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Stephen Gower @sjgower.bsky.social · 18h

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

A street map of Oxford.

Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme.

Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)."

A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley."

Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h

And yet he claims to understand the struggles of working people...

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nigel-farage-now-earns-over-1-million-from-12-second-jobs/

Nigel Farage now earns over £1 million from his 12 ‘second jobs’

The Reform leader has raked in a further £189,000 from side jobs since May this year

leftfootforward.org

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 email:

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!”

Release the Epstein files.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 14h

I think once a composer forms a mental /emotional partnership with a poet, that connection stays with them whatever is happening in their life/the world.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 14h

As per the Sea Symphony as well! Also worth singing...And thanks for reminding people about Edward Thomas. Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a song cycle of some if his work (if there is one I've not met it...)

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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 17h

PUB CONSULTATION - I want our brilliant pubs to succeed. That’s why I’m delighted that the
Government is listening to owners, punters and communities to learn what
they need. Share your views here: t.co/plsigyMavi

Reforming the licensing system

Seeking views and evidence to develop a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing system under the Licensing Act 2003.

t.co

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 14h

And most of the words by Walt Whitman. And the sop solo at the end....

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 14h

His Dona Nobis Pacem is worth singing as well as listening to.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks. 🙏🙏

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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 15h

15 years of running down local government finances brought us to this. But I don’t believe @johnharris1969.bsky.social is right that no-one cares. And I’m delighted that Labour controlled Westminster Council @adamhug.bsky.social made funding youth services an immediate priority.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

Oh the overlaps and linkages. !! I've gone via Macbeth to the Whiteladies (Breton, or the Mabinogian I think?) and back into Arthurian legend (too many heros?) Good thing my microphone didn't work....🙃

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

"Woke Marxist Pope" 👏👏👏😇😇

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Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 16h

Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !

La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !

Photo avant/après de la rue Charles Baudelaire avec plus de nature, moins dr voitures et des piétons.

Photo avant/après de ́la rue du Docteur Magnan dans le 13e avec plus de nature et des piétons

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

Wow!!!

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for telling us - and may the force be with you!

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

Aeons ago I saw Diana Rigg play her in a Ted Hughes translation of Racine. Heartbreaking all round! There was a reason she was so mean?

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

Yep - it's the real world!!, but I do wonder about the dynamic that goes with...

La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 16h

@alexpodyssey.bsky.social sorry I couldn't get the sound to work! 🤦‍♀️ All sounded fascinating, look forward to seeing how it pans out! Phedre .... hmmm - have you read Mary Renault's take on her, not possible to explore Theseus (hero? antihero?) without his women folk?

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 17h

Part of me agrees, but part of me wonders why British people prefer to delegate jobs they don't want to do to immigrants - making them appear to be second class workers. British exceptionalism again?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 18h

Lawyers warn of death and rape threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19h

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent news

Here's what needs to happen to make public ownership of rail a huge success weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rail operator Greater Anglia transfers to public ownership

Greater Anglia describes renationalisation as a step towards a

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20h

I am writing a column about how far a ceasefire in the Middle East might have an impact on UK society & what we might do next on issues of identity, prejudice and cohesion

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