Dave Cox

I'm shocked but absolutely not surprised by this. As I've said many times over the last few years (with examples) the justice system is an absolute shambles in Scotland, especially for vulnerable road users who need the most protection. 😩😡🤬

In Boston’s Beacon Hill (82% white) and Roxbury (88% Black) districts, 2 miles apart, there is a 23 year lifespan difference. Think Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”

Camden Council just announced the pedestrianization of Camden High Street will be permanent!

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Meet Will, the Cambridge plumber who gets to many of his jobs by e-cargo bike. Will founded Veloplumb in 2023, with a simple idea: many plumbing jobs don’t need a van full of equipment. 'I really believe in it, it boosts mental health to be outdoors, exercising and of course doing some plumbing!

Pining for the fjords So Pedolf had the pig ignorant temerity to call Norway which like everything else he & his MAGA supporters knows the square root of fuck all about. So lets look at the country score board

I fear this stuff sells, if not to the marginal voter but to the Republican base who might not otherwise bother to turn out. The last time I was in Michigan I was peppered with questions by a couple about why "you let Britain be taken over by Muslims". When I objected they asked if I was a Muslim

🧵 Wow - this article is bordering on unhinged! Apparently the BBC is akin to a “North Korean re-education camp” for teaching children about net-zero and covering both the pros AND cons of immigration Join me for a masterclass in cherry-picking and context stripping to brainwash your own readers👍🏻

Someoen needs the guts to stand up to the tech giants. The EU can "Meta's new terms are clearly anti-competitive. Many business' effectively have no choice but to ​use Meta's services & these conditions would force them to sign away the rights to their digital content ​with no means of opting out"

The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage | Nesrine Malik https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/26/uae-sudan-lana-nusseibeh-un-secretary-general

"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

Caught one fnal glimpse of Oxford Street's last day as a tragic thoroughfare yesterday Overheard one person saying she'd rather walk the underground tunnels than on street level there. It'll be great to see people's reactions to it without the vehicles

Beware of finance industry lobbying. It hired PwC (the firm that delivers dud audits) to produce a report, claiming that UK banks face highest rates of tax. The report included taxes not borne by banks. Omitted countries that levy higher rates of taxes. Integrity never gets in the way of profits.

Maximising profit is not the same as maximising success. In general, maximising profit makes rich people richer and good things shittier

Russian "humanitarians" are striking public buses again. This time in Kherson. A 67-year-old man was killed‼️

Canada is moving away from Elon Musk’s Starlink, committing roughly $5 billion to Telesat and expanding satellite partnerships with Europe, South Korea and Norway. Carney cited Ukraine’s Starshield restrictions as a warning against relying on one provider.

250 families ordered to leave their homes.

MoD appear to have been captured in the same way as NHS England were. They end-up effectively working for their supplier rather than the other way round. Not a new phenomenon, but a disturbing sign of incompetence at the heart of UK government.

Fracking was never banned in the UK. It's paused, with a loophole companies are already using. The new energy law is being written now. Tell the PM: ban all fracking, for good, in law. act.350.org/sign/ban-fra...

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

Agreed

“There is a straightforward alternative. Fund care properly, improve pay and conditions, and make it a sector in which people want to build a career.”

Wealth extraction not “creation”

Do politicians really care about families and children? Because the way they allow family life to be effectively destroyed just for some general idea about migration suggests not.

Oxford's Glow Ride on Thursday was part of @cyclinguk.bsky.social #MyRideOurRight campaign to make sure women's voices are heard on cycling provision and to make cycling safer for all. We were happy to lead this joyful, bright ride around the city centre, with music and sparkles.

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

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As someone who runs a small business and for some reason pays my taxes…. Today’s “red tape” cut to company paperwork makes no real difference to me or my ability/desire to expand. As someone who investigates small business high street tax evasion… great news for candy stores and scam dropshippers!

Since 2016, London’s cycling network has grown fivefold, from 90 to 450 kilometres. The results? 1.5 million daily cycle journeys—a 43% increase since 2019—twice as many bikes as cars on City of London streets during the day, and motor traffic in steady decline—having fallen 25% in the same period.

Believe it or not, I actually first wrote a piece about it in the Guardian, 13 years ago, after the very bad floods in Somerset. "Lacking the state musculature required in a crisis, cannot possibly come as a total surprise to a government that has spent its entire time fostering state atrophy."

"He won't spend more on defense" You wouldn't know from any of the coverage that defence spending is now higher than at any point under the last Conservative government, and is due to continue rising every year under Burnham

Presumably they've thought about people who cannot dismount of course they haven't.

Paris - unlike London - has had the powers to regulate dockless e-bikes. Walking around, you can really see how regulations result in orderly parking. Government is giving UK cities similar powers so we can ensure bikes are parked as well as these in future.

Russia Kills More Civilians in Ukraine as U.S. Envoy Witkoff Praises Putin as a “Humanitarian”

Conservative MP denies e-bikes existed when they held Government in bizarre debate that repeatedly demonstrated that some factions refuse to understand what an 'e-bike' is: www.cyclingelectric.com/news/conserv...

Boycott X. Boycott every business Musk owns. He is a fascist white supremacist who's using his obscene wealth to buy control of the US government. Do not participate in any business that enriches, validates, or empowers him.

#BirminghamCarCulture (Kings Heath High Street)

38d.gs/-vdi Will Lisa Nandy do something about this or not? Will she intervene to protect ordinary people? Or will she cave in to billionaires ? What would be the betting odds?

The government is currently deciding what to do with two failed pension outsourcing contracts as members of a third brace for upcoming switchover... 👉 [read]

Did the government throw a protective ring around care homes? Our 2020 paper concluded no. Now the COVID Inquiry agrees. So many avoidable deaths, so little learned. journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/10....