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London’s cycling trips hit 1.5 million a day as ridership surges 43% since 2019

Chapeau!

RideLondon cycling event boss resigns from board after careless driving conviction for seriously injuring cyclist

Good.

Five ways we can fire up Your Party

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

“If the left cannot remember that movements are built on what people have in common rather than what divides them, this will be another in a long line of wasted opportunities. "

Built it or burn it, Comrades

“MPs should no longer have to be all things to all people. Instead, they should be able to represent the interests of their constituents by delivering on their core roles of parliamentary scrutiny, debate, policy making and legislating.”

What a load of hairy old bollocks. They Work For Us, etc.

Art Deco: The Golden Age of Poster Design exhibition at the London Transport Museum

Why aren’t London’s lethal junctions being fixed faster? Transport chiefs happy with “acceptable” number of crashes to avoid impacting bus times, cycling campaigners say – as “people keep dying”

Nottingham Forest thrash lacklustre Liverpool at Anfield

From the Morning Star’s Tricky Tree Correspondent.

A rupture with the system?

“While the Greens have won popularity for their call for a wealth tax, it’s unclear whether they’d be willing to break with the most powerful forces of capitalism”

LCC has updated the Dangerous Junctions map for 2025

I’m really surprised that the Coldharbour Lane / Atlantic Road death trap doesn’t feature.

“Given question of government use of X has come up again, I’d like to make the argument for the creation of micro.blog.gov.uk”

Richard Pope on the use of X in government

New poll puts Greens in SECOND ahead of Labour and Tories

Shit the bed.

“The ideology of Labourism – which holds that the Labour Party is the only route to any progressive change – has long kept British socialists shackled to a party that, for most of its history, and especially since its Blairite takeover, has worked tirelessly against their aims.”

#WhyNotJoinTheLabourParty, etc

Or Your Party.

Long-awaited Vuelta a España return to Canary Islands in 2026 cancelled due to alleged lack of clarity over Israel team

‘Anarcho-Punk: Music in London 1977-1988’ – updated and expanded edition

Regent Street Will Close To Traffic This December, Becoming A ‘Festive Mile’

Good. Now take away the Christmas tat and make it permanent.

#OneLessCar etc.

Government shuts down “false” media claims roads to be narrowed to stop drivers overtaking cyclists, after tabloid “war on motorists” hysteria “misrepresents” latest road safety guidance

It’s relentless shutting down all this disinformation.

Design competition showcases four proposals to reinvent Clapham’s railway bridge

Wot No Wankerville?

Zarah Sultana says Your Party must be ‘explicitly socialist’ and ‘embrace class war’

No arguments here. Just get your shit together first.

Chris Froome’s retirement limbo leaves the sport of cycling to grapple with a difficult legacy

“It was difficult to tell what song he wrote and what song he didn’t write, because sometimes I noticed that he said he wrote a song and he didn’t, and other times I thought he didn’t write a song and he did.”

Richard Williams on Box Set 18 (1!) of the Dylan Bootleg Series.

Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people’s health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows

It’s always a joy seeing one of the five hundred orange framed bicycles distributed for free to some communities around these Estuary Wilds parts.