Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)

OFCOM: INVESTIGATE GB NEWS’ SHOCKING TRUMP INTERVIEW GB News’ recent Trump interview was outrageous - completely biased and full of lies. And GB News didn't challenge him ONCE. Ofcom MUST investigate them for breaching its rules. Sign now if you agree.

« GBNews » (huge misnomer) have justified OFCOM regulation and investigation many times before, now nearly 50,000 have signed this petition - push it to 100,000! 38d.gs/trump_gbnews...

Just so anyone considering Wes Streeting knows:

Trump lays bare his contempt for Europe in blistering new national security plan | CNN “America Alone” might be the simplest précis of the White House’s new National Security Strategy, an extraordinary document released Friday that starkly lays out the administration’s broad foreign pol...

www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/e...

We're talking about our industrial past from #BritishRailwaysEngineeringLtd (BREL) to #SwanageRailway, football during WW1 to a nuclear spaceship! Richard Marks is the man who knows. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...

#BBCVerify: please explain.
Left: #BBCNews lead, 2018.
Right: #Guardian top story today
Middle: BBC News today.
So Holocaust survivors view considered so relevant then, not even mentioned today. Instead Fürage’s twisted “excuse” blaming BBC for airing comedy about India (not anti-semitism). Why?

'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.

Finally an article on this scourge of British & European roads: the Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicle. Sadly not enough on just how dangerous and polluting they are but a good start in the backlash against them I guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Historian friends/followers: do you speak of past events in the present tense? Help me out here please: how does it help the listener/reader to know when the event you are talking about is happening, now or previously? Apologies in advance if a daft question, because I just don’t really get it.

@ledbydonkeys.org dunno if you wonderful lot were responsible for this poster spotted apparently in south london before sadly quickly removed…?
Of course it would be terrible if we were to spread it on social media!

I name this place « Church Cross »

Beautifully done and all do-able if only there was proper funding and ambition to develop and integrate public transport. Come on Britain! We can do this!

Flypost

More news like this please!

How important in art in #transit stations? Today's CATCH-cast guest Andrew Mead explains how art is commissioned and why good architecture is a crucial part of the public transport journey. www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...

The new scalable British #NationalRail maps are live from today. Very clever idea in many ways, you zoom in or out for more or less detail. Have a play #rail, @transitmap.net and #map fans! railmap.nationalrail.co.uk#/mapview

Can we now have some serious EU action taken against #homophobia in #Poland, #Hungary etc please? Not just words: state prejudice must end now.

Making #public #transport free seems sensible in at least some cases. Let’s re-examine this. Seems to have worked wonders in a US city!

Stop manufacturing

Stupendously
Unnecessary
Vehicles

What Mike says:

There is still hope we can turn this around but it requires bold action, not climate-change deniers like #ReFuk.

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

What do you think of this: a new urban environment built mainly of wood, linked by #trams: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...

This looks like a good petition to achieve sensible things. 38d.gs/lmux

Nice colours for Manchester there Eco!

Reporting on tonight’s show from the #TransitMappingSymposium in #HongKong. Impressed by the range of young, enthusiastic & talented designers from around the world…(& some of their guérilla tactics to improve design & #wayfinding)! Check it out now: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...

Once again: any friends or family toying with ReFuk need to see this video. These jokers will destroy Britain. Watch and learn from the idiocy of Trump: allow these people to run things and it’s the road to hell.

Whenever you hear anyone spouting racism, and spreading misinformation: this what they are desperately trying to deflect attention from. The billionaires are the real problem.

Heavenly
Thank you for sharing this

#typography lovers: some more #FascinatingFontFacts from my recent #HongKong visit. Not only are the double-decker #trams unique (I think) outside #Blackpool and #Alexandria, but check out the vehicle number typeface: a fair representation of #London’s #Johnston lettering. Handpainted too it seems.

Lovely to see that most road signage in #HongKong uses the #TransportMedium #typeface for English language directions. Pictograms also from the 1960s hand of #MargaretCalvert. Plus they drive on the left which makes border crossings interesting!

Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...

I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!