Simon Munk

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Ah yes, but all roads justice resources should be directed at those evil scofflaw cyclists running down Visually Impaired people at bus stops nonstop everywhere. Or put another way, when law is updated for cycling and driving to match on causing death will killer cyclist sentences go down or up? Hmm

Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Bob' in One Battle After Another, dressed in shades, beany hat and plaid dressing gown clasps his hands in thanks for Benecio Del Toro's Sensei, holding out a music instrument case that conceals a rifle towards Bob.

Benicio Del Toro's sublime Sensei is the warm, revolutionary heart of the film. He's there to point out a revolutionary path through all of this chaos that 'works' - kindness, calmness, "no fear". That's how you resist 'the man' and build a progressive movement despite one battle after another.

YouTube video by Warner Bros. UK & Ireland One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

Saw One Battle After Another at IMAX last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQ... If you liked Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, it has similarities. It's a spectacularly good film - warm, funny, political, sharp, complex, and incredible cinematography & acting. And I wanted to say one thing...

The entire case for HS2, indeed high speed rail in general, is dismissed without any explanation while demanding sympathy & simultaneously ignoring roadbuilding at £10s of bns, Lower Thames Crossing, climate crisis, freight & vehicle volumes & potential for mode shift etc. "Flimsy" pot meet kettle.

IMO David's airy rhetoric approach is sadly increasingly common. On one hand, entire teams at newspapers are beavering away clearly trying to find folks who have been impacted significantly by HS2 and even then the piece admits "the valley does also contain pylons and the busy A413". On the other...

Also cough cough Susan Hall etc. The piece asked for comment from City Hall Conservative team who stoked anti ULEZ vandals. Strangely enough no comment has been forthcoming.

This is what happens when politicians act bravely and deliver progressive change. Notable from the news story where other metro mayors are still deliberating and delaying on such measures, they still have illegal air quality issues. Cough cough Manchester & Andy Burnham, Liverpool & Birmingham...

a man in a suit and tie is holding a fire extinguisher in his hand . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a fire extinguisher in his hand .

Amazing! Just popping over to see how this is going down on that other place... Ah...

Back lastly on the idiotic title of this idiocy. Turning a tide is famously something you can't do despite a past English king's attempts. And of course, it's current utterly distasteful rhetoric & pandering to far right racists around small boats & immigration that Labour needs to turn away from.

Labour can turn a rising green tide is by not assuming that the sizeable majority of UK voters, who want fairly progressive politics & something done about the climate crisis, are morons with zero memory and nowhere else to put their votes. This kind of Punch & Judy politics needs to get in the sea.

Title for this Labour conference session is quite startling. Labour has lurched rightwards in an apparent attempt to stave off Reform. That approach has unsurprisingly failed. Now they want to stop a "rising Green tide" as if it's not OK to want progressive politics or to save planet. The way...

Oops. Outside North America. Sorry folks in US but not in North America.

Folks outside the USA who do urbanism, active travel etc. including me & @londoncycling.bsky.social. Starter pack of key follows from key follow & top urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social.

Would be honoured to be added if you think suitable...

Checking out: The varying performance of high streets across the country - Centre for Cities This report identifies four key reasons why high street vacancy rates vary so much from city to city and how to improve their fortunes.

Politicians, shopkeepers & landowners not getting it.
1. Car parking outside shop serves shop manager. Not shop.
2. More deckchairs < economic conditions. Make structural changes to town.
3. Stuff to 'do' not just 'buy'.
4. No big box chain rivals on outskirts
www.centreforcities.org/publication/...

What is your town centre 'for' in this day & age? What does it offer you that the internet can't? And why can't politicians see that if everyone in your town is struggling, the centre will no matter how many giant deckchairs you put out? Town centres aren't a sodding mystery, despite most...

The far right from both sides of the pond hates London & our Mayor. Why would that be?
Is it because they're racists who can't stand the way Londoners generally just get on with each other?
Love, tolerance and diversity > racist, fascist hate.

That sir, I contend, is a perfectly reasonable question. To which I have no, I tell you, no answer.

Cycling really does give you wings! Watching a toddler soar up front whilst a retired tandem duo found their turbo mode was a definite ride highlight. Magical to see bikes bring out the joy in everyone, at every age, on this fun Kingston ride. @londoncycling.bsky.social @kingstoncycling.bsky.social

Me on Oxford street

Ermygadddd, I’ve been on Oxford Street with my daughter today as it’s been traffic free.

What a total buzz 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

All we could hear was people chatting and laughing, and not ONE engine. It was delicious. And of course people are here in huge numbers. … 1/11

I’m down at the Oxford Street car free day and I can already tell this is going to be an exceptionally joyous event. I’ll share some highlights!

Absolutely brilliant to open the Royal Docks Corridor this morning.

The GLA & Newham teams have transformed this dangerous industrial road into a wonderful new public space - complete with a fab cycle lane, crossings, new lighting, beautiful planting and flood resilience.

Angry drivers. A tiny handful of people taking up a massive amount of space. Nearly all were black cabs or sports cars. Many of those journeys could be and should be done other ways. While Oxford Street needs to go motor traffic free all the areas around it in the West End need to go low traffic.

Lots of people walking and enjoying the middle of the road on Oxford Street.

Lots of people in the middle of the road on Oxford Street.

Bumped into @willnorman.co.uk on Oxford Street today and told him pedestrianisation isn't going to go 'far enough'. What a stunning day. Huge crowds showing what is clearly overdue - the traffic needs to go and even then the street is massively crowded. Some of the cross streets had quite a few...

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Blocked that guy. Life is too short.

You're the one pontificating on something you clearly don't understand having read a Telegraph article or a JKR tweet. That makes you not only deeply illiberal but a bit of a joke that you are cosplaying a liberal while dodging any questions that would highlight your repugnant views. Blocked. Sigh.

Trans people have been found through history, medical procedures & gender recognition law goes back decades. The "new ideology" here is 'trans women aren't women'. So, yes it is you being illiberal when you don't understand history or medical evidence & despite that tell people what they aren't...

When you side with folks like Glinner & JKR as you do, when you basically tell a small proportion of the population but one that has essentially been around for the whole of history that they don't really exist, despite all the medical professionals and experts helping them, you're not a liberal.