David Knight

if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

There is a false nostalgia here. The Victorians weren't happy with the old system and tried without success to free us from the tedious calculations needed when using imperial measures and £sd. metricviews.uk/2025/07/15/p...

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

This, from one of the Serbian acitivists. 🙌👏

Did a bit of Oxford Street today, very busy despite the weather

Brazil!

Heartbreak, hope and human imperfection: Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs – ranked!

There’s a third option: Reject this insane religious fearmongering and live a free life without worrying about imaginary threats of eternal torture.

Alberta!

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

Our roads are usually pretty dull. Here Thames Water have gone out of their way to add a water feature on Garratt Lane Tooting. Missed a trick not adding a fountain but maybe later?

When the tech-bros and their allies attack "the establishment" or "the elite", what they mean is "any site of power - including the democratic state - that might restrict their own actions". The alternative is not "freedom"; it is power for themselves to make decisions otherwise made by the state.

Great, my fav Android weather app now has a beta web version - app.flowx.io

Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.

The above photo is the real life version of this graphic we produced.

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Imagine the slowest, dumbest person in literally any conversation on absolutely anything. Imagine him also being staggeringly dishonest, depraved, crude, corrupt, criminal, racist, misogynistic, narcissistic, and power-mad. Then imagine knowingly making him the most powerful person in the world.

Finally, after months, Garratt Green crossing has working beacons

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Damn YouTube. My son has discovered someone is rewriting his favourite bus sim from the ground up in Rust. That's my weekend ruined.

Happy 100th birthday Earlsfield Library

📢Today Google has added motor fuel prices to the maps app so you can see how expensive driving is. 🚲Not wanting to be left out we have been around the city to check on the cost of fuelling a cycle and produced our own map. 🎉It's good news - fuelling a cycle is still free everywhere.

Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.

“I am struck by how Right wing politicians across the world are intent on running campaigns based on the notion that there has been a war on the motorist and this needs to be reversed. Yet, in each of these examples the sustainable policies have worked and been beneficial.”

Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.

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37 members who think they know better than physics and biomechanics. 37 members who think dead and injured constituents are a fair price to pay for nominally driving a bit faster.

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

Oh and give me optimism any day of the week over hate and the misery agenda that defines Reform/Restore/Badenochism

Quite a lot to unpack here! haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/wandsworth-i...

Very sad to see Gabriel's Wharf close down www.coinstreet.org/gabriels-wha...

Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says

A #WarOnWalking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on any transportation choice other than driving. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. Cars still get most of the space, rights, budget, prioritization, etc. And any effort to add more choice is immediately attacked.

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia

While long-term funding is key to the National Cycle Network's success, £104m over four years is £26m a year... the equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction. CWIS3, the government's four-year strategy mentioned '7,000 additional or improved [NCN] miles by 2030'...so £14,857 per mile?

Learning about pensions is a bit like going to the gym: you know you should do it, you feel guilty for not doing it, but you're just not sure where to begin. Here are two big facts about the UK system that everyone needs to know. torstenbell.substack.com/p/two-things...

Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it

Summer of terrifying drought and wildfire, bus drivers sweltering in shocking temperatures, everyone losing sleep unable to get cool at night and *this* is the policy they come up with? Just makes things worse and does nothing to address inequality or enable people to walk, cycle or catch a bus. 🤷‍♀️

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking