It’s illustrative to recognise when the Guardian uses the word investment (straightforward handing over cash to the private sector) and when it uses spending (welfare, public sector wages)

“A caring health system would place staff and patient health and wellbeing at the centre of policy decisions and promote improved public transport and active travel options as a way to achieve this, while also contributing to wider environmental and public health benefits.“

A York university staff parking permit is 0.6% of salary up to £400 p.a. www.york.ac.uk/about/transp...

(which is a good thing btw)

A Sussex university staff parking permit is £360 to £540 per year depending on salary grade
www.sussex.ac.uk/estates/serv...

This is a great data visualisation.

It clearly shows why policy interventions that support/subsidise driving tend to not just miss an opportunity to reduce inequality, they are likely to entrench inequality, because those in the most deprived areas will derive the least benefit.

Are Bike Lanes Actually Ruining Our Cities? YouTube video by Global Cycling Network

Inspired by this video youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk I thought I'd explore some of the statistics around car access and deprivation with some #datavis and analysis.

Usefully, the 2021 Census in the UK asked questions around car ownership as well as many aspects of 'deprivation'. So here is 📊 🧵... [1/8]

I fell off my bike once and fractured my elbow. Went to A&E and the doctor asked me if I was wearing a helmet at the time (I was not). I didn't say "would that have protected my elbow?" but I think the look I gave him possibly conveyed that message.

Free school meals for every primary child is such an obviously positive thing for health equity and academic outcomes, hence London, Wales and Scotland all taking it up. Not doing it in the rest of England is emblematic of the Labour govt's "things-can't-get-better" attitude to everything.

The govt is announcing plans to overhaul school dinners in England

Jon Kay asks education minister Olivia Bailey: "Will you be giving schools extra money?"

The answer is no.

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Green Party launch (credit, Roger Close)

The Green Party has launched its manifesto for the Oxford City Council elections, pledging to build a ‘fairer, greener and more equal city’. They say that the manifesto was written following thousands of doorstep conversations with voters and responds to the big issues that residents have raised.

We're getting people in Gipton and Harehills active one bike at a time!
Working with The Big Bike Fix we've been taking used bikes, giving them a bit of TLC and putting them back into the hands of people ready to put them to use!

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7)
➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0)
🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5)
🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6)
🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9)

No Ind (-3.0) as previous.

Green GAIN from Reform UK.
Changes w/ 2025.

Indeed. A quick Google suggests a residents parking permit in Cardiff is £35 ...

A beautiful tabby and white cat with long fur is taking intense interest in James's clipboard. James is bending down to say hello to the cat, in a grey and white plaid shirt.

The orange and white cat is saying hello to James.

This Lye valley cat is always purr-fectly happy to see @jamesthorniley.bsky.social and hear about @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social policies!

The Dream (Green) Team for Oxford!!! 🤩💚

James in a park

Lye Valley: @jamesthorniley.bsky.social

James Thorniley is a local campaigner, parent and school governor who has lived with his young family in Lye Valley ward for eight years. He is a software engineer for an independent online radio and music platform.

Warneford 200 Exhibition - Warneford 200 Warneford 200 Exhibition Step into 200 years of mental health care history in Oxfordshire and trace the story of the Warneford Hospital from its early 19th-century beginnings to its role today at the ...

Headington and east Oxford people: don't miss the Warneford Hospital 200 anniversary travelling exhibition at Brookes and Headington library until the 17th April!
warneford200.co.uk/events-calen...

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.

Screen grab of a Mirror article with a photo of Zack Polanski in a suit and white shirt speaking and looking active, with text: Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking at the launch of the Wales (PA) Green Party plans to reduce the speed limit on Britain's motorways to 55mph One major change under the party's new plans is reducing the speed limit on our motorways from 70mph to just 55mph - a decision that will split opinions between both motorists and non-motorists

The many media outlets calling @greenparty.org.uk transport policy a “war on motorists” should try talking to bereaved families and seriously injured survivors of road crashes rather than ignoring the trauma and pain left when people drive without considering the harm they may cause at the wheel.

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

If you happen to be in Oxford today, the far right are mounting a protest against Lush and its staff at the Westgate at noon. We'll be assembling from 11.30 to counter-protest

The Coldest Cold Email: Oracle’s 30,000-Person Layoff Is a Preview of What’s to Come A 6 a.m. message signed “Oracle Leadership” just ended tens of thousands of careers. Here’s what it means — and what to do if you’re next.

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today.

Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

The dark side of Raise the Colours Early on Tuesday evening, amid rush-hour traffic, a ‘Highway Maintenance’-branded van was openly stationed on Abingdon Road affixing St George’s flags to lamp-posts. We ask who is behind it – and why ...

On Tuesday, activists from ‘Raise the Colours’ erected flags along Abingdon Road in broad daylight. We ask who is behind it – and why the campaign is so controversial. oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

Not enough that Reform has a 24/7 cheerleading channel (GB News)—they also get 37 mins live on the BBC, while the Greens' press conf. don’t even get a mention.

Is Ofcom asleep, or selectively awake?

And the BBC?Are they failing to do their jobs, or doing exactly what they’ve decided their job is?

Are you saying refuse collections have been cancelled due to the new bicycle parking?

So many buses (Image by Roger Close)

More people are taking the bus since Oxford's temporary congestion charge was introduced say Oxfordshire County Council. Data from six local bus companies including Oxford Bus Company shows an 8% increase vs prior year since the introduction of the charge.

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...