Will Bramhill

With oil prices skyrocketing, take a moment to remember all the renewable energy and electric vehicle initiatives this administration tore up.

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Police cars blocking the footway and cycle path

Police cars blocking the footway and cycle path

Police cars blocking the cycle path

I’m really puzzled why Greater Manchester Police are so reluctant to address obstructive pavement parking 🤔

‘No clear goal’: lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics White House contends with reality of shoddy preparations for war and unclear conditions for victory

America, be afraid. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And I have come out of work late one night to find that the cyclist next to me had D-locked their bike to mine. Fortunately some builders on an adjacent site had an angle grinder …

As what you mean now!

Help us make Colchester cycling better! The website of Colchester Cycling Campaign, UK, promoting better cycling infrastructure in the city

Very unlikely if they are fitted correctly, though I acknowledge that too many are badly installed. www.colchester-cycling.org.uk/bike_parking...

It was stupid for the US to stick its nose in in the first place.

The folding front passenger seat is perfect for your laptop as a mobile office desk

If you thought distracted drivers on phones was bad …
#hyundai #inster

🧵📢 NEWS: TfL and @london.gov.uk publish Vision Zero Action Plan 2, setting out plans for zero road casualties in London...

🤔 Our take on it? Broadly, we're in favour, and TfL are making some bold promises - the first of those being a doubling of the cycle network by 2035 🚲

The new UK @metoffice.gov.uk app, currently in beta, is looking really smart. It may even give Apple Weather (inc Dark Sky) a decent rival.

Charlie Kirk has his wings and will be cheering them on from above 🤮

Can we replace Trump with a badger?

Churchillian.

Calls for lower speed limit at Coggeshall collision blackspot Footage captures moment a car crashes and flips over on West Road, narrowly missing a jogger.

Drivers underestimate the speed they do. They ought to get on a push bike and try to go downhill without touching the brakes. Watch this video www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tells you something (not sure what) about the interaction of technological progress and culture that someone posted a Telegraph mad headline generator here last week, and already it's obsolete because the real Telegraph headlines are even madder.

Tweet from ‘Gregory Mammal-Friend’ (@cat_beltane): “america is good at blasting off its own dick with a shotgun and as a yank i am utterly fascinated by britain's ability to carefully place its dick in a drawer and slowly but firmly push it closed for two years straight” 11/03/2019, 00:21

Well, er… happy seventh anniversary to this tweet, I suppose

Please just believe us when we promise to save you loads of money in government. Whatever you do, don’t look at what we have actually done in practice with the local authorities we run, which is increase taxes, cut services and lose 1 in every 10 councillors.

Coo, I knew Yorkshire people are tight but …

The Greatest Feeling in the World Seven months with an electric bike.

“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!”

The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

Every time they do this, ten more people vow to vote Green.

"However, the Government does not support mandating a national change, as many roads are unsuited to 20mph by the nature of their function or geometry and could unintentionally reduce safety."

This government is not very good at this stuff.

FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Tesco in Bognor Regis plans to raise car park to beat flooding Previous floods have forced the Tesco store in Bognor Regis to close.

Now there is a climate emergency metaphor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anti-Americanism is sadly growing over here. Like US attitudes to Europe, European attitudes to America may never be the same again 😔

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Rachel Reeves faces growing calls to ditch fuel tax hike after Iran war Reform UK has set out further detail of how it would cover the cost of scrapping September's planned rise.

Reform and the Conservatives default to their true oil lobby-supporting roots.

Just a shame the @libdems.org.uk are in with them.

Has Ed Davey learnt nothing from Gorton and Denton? What would the Green Lib Dems say? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read the Guardian! TheGuardian.com

Reform UK really are so lucky.

For a party of eight MPs they have the UK’s biggest news broadcaster on retainer.

Here we see their political editor doing the job of a local newspaper reporter.

For Farage.

EIGHT MPs.

Royal Navy destroyer delayed in mission to Cyprus | This Is Why YouTube video by Sky News

Great journalism @skynewsrss.bsky.social (let's have a Bluesky share link too!).

In short, blame a 30-year decline in funding, especially Cameron/Osborne; blame the lack of ships, and the No10 to Royal Navy conduit. Start giving priority to defence.

youtu.be/c2W5tFnuXUI

The Lord Mayor of Chester learns to ride a bike The Lord Mayor of Chester is taking on one of her biggest fears during her mayoral year. Cllr Sherin Akhtar has not ridden a bike since childhood. When she started to learn she crashed badly and hurt ...

It’s never too late to learn to ride 🚲

The Lord Mayor of Chester is learning to cycle — supported by @bikeright.co.uk, who deliver Bikeability training in local schools & adult cycle skills sessions.

Great to see cycle training building confidence at every age.