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Paris still has Etam?

There are a lot of stories that didn't make bluesky this week. Look out for the newsletter at lunchtime. Sign up here to get it to you inbox - first and free. oxfordclarion.uk Thoughts and prayers for the scribes & editor this week...

A report on 5 years of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in East Oxford shows that they have reduced road casualties by over 100. The report by the Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (CoHSAT) also points to the health benefits of reduced air pollution and performance of Cowley Road shops.

www.theguardian.com/news/video/2... The Handmaid’s Tale was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual.

Young people sacrificed a great deal for their elders during COVID, find housing unattainably expensive, are being told there are no jobs for them because AI, and are seeing class sizes increase whilst pensioners scream about any changes to pension arrangements. No idea why they're furious.

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

Adding a door chain would help! Stayed at York Hull Toad Travelodge and traditional key, no chain or way to secure the door from the inside, plus only one fob-accessed security door which can easily be tailgated is an obvious problem waiting to happen. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"

I've done a deep-dive on the Harborne and Delo mega-donations over the weekend, and whether they may have to be handed back From my reading, a lot of unlikely things have to be true at once for the two £36m 'gifts' to be allowed once the (retrospective) Representation of the People Bill becomes law

Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.

There is gonna be one heck of a newcomers’ karaoke night up in that there heaven this weekend.

Meet the National Rebirth Party. If this is what British Fascism looks like, the greatest threat from it is that people might die laughing.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

The amount of rain we had last winter was biblical. All Yorkshire reservoirs were full of the issue isn’t the rain, it’s the lack of storage capacity.

The sentencing remarks are quite something

The sentencing remarks for someone Kemi Badenoch is allowing to stand as a Conservative candidate.

this is absolutely sickening - not least as the guy who was subject to the false claim and racist intimidation is a *4th generation* Scottish Asian - he's literally more Scottish than I am if this is the metric we are using!

🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison

Yes, I pay myself rent in order to avoid tax, but it is coincidentally £1 less than the level at which I would have to declare it under Parliament's transparency rules.

Reform-led Norfolk County Council banning Pride displays and events across the county’s libraries. What we see here is a glimpse at the kind of intolerant and repressive country they would build if ever they formed a government. This then is but a starter. The main course would be even darker.

Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social

Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond to the Guardian about this article. He gave a video address at 2pm announcing he would force a byelection in Clacton.

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

Tip Toe. Fucking hell. Fucking *hell*.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

Farage's company Thorn in the Side's accounts would imply that his I'm A Celeb fee was paid to it (£1.4m increase in cash between 2023 & 2024). It was still there in the 2025 accounts. So how did he use that money to pay for a house?

Absolutely correct from Starmer here. Sharp contrast to the equivocal response to the last Robinson/Musk rally - a very welcome change.

Thought Trump famously doesn’t drink? In China only…?

Today is Stephen Lawrence Day - remember, reflect, and keep pushing for change.

I'm not religious, but I respect the importance that faith plays in people's lives. Posting an image of yourself as God is literally blasphemy. It shows a disregard for sacred imagery and, by extension, for the very concept of the divine. Trump should apologize.

Correct, why didn't they just stop in the first safe country? 😉😂

When you're more afraid of HMRC than the IRGC...