Danny Yee
@dannyyee.bsky.social
Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy. For just the book reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyreviews.bsky.social
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"But Charlie!" you may say, "why should *I* care about the Tanzania People's Defence Force!?" Well let me tell you a few cool things about them!
1. Following independence most African states just inherited whatever colonial troops existed as their militaries. This often led to coups and mutinies.
1. Following independence most African states just inherited whatever colonial troops existed as their militaries. This often led to coups and mutinies.
Whooooo! Although I know other folks have already gotten it, my author copies finally arrived. It's been a long road and it still feels unreal to actually have the physical copies in hand!
September 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
"But Charlie!" you may say, "why should *I* care about the Tanzania People's Defence Force!?" Well let me tell you a few cool things about them!
1. Following independence most African states just inherited whatever colonial troops existed as their militaries. This often led to coups and mutinies.
1. Following independence most African states just inherited whatever colonial troops existed as their militaries. This often led to coups and mutinies.
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Also, pre-LTNs and pre-Covid (2017-2019) there were 66 reported injuries per year on and inside the Iffley-Plain-Cowley-BTR-CCR triangle. Post LTNs this has reduced to 46 reported injuries per year (a 30% reduction).
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Also, pre-LTNs and pre-Covid (2017-2019) there were 66 reported injuries per year on and inside the Iffley-Plain-Cowley-BTR-CCR triangle. Post LTNs this has reduced to 46 reported injuries per year (a 30% reduction).
insights from Hammersmith Bridge nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmit... (Nick Maini) "closing a major bridge carrying 25,000 daily vehicles should lead to more traffic on other nearby crossings and less economic activity on either side. The evidence shows the exact opposite."
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
insights from Hammersmith Bridge nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmit... (Nick Maini) "closing a major bridge carrying 25,000 daily vehicles should lead to more traffic on other nearby crossings and less economic activity on either side. The evidence shows the exact opposite."
London's most dangerous junction for cycling has had thirty injuries in the last five years. Oxford's Plain roundabout has had forty injuries in that time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
London's most dangerous junction for cycling has had thirty injuries in the last five years. Oxford's Plain roundabout has had forty injuries in that time.
Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_... (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_... (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
what are 16-18 year olds thinking? demos.co.uk/research/ins... "workshops and conversations with over 700 students ... reveal a generation that is thoughtful, diverse and far more politically aware than many assume"
Inside the mind of a 16-year-old: From Andrew Tate to Bonnie Blue to Nigel Farage - what do first time voters think about social media, politics, the state of Britain and their futures?
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
what are 16-18 year olds thinking? demos.co.uk/research/ins... "workshops and conversations with over 700 students ... reveal a generation that is thoughtful, diverse and far more politically aware than many assume"
The Church of England is a choral tradition attached to a building maintenance fund.
Honestly, the entire CofE sometimes seems like a conspiracy to discourage anybody from ever joining a church to me.
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Church of England is a choral tradition attached to a building maintenance fund.
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I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
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Are Oxford‘s poorest areas sharing in its prosperity? As billionaires pour more money into the city’s AI and biotech industries, we take a deep dive into gentrification in Oxford and the city’s housing crisis. (With maps and data!) oxfordclarion.uk/gentrifying-...
Gentrifying Oxford vs the left-behinds
Oxford’s poorest areas are not sharing equally in the city’s increased prosperity, new figures suggest.
Parts of Minchery Farm, Rose Hill, and Wood Farm are now suffering more deprivation compared to...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Are Oxford‘s poorest areas sharing in its prosperity? As billionaires pour more money into the city’s AI and biotech industries, we take a deep dive into gentrification in Oxford and the city’s housing crisis. (With maps and data!) oxfordclarion.uk/gentrifying-...
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Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
This is why the redevelopment of the railway station has to provide a proper bus interchange.
Day 2 of the 3/3A buses serving Oxford station, and there are now DEFINITELY too many buses here.
There isn't room on their bus stop, so they fill up everywhere else instead. 🙄
There isn't room on their bus stop, so they fill up everywhere else instead. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is why the redevelopment of the railway station has to provide a proper bus interchange.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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www.gov.uk/government/p...
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.
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Hello bluesky! Are you thinking about heading home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat the Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share!
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge
Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our ha...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hello bluesky! Are you thinking about heading home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat the Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share!
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
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It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.
road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10/29/a...
AVZ Blog – Road collisions and casualties—how many? How much do they cost?
29th October 2025 How many? Imagine if for every person reported seriously injured in a collision, there were another three seriously injured, but that these were not reported to and by the police.…
actionvisionzero.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10/29/a...
the Ukrainian use of aerostats www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...
More than just balloons: how Ukraine produces aerostats and why they matter in modern warfare
It's a cold autumn morning. A small group of soldiers fuss around a winch, trying to conceal it under a tree. An instructor and a commander supervise the process. Once the winch is hidden and the cabl...
www.pravda.com.ua
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the Ukrainian use of aerostats www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...
Both these schools need School Streets schemes. Being in a low traffic neighbourhood doesn't stop parents trying to drive right up to the school gates.
Cllr Saj Malik (IOA, Cowley) asks for School Streets at Church Cowley St James, and St Christopher School on Temple Road. Cllr Gant says the former is already part of an LTN but he’s happy to arrange a further meeting for St Christopher: “We are committed to safety around the school gate.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Both these schools need School Streets schemes. Being in a low traffic neighbourhood doesn't stop parents trying to drive right up to the school gates.
the two-child benefit cap: increasing child poverty while failing to achieve its goals largerfamilies.study/publications...
Benefit changes and larger families
We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.
largerfamilies.study
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
the two-child benefit cap: increasing child poverty while failing to achieve its goals largerfamilies.study/publications...
Success of Oxford congestion charge rests on interpretation of style manual, will be decided by panel of eminent editors.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Oxford congestion charge signs to be amended after error - BBC News
The signs advertising Oxford's new congestion charge say motorists can pay the fee "on line", instead of "online".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Success of Oxford congestion charge rests on interpretation of style manual, will be decided by panel of eminent editors.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wa... (my review)
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wa... (my review)
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All Oxford’s news in the Clarion newsletter. Including:
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekly, 24 October 2025
This week’s long reads
The Cowley Branch Line is reopening! The Government this week pledged £120m to bring passenger trains back to Cowley and Littlemore. Our long read has everything you need to kn...
oxfordclarion.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
All Oxford’s news in the Clarion newsletter. Including:
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
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Cycle lanes are so dangerous that the mere existence of the Netherlands is endangering bus passengers in East Anglia.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Cycle lanes are so dangerous that the mere existence of the Netherlands is endangering bus passengers in East Anglia.
We're big on bus-cycle cooperation in Oxford.
Police used bicycles to separate the protesters and ensure buses could pass through the demonstration safely.
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We're big on bus-cycle cooperation in Oxford.
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A short list of classic locations for parking where it's actually not part of the adjacent property, so should get bollarded (or maybe tree'd!) by the council:
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A short list of classic locations for parking where it's actually not part of the adjacent property, so should get bollarded (or maybe tree'd!) by the council:
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!
1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!