The 30 Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World, the 2025 Copenhagenize Index Arrives The Copenhagenize Index, the most comprehensive ranking of urban cycling friendliness, evaluates 100 cities on how far they’ve gone to make cycling safe, convenient, and appealing.

The 30 Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World, the 2025 Copenhagenize Index Arrives.
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Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”

Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
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Just having a clear out of old photos...

Wales’ new ambulance strategy is cruel and distressing for patients and those dialling 999 Emily Price Call handler: “Ambulance, is the patient breathing?” It’s early on a school day and my worst fears have happened before my eyes. My 11-year-old daughter has collapsed in front of me. B had...

It was clear my 11-year-old daughter was seriously ill when she collapsed on Friday.

And yet, she wasn’t entitled to an ambulance when I dialled 999.
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Outrageous Welsh Conservative hypocrisy This is shameless

It is very difficult, indeed almost impossible, to find good coverage of Welsh politics. @willhaycardiff.bsky.social newsletter is always worth reading.

The level of hypocrisy shown by Welsh Conservatives here is breathtaking .....and depressing

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Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young.

Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

Farage as lion + Gill

This really needs to be vastly bigger news across they media, but it'll be ignored because "just Wales" of course.

What "impact"?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 LEGEND. Well done Dafydd Iwan!! 👏

The video was shared on Robinson's X account. The far right is using X to destabilise our society and the govt is doing nothing about it. [And lots of you are helping support the site by continuing to post there].

Dau geiliog gyda’i gilydd - dau gegog,
dau geiliog digwilydd,
dau geiliog ffond o gelwydd
gwneud caniad heb doriad dydd.

Follow the Money: Reform UK's Funding and Fossil Fuel Influence Reform UK, the rebranded Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, has positioned itself as the UK’s most aggressively anti-Net Zero political force. A deep dive into its finances and network...

92 per cent of Reform UK’s funding comes from oil and gas investors, high polluters, and climate science deniers.

The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity

on.ft.com/4kndmCE

The Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying performance of the economy for the better. This must now be admitted...This was, in good part, because it was the fruit of a global credit bubble, in which the UK was a leading actor.

The more you look at it, the more the spending review looks like a bad deal for Wales in terms of rail.

Over 4 years Wales gets £348 million.

This is only £108 million (45%) more than spending on a single station in Leeds...

Figures from @walesgovernance.bsky.social

East-West rail plan 'reclassified', denying Wales funding - MP Wales stood to benefit from millions in funding prior to project being reclassified, MP claims.

"This change, without transparent rationale or consultation, would again underline the arbitrary nature of how the Barnett formula is applied to Wales with respect to rail infrastructure." - Guto Ifan
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Wales Fiscal Analysis: immediate response to rail funding announcement for Wales Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

🚨 Ymateb i'r cyhoeddiad am gyllid rheilffyrdd i Gymru gan dîm Dadansoddi Cyllid Cymru 🚝

🚨 Our Wales Fiscal Analysis team’s response to today’s rail funding announcement for Wales 🚝

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How good is the Chancellors announcement for Wales when it comes to railways?

Turns out it's not as good as the headlines suggested...

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While extra funding to Wales is to be welcomed, the most important thing long-term for Cymru is that the system is reformed so we can’t be screwed over relative other UK Nations.

Fair funding for Wales must be built in & automatic, not subject to a decade of pleading & haggling

Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says High-fronted vehicles are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe with the UK an extreme example

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

There's no need for a report when you have a photograph which clearly illustrates the danger of these ridiculous machines.

‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.

What does the expression “a loose dog won't surf” mean?

Absolutely nothing. But if you type that into Google, AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived. Oh AI...

Wales is getting screwed over by the Treasury (again).

A deliberate decision has robbed public sector bodies in Wales of money while protecting those in England.

This is fiddly but really outrageous. You can either watch the video or read below...

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University - Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
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The lack of secure #cycle parking in #Cardiff is a big barrier to encouraging people to get around by bike.

Cardiff Council are consulting on their new Secure Cycle Parking Proposals.

Make sure you have your say!

www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/Your-Cou...

Here we go. "No better example" This is going to be the new "bat tunnel". The project was abandoned by Hitachi because the UK government wouldn't provide the financial support they wanted, not because of concerns about the Welsh language. Lazy uncritical reporting: it's all in the public domain.

@cyclinguk.bsky.social call for investment in active travel to bring health and economic benefits for people in Wales. Read their article on #thewelshagenda ⤵️

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I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!

(fagpacket maths follows)

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It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...