Richard Leeming

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

Jeremy Vine loves him, motorists hate him. Is this man London’s most controversial cyclist? How Cycling Mikey's quest for road safety divided London

Public reporting deters crime. We urge it for burglary, assault, fraud — so why not road danger?? Reporting helps tackle reckless driving and save lives. The Daily Mail mocking this as “villainy” misses the point. Accountability on our roads protects everyone.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/jeremy-vine-...

And their coffee is revolting- and their abuse of both the English and Italian languages

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

bluesky-map.theo.io

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

A screenshot of a news story in The Times in which Jan Leeming says children need to be trained like dogs.

Feel it necessary to point out that Ms Leeming is not a Leeming either by birth or marriage… she changed her name by deed poll.

Her views are reprehensible and despite being married 5 times she doesn’t have children.

FixMyStreet Report, view, and discuss local street-related problems.

Thank you please can you report it here: report.southwark.gov.uk

TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission Preliminary EU ruling said app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adults * Business live – latest updates TikTok could be forced into changes to make the app less addictive to users after the EU indicated the platform has breached the bloc’s digital safety rules. The EU’s executive arm said in a preliminary ruling that the popular app had infringed the digital services act (DSA) due to its “addictive design”. Continue reading...

TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission

Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

EU tech law

EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

What Starmer cannot say The hypocrisy, in so many directions, the Epstein files reveal of the Westminster and the media class

My word, this by @lewisgoodall.com is absolutely superb. The hypocrisy the Mandelson affair exposes is deep-seated and corrosive. Essential reading about a UK political and media culture that is rotten to its core.

Paging @crampino.bsky.social …

The glacial pace of change in regulation of micromobility by the DfT has left a situation where the rules are often out of line with what many people are doing.”

3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days.

Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.

My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Brilliant letter in The Economist from Professor Ian Wray
Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool
www.economist.com/letters/2026...

Hi Google. Precisely the best time to get your deprecated Nest protects to chirp every minute to tell they’re deprecated (which I know) is 4.45am … thank you.

Our #RPUspecials joined @BrumPolice specials on Saturday evening for a Traffic Op, seizing 7 vehicles. 166 vehicles stopped, with 24 drivers reported for offences ranging from No Licence to No Seatbelt. Additionally, 32 drivers received education for varying offences.

Police in Birmingham held a roads policing operation, supported by volunteer Special Constables.

In one evening on one road, they pulled over 166 vehicles and took action in a staggering 1 in 3 stops.

Imagine if Roads Policing was properly funded!

Very happy to report that this definitely wasn’t a thing at Skehan’s in Nunhead last night…

I’d love to know what a ‘proper Brexit’ is. Does it involve black pudding? Are hash browns ok?

Baffled by the new statesman. I cancelled my print subscription and replaced it with a digital subscription at 1/6 the price and get an email offering me loads of extra benefits…

All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now

As I’ve been saying:

“slam a new tax on the devices consumers need to access AI — phones, laptops, iPads and so on — then channel the revenue back into the creative industries.”

Call it a levy & this a) replaces the licence fee and b) provides revenue for ACE
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

💬 Big moment for #MyRideOurRight

Yesterday, MPs from across parties debated women’s safety while walking, wheeling, cycling and running, hearing how road design must reflect real experiences and why safety fears still deter many from cycling.

🧡 cyclinguk.org/westminster-mror

The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform

Mother pleads for safer streets after daughter, 12, nearly killed in hit-and-run Parents have been holding vigils for safer streets across the capital, with protests in Lambeth, Lewisham and Twickenham

443 children are injured on the school run in London every year.

That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious.

London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids.

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

Inside all the nonsense, this Labour government are fixing a great deal. Some very sensible housing and employment law changes.

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.

A Swedish city's one-year project is testing how various public services would function in the scenario of a digital blackout

theconversation.com/europe-wants...

35 English/Welsh local authorities, so far, instructed by a govt-owned company, a company controlled by govt department responsible for encouraging innovation with data, to spend their scarce time reexamining decisions they've already made to publish address data

Less than ideal, to put it politely

The insanity of UK public bodies threatening other UK public bodies with the apparent intention of limiting the reuse of UK address data. Meanwhile the rest of the world has long recognised that postal address data is critical digital public infrastructure in the 21st century.

An internal assessment of the first weeks of the Australian ban circulating Whitehall highlights three distinct problems: diversion to other unregulated platforms, the allied issue of defining what is social media (does Google Maps count for example?) and evidence that parents are simply allowing their children to use their accounts, exposing them to potentially even more unsuitable content than before. For sceptics of an immediate blanket ban, the hope is that as evidence from Australia starts to mount so the debate around how to limit access might become more sophisticated.

Inside The Battle Over Banning Under-16s From Social Media www.politicshome.com/news/article...

#socialmediaban #censorship #openweb #techpolicy #childrights

Somebody leak this, yeah?