Mark Strong
@ibikebrighton.bsky.social
#ActiveTravel professional @transport-initiatives.com
Data ✅ stories 🙂
Transport & Public Realm rep www.communityworks.org.uk
Co-optee @brighton-hove.gov.uk Place Overview & Scrutiny Cttee
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Son of ✡️ #refugee
Born #Scouser #YNWA now #Brighton
Data ✅ stories 🙂
Transport & Public Realm rep www.communityworks.org.uk
Co-optee @brighton-hove.gov.uk Place Overview & Scrutiny Cttee
Travel by🚶🚲🚍🚄🚗
Son of ✡️ #refugee
Born #Scouser #YNWA now #Brighton
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Mark Strong
@ibikebrighton.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I've just created a #StarterPack with #Brighton & #Hove people & organisations I've found on #BlueSky. I'm not claiming this is comprehensive though! #BrightonSky go.bsky.app/PE2SxZ3
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✍️New column!
From supporting those with HIV to live well, to prevention and testing, Brighton is at the forefront of the mission to end new HIV transmissions by 2030.
With the incredible work of @tht.org.uk in our city, 2030 is feeling very achievable.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2567534...
From supporting those with HIV to live well, to prevention and testing, Brighton is at the forefront of the mission to end new HIV transmissions by 2030.
With the incredible work of @tht.org.uk in our city, 2030 is feeling very achievable.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2567534...
Brighton could be first city in UK with no new HIV transmissions
We could become the first country in the world to achieve no new HIV transmissions.
www.theargus.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
✍️New column!
From supporting those with HIV to live well, to prevention and testing, Brighton is at the forefront of the mission to end new HIV transmissions by 2030.
With the incredible work of @tht.org.uk in our city, 2030 is feeling very achievable.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2567534...
From supporting those with HIV to live well, to prevention and testing, Brighton is at the forefront of the mission to end new HIV transmissions by 2030.
With the incredible work of @tht.org.uk in our city, 2030 is feeling very achievable.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2567534...
It's the time of the year for #ORR station usage estimates. Here in SE England #Gatwick & #Brighton stay top (also in top 10 outside London). As always, I'm struck by the low level of investment at #BrightonStation compared to #NetworkRail run stations with fewer passengers eg #Reading & #BristolTM
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's the time of the year for #ORR station usage estimates. Here in SE England #Gatwick & #Brighton stay top (also in top 10 outside London). As always, I'm struck by the low level of investment at #BrightonStation compared to #NetworkRail run stations with fewer passengers eg #Reading & #BristolTM
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Nearly time for our festive shindig!
Tuesday from 5.30pm., eat and be merry. Prize for the most outrageous Xmas jumper 🎅⛄🎄
All #AlbionLife area residents welcome
Tuesday from 5.30pm., eat and be merry. Prize for the most outrageous Xmas jumper 🎅⛄🎄
All #AlbionLife area residents welcome
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nearly time for our festive shindig!
Tuesday from 5.30pm., eat and be merry. Prize for the most outrageous Xmas jumper 🎅⛄🎄
All #AlbionLife area residents welcome
Tuesday from 5.30pm., eat and be merry. Prize for the most outrageous Xmas jumper 🎅⛄🎄
All #AlbionLife area residents welcome
#RealTime information displays just showing a company logo are completely useless for passengers. This sign in #Kemptown #Brighton hasn't worked for months, along with *many* others in the city. Wonder how long it'll be before @brighton-hove.gov.uk manages to fix them?
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#RealTime information displays just showing a company logo are completely useless for passengers. This sign in #Kemptown #Brighton hasn't worked for months, along with *many* others in the city. Wonder how long it'll be before @brighton-hove.gov.uk manages to fix them?
