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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

I want to see this design on lampposts across the UK.

This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords

We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.

@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames

Of course this won't happen but imagine what an absolute blessing it would be for any city if the million biggest assholes in it left.

Very important journalism. Probably not a suprise but it matters - any councils leaving these flag displays up knowing full well where they came from can no longer hide behind plausible deniability.

What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain

Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)

A street map of Oxford. Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme. Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)." A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley." Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

Bon dia.
La història de la Union Jill :

youtu.be/CDsw57JogVY?...

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) .@GretaThunberg's full video is 🔥🔥🔥 "We have truth, morality, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity, as well as basic f****** common sense on our side. The war criminals have hate, l...

substack.com/@tritaparsi/...

What is happening in Gaza is Genocide summed up perfectly in 2 minutes while a stunned Piers Morgan sits in silence.

Powerful.

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
1/

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Cut out of Guardian article with headline reading "Fears of new PFI-style 'disaster' as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics"

😡This is madness!

The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.

PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.

We have to stop this.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

"The source of current trajectory towards societal collapse are large, psychopathic corporations & groups which produce global catastrophic risk

"Nuclear weapons, climate change, AI, are only produced by v small number of secretive, v wealthy, powerful groups"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK welcome for Israeli military chief responsible for Gaza slaughter AN Israeli military chief who has overseen the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians is visiting the UK.

Today in Glasgow a man is arrested for holding a sign reading "Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action"

Meanwhile the head of the Israeli air force who has overseen the killing of thousands of Palestinians is welcomed to an RAF conference

www.thenational.scot/news/2532523...

Each week since Labour’s absurd ban, more and more people have held signs to call on the UK government to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

On August 9th, hundreds will join together to oppose this attack on freedom of expression.

Be one of the hundreds: www.defendourjuries.org/lift-the-ban

How long will this government let them steal from you? weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

£117,000+ the average payment recently received by 21 Thames Water bosses
Funded by a £3 billion *bailout* loan
Paid for by 16 million so-called "customers"

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than "noises off". Now, as the disaster materialises, he's desperately backtracking.
Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship.

Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

This is how you fight right wing populism. U.K. Labour, take note

Organic Vegetable & Fruit Growing & Preserving By Alan & Jackie Gear

I've read several, and keep coming back to this one:

The US intervened in foreign elections at least 128 times between 1946 and 2014, to sway outcomes in its own interests, usually to prevent left-wing parties from coming to power.

Link in next post.

Screengrab from BBC News reading: Reeves expected to back Heathrow expansion in speech unveiling plans to 'fight' for growth

The UK desperately needs investment, but pushing for airport expansion suggests the government haven’t done their home work because it will not lead to the the sort of economic growth they want. 1/3

There Is No Need To Wait For Revolution Or Paradise Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

There is no need to wait for the great revolution to begin fighting against our rulers. There is no need to wait for things to get better to experience this world as paradise. The time for both of these things is now.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-is-n...

Illustration of a pine forest in winter reflected in a lake, with a snowman, polar bear, Xmas tree and a stack of wrapped gifts. The reflection reveals a darker interpretation - the snowman is melting, the polar bear is skeletal, the gifts and candy sticks are a factory and a refinery spewing smoke.

Season's greetings!

#christmas
#merrychristmas
#snowman
#polarbear
#consumptipn
#stacksofgifts
#smokestack
#contrails
#lovemiles
#scrooge
#overconsumption
#solstice
#candy
#baubles
#refinery
#xmas

Cartoon of Trump in a red phone box, with an older woman holding disconnected defibrillator cups against him. Poem reads: "Fugitive Trump is arrested near Oxford Trapped in a phone box by a brave Quaker Forced to confess to ALL his fibs Terrified of her de-fib-rilator"

Hoping the voters on 'turtle island' reject the climate-crisis-denying, molester and crook, Donald.