Ian Loader

Will someone please protect us from tired people!!

Space for Reading The Space for Reading is a pop-up library at the Weston Library, open to everyone

The Bodleian has refreshed its Space for Reading, a comfortable corner of the Weston Library free for the public to drop in and read. Local schoolchildren have selected bold colours and books on neurodiversity. The space opened in 2021 with books on Syria. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/space-...

Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests.

It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.

Matt Goodwin - an ‘anywhere’ - getting called out by Hannah - a somewhere’ 🤣

Does chaos with Ed Miliband remain an option 🤔🤣?

Sienna Rodgers @siennamarla X.com Morgan McSweeney does have some fans in the Parliamentary Labour Party, of course. One MP says they are “devastated” he has left. Another warns it represents “full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism”.

Imagine if your whole political identity was defined by reacting to an imagined grand liberal conspiracy.

And imagine you were also a Labour MP.

What an odd paranoid existence you would have. Not least as you would despise many people you need to vote for you.

Kinda think even McSweeney’s resignation makes Starmer look weak. He could/should have sacked him, but he didn’t.

Mumbai on Two Wheels Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for allMumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the a...

Just listened to this Ned and gang . Great show. Re your trip to India, you might find this of interest

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

British values

Oxford parents protest over safety fears outside school Parents at Windmill Primary School say they do not want an accident before changes are made.

🚸Windmill Primary protest!
dangerous parking + aggressive driving = children at risk. #pavementparking and ignoring school-streets restrictions 🤯

Kids need space to get to school safely — these behaviours aren’t “just inconvenient”. #SafeSchoolStreets
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I dunno. Giving signal priority to the cleanest, least harmful, least space-grabbing forms of mobility. It's not the worst idea.

Keir Starmer’s hollowness is clear for all to see The PM’s distaste for politics means he has outsourced every significant decision and now finds he’s left to pay the bill

Wow what a pay off

www.thetimes.com/article/720a...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Thanking bus drivers. On the brink of social and ecological collapse, Brits will console themselves that they kept saying ‘thank you’ as they left the bus.

It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.

Saliba is just the best goal celebrator :)

Yeah of course do this, rather than anything that would actually make e-bike and e-scooter riders safe. Car-brained nonsense.

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There’s a certain kind of person for whom the activity they are ostensibly engaged in - being in government, writing books etc. - is second order work, subservient to the first order task of remaining part of a networked elite. Mandelson seems like ‘Exhibit A’ for that way of being-in-the-world.

Im proud to be English and even prouder to be British. But these flags right now are not showing patriotism- they are a show to intimidate our communities and cause division. If youre actually patriotic... Come and help make this country better. The organisations below (continued....)

Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world.
#WorldBollardAssociation

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The Labour Party is a careerist crusade or it is nothing.

What a strange man!

Oh yeah I forgot. The party of law ‘n’ order 🤔

No increase in car parking at Warneford Park! Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Oxford are jointly planning a major redevelopment of Warneford Park as detailed on the Warneford Park Consultation website, which will result in a ...

Please sign this @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: No increase in car parking at Warneford Park! The increase of nearly 50% will increase congestion and goes against the city transport policy. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

Exactly this 👇

A frenzy of opening new local shops while innocent people slept in their beds.

Exactly. What will future historians say of the BBC? That it failed to understand the world it inhabited and the forces aligned against it, and so became complicit in its own destruction, and the collapse of the world that it naively believed, till the end, it was reporting on.