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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Ah - fantastic!

Basil Length Extender The Basil Length Extender is the ultimate cargo adaptor for your bike. This ingenious rack bolts to your existing rear carrier and gives a significant amount of extra length to your carrying capacity....

Might something like this work?

curbsidecycle.com/products/bas...

We’re becoming immune to it, but it’s worth emphasizing:

In a country generally known for its good governance and good sense, *more than a third* of all seats in parliament are set to be won by the anti-immigrant populist far right

(PVV+BBB+JA21+FvD = 52 seats, out of 150)

A night time photo of the new Belfast Grand Central station with construction work on the public realm going on in the foreground. The station is illuminated in white light and has a series of angled roof sections with glass roof lights and a glass curtain wall adjacent to the bus stands. There is a white tower block to one end.

A day tine photo of the new Belfast Grand Central station with construction work on the public realm going on in the foreground. The station is pictured in front of the hills. It has a series of angled roof sections with glass roof lights and a glass curtain wall adjacent to the bus stands. There is a white tower block to one end.

Been working in Belfast recently and it’s good to see Grand Central complete and Weaver’s Cross development underway (though taxi drivers seem to be losing it over the closure of a road). Can still see the old Victoria st. Station and Europa bus station… for now.

A pedestrian traffic signal showing green and displaying a rounded cartoon rabbit.

Miffy's Traffic Light, Vredenburg, Utrecht.

Miffy (Nijntje in Dutch) Helping people to cross the street on an incredibly busy cycle and bus corridor.

#FridayFun

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

“Peace prizes are earned through sustained commitment, not through social media tantrums & not from intimidation…one late contribution does not erase years of enabling violence and division.”

Bad news, Trump. The world knows who you are.

And if he attacks Norway, an EU member & NATO ally over it…

Council passes motion opposing solar farm plans A motion describing them as

A blanket ban is crazy. We need more renewables to get the cost of electricity down!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why is more research needed??? We can plainly see the impact. What’s more - motor vehicles simply do not belong on footways or cycleways. People get killed because of mistakes made by drivers where they shouldn’t be.

'Harrogate pavement parking makes it terrifying for me to go for a walk' Kim Murphy, who is blind, calls for a change in the law regarding dangerously parked vehicles.

Is this new? More can kicking? Why haven’t they published the consultation report yet?!!!
DfT: "That's why we have commissioned new research to better understand the impact of pavement parking and ensure the solutions we take forward work in practice."

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

Was so much misinformation allowed to run riot about the CAZ. Also this idea they should never have another shot at a congestion charge in GM… i was against it originally, but my views and knowledge changed since - are they saying that cannot be? People made a once in a lifetime choice?

A study in the Lancet estimated that U.S. foreign aid cuts could cause 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including over 4.5 million children under five.

4.5 million. Children under five.

And the people doing this say they’re “pro-life”.

What makes side road junctions pedestrian-friendly? Here is something a little unusual as I am cross-posting a blog post from my City Infinity website , because I think it needs as wide an aud...

For those who prefer the format of the original Ranty Highwayman blog, my work post on side road junction design is also there. It's the same piece of course!

therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/10/what...

Free park and ride bus travel with temporary congestion charge Oxfordshire County Council is providing free park and ride bus journeys in Oxford for an initial period of three months from 29 October, when the city’s temporary congestion charge scheme starts. The ...

Park & Ride bus journeys will be free when Oxford’s congestion charge comes into effect on 29 October. Holders of P&R parking tickets will be entitled to catch any Stagecoach or Oxford Bus Co service from the sites, not just the P&R-branded ones. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/free-park-an...

“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,”
For a tech industry leader he doesn’t have much vision of how tech can help with processing large amounts of data in this scenario… only seems to think it will work when it’s taking data from others.

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

“Unfortunately, the idea that black and brown people are aliens who arrived without permission, and with no link to Britain, to abuse British hospitality remains the defining political narrative of my lifetime”

- a powerful piece on Jenrick’s racism

Un-paywalled here:

archive.ph/2025.10.07-1...

Trump’s illegal tariff war (intended to fund tax breaks for the rich) is devastating US farmers, destroying long-term trade relationships between US farmers & buyers.

Now Trump is talking about a “bail out” for farmers (socialism), but is emphasizing agricultural corporations (corporate welfare).

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

😔 It’s obscene isn’t it. No way to operate a civilised society.

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

I need to catch up

Looking forward to that. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been unable to join as i’ve been working away.

I'll be back at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social tomorrow evening with something a little bit horrifying given it's the run-up to #Halloween

Signup online:

www.activetravelcafe.org.uk

Here's a post from Alex Robson which a fuels long-running narrative against a group of people who share nothing in common other than their mode of transport, and of course everyone is multi-modal.... Here's a post from Alex Robson which a fuels long-running narrative against a group of people who share nothing in common other than their mode of transport, and of course everyone is multi-modal. I a...

Well, I did waste a few minutes of my time having a pop at that guy who used a colour blindness chart spoof to whine about "cyclists" jumping red lights.

On his professional social media turf of course.

www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...

Oxford Street pedestrianisation boosts sales, survey finds Oxford Street was closed to traffic for eight hours on Sunday 21st September in a pilot test to fully pedestrianise the high street.

These new figures prove that when people are put at the heart of Oxford Street, the area thrives and businesses benefit.

That’s why I am moving forward with the next stage of my proposals to pedestrianise Oxford Street and revitalise the area as quickly as I can. www.cityam.com/oxford-stree...

Seems sensible, but this case seems to have been won by the residents. So a small parish council will now be sentenced and have to come up with, and find funding for an alternative plan. In the meantime the kids suffer. I hope they still play in that area and kick balls against the resident’s fences

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

What an awful outcome. Yet again kids vilified and seen as a nuisance by adult residents.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Community Designing for sustainable mobility. We believe in giving something back to society. After all, society has helped to train engineers and it keeps us all in a job! If you represent a walking or cycl…

Last Friday evening, Mark spoke at CYCLEWight's AGM where he talked about network design in the rural context, along with some of the infrastructure changes needed to enable rural cycling and urban connections.

The slides from are available from our website:

cityinfinity.co.uk/community/

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk