"Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." — Carl Sagan

University tuition was once free and now costs £9535 a year. Don't think the same couldn't happen to the NHS

Tom Harwood It seems you cannot see the obvious point here. Earnings for the lowest 30% have stagnated. Earning for the top 10% have skyrocketed. Hence, of course they pay more tax, although many of them do not. A clear image of increasing wealth inequality.

✅ Green HOLD Haughley, Stowupland and Wetherden (Mid Suffolk) council by-election result: GRN: 64.1% (-12.7) CON: 31.6% (+8.4) LDEM: 4.3% (+4.3) +/- 2023 Estimated turnout: ~30% (-9) andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Has government just quietly told us that it’s building HS2? I’d better explain.

A new danger. Close passed by one Land Rover Discovery like this this weekend I realised what a danger the 'side-mounted carrier' would be when it hits a pedestrian's or cyclist's head at speed in what was otherwise a grazing collision. Land Rover Discovery have you conducted risk testing on this?

Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs. In short, it’s terrible. A 🧵

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by Gavin Esler. Parts 2 & 3 below👇)

2% tax on assets worth over £10m would raise £24bn/year. Starmer's welfare cuts will only save £5bn/year. Instead of making the poorest and most vulnerable pay for years of austerity, it's time to introduce a wealth tax.

Good to see that more people are viewing wasteful schemes like #A1 dualling and #A19 junctions are money wasted on major roads, and that schemes like the #NorthumberlandLine and #ECML are better investments to make! chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

The consequences of your own actions: driving less than 2 miles

I’ve just witnessed - after decades of work by volunteers, and recent collaboration with Network Rail folk - the first passenger train in to Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway’s Princes Risborough platform to meet Chiltern Railways using its own, just-completed Independent Line! Happy Friday!🥰🤩🥳

What about publicly owned gyms, publicly funded group exercise classes, subsidised healthy cafes, free breakfast clubs for all schoolchildren, cooking classes in schools, not closing our parks over the summer due to privatized expensive inaccessible events…

Westminster council announcing a huge plan for the West End - includes pedestrianising the bottom end of Regent Street, Coventry Street, and another arm of Trafalgar Square, Picadilly Circus rebuild plus cycle lanes up Regent Street, and quite a bit more futureofregentstreet.commonplace.is

A left party already exists and it’s called The Green Party. Join before the 31st July and vote in the leadership contest for Zack Polanski ✅

The story of Britain's bonkers seaside miniature railways! I'm giving an online #Railway200 talk this Wed 9 July at 16:30 with Seaside Heritage Network: plus talks on railway excursions & posters from Dr Richard Furness & Dr Susan Major. Do join us, tickets here: ticketsource.co.uk/seaside-herita…

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

As Hackney’s Cabinet Member for Transport, I delivered the largest number of LTNs in the U.K. In return, I was abandoned by my colleagues, got deaths threats, and received the largest number of complaints of any Cllr in the U.K in 2020. It was worth it. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

#Railway200 #Trevithick ryanhogg.com/2025/07/08/rai…

MML electrification: on time and budget. Hence, it was cancelled, so it didn't reflect poorly on other projects.