The NHS is not adequately funded.
Car parks are infrastructure that require building and maintenance.
If not paid for by users, the NHS Trusts must fund them.
Which services would users like to see scrapped to pay for free car parking?
Wouldn’t better public transport links be a better alternative?
He already mowed down a cyclist 3 years ago, road raging again. He should never drive again, this is mental.
I had to check the date on this three times
‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today*
This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??
you don't know your neighbors because of cars
your city doesn't make enough in taxes because of cars
busses are slow because of cars
they won't build light rail because of cars
your city's air is awful because of cars
one of the leading causes of death and injury from accident: cars
Here's the context:
When Mandelson was Business Minister, Epstein wrote asking him to make only the cash portion (ie not equity etc) of bankers’ bonuses taxable.
Mandelson's answer: “Trying hard to amend as I explained to Jes last night. Treasury digging in but I am on case.”
I'm guessing that the "Jes" in this message is that other moral paragon, Jes Staley, though I can't be sure. A Labour government minister, channelling the demands of his finance-bro chums.
This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for.
Another reason to stop humouring the human right abusing Saudi regime with sports. A 20% descent ? Both riders and the public must tell them in no uncertain terms where to shove it.
Let’s shift the narrative: focus on drivers — with better legislation, clearer guidance and stronger communication — so harm isn’t normalised or dismissed as “cycling is risky”. It’s long past time to prevent harm, not explain it away. Less victim-blaming.
It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.
I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
Stop giving airtime to ghouls I’ve never heard of before
The UAE regime hopes giving people a free app will make us forget they regularly murder journalists and political opponents
Just excellent and all they deserve.
www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Housebuilders have been lobbying against the inclusion of batteries which would cost an estimated £2,000-5,000 for each new home but... savings on an average 3-bed, semi-detached home from a heat pump, solar panels and batteries would be roughly £1,350 a year.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Drivers are never asked to justify their infrastructure, but bicyclists (and pedestrians) are constantly forced to defend why their infrastructure is "necessary"
Screen shot of the Observer's title of an article on "tractor protests" with a pic of possibly hundreds of tractors blocking Whitehall in London
Where's the right-wing furore about delaying drivers and blocking ambulances? How many years did @just-stopoil.bsky.social activists spend in jail for briefly stopping traffic, to draw attention to a crisis killing millions - rather than requesting a tax exemption?
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
We can do even more.
The Scottish govt has dropped plans to lower the national speed limit on single carriageway roads to 50mph because it was unpopular.
It's a govt's job to do what's right, not what's popular. Reducing the limit would have reduced danger and KSIs in those roads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If HS2 was a motorway, it would have been built by now! But because new rail projects are minutely analysed with this "value for the taxpayer" nonsense. If road building was held to the same level of scrutiny, a sizable amount of the road network would still be cart tracks.
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
PolitlcsUK Twitter account has c 400k followers. Labour ministers often give exclusive interviews
But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100
Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'
This is why we need to cap political donations - do sign the petition!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
Are you going to spend it on a rebrand ?
A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
"A proposed plan to trial free bus passes for under-22s in England will not go ahead as it is "unaffordable" at the moment, the government has said."
Pensioners get free bus travel and are almost always wealthier than under-22s. The government is upholding systemic intergenerational unfairness.
