Paul Brown

YouTube video by Demi Dog Productions 2025 K20 Cycling Club Sportive

K20 Cycling Club annual sportive. So proud of what we have built in just 5 years. youtu.be/tdBeA2dafDM

If you did it again, would you have to be restrained?

Never heard of Rylan Clark, but his co-presenter is brilliant. I suspect she does a bit of delving too, but you obviously didn't think that was worth mentioning in your headline. Misogyny, eh?

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Then send in the clowns ...

I'd love to see the CIL compliance statement which explained how that was reasonably necessary in order for planning permission to be granted!

How do we get 100 Mr Blobby suits over to Portland?

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

Old fishing huts
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A few months ago, a friend visited me in Utrecht. As we biked around to do daily errands, she kept saying, "This is like a dream. This is like a dream."

I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.

Excellent photograph... It is something you have to do if you are in the area....well worth the effort ☀️👋

I took the road until it ran out, rashly ignored the carefully positioned bike stands and pushed the bike up the rest of the way. But as you say, I was at least rewarded with a view ... though as the pic below shows, it was a close run thing!

Thank you Paul....but I was going to say, how could you cycle up there? ... At least you got a view ... All I had was mist and fog, couldn't see a thing! .. 😁.. ☀️👋

Beautiful, but a bugger to get your bike up those steps!

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Ely Cathedral’s octagon and spires rise above the town’s tiled rooftops, their weathered stone and intricate pinnacles catching morning light beneath a pale blue Fenland sky.

I think I'd cycle 80 miles in a headwind to see Ely Cathedral. No other cathedral feels so organically grown from the earth itself - it's lantern tower is one of the most verdant wonders of the medieval world. #thread

Hillside: Every Journey Starts With The First Step Various people have asked me what I made of the amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that Lord Charlie Banner KC sought to introduce last month, seeking to lance the large boil that is…

New blog post, Hillside: Every Journey Starts With The First Step

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Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

Oh boy - Headline grabber
Would be nice to get more detail. That dot map of high weald so misleading. I strongly suspect many of those apps/competitions are eg conversions and other planning classes with no loss of land 1/n

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Old pilings at sunset, quayside at Taynuilt, Argyll, Scotland #MinimalMonday

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Arrested/not arrested:

So exhausting..

Initial government response - September 2025

The 12 recommended locations for new towns are... www.gov.uk/government/p...

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

Sadiq Khan meanwhile is an intensely popular three-times elected mayor of a city that is still majority white and previously voted for Boris Fucking Johnson. It’s clearly not some far out left-wing Islamic theocracy (if such a thing even exists).

Your correspondent says 'we should listen' when it comes to Oxford's perennial transport issues. I've been listening. I've listened to people say that children's safety doesn't matter, because drivers can't be expected to slow down. I've listened to people say that bus passengers don't matter, because drivers have more money. I've listened to people say that traffic jams don't matter, because cities will always be congested. I've listened to people say that collisions don't matter, because 'accidents will happen'. I've listened to people say that vehicle emissions don't matter, because climate science isn't real. And I've listened to people say that we mustn't reduce traffic, because that might inconvenience drivers. I've listened, and I'm still waiting to hear a single effective alternative to low traffic. Owen McKnight Oxford

I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic.

My letter in the Oxford Times today

This ought to be engraved somewhere.