Ruth Fletcher 🔶

Councillor for Denne Ward Horsham and Denne Neighbourhood Council

[Horsham Museum @HorshamMuseum]

You encountered more than just traffic in North Street, Horsham, back in 1926! 🐄🐮 Our latest #ThrowbackThursday photo for 'scenes you may not have seen' features a herd of cows happily grazing, while pedestrians seem perfectly content to stroll close by! #HorshamMuseum

[Ruth Fletcher 🔶 @mihe2000]

@faisalislam Is it individual choice or BBC policy that means you are posting more on here than on bluesky?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I gave this TED talk warning Silicon Valley of the profound threat of it posed to democracy nearly 6 years ago. It provoked a lawsuit that caused me years of pain. The UK government did nothing to contain the threat. And here we are.

[Horsham Museum @HorshamMuseum]

It's our final Friday Late today! 🤗🎊🥳 We are open until 8pm and from 6pm there will be festive music with drink refreshments available from the garden bar. Our new 18th and 19th Century galleries will be open and the latest art exhibition will be on show! #HorshamMuseum

[CHAIRRDRF @CHAIRRDRF]

Note this from our friends at @livingstreets :

FOUR YEARS!

I mean:
FOUR YEARS!

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

“Until now, COVID vaccines have been available to pregnant women as part of the twice-yearly booster programme, but this offer is being withdrawn.”

This is a bad idea for several reasons.

Check out the article.

https://t.co/AOuPcL6p9Z

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

They are brilliant campaigners. I disagree with them but respect their tenacity. I’m reminded of this quote from @mragilligan: “Our most sophisticated opponents were not frontal. Their main weapon was the filibuster.”

There’s a lesson to be learned here: just build it.

[APPG for Cycling & Walking @APPGCW]

From The New Economics Foundation:

Trapped Behind The Wheel: How England's new builds lock us into car dependency

https://t.co/6zRyK7v5WX

[Ruth Fletcher 🔶 @mihe2000]

Horsham's new Aldi open today. It's great to find cycle racks sensibly placed by the entrance and already being used.
So simple, but so often not done right.
Thanks for listening @AldiUK !

[Campaign for Better Transport @CBTransport]

Ending the fuel duty freeze was a no brainer...

The freeze has so far lost the Treasury a colossal £133bn. @resfoundation analysis shows the tax cost of driving has declined 38% since 2010, while long-suffering rail passengers get an annual fare rise.
https://t.co/p8nP69gX0o

[Peter Walker @peterwalker99]

In a rare outing for our opinion site, I’ve written about why councils seeking to ban bikes from city centres due to delivery bikes are treating it as a “cycling problem” when it’s actually a law enforcement problem - these are mainly electric mopeds.

https://t.co/23L3gh3WT3

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

That it’s got to the point Musk tells our prime minister what’s right and what’s wrong and a British newspaper that long ago lost its moral bearings should deem this front page news.

[Transport Action Network @TransportActio2]

Nothing about active travel (walking, wheeling and cycling) in the budget today.

Please donate and help us bring stability to active travel funding.

This could potentially be the most important active travel case in English legal history.
https://t.co/LzlcxombFo

[Carlton Reid @carltonreid]

That's a tripling only because Tories slashed the active travel budget. Should have been £450 million before slashed. So, this is pathetic from Labour and far from "unprecedented," as earlier promised by @LouHaigh. Steamrollered by Treasury?

[PJA @PhilJonesAssoc]

How can we reshape transport planning in line with the government’s vision-led approach?

Join us for 'A New Era of Housing Development' on Nov 8th at Regent’s Park Conference Centre, London, for real-world insights on impactful, sustainable change:

https://t.co/aJfdTUsfLD

[Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb]

"Can the private sector deliver Labour’s housebuilding boom?"

Really interesting article which could actually be broken into "can the private sector be incentivized to build the right numbers" and "are the supply factors there"

https://t.co/eUcIVPDT4E via @FT

[Ruth Fletcher 🔶 @mihe2000]

Worrying story -take a look:

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?

This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The unanimous opinion of 400+ @guardian & @ObserverUK journalists following an @NUJofficial vote is that this deal poses an existential risk not just to @ObserverUK but also to @guardian.

And the great & the good - @hackedoffhugh, @carolvorders, @wmarybeard, @jeremydeller, @asifkapadia, @CarolineLucas - to name just a handful - say it is a grave threat to UK media plurality.
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https://t.co/XdQMarvcHe

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

These moms can't see anything important in front of their big SUVs.

[Footways @FootwaysLondon]

Good news for pedestrians from @CityWestminster: a trial of side-road zebra crossings is underway. People on foot already have priority over vehicles at side roads, but these road markings will remind everyone of what it says in the Highway Code https://t.co/JoAq32WSai