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Now just need to do the same for Soho and Whitehall. The former for obvious reasons, the latter to do a proper pedestrian friendly civic space.

No jail sentence. No driving ban. Free to continue driving around Edinburgh after assaulting a cyclist, leaving them with a traumatic brain injury, a smashed skull and a bleed on the brain. news.stv.tv/east-central...

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

In case facts still matter

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

The brother in this case. 🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is terrible news 👇🚨 I wrote about the NHS maternity crisis last week - here’s a link to my piece: jujuliagrace.substack.com/p/i-had-a-ca... Here’s a link to the piece from The Times: ttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/nhs-maternity-safety-funding-cuts-0kngzmq65

finally we can automate the drudgery of lovingly describing our children so we can spend more time maximizing returns for investors

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Wow. It’s even more sick when you see and hear. Damn. bsky.app/profile/okpo...

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

We’ve done it! Oxford St is now pedestrianised.

Here is Storm Boelo seen from space, covering the whole of the UK ⚠️

WARNING 18+ state violence Fascist goon squad attacks non-violent protesters in Bordeaux, 24 October. Protesters raised their hands to show they posed no threat; the police charged them and unleashed tear gas on them with extreme aggression. 📹 AB7 Media

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Insteaf of a thousand words. A woman trapped under the rubble after a Russian strike is showing rescuers how old her daughter is. The little girl was killed by Russia.

Imagine the howls of outrage if anyone proposed a pause on new motor traffic infrastructure until more drivers followed the Highway Code.

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

elon will look untouchable right up until he doesn't anymore and western governments should accelerate that day as quickly as possible

It's almost as if it's not a good idea to rely on pieces of defence and communications infrastructure that are in the hands of one of the most morally depraved and emotionally unstable wretches ever to walk the earth

Trump: "I have some very severe problems"

"An investigation uncovered more than 130 official suppliers in the UK willing to sell cloned number plates" This is such a clear example of where the UK is good at creating laws, and often terrible at enforcing them. Laws are pointless if they're not implemented and *seen* to be implemented.

£5.62 returned for each £1 spent on cycling investments, finds @cyclinguk.bsky.social study www.cyclingelectric.com/news/5-62-re...

Simply read this summary on what is driving the increased prevalence of mental health distress from the long awaiting final independent report into teenage mental health. Now compare it to the public discussion on mental health which basically comes down to social media and over-diagnosis.

Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

James McEnroe encourages tennis players to boycott the Grand Slam after stars protest Wimbledon and French Open

BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.

Now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As petrol and diesel prices surge in the wake of the continued attacks on Russian refineries and escalating tensions in the Middle East, it is now nine times cheaper to drive an EV than a diesel car in the UK, This means EV drivers save ~£80 when "filling up" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.

a powerful case for appointing a secretary of state specialising in media and culture

A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.

Reform leaders in Wales: Mark Reckless: Tory, then UKIP, then Tory (again), then Independent, then Brexit Party, then Abolish the Welsh Assembly (his own job), then Independent (again) and then Reform Nathan Gill: 10 years for accepting pro-Kremlin bribes Dan Thomas: arrested for assault