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a beginner's guide to train travel in the UK - Seat61
renewal and compassion after violence - When I Sing, Mountains Dance [my review]
"Set in the Catalan Pyrenees, When I Sing, Mountains Dance is intimately tied to its setting, to the mountain slopes and scattered dwellings and local community."
120 years of the War on Cars - Guardian
China's online feminist movement - Rest of World
a critique of bus franchising - Bus and Train User
"Honestly, I think the city council should consider the tire spikes thing" - xkcd
"The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life" - Guardian
interesting critique of the Strong Towns movement - Current Affairs
speeding is a contributing factor in half of traffic collisions - Auto Express
the UK has no official record of electoral results - Jack Bailey
we don't even know how many people voted in 1945!
the minimum width for cycle lanes in the Netherlands is now 2.3 metres - Dutch Cycling
plans for what looks like a really nice Low Traffic Neighbourhood in Islington - LetsTalk
China has a battery-electric container ship, Australia is building a 130m pure-electric ferry - Electrive - Incat
Lord Sugar and UK tax exiles - Tax Policy
modern cars are a privacy nightmare - the worst product category of all - Mozilla
"dating apps and sex toys publish more detailed security information than cars"
who now would let motor traffic back into Trafalgar Square? - SNC Lavalin
why do Australians think they have the best coffee in the world? - Carbon Kopi [via WanderingRichard]
private roads and rights of way (with some Oxfordshire examples) - Moomin Dave
the struggles of Britain's fish and chip shops - Guardian
the ongoing effects of the 1984 miners' strike - Guardian
Vladimir Putin and the End of the Russian Idea - Foreign Affairs
a late, short chronology for the settlement of East Polynesia - PNAS
ring-road at capacity, facing growth? Remove a lane! - Bicycle Dutch
global population growth is not a major problem for decarbonisation
https://medium.com/enquetes-ecosophiques/population-and-climate-change-88d43e23941a
"Poorer countries must therefore be helped to achieve their demographic transition, but first and foremost for their own sake and that of their environment, not to reduce global warming."
from "wellness" to fascism - Guardian
England should stop building roads and maintain the ones it has instead - Forbes
