Dr Matthew Hardy

Dr Matthew Hardy

@drmatthewhardy.bsky.social

Senior lecturer, journal editor, cyclist, recovering architect. The Arsenal. Head = Green, heart = Labour. #StillEuropean #FBPE #NAFO 💙🇺🇦 Crypto = blocked Also at https://mstdn.social/@drmatthewhardy/

3,256 Followers 4,539 Following 1,356 Posts Joined Oct 2023
13 hours ago
Mayor Sadiq Khan speaking to media in front of a fire engine and ambulance Mayor Sadiq Khan stands with seven police officers next to a police car Mayor Sadiq Khan speaks with two London ambulance workers in front of an ambulance A fire engine, police car and ambulance and equipment laid out indoors

It is neither inevitable nor acceptable that anyone is killed on London’s roads.

Today’s Vision Zero Action Plan launch at LAS HART Resilience Hub reinforces my commitment to ending road deaths.

There is more to do, but every step matters to make our city safer.

68 16 1 4
16 hours ago

Irony is dead (and buried, and dug up again, and then cremated).

128 40 7 1
1 day ago

It’s very strange that many headlines today are a about war making petroleum more expensive rather than war killing people, harming people, destroying the environment.

1,331 357 2 34
21 hours ago

We are still short of people to stand as Reform candidates in the local elections, so if you are a racist, an ex-con, a horrible twat or even just a bit thick and gullible, we'd like to hear from you.

454 94 18 5
18 hours ago
Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.

(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

134 71 9 9
18 hours ago
Post image

The Middle East is on fire, UK military bases are under attack, energy prices are going through the roof and the official opposition is spending its week wanging on about pictures of otters
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

909 214 106 21
4 days ago
Post image
329 97 12 3
4 days ago

Surprise, now Putin and Trumps little buddy Orban in Hungary is just blatantly stealing stuff that doesn't belong to him

0 0 0 0
4 days ago
Post image

Hear, hear!

Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm | Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

1 1 0 0
4 days ago
Post image

Patriots for Europe is an insult to actual European security.

They are a traitorous group that exists to sabotage our united defense and that will always put Russia before Ukraine

84 21 4 3
4 days ago
Post by Aaron Rupar summarizing an NBC interview in which a reporter presses a Trump administration official about easing oil sanctions benefiting Russia, with a split-screen image of the journalist and the official during the interview.

Trump never met a favor he couldn't do for his pal Vladimir.

1,074 216 29 4
4 days ago

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

1,261 198 75 3
4 days ago

You know, since the first modern oil crisis in the 70s it feels like we shouldn't have quadrupled down on oil dependency and car required living

150 34 2 3
4 days ago
Preview
US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.

A newly published video shows that a US Tomahawk missile hit a medical clinic inside an IRGC base and near a primary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab where the authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed.

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

201 96 3 4
4 days ago
3 3 0 0
5 days ago

That'll be the same USA that didn't join the first or second world wars to start with, will it?

0 1 1 0
5 days ago
Post image

Trump works for Putin. Plain & simple. I don’t know why, by now, anyone has a hard time saying that. Call Trump a Putin puppet, call him a Russian asset, whatever. The truth is the same. Trump works for Putin.

1,098 387 98 23
1 week ago

There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.

186 50 5 1
5 days ago

To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes. (1/3)

2,770 834 68 24
1 week ago

Well. This is an interesting thing from a council that gave control to Reform UK just under a year ago.

427 89 19 2
6 days ago
Brexit & Brexitism <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>

"It is a grim irony that the Brexiters, who set such store by sovereignty, demand total fealty to a foreign president. And a grim reminder of their bogus patriotism that they encourage and amplify the verbal attacks of that president upon their own country" chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com

1 1 0 0
6 days ago
Preview
Trump blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war Top Trump officials ordered it placed on hold over concerns that it could show the domestic risk of the war and further erode public support.

White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising U.S. homeland terror threat linked to Iran war

1,077 653 142 75
6 days ago
YouTube
Trump Lifts Sanctions On Russia As Putin Helps Iran Target Americans YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv

Putin cons Trump into lifting sanctions as Russia helps Iran murder Americans.

youtu.be/X_MedQ8eyb0

293 111 21 6
6 days ago
Preview
Poll: Reform UK is most disliked party in Britain Reform UK is now the most disliked party among British voters, according to new polling. A More in Common survey asked w

👀

https://unherd.com/newsroom/poll-reform-uk-is-most-disliked-party-in-britain

599 157 28 15
6 days ago

MPS should have only one job.

1 1 0 0
6 days ago
Preview
Four Years of Defiance Perhaps Ukraine will finally be rewarded for its incredible resilience

"Putin’s only victory since 2022 has been the re-election of Donald Trump"

Four Years of Defiance - by Arthur Snell - Not all doom arthursnell.substack.com/p/four-years...

2 1 0 0
6 days ago

I wonder how many hours he spent in Clacton by comparison?

12 5 1 1
6 days ago
Post image

This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs.

Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage.

Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.

314 232 43 9
1 week ago

Oil is up 30%

Wind & solar is unaffected

What technologies is the Trump administration promoting?

The one that puts money in their pockets.

83 34 2 0
1 week ago
Preview
It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

I think there is a vg case for the Alternative Vote (pluralist majoritarianism) UK's evolving party system - not least as of balanced use for voters on different sides of political spectrum. It allows sincere voting by every voter + strategic choices by those who care
www.ft.com/content/38d8...

277 82 28 22