I did this some years ago to tell the other side of that story.

Parking shapes our streets more than most people realise.

Today we’ve launched Ahead of the Kerb: a new report on the hidden costs of parking, and how we can use parking policy better to create people-first cities

👉 transform.scot/2026/04/21/h...

Breakfast - 20/04/2026 The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team.

You can watch the moment on iPlayer here. From 6m and 10s into the programme.

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Two women in black rain coats and orange hats containing the words "Dutch Cycling Embassy" cycle side-by-side on the streets on Leipzig.

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So much of our language reflects
the common “car first” bias around our streets, & we should never forget that much of that language was the result of deliberate campaigns to specifically re-write our perspective of streets as “for cars only.” This is one of the more subtle, but important, examples.

Hopefully recorded

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an image of a person with a pushchair on a suburban street. Several cars are parked inconsiderably on the side of the road next to a brick wall. The sky is overcast.

Join us online on 22 April at 10:30 for Pavement Parking: Reform, Road Safety & Local Enforcement.

This webinar will explore how local authorities can tackle pavement parking and improve safety, space and accessibility for all.

Register here: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4coeLXE

Most cyclists would know if they had to choose: a bike street is obviously much better than a street with bike lanes. But is that always and everywhere the case?

That’s to give up, how come this is possible ? Vision? Leadership?

As an aside, I’ve almost given up it sometimes seems hopeless.

Too late to turn to Europe? How Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset ran out of road

What is missing from this pretty accurate long assessment of UK-EU ties is the bigger picture vision from either side as to the future of Europe in the age of unreliable superpowers - and that is what will have to change for the relationship to move on fundamentally. www.ft.com/content/2007...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

As much as I love a good bollard, I don’t want my world to be full of them.

I will report back when I receive a reply to my FoI request

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

The technological equivalent to Mad Cow Disease

We all need to lodge an official complaint. It takes no time at all, and I've dropped a link to BBC Complaints in the comments. This is shocking.

Is this actually real? Surely not!

It's probably down to the landowner but also the stores should demand "upgrades". Both my Lidl stores are good,(I live equidistant from 2)

My local Lidl scores positive all counts.

FT Exclusive: Germany and France have called for Ukraine to be granted 'symbolic' benefits in a pre-accession phase that excludes EU farming subsidies and voting rights. ft.trib.al/XV6nqYA

I'm a big fan of the podcast anyway but this hit two green flags for me. Great episode.

Welcome to Newcastle.

Everyone knew. This from Rachel Gilmour Sept 2025 in Hansard

"As if not already bad enough, this murky affair has
been thickened by the fact that a source from MI6 has
reportedly claimed that they failed to clear Mandelson
and warned that his links to the man I refuse to name
“would compromise him"

This is the way

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Thank you again for your sensitive and perceptive writing @kenanmalik.bsky.social

Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

Corporate capture of the state.

The Post Office with help from Fujitsu, accountants, lawyers illegally convicted postmasters for fraud.

£1.5bn+ compensation paid from public purse. Perpetrators paid ZERO.

No one charged/prosecuted for lying in courts. Fujitsu gets govt contracts.

Who governs?

Ageing: the condition of becoming less serious about all you were once far too serious about and more serious about all that you once undervalued.

How to get around by @davewalker.bsky.social for @cyclinguk.bsky.social

It takes a minute and might make a difference.

Any action to ban pavement parking has to be a good thing.

Pavements are for pedestrians.