It's no accident we see "carrots", such as nudges or behaviour change programmes, overrepresented in policy tools used to effect modal change.

We need a “new normal” with regard to mobility, which sees sustainable travel as default not an alternative and which actively disrupts current patterns.

a photo of some women making large camoflage nets

Making camouflage nets for the War Department, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, Calif. Dorothea Lange, 1942

In 1942, Lange was commissioned to photograph the U.S. Government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Her negatives were impounded by the Army; she did not see them until 1964.

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

d. The husband jumping in and trying to help wiht "we're not devil worshippers or anything.."
e. The Abbey backs its secruity guard but also allows the possibility they were a bit over zealous.
f. The proposed solution is tea and cake in the cafe to chat it all through.
Love all of this.

‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers

1/2 Things I love about this story.
a. It's ridiculous.
b. The security guard was trying to do the right thing.
c. The person it happened to thought it silly and "a bit annoying" but goes with it and doesn't imply she's been traumatised..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Huge Range Rover that looks like a tank.

They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.

And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.

This is not a serious society.

🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social

About 40% of migrants eventually return to their parent countries, according to this, which is one of the many, many facts that is never aired in the never-ending debate over immigration in Britain.

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

The newly-released documents show communication between Jeffrey Epstein and numerous high profile individuals, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and former White House senior counselor Steve Bannon.

When the world’s most notorious paedo says you’re a terrible person….

X is a radicalisation machine that pushes people into angry extremism, peddles disinformation and conspiracy theories and is run by an egomaniacal lunatic who threatens civil war on our streets and wants to trash our democracy.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.

They didn't want my blood, but they probably want yours! I went to give blood today, but due to a v minor medical issue they couldn't take it. Yet they told me they do need donors. As I couldn't help by giving, instead, I thought i'd publicise this... www.blood.co.uk

www.propublica.org/article/port... Calling the Times media correspondent, here’s an amazing story about dishonest TV news editing that I’m sure you will be covering

Uffington

Over the hill

That final point is absolutely crucial.

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better

Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.

We need to protect our institutions

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.

Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

We should defend the values and effort at accuracy of the BBC in a Trumpian world of wilful inaccuracy and hypocrisy, but this seems on the face of it to be an excessive response to a politically motivated attack

The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.

Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel 9th November: quick rundown of some classic autocratic behaviours over the past few days in America

quick rundown of some classic autocratic behaviours over the past few days in America Covering attacking enemies, helping allies, cowing institutions and purging the military

All actions and more on www.trumpactiontracker.info?

youtu.be/Mx4c4JfgLeU

He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot