It’s strange that we’re still having to campaign to put walking and cycling on an equal footing with driving in transport planning. I mean it’s bonkers when you think about the health, nature, culture, education, community & energy policy gains. https://t.co/9GS4YpAbxu
I’m loving Rest is Politics on YouTube. @MarinaHyde told a story about Trump yard signers in Arizona who the GOP found had not registered to vote. They responded “what’s the point? It’s all rigged”. #triplive
@SolDaveyJones @ethanclynne Well in the UK you can vote weeks before polling day. And India has big voter windows because they have lots of voters. It’s not really criminal so much as respecting people’s right to vote.
On this day in 1215, Magna Carta was sealed at @RunnymedeNT.
Magna Carta means ‘The Great Charter’, and is one of the most important documents in history.
Photo: The Jurors by Hew Locke, at Runnymede.
@CeliaRichards0n The pesky urban fox upturning the food waste bin to remind us it’s cunning and tenacious. Woodpeckers and robins - the soundtrack to morning; and beech trees with their soft flooring.
@agw1437@rowdy_woman@theJeremyVine I cycle most days. This is absolutely right. The quality of most cycling is terrible. (People cutting up the inside of big vehicles as you could see in the film.) But the worst thing is that it makes motorists angry and that’s properly dangerous. It’s a race to the bottom.
@peterdennett1@CeliaRichards0n You might struggle to argue that a suburban London garden is “the wild”. Does the Act help with defining “humanely”? I’m not sure a vet would thank you for bringing in a belligerent squirrel.
Ten years ago on #StarWarsDay we were at the Jedi Training Academy in Florida while 7 yo lad had a break in leukaemia treatment. Today was his 1st day at his Saturday job at the local butcher and I’ve been dancing to Abba. Thank you, NHS. May the Fourth be with you.
The National Trust are running one of the best communications strategies I've ever seen to counter an Astro-turf far right assault - ethical PR courses will use this to teach
In praise of Surestart. Among other things our local centre got 1st son a play therapy package for family trauma when 2nd son was born 14 weeks early. And same for 2nd son soon after, when 1st son got leukaemia. Those people saved our souls again & again. Brilliant initiative.
It would be wonderful to see London’s embankment north of the Thames given the same treatment as The Seine. It would be magnificent. Difficult yes, but such potential.
I interviewed Carlos Moreno the inventor of the 15 minute city about his new book and why the idea has taken off in Paris but is toxic in the UK https://t.co/ZYUxSgfrm6