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Links for 21-11-25

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.

Links for 19-11-25

“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

Links for 18-11-25

Links for 15-11-25

“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.

Links for 12-11-25

“It was really heavy going at times. We were angry; we were trying to say things in a way that was confrontational and shocking to get a reaction. And we definitely did.”

Eve Libertine looks back - and forward - on Crass

Speaking of which…

New album from The Steve Ignorant Band – Crass Songs live in Barcelona

“No 10 has gone into full bunker mode, turning on their most loyal cabinet members for absolutely no reason. A circular firing squad won’t help the government out of the hole we’re in.”

Jerk circle, more like.