road transport is the largest source of emissions in the UK

It's become such a divisive issue partly/largely because those politicians whose parties previously backed the schemes have apped the narratives of the opponents in a vain attempt to win votes. The result has however fueled support for opponents

Just remembering the power of music

UK’s 20mph speed limits ‘are cutting car insurance costs’ Controversial safety policy has helped drive down premiums to 18-month low, says Confused.com

A national newspaper called me anti-motorist because of my support of 20mph speed limits in built up areas.

It turns out no other recent policy has done more to save drivers money.

Saving lives and saving money, what’s not to like?

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

School Streets are an important and highly successful part of improving pupil safety, air quality and active travel so it's an honour to be speaking at this national conference www.landorlinks.uk/school-stree...