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Exclusive: More than 50 groups connected to transport and public health have urged the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, to set specific targets for levels of walking and cycling in England, warning that plans as they stand are too vague.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England
Exclusive: Groups including British Cycling call for active travel strategy to be put on equal footing with road and rail
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Exclusive: More than 50 groups connected to transport and public health have urged the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, to set specific targets for levels of walking and cycling in England, warning that plans as they stand are too vague.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Not surpised really about my #Spotify most listened to album. It's @lucindawilliams.bsky.social Bob's Back Pages: A Night of #BobDylan Songs #SpotifyWrapped
My Top Album of 2025
Spotify
www.spotify.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Not surpised really about my #Spotify most listened to album. It's @lucindawilliams.bsky.social Bob's Back Pages: A Night of #BobDylan Songs #SpotifyWrapped
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So basically:
trains Germany to London ✅
by the early 2030s 🤔
with Eurostar's new trains 😳
with DB trains 🥱
But it's not impossible. There's hope in that!
/ends
trains Germany to London ✅
by the early 2030s 🤔
with Eurostar's new trains 😳
with DB trains 🥱
But it's not impossible. There's hope in that!
/ends
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So basically:
trains Germany to London ✅
by the early 2030s 🤔
with Eurostar's new trains 😳
with DB trains 🥱
But it's not impossible. There's hope in that!
/ends
trains Germany to London ✅
by the early 2030s 🤔
with Eurostar's new trains 😳
with DB trains 🥱
But it's not impossible. There's hope in that!
/ends
Just done latest #QueensPark #StLukes community #Speedwatch session, looking at Freshfield Rd downhill. 19 of 90 vehicles were doing 24mph or more (fastest was 32mph 😱) Slightly lower % than we usually find - there were a few convoys with first driver sticking to the #20sPlenty limit...
December 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just done latest #QueensPark #StLukes community #Speedwatch session, looking at Freshfield Rd downhill. 19 of 90 vehicles were doing 24mph or more (fastest was 32mph 😱) Slightly lower % than we usually find - there were a few convoys with first driver sticking to the #20sPlenty limit...
Definition of irony. Go to @brighton-hove.gov.uk transport partnership meeting & point out lack of facilities at new 2/18/21 #Brighton&Hove buses stop. Then get bus from that stop in pouring rain across a huge puddle 🙄
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Definition of irony. Go to @brighton-hove.gov.uk transport partnership meeting & point out lack of facilities at new 2/18/21 #Brighton&Hove buses stop. Then get bus from that stop in pouring rain across a huge puddle 🙄
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BREAKING: New police cover up details surrounding Hillsborough disaster revealed in major new investigation
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
New police cover up details over Hillsborough disaster exposed
Landmark new report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans and subsequent attempts to blam...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BREAKING: New police cover up details surrounding Hillsborough disaster revealed in major new investigation
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
Ticking off another bar on the @verdantbrew.bsky.social Beer Trail #Brighton #IndependentBeerCrawl 🍺🚶. This time it's #Lightbulb 💡at #BrightonBierHaus 🙂. Hoping to get to @unbarredbrewery.bsky.social later!
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ticking off another bar on the @verdantbrew.bsky.social Beer Trail #Brighton #IndependentBeerCrawl 🍺🚶. This time it's #Lightbulb 💡at #BrightonBierHaus 🙂. Hoping to get to @unbarredbrewery.bsky.social later!
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Liverpool Green Party Invite You To:
45th Anniversary Fundraising Event
Sunday 30th November 6-11pm
Tonight Josephine
87-89, Hanover Street, Central Liverpool, L1 3DZ
DJ, Poets, Comedians, Fun Activities
Tickets selling fast, booking essential
buytickets.at/poorlypublis...
45th Anniversary Fundraising Event
Sunday 30th November 6-11pm
Tonight Josephine
87-89, Hanover Street, Central Liverpool, L1 3DZ
DJ, Poets, Comedians, Fun Activities
Tickets selling fast, booking essential
buytickets.at/poorlypublis...
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Liverpool Green Party Invite You To:
45th Anniversary Fundraising Event
Sunday 30th November 6-11pm
Tonight Josephine
87-89, Hanover Street, Central Liverpool, L1 3DZ
DJ, Poets, Comedians, Fun Activities
Tickets selling fast, booking essential
buytickets.at/poorlypublis...
45th Anniversary Fundraising Event
Sunday 30th November 6-11pm
Tonight Josephine
87-89, Hanover Street, Central Liverpool, L1 3DZ
DJ, Poets, Comedians, Fun Activities
Tickets selling fast, booking essential
buytickets.at/poorlypublis...
