www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This seems like a great idea. I don't think the govt will go for it because it's too empowering and progressive. But I remain in hope.

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

so they're closing the West Coast Main Line for a week, huh? the single line connecting London to four of Britain's next five biggest urban conurbations? that's mad, weird that no one's ever thought to build an alternative route, perhaps even one that runs at a high speed, too. crazy

I'm very proud of my friends and colleagues for making this.

We won't sell out our neighbours, our community, humanity or the planet.

We have no desire to appease racists, dictators, sociopathic corporations or spoilt oligarchs.

We are of the community and serve the community - in solidarity.

Greens Secure Landmark £3.5M Investment to Transform Hertford’s Historic Castle Grounds - East Herts Green Party From Hertford Town Council Leader and Green Town and District Councillor Alex Daar: “As Green Hertford Town Councillors we are delighted that our bid for a £3.5 million grant from the National Heritag...

eastherts.greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/24/g...
This is great news. Much needed investment in the heart of Hertford.

I'm so pleased that we, as a council, persevered with this; and grateful for the massive effort from our award winning😎 HTC staff in securing the funding. 🎉

Religious people don't hold the monopoly on moral and philosophical insights. Far from it. It's high time the BBC recognised this.

Brilliant

A reminder that it wasn't an abundance of rationalism that caused the Nazi genocide but an abhorance of it.

I completed my first day challenge of 26. I'm going to get into the habit of meditation. Hopefully. 10 minutes a day of thinking about nothing.
And our local party could do with the donations. (We're not funded by oligarchs, developers or shady foreign interest groups)

Leafletting kit - cut resistant gloves a new addition for extra finger protection.

Cllrs Ben Crystall, Rachel Carter & me

Today I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of new artworks by local secondary school students. These fantastic pictures transform a Hertford subway into a gallery. Thanks to Herts County Council for leading the initiative. #Hertford #PublicArt #Herts #MayorofHertford #Hertfordshire #HCC

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Labour in this current blue labour hard right incarnation are just appalling. It's not just that they are legitimising far-right arguments: it seems they are fully onboard with them.

This is fantastic news. Well done to everyone involved for not giving up on Ward Freman Pool.

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white

Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.

What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.

Great read as always.

Crime survey for England Wales, showing strong decline since 1996. Source: Office for National Statistics. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingjune2025

UK prison population, showing major rise in England and Wales during the period in which crime has fallen. Source: House of Commons Library https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04334/

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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Wow! Are Labour trying to get their polling down to single figures?

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

More cities will follow in time as they realise they are poisoning their citizens

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Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.

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Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

anyone who thinks the way to head off the tide of fascism is by limiting the range of political choices to either fascists or pro business neoliberal technocrats is dooming us to fascism. David Graeber.

One of the most important political messages on the internet.

We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman

We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

Another extraordinarily stupid & gratuitously nasty policy from Labour, sold under the entirely false pretence that it will promote "integration". Who do they think they're kidding with this nonsense?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

Let's make hope normal again.

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