Ian Loader

Note to my colleagues in the media: Please ignore the quotidian horror of those who are struck by, maimed and killed by car drivers, but instead please bang on about cyclists on Oxford Street. That seems a way better story. Oh, and look what happens to children in America on Halloween.

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

This chart about data center construction blew my mind. Watch.

The United States of America is bathing in shame.

The IPCC is pretty clear that if we want a safe climate there can be no new oil and gas. But every country thinks it has some special reason for why it should be the exception

absolutely hate framing like this it's not a blow to "climate campaigners" in the way that a loss by a football team is a blow to their fans it's a blow to everyone who relies on a stable climate, breathable air and drinkable water climate chaos is a physical fact, it's not an issue of opinion

Back in the day I studied (and lectured in!) Sociology of Crime and Deviance. Professor @ianloader.bsky.social is an interesting and fruitful read on road traffic crime, so if this is the kind of thing you're interested in...

Totally - and that story must be : i) legal e-bikes are a large and beneficial part of the future of mobility; ii) so too are e-motorbikes (once they are registered, and treated as motorbikes, we should welcome them); iii) the current 'problems' take place in an environment created by and for cars.

People need to ask hard questions about the world Waymo et al. are trying to build. It seems to me they are a solution in search of a problem; not ‘inevitable’ progress that we must roll over and accept, but a mobility regression.

Yes enforcement. But there are a whole series of car-related offences for which there needs to be consequences not standard criminal justice/penal responses. This is a case in point. It should be met with licence suspension and asset forfeiture.

✨🚲 We’re hosting a glow ride! Join us at Radcliffe Square at 6pm on Oct 22 as we light up the night for #MyRideOurRight, calling for safer streets for women to cycle. Bring your lights and come glow with us! All welcome, register in advance if you can, bit.ly/3Us6BbK #GlowRides #CyclingUK

Extremely cool postdoctoral fellowship opportunity with one of the all-time greats in the field, Dr. Eric Miller at the University of Toronto. Help take transportation modelling to the future by giving bicycles the attention they deserve in our quantitative models! #BikeTO #BikeSky #PhDSky

Road violence prevention 👏👏

It’s actually happening. Ford is set to rip the Bloor bike lane out tomorrow. Lets get every person on a bike in the GTA out for this. Tuesday Oct 13th. 5pm. Tom Riley Park

What an earth are these characters smoking?!

@oxfordlabour.bsky.social - We should never be opening LTNs. Apart from anything else (‘there are downsides for cyclists’; yeah children as well), it sends the message that residents have been lent them and they can be reclaimed by their (car) owners whenever they need them. #roaduserhierarchy

Cars are taking ever more public space: Join the movement to stop cars spreading all over our streets:

'Woke' ridicule. I'll give you some 'woke' ridicule: maybe this space-grabbing, child-menacing monster should be banned from all built-up environments?!

Applications open for part-time roles with Better Streets - Better Streets for Birmingham

And they claim to be the Party that will keep you safe 🤔

Thanks to @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social for bringing the @thewaroncars.bsky.social book tour to Oxford. It was fun showing you around and a great evening.

As we wrap up a brilliant Labour conference, @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social articulated 4 asks from government that would help local leaders roll out active travel schemes

Such a fun, joyful Kidical Mass - 180 people of all ages and abilities cycling around the streets of Oxford! Fantastic to see so many children riding with their families and enjoying the freedom of cycling together. Cyclox wants to see safe cycling on our roads. Please support us at cyclox.org

Our local paper is known as the Oxford Fail, the toxic clickbait factory of Osney Mead (due to be regenerated). The penultimate paragraph is why. The hospitals are well away from traffic filters. Needless to say, the lazy hack didn’t bother checking his facts before fabricating disinformation.

180 riders filled the streets today in Oxford's most joyous bike ride, Kidical Mass. Our photographer Roger Close was there to capture the action. Can you spot yourself? oxfordclarion.uk/kidical-mass...

Time for your regular reminder that ‘A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation’ Gustavo Petro

Your Sunday Long Read. 💁🏽‍♂️ Are you wondering what we're wondering? Which scheme is going to work harder to tackle Oxford's chronic congestion problem? 💦 Dive into the blog as we grapple with this key question ❓ Questions? Ask in comments and we'll do our best to answer them shorturl.at/kk4To

This man already has a conviction for a crime involving a knife. The weapon he is holding is illegal. Isn’t that enough to bang him up again? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Oxford folk. It’s Kidical Mass time again. The most joyous cycling celebration-protest of the year.

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

With a little (stylistic) inspiration from a 1959 Situationist text by Guy Debord, @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social and I have composed some 'Theses on road violence'. #motormormativity @thewaroncars.bsky.social

But, yes, let's ban teenagers from the internet.

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.

"If you don't drive, the trip, the adventure, begins at your door"

New short article with @ianloader.bsky.social and @alextrinidad.eurosky.social, 'On the importance of subjective perceptions of safety: Limits of the 2026 UK road safety strategy'. We predict that the new strategy will fail to encourage active travel, serena.sharepress.it/tema/article...

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale

🎉 A historic win for Greens in Dover. ✊🏽 We will always take the fight and win against Reform, Restore or whatever the far-right call themselves. 💚 We will always champion our communities. We will always put people before profit.

Just published! International & Interdisciplinary MCLR+ Book Forum on David Garland's "Law and Order Leviathan: America's Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" read it crimlrev.net/2026/08/24/l... watch it crimlrev.net/2026/04/15/l... hear it crimlrev.net/2026/04/15/l...

Oxford folk: the @waroncars.bsky.social are coming to town 😎👏

There's a long-held assumption that celebrities only travel by private chauffeur. David Byrne's ride to Met Gala, Timothée Chalamet's Lime biking and now Cate Blanchett's Brompton getaway show this to be increasingly untrue. We shouldn't be so surprised when people use the best tool for the job.

I guess decarbonising transport must have been 11th 🧐

Kidical Mass is more than just a bike ride – it's a movement for safer streets where children can cycle with confidence. Join this fun, free and fully marshalled family ride on Sunday 6 September, starting at 10.30am. Thank you to Cambridgeshire Families for Sustainable Travel for organising!