Still reeling from this horrific evidence from Prof John Edmunds at the Covid Inquiry yesterday. In refusing to lockdown in autumn 2020, Boris Johnson was responsible for up to 25,000 Covid deaths by ignoring the experts & evidence. It’s sickening 😔

Free car parking is fundamentally a subsidy to a businesses' better paid employees - when they're not giving free bus tickets to their cleaners. The proposed workplace parking levy for Bristol will improve public transport, cut down on congestion & reduce emissions in our city.

Traffic light exemptions for cyclists lead to improvements in traffic flow: new study from Lyon ecf.com/news-and-event…

"Concerns from suppliers that they could lead to higher prices for shoppers" - it's not the controls that would lead to higher prices. The decisions that lead to higher prices were taken years ago we're just still in denial /1 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Leave aside that these pagers are used by doctors and nurses. If Hezbollah blew up the phones or pagers of IDF soldiers, whether or not on duty, inevitably killing and maiming children and bystanders - he'd denounce this as an obscene terrorist attack.

Brexit is in reality the political equivalent of The Emperors New Clothes. It was a quite extraordinarily stupid project, which has caused MASSIVE harm - yet Labour and the Tories still can’t mention it ! But we the people can - and we will ! Do join us : eucitizenship.org

That Laurence Fox and Jim Davidson – among other car-brained right wingers — are against the pedestrianisation of London's Oxford Street tells you all you need to know about how this is a great plan!

#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Britain self sanctioned itself with Brexit trade barriers, making it almost impossible to export and import goods to/from our biggest market. The new deals with the RoW are worse and British businesses are suffering as there’s less trade, less variety and higher prices.  Labour

Kemi Badenoch was privately educated, worked for Coutts and The Spectator, and is married to a senior investment banker at Deutsche Bank. A part-time student job at McDonald's long ago doesn't make her working class, whatever she seems to think.

🧵/ This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine. 28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, the new chair of Health and Social Care Committee, to report something nothing less than scandalous. Read their letter here (1/n) 👇 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

One of the most important things I learnt from ⁦⁦Chris Boardman CBE⁩ last night was that infrastructure built to national standards increases active travel by 20-60% and halves deaths; 'painted lines' increase deaths by 10% and don't increase active travel at all.

British Gas boss Chris O'shea earned £8.2 MILLION in 2023 ( £4M more than 2022) The article is from June , however it is worth remembering this as you struggle to pay your bills this winter !! I couldn't sleep at night with that salary , could you ? independent.co.uk/business/briti…

Ten years ago, Better Together deceived people into voting No by promising a massive suite of new powers for the Scottish Parliament. Most of them weren’t delivered. Watch Kenny Gibson and Angus Robertson dismantle the notion of ‘most powerful devolved parliament in the world’.

🤷‍♂️ Oh my, clearly Douglas Ross is rattled when the litany of the No campaign’s broken promises is pointed out to him by Kate Forbes MSP. Where’s that EU membership, more prosperous economy and ‘equal partnership’ that Scotland was promised?

BREAKING: A new poll has found that most Scots want to see indyref2 held within the next 10 years. A majority of Scots also believe Holyrood should have the power to hold the vote

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Read and weep and then press for change oh, thank goodness for proper journalism George Monbiot

Leaving the EU will cost the UK £311 BILLION by 2035. That's about £4,700 per person in the UK. thelondoneconomic.com/business-econo…

Cancer and neurological disorders celebrate yet another Brexit benefit: “The amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales and Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of times higher.” theguardian.com/environment/20…