How to fight the 15-min city backlash? Talk about nondrivers.
“In most town centres we are working in, around 30 per cent of the whole community don’t have access to a private car. This tends to be the young, the old and the disadvantaged. “

Maria Caulfield MP As a government minister, are you advocating breaking the law? This woman was arrested for breaching a PSPO. There is currently no 'buffer zone legislation'. Your government hasn't taken any action to protect vulnerable patients and staff from intimidation and harassment.

Tory MP Maria Caulfield:

- Called for a debate on cutting the abortion time limit

- Was an officer of a pro-life group

- Voted against legal abortion in Northern Ireland

- Voted against buffer zones outside abortion clinics

Rishi Sunak has appointed her minister for women.

'UK health minister 'spreading baseless claims' by saying local council planned to restrict freedom to drive, say Lib Dems' - The Guardian

theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Mick, what do you think about the Rail Reform Bill?
'We think it's a bit of a rearrangement of deckchairs on a vessel that's doomed.'

Dear Historic England over 21,650 Brummies want you to list The Electric Cinema and save it from Glenbrook's destructive 50 floor tower. It isn't a fling... it is love actually.

change.org/saveoldstation…

Oh my God, this is utterly shameful…

This right here, is the Tory effect.

If you want to hear me talking to Kathryn Stanczyszyn about learning to ride a bike it's on BBC Sounds now - from about 1 hour 13 minutes to 1 hour 26 minutes (The iconic Debbie comes on about 1 hour 20).
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Thanks to Kathryn Stanczyszyn for having me on this morning to talk about this silly little video and learning new skills an adult.
To be honest, I think I was upstaged by Debbie who called in to say she's taken up boxercise - at 87!

Our absurdly centralised governance leads us to ignore the real challenges facing local government: cuts through 2010s, huge increases in costs and demand for adult and child social services, & a hopelessly out of date funding system

thetimes.co.uk/article/13191e…

'Supporting🇬🇧farmers ?' Are you insane ?

By cutting their produce off from their biggest market next door (impossible to get fresh GB sausages in EU now) AND signing 'not very good deals' swamping them with 🇦🇺&🇳🇿 competition 'for generations to come' ?

STOP LYING TO PEOPLE !

Join us in sending bday howls to Mexican gray wolf Betty - she's 3 today! 🎊

Beyond being beautiful, Betty represents the WCC's active efforts to save her species from extinction. She's elusive, curious, + deserves to live in the wild!

Adopt her: nywolf.org/adopt-a-wolf/

MAC report on Graduate Visa; it's working as intended. Benefits UK economy, taxpayers, and university sector, and should be kept in its current form.

Government response will be an important test of whether it prioritises economy over xenophobia..

theguardian.com/education/arti…

NEW POLL - WESTMINSTER VI:

LAB: 45%
CON: 21%
REFORM: 12%
LIB: 11%
GREEN: 6%
SNP: 2%
OTHER: 3%

via Techne UK, 08-09 May

pollingreport.uk/polls

Had a brilliant morning doing #Dementia music delivery very local to me. Spent this afternoon dressmaking 😀then got an email from an amateur orchestra I work with- members of Making Music UK - telling me they want to give me a pay rise for the Sectionals I lead. Amazing!

The decision to move out saves the GLA £61 million over five years, but Neil appears to believe taxpayers' money would have been better spent on lining the pockets of the old site's Saudi owners.

Baffling.

The Greater London Authority doesn't own and has never owned the City Hall to which Neil refers.

However, I'd love to hear his views on a Conservative Government decision to dissolve the Greater London Council in 1986 and flog County Hall to a Conservative Party donor in 1993.

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#Climatechange is affecting every region in the world. 🌎

This figure from #IPCC ’s Synthesis Report shows the projected increase in population exposed to coastal flooding events in the next decades that currently occurs on average once every 100 years.

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