Daniel

Government makes further cuts to walking and cycling days before consultation ends Government makes further cuts to walking and cycling days before consultation ends In the final days of consultation on England’s new five year plan for cycling and walking1, the Government has made f...

In the final days of consultation on England’s new five year plan for cycling and walking, the Government has made further funding cuts!

transportactionnetwork.org.uk/government-m...

Sensible measured messaging from UKHSA. In sharp contrast to what we’ve seen elsewhere.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

A&E waiting times are shocking. Over 50,000 people in England waited more than 12 hours in November, after the decision to admit. But that has been the case for each of the last 3 winters! And the system is failing to recover in the summer.

We need to acknowledge the systemic issue, not blame flu.

🗳️ The 2026 local elections are a pivotal opportunity to secure commitments from candidates to grow cycling in their areas...

🫶 Donate to support our Streets for Cycling campaign today to put cycling on the ballot paper: bit.ly/4rDZ1GJ

Super flu' wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet Numbers in hospital rise by more than 50% in a week as NHS faces 'worst-case scenario'.

If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?

Promising start for Oxford temporary congestion charge Early monitoring data for Oxford’s temporary congestion charge, published today by Oxfordshire County Council, shows signs of improving city centre traffic and key journey times, with some outer roads...

Oxfordshire County Council has just published data on the first month of the congestion charge! Love the level of granularity.

In summary, huge speed up in bus times in city centre, slight increase on some outer roads; massive city centre footfall growth.

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/promising-st...

I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.

He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.

Trumpian

Keirs strategy to attack the Greens as "nuts."🙄
This isn't debate; it's diversion. He frames the choice as "responsible manager" vs. "extremist," to avoid the real argument: his project administers systemic inequality. You can't emancipate a generation with a spreadsheet.

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ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"

Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB

a lot of it yes.

Fascism Transition Team

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

“defendants who are convicted by volunteer magistrates will not have the automatic right to have their case re-heard at the Crown Court”
I predict that people denied a trial by jury by Lammy will also be judged by ‘volunteer’ magistrates because there aren’t enough qualified judges.
End of justice!

literally the money spent on one road scheme - The Lower Thames Crossing - could transform the court estate, and investment in criminal legal aid, and prisoner transport.

Why Lammy wants to scrap some jury trials – and the arguments against Justice secretary says record backlog is failing victims and defendants, but there are concerns about lack of diversity among judges

Scrapping jury trials for offences under three years erodes a fundamental safeguard.

Delays stem from years of underinvestment, not from juries. Restricting community judgment will not restore trust or fix the backlog.

restricting jury trials doesn’t address the catastrophic state of the criminal justice system; its pretending to deal with a part of the state that lacked investment pre-2010 too, and then got much much worse.

BREAKING NEWS

Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.

They say:

"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."

1/2

1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚

A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.

Trials every day in every court are affected.

Wales Casualties 1st 18 months We support those communities that want 20mph where people are

This is brilliant. Would any previous opponents of this policy like to respond? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

Another argument against restricting the right to jury trial is that citizen engagement with the justice system is good for them too, not just the defendant. It is a positive volunteering experience and part of active citizenship.

Halt hazardous bus stops Will you sign our petition for safe travel? We're calling for a pause on bus stops that put people with sight loss in harm's way.

I must of missed the petition for every road junction getting tactile drop kerbs, elimination of bell mouth junctions in urban areas and better policing of the mode of transport that kills an average of 7 pedestrians and maims 104 per week...

i think the chaos in the party system is clearly pre-dating electoral reform - perhaps it would always have been thus for reform at westminster and municipal level. agree, without electoral reform its a mess, but i maintain if it wasn’t this it would be another messy project. so i roll with it.

its not so much pinning hopes [though hope is necessary], its the political reality that there has to be an electoral space here. whether it works out well is another matter, but it has a better chance [in Eng] than anything for a 100 years I’d say.

That meme of Usdaw complaining about Green Party peers weakening this bill in one division in the Lords dated pretty quickly.

Paris figures are 11% mode share but that is the City area. Central London is actually higher I reckon at about 16%. When talking about Paris v London there's a real risk of comparing Greater London Vs Paris central.

What's frustrating about #Budget2025 is the wasted year.

Labour could have scrapped the two-child limit, cut energy bills and done a freeze on rail fares in last year's Budget.

Instead they tried to target pensioners and disabled people, and were forced into embarassing u-turns and lost goodwill.

💼 Stealth taxes are workers paying the price, this is the wrong choice.

The chancellor has picked a side. Health workers, engineers, and tanker drivers will pay by stealth taxes, while city bankers and billionaires are unscathed.

#Budget2026

Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025