Sam Wakeling

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

We need a TV series called "Adulthood" that's like "Adolescence" but about car culture.

A quick Bluesky survey for UK folk.

Is your local authority still creating Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs)?

Yes Crookes and Walkley LTN was partly implemented. Kelham Island has been implemented.

Not aware of others in the last 2-3 years though one proposed for Darnall has had some work in recent years.

The Sheffield Walking Wheeling and Cycling strategic plan implies lots more at some point…

Money Pit Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.

To what shall we compare AVs?

How about CCS?

An expensive, distant future, unproven (esp at scale) way to preserve the status quo of the industry doing immense harm. But a shiny thing to get govt backing for to help delay other regulation of their profits.

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Such a grim party

It’s good stuff! How do we square it with his unconditional support for reopening an airport in his constituency, which could be seen as being in the interest of the “wealthy and powerful”?

WE DO NOT COMPLY

Veteran anti-war and human rights activist, Angie Zelter, was removed from Westminster Magistrates Court after attempting to read a statement to the judge instead of pleading to a charge under s.13 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000.

“What if they do work?… That means more journeys, more traffic, more competition for scarce urban space. If you want a picture of the future, imagine an empty car driving aimlessly around looking for somewhere to park, forever.”

Morrisons usually have decaf ground which seems okay. Also Sainsbury’s have several decaf options of ground.

Not terrorists. Not criminals. Not doing anything illegal.

Just brilliant people damaging weapons to stop them damaging people.

And acquitted by a jury of the people.

And if you are worried about powerful organisations controlling your movement, watching everywhere you go, and charging you to get around, you’re going to love AVs.

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

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Wisdom from the life of Desmond Tutu.

Hell of a thread here.

All I’d add is that this isn’t an honest mistake.

It’s driven (ahem) by profit-hungry car/fuel/road businesses desperate for the state to keep subsidising their parasitic extraction of everyone’s wealth.

Keep asking “just who benefits from this?”

Labelling matters.

If you want junction design to reduce crossing widths, reduce speeds, and improve visibility at potential conflict points…

Calling it simply “daylighting” is great. ✨

Lots to learn from this.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover In today's article shado editor Elia Ayoub discusses Reform’s “Operation Restore Justice”, the risks of a British ICE and how we can resist.

I wrote in detail about Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover of the UK using “uncontrolled illegal immigration” as their way in.

Around 3,500 words. Reading time 15-20 minutes (I think).

I’m gonna read it out for Shado’s podcast “Shado in focus” soon as well

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family standing with orange signs on the street: People live here, school zone. Child of safe streets advocate just wants a fun parent and to go sledding.

Child of safe streets advocate just wants a fun parent and to go sledding.

Panorama of sheffield view across hills over Bolehills with cargo bike in foreground

I love doing some errands.

Sheffield FTW

Thank you for not smoking.

#CleanAirNight

Pedestrian dies after being hit by a car in Sheffield The driver is helping police after the death of the woman, who was aged in her 60s.

Awful to hear this. Condolences to their family.

Our roads are lethal, especially high-speed main roads like this. These tragedies will keep on happening until they get changed.

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“we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers”

Screenshot of the videotalk between Melissa, Chris and me.

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🧵 What I learned.

We saw it early in the pandemic, in every climate shock & now in Minneapolis. The impulse of most people in a crisis is to share, connect & protect, often at risk to the self. Capitalism and existing power structures have trouble comprehending it and then often try to undermine it

I was familiar with South Africa's nuclear program but somehow had never heard of Renfrew Christie.

True dedication to a good cause. Years of prison incl. solitary confinement. He even got an Oxford PhD so that he could learn more about the country's power system to help sabotage it.

“Look for the helpers” is so often a good move when the worst things happen.

And what I’m seeing in MN is a whole load of helpers.

It’s hard for ice to last beyond winter. 🔥

Sheffield. A mundane and ordinary local street used as a main road and utterly excluding to children. No kids in view because of the obvious.

Shout out to the man in such a rush he close passed me only to have to wait to turn right just ahead. I tapped on his roof as I passed and he suddenly had time to follow me beeping and yelling for five minutes.

Hope you got where you needed to safely and in time.

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK

“We have never trusted the government with our lives, and we will not start now. We will be the ones to decide how we give our lives to justice and liberation.”

Inspiring courage and apparently influencing not granting Elbit a £2bn military contact. 🔥

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