They had an election in which this was the central issue. The candidates who said they favored the scheme won by significant margins. Then Council stalled and have now called it off. And pedestrians and cyclists will pay the price.
"Catastrophic failure of leadership" is exactly what this is.
The graphic design work of Tom Eckersley (1914-1997). Images via Pinterest.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
1/ After examining Epstein's corpse, Baden was convinced he died by homicide.
Baden said he has never seen 3 fractures in a suicidal hanging as a medical examiner for 25 yrs, nor while serving for decades as NY state commission that oversees prison deaths.
www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
Post by Jason (user name LongWall26): "Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly." In response to survey results posted on YouGov account: "One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams." Link to survey at yougov.co.uk/opi/surveys/...
For International Women's Day, I need do no more than repost this banger by @longwall26.bsky.social.
A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.
NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay
Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst: Women Of The World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfON...
"Women of the world, take over
Because if you don't, the world will come to an end
And we haven't got long
Men have had their shot
And look at where we've got"
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
We need safe and legal routes for refugees.
George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."
“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
In case you didn’t know, the new ‘bravery’ is cheering on an eighty year-old, six-time Vietnam draft dodger who is using other people’s money to drop explosives on school children from bombers 40,000 feet in the air.
Anyone opposed to this kind of heroism is a ‘sucker’, ‘loser’, and ‘coward’ now.
This should be a bright, blinking light catching everyone’s attention.
He is a first class tosser.
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
Declaring "Mission Accomplished" - that always works out well for US Presidents
A juxtaposition for the ages…
Oh well, that settles that then.... nothing suspicious there🤦♀️🤣
Poster with the text 'Be an artist' and two stylised figures, one happily playing the guitar
Favianna Rodriguez, contemporary US poster designer and activist of Afro-Peruvian heritage, #womensart
Painting of a young white girl, upper half, with her back to the viewer, standing by a window in an interior, there are bottles on the windowsill with flowering twigs in them
'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt
Four images, three of patterned and colourful weaving designs and one of the head and shoulders of a white woman in a monochrome photograph
The work of Gunta Stölzl (1897– 1983), influential German textile artist and designer who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop #WomensArt ##WomensHistoryMonth
Well done us @cbffjuk.bsky.social who brought this complaint.
Tory Peer committed 5 breaches of standards over £50m Covid PPE deals and “did not act on his personal honour”.
Our campaign for accountability continues.....
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@russellscott.bsky.social
👏
@stellacreasy.bsky.social: "When we ask ourselves what is holding Britain back from being more productive, it is not immigrants or women who don’t have enough babies – whatever the claims of the right. Instead, tackling the cost of living crisis and confronting division should be our priorities."
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Sir Chris Whitty: Relying on weight-loss drugs to stop obesity would be 'societal failure'
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
If you think the BBC should be impartial then this is the place to let them know.
If you don’t want to pay for the BBC or have to watch adverts then this is the place to let them know.
You can‘t complain about the BBC unless you get involved
As I was saying...
