Ben Brown

designing, taking in London, obsessing about bicycles, thinking about livable cities, dealing with being cycle shopaholic, growing pretty things

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This show deserved an Emmy just for this scene alone

[Rebecca Tidy @DrRebeccaTidy]

These 2 Plymouth rioters have been convicted of 209 previous offences + they told the police they were rioting because immigrants cost the taxpayer too much money.

Judge Linford made them work out how much their offending had cost Britain's taxpayers over the last 38 years.👇🏻

[Ben Brown @beenbrun]

What is it about little kids that play almost always involves hundreds of parts that need tidying?

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Well, this is perfectly reasonable

[British Cycling @BritishCycling]

Britain’s most successful female Olympian. Ever.

Congratulations on a monumental career, Laura.

[Ben Brown @beenbrun]

@jackthurston Commiserations. Looks like a lovely man. I’m sure you will celebrate his life well

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@edwinhayward Yep. That's exactly my impression too. The difference in stagnation to the UK is that of sitting in a calm sea on a luxury yacht with a broken engine (and the parts and skill to potentially fix it) and an inflatable dinghy with holes letting out the air in a sea of sharks.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Pensions are 'unsustainable', the NHS is 'unsustainable' and now the Post Office is 'unsustainable', or so we are told. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.

[Art @Art93319672]

@The_TUC What the Tory party needs to understand is we know that their lies are not truth and greed is not good. The dismantling of the Welfare State by the privatisation of public assets for individual profit was a betrayal of the best British values which emerged from WWII. We see them

[Ben Brown @beenbrun]

I just signed the petition calling on Paula Vennells, the former CEO of the Post Office to be stripped of her CBE. Will you sign too? #MrBatesVSThePostOffice https://t.co/LiLrjtdyFA via @38degrees

[Simon Warren @100Climbs]

Happy Christmas, but not if you use disc brakes. 😂

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the Eu aren't I?

Like if you do
RT if you really do

[Optimo (Espacio) @JDTwitch]

All time hero Benjamin Zephaniah leaves us. So sad. A totally inspirational human being. Offered an OBE he said 'up yours!". Too right! This one is an eternal Optimo fave - https://t.co/ME6BnsxyV9

[Ben Brown @beenbrun]

Hey government. Stop going on about this Rwanda rubbish and start spending money on brain tumour research @BrainTumourOrg
Sad to hear of the passing of Benjamin Zephania #braintumours so young and only 8 weeks after a brain tumour was discovered #BenjaminZephaniah rip

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Important: Max Hastings overhearing the young Benjamin Netanyahu dreaming of a war when, "if we get it right, we'll have a chance to get all the Arabs out... We can clear the West Bank and sort out Jerusalem."

Given the leaks we've seen about him trying to bribe Egypt to take what remains of the broken population of Gaza, he clearly thinks this is his moment.
#NewNakba

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

As Arabs, we need to understand that Israel and the West are not our oppressors or enemies.

We, Arabs, are our own worst enemies.

We, Arabs, are our greatest oppressors.

We, Arabs, have killed and oppressed a million times more of our people than the West and Israel can ever do.

It is not Israel that married off my mother when she was a child. It is my people who did.

It is not the West or Israel that has been bombing Yemen for the past decade and killed 400,000. It is us, Arabs, who did it.

It is not the Israel that implanted Islamic extremism in the East and the West. It is our mosques, it is the books we worship, it is the Imams we follow, it is what we learn and what we teach.

It is not the West that forces us to treat women like commodities. It is our people.

And most of all, it is not the West or Israel that doesn’t value Arab lives.

It is us, Arabs, who do not value human life.

If we do not admit to ourselves that WE are the problem, that WE are refusing to progress, and that WE need to change – then change will never happen, blood will keep flowing, and we will never know peace.

How do we expect the world and the International Community to respect us, when we don’t respect ourselves?

[Rory McCarron @CyclingLawLDN]

Women cycling aged 36 years old with whole life with family ahead of her. Mother of two children. Cycling on a recognised cycle route in London with a reduced speed limit of 20mph. Killed by a dangerous motorist who fled the scene. My heart breaks for her/her family 💚💛❤️💙

[Fossil Free London @fossilfreeLDN]

BREAKING- @GretaThunberg has just been arrested.

#OilyMoneyOut

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

It's that time of the year when selfish people (hard-working motorists) use their car as an expensive warm winter coat and sit stationary on your street, engines idling, whilst scrolling through their phones.

Get an actual coat. It will  be better for everyone.