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🚨Introducing our 2025 HOPE not hate football shirt, designed and made in the UK. Available now!🚨
All profits fund our work researching, campaigning, and supporting communities to build HOPE and oppose far-right extremism. 👇
hopenothate.bigcartel.com/product/hope...
All profits fund our work researching, campaigning, and supporting communities to build HOPE and oppose far-right extremism. 👇
hopenothate.bigcartel.com/product/hope...
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨Introducing our 2025 HOPE not hate football shirt, designed and made in the UK. Available now!🚨
All profits fund our work researching, campaigning, and supporting communities to build HOPE and oppose far-right extremism. 👇
hopenothate.bigcartel.com/product/hope...
All profits fund our work researching, campaigning, and supporting communities to build HOPE and oppose far-right extremism. 👇
hopenothate.bigcartel.com/product/hope...
Think you need to use some of these 🤣 @steveessex.bsky.social
One for @showmeasign.online some ridiculously long cycle network signage, but they still couldn't increase the font size.
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Think you need to use some of these 🤣 @steveessex.bsky.social
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One for @showmeasign.online some ridiculously long cycle network signage, but they still couldn't increase the font size.
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
One for @showmeasign.online some ridiculously long cycle network signage, but they still couldn't increase the font size.
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#Brighton library's 25-year contact still has £15million outstanding for the final four years #LDreporter
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
Taxpayers still have more than £15 million to shell out for library
Taxpayers still have more than £15 million to pay off of the contract to build and run the Jubilee Library, in Brighton.
www.theargus.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#Brighton library's 25-year contact still has £15million outstanding for the final four years #LDreporter
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564365...
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Watch live at 4:30 today as we co-host an event with @appgcw.bsky.social on the impact of pavement parking 5 years on from the Govt consultation 🚴🚶
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
APPG Cycling & Walking
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Watch live at 4:30 today as we co-host an event with @appgcw.bsky.social on the impact of pavement parking 5 years on from the Govt consultation 🚴🚶
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
Feat. speakers @transportforall.org.uk @guidedogsuk.bsky.social Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dr Amit Patel https://www.youtube.com/@appgcw/streams
In #Liverpool to say #Kaddish on my mum's Yahrzeit. Now stuck. There are worse places to be I suppose...
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In #Liverpool to say #Kaddish on my mum's Yahrzeit. Now stuck. There are worse places to be I suppose...
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"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
Great to welcome my former MP @russell-moyle.co.uk to @greenparty.org.uk 💚. He was a staunch local voice for #Kemptown #Brighton & has kept firm to his principles in the face of unjust attacks.
Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Great to welcome my former MP @russell-moyle.co.uk to @greenparty.org.uk 💚. He was a staunch local voice for #Kemptown #Brighton & has kept firm to his principles in the face of unjust attacks.
An important step forward for a great socialist folk singer #DickGaughan
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
An important step forward for a great socialist folk singer #DickGaughan
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
. #HandfulOfEarth is one of *the* great radical folk albums of the last 50 years & needs a much wider audience! #ErinGoBragh is as relevant to the immigrant experience as it ever was. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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There were some difficulties with reading this when it was first posted, it should be easier now:
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
“Dear Rachel Reeves…”: An open letter to the Chancellor on why she should increase the price of driving in her Budget 2025.
Dear Chancellor, Please consider the increases in the financial costs of driving described below in your Autumn Budget 2025 for the following reasons: Raising significant much-needed revenue for th…
rdrf.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
There were some difficulties with reading this when it was first posted, it should be easier now:
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
How and why Rachel Reeves should increase the price of driving in her forthcoming Budget. rdrf.org.uk/2025/11/17/d...
Do repost if you think it's worth reading!
Going to be a bit chilly first thing tomorrow for #QueensPark & St Lukes Community #Speedwatch ❄️ Still, it's important to be there helping to keep our community safe(r) from #RoadDanger as part of @brakecharity.bsky.social #RoadSafetyWeek www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-...!
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Going to be a bit chilly first thing tomorrow for #QueensPark & St Lukes Community #Speedwatch ❄️ Still, it's important to be there helping to keep our community safe(r) from #RoadDanger as part of @brakecharity.bsky.social #RoadSafetyWeek www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-...!