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Dave Cox
@davidcox65.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof ex Chair South B’ham PCT and Cycling UK. Chair Push Bikes. Dirty air damages heart and lungs ❤️ NHS saved my life twice. #WalkCyclePlay you know you want to
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Cycle Fun Montreal @cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 6h
😳Police trend of police not doing the job they are paid to do is quite a surprise, victims of crime say.
#YourTaxDollarsAtWork
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Police blame media for "inaccurate" stories claiming they won't investigate bikes stolen from train stations if they've been left for longer than two hours... before confirming that's actually correct
British Transport Police insists bike theft victims should be reassured that "even if an offence is not investigated, it still provides valuable intelligence"
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 7h
Yes, Yes. When you are the least popular government of all time, especially with your 'natural' supports, it's such a great idea to keep digging your own party's grave with even more crazy and unenforceable laws
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs
PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers
www.theguardian.com
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isaac @sevier.io · 7h
They are constantly accumulating power, and we have to organize if we want our futures to be free. Private equity taking advantage of the fiscal crisis upon utilities is a classic, predictable playbook -- and it's up to all of us to stop them.
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Private Equity Stakeholder Project @pestakeholder.bsky.social · 7h
What happens when BlackRock takes control of your power company?

James Baratta gives an inside look at the private-equity takeover of a vital Minnesota utility—and what it means for communities and clean energy.

🔗 prospect.org/environment/...
BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility
On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 9h
The Tories have today offered me a tax cut of over £20,000 in the event I need to move house and buy another one at a similar value.

Without really explaining how they would pay for it.

But promising some excessive and damaging cuts to services.

I reject this plan.

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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 7h
De-restricted e-bikes (i.e. electric motorcycles) are already banned from bike paths and MUPs. The legislation is mostly fine. It's the media practices (polarising the public against e-bikes for clicks) and enforcement that is lacking.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 9h
If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.
Reuters story headlines: Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment
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Sally Gainsbury @sallygainsbury.bsky.social · 8h
Trump and pharma are lobbying gov hard to water-down the NHS’s ability to contain spending on new branded drugs. Today’s long read from me and the LSE’s Huseyin Naci sets out why the gov should hold firm to protect the health of the NHS and UK public nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/th... >>
The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma
The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the issu...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8h
🚜 A poor deal for farmers. A rotten deal for the country.

“Brexit was not principally about trade" - we know Michael we know...

🛠️ Let's fix this broken deal and get Britain building again.

https://bit.ly/42YNQxG
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h
My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13h
US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal on.ft.com/48PllGs
US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal
Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 12h
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waroncars.bsky.social @waroncars.bsky.social · Oct 21
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,653,727! It’s time to leave the cesspool of twitter for good! (haven’t even logged into that shithole in over a month)
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,653,727, waroncars.bsky.social ‪@waroncars.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 21, 2023"
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 12h
Great episode on Trump’s ideological attack on active travel and transit. Just to promote car traffic,speeds and parking.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 1d
went on @thewaroncars.bsky.social to talk about the war on the war on cars

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h
Amnesty International says the military launched a paraglider attack on a nighttime civilian gathering.
Dozens killed in Myanmar after armed paraglider attack: Reports
Amnesty International says the military launched a paraglider attack on a nighttime civilian gathering.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22h
“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.
Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists
The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2d
Tax authorities examine finances of key Farage ally (who has a US conviction for wire fraud) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally
Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth
www.theguardian.com
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d
An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d
Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 1d
Back to May’s hostile environment what are @teamlabouruk.bsky.social thinking ?
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 1d
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... How not to help the NHS
NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses
Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d
I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race
The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d
"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Highlights For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement. Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design. Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically. Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street. There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 1d
This is amazing! A colleague found it in her cavity wall whilst doing some DIY. A newspaper article from the 1960s bemoaning the introduction of some 50mph speed limits. "Poor British Motorists" - some things never change, do they?!
A crumpled old page from the Daily Sketch newspaper, dated 1963. The headline is "Have another think about it, Mr Marples!" And the story basically bleats on about how unfair it is that some experimental 50mph speed limits are being introduced. Apparently without consulting motorists. A logo saying Poor British Motorists is in the top right hand corner and implies that this sort of article is a regularly recurring theme.
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