Pippa Sandford

Poster for BANZAI cargo bike hire: Borrow an electric cargo bike for free! Take the kids for a ride! Move things! Go shopping! Have fun! Bruntsfield based. Never used a cargo bike? We'll help you get started. BANZAI Bikes Community Cargo Bike Library banzaiedinburgh.org.uk

🆓 Did you know you can borrow a electric cargo bike FOR FREE to transport people 👩‍👧‍👦or bulky/heavy things 📦

@banzaiedinburgh.bsky.social has this fab cargo bike library service based in Bruntsfield and you can get started with a quick sign up

banzaiedinburgh.org.uk/banzai-cargo...

New report confirms local government crisis is growing The Institute for Government’ annual review of the state of local government, published last week, paints an alarming picture

Since 2009: spending on preventative children’s services is down 79%.
Spending on crisis care up 71%.

Local government has turned from community building to damage control.

Stephen McNair reports

We see you Zack Polanski 👀

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I try not to do politics on here, but this absolutely needs sharing ❤️

Hey, folks, please check out the new Drawdown Explorer.

It’s the world’s leading resource for science-backed climate solutions. And now it provides the most up-to-date, localized, actionable intelligence to help scale these solutions out in the world.

Drawdown.org/explorer

The UK privatised all their Fossil Fuel, Power Plants and Electricity transmission.

Norway still owns all of theirs.

The price in the UK for 1 Kwh is 26.5p.

Norway reduce their cost to 3p on Oct 1st.

9x cheaper, the ripoff is insane.

Tommy Robinson tapping into disquiet in country, says minister Business Secretary Peter Kyle says Robinson has been able to tap into a years-long sense of grievance in the country.

This is so overwhelmingly the wrong message it's untrue.

1) Says to people with genuine concerns that the way to express them is like this
2) Legitimises a minority of thugs led by a convicted hooligan
3) Implies the country is more broken than it is

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not that kind of free speech, exhibit 578964.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

If your mate formed a useless indie band called Asylum Hotels they would get bigger crowds than this

So Texas Republicans have now set up a TIP LINE to rat out the Texas Democrats

So PLEASE, for the sake of the public, DO NOT FLOOD THIS NUMBER with tips on Bigfoot sightings, UFO sightings, or asking why Trump is on “the list”

1-866-786-5972

Thank you!

Loove the new parking protected bike lane on Main st in cambridge between Kendall and Central sq.

Much better than the dangerous door zone lane they had before.

Really feels like a missing piece of the puzzle has been filled in!

Great job Cambridge! 👏👏

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Now 26 hours since we had a water supply here in Linslade, with optimistic successive 6-hour deadlines for fixing it raising our hopes. Though last time they eventually stopped doing that and admitted it'd be several days before we had water again. Currently waiting for a lampost to be moved. Sigh

excited for Dan Hannan's fireworks party later today!!

'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!' Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes

🔴'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'

Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

I’m extremely chuffed by just how well the below article has done - who knew public procurement frameworks could be so popular!

Thanks to @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and @eastangliabylines.co.uk for sharing it so far and wide, and for all the lovely comments and DMs.

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Armin Küpper ARMIN KÜPPER | PIPELINEFUNK - concert / Saxophone jamsession & crazy natural echo from the pipeline

Love this sax / pipe duet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Gc...

Will no one think of the boys?

Draft response to Ed Martin's demand that the New England Journal of Medicine answer his political questions.

(link below)

Friends and gardeners in Leighton Buzzard - a reminder that South Beds Friends of the Earth have a Plant Sale this Saturday, 10:30 to 12:30, in the car park next to Linslade Memorial Gardens. Here's a sample! Tea & coffee available too

What a wonderful expression!

😊 outside the great female/trans owned @mtbookco.bsky.social

It was indeed, as DJT put it so clearly, a “great time to buy”: just a few hours before the announcement of his latest tariff policy change would send the market soaring — back to about where it was when his last tariff policy change sent it crashing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

I wish there was some fancy economic term for when a person deliberately lowers the price of every single stock on the planet before then raising them all with a wave of their hand, in a manner you might say would grant immediate, near-infinite wealth to anyone informed of such plans beforehand.

Do you not own a suit

Re the replica iron age roundhouse, check out 'Living in the Past', an early stab at reality TV where a group of people constructed an iron age village and lived in it for a year. Beeb, I think, about 1977 or 8.