Fuel duty has been frozen for 14 yrs. 2022 it was cut, costing the Treasury £2.4 billion. Social Market Foundation found the freeze has benefitted the top fifth of earners twice as much as the bottom fifth. Yet rail fares continue to rise; Gov needs to reprioritise & end the freeze.

Instead of rail becoming the first choice for international travel, it's become a luxury. With limited services & expensive tickets, it's little wonder many choose to fly instead. In a climate emergency, rail has to be the first choice. bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/inte…

Our comment on an MP's use of Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem about the horrors of the Nazis to describe a potential smoking ban.

This is basically how Brexit happened.

Two lads, London 1902 at the height of Empire, when wealth abounded. Understand, they've never looked after "their own" & they're never going to, they look after themselves. There were no good old days, it's bollix. Blame the right people, not those with even less than you. X

'Children living in ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) Nearly four times as likely to switch to walking and cycling compared with those outside the zone.' Wow bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Will many of those prisoners released early reoffend? Yes. Guaranteed. Would they have reoffended if they’d served their full sentences? Yes. Guaranteed. The problem isn’t early release, it is a prison system that fails utterly to rehabilitate people’s lives. #r4today

I was a Republican for 45 years. The fact that this mean-spirited, demented fool Trump is the nominee of the party for three straight election cycles is just unfathomable.

I don't have a problem with this at all. The centre of London will be way gentler with an all-pedestrian Oxford Street. It will also calm Marble Arch down, and continue the improvement of Park Lane that began when they put in the cycle lane. The fewer cars in central London, the

for some reason Boris Johnson was missing from that declared accepted gifts chart. i fixed it.

Councils urged to regulate dockless cars

E-bikes don't replace bicycle trips, they replace car trips. That's what makes them so important. Multimodal choice is spreading slowly and suddenly.

The way the ECHR is applied may at times irritate and as in all human affairs no court will always be perfect in its reasoning and decisions. But the ECHR has done immense good throughout Europe. Precisely because it is a " living instrument", it has been able to promote human

Look, we have to pay bonuses to water company executives at internationally competitive levels. Otherwise they might leave Britain and dump shit in other countries' rivers instead.

I'm bombarded with ads from all the Presidential candidates at the moment. This one is brilliant though!

Fellow Europeans, Today, a few thousand people, thousands of miles away, will determine 🇪🇺 's security. A reminder; IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY! It's past time for EU to take its own security in its own hands. And only Pro-European politicians can deliver this!

You know that European army we didn't want or need so we voted for brexit? Yeah. That.

Headline writers not messing about

I’m calling on all comedians to march against us paying inheritance tax. For us it’s not a job, it’s a way of life. The tax means my kids will have to sell everything if I die and their jokes will be lost forever. But I don’t expect you to understand that, Kier Starmer!!!