Peter Brommer

We all know a Stephen Morgan MP. If you want to feel that urge to pull your hair out, read this from @roberthutton.co.uk (No, seriously, read it - well worth your time).

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

I have a very funny audience that I can never make completely happy, but such is life for queer Christian clergy, I suppose - especially when you write about a mostly secular topic. Anyway, I wrote about what being queer and cycling have in common, inspired by the guy who called me a bitch earlier

Drew Waller-Downes explains his priorities for the next few months if elected in the by-election this Thursday: 1. Looking after Foxholes Woodland 2. Getting people engaged with the 20mph consultation 3. Being there for you, the residents! Vote Green, Drew Waller-Downes, on Thursday ✅

One of the common arguments from so called "gender criticals", transphobes, is "what rights are trans people losing". The answer is so many. Just today we have seen in practice that trans people are being excluded from healthcare., to add to public spaces, education etc. It all costs lives.

The EHRC chair either does not understand the principle of rights, or has decided to gaslight trans individuals while stripping those rights. The EHCR code undermines, and, arguably in several ways, outright violates rights for trans individuals, including Articles 8, 11, and 14 of the ECHR. 1/

This is a radicalising case in reaction to dangerous drivers. It's that bad. Once you read this, you'll not want to stop until every dangerous driver and those who aid and abet them are behind bars for a very long time and banned for life. TW: remorseless brutality www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another on the list of "things that are obvious from the evidence yet ignored" is "current immigration policy will deliver a great big hole in future budgets". The OBR currently assumes net migration bottoms out at 200k then rises. That isn't going to happen

This would be climate vandalism and endanger our national security: fossil fuel dependence funds regimes like Putin and Iran. We will never solve the cost of living crisis if we don't end our dependence on gas. Unbelievable short sightedness by Burnham: clearly in hock to the fossil fuel industry.

"gas continues to receive public finance not because it consistently represents the most economically efficient option, but because institutional incentives, legacy investment models, outdated analysis & geopolitical interests have been slower to change than the economics of the energy transition."

Abolish the Home Office.

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

Two-tier British citizenship latest.

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This discovery is why Einstein was history’s greatest physicist Einstein made a whole lot of discoveries in his life, with many others very close to many of his breakthroughs. But without Einstein, General Relativity may never have come about at all. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro

This is UK road culture. The police don't care because they're part of it. George is bang on here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...

I was asked by @newlinesmag.bsky.social to write about the death of Bosnian Serb genocidaire Ratko Mladić. He was a war criminal but above all he was a coward. And it is on his cowardice, and the courage of those he sought to exterminate, that we should reflect. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

Hi @londoncycling.bsky.social - can I become a LCC member, even though I don't live in London by any useful metric? I'd like to have the 3rd party liability and legal cover membership provides, without British Cycling's or Cycling UK's trans-exclusionary (or outright transphobic) positions. Thanks!

[Exit Queen.]

Is it "pragmatic" to approve new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea that could cost between £119 billion to £336 billion in climate damage? Sounds more like climate and economic vandalism.

Stirchley co-op did everything right to build affordable homes on their high street. Then their housing association partner handed them a £2.5 million bill. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/homeless-b...

Disappointed to find colleagues from Warwick have co-signed this letter, which mischaracterises Dr Cofnas' alleged breach of contract as whistleblowing.

Do you want to write a story about volcanoes that changed history? the editor asked. Why yes. Yes, I do. My piece in @knowablemag.bsky.social on the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days that can transpire after an eruption: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪🌋

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Taking the money from overseas aid budgets is fundamentally wrong headed. If you want to fund public transport, do it with car fuel duty.

I broke this story two weeks ago for @cyclingelectric.bsky.social - good to see it get wider pickup www.cyclingelectric.com/news/police-...

Can you imagine the uproar if someone's legal car was seized and immediately crushed because some woodentop made a mistake? And the Police don't even apologise or accept they made a mistake. It's good to see this go mainstream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Even though yesterday's match didn't count for much it was infinitely more fun to watch...

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another reason to never vote Labour again: Institutional violence against trans children.

Well played @antoine.pinkbean.studio, well played. worldle.teuteuf.fr

I thought I was doing a small story on confusion over the sudden disappearance of water fountains on a popular South Mississippi biking and running trail. What I found was a bigger story about homelessness, the meaning people find in the things they love, public infrastructure and civic engagement.

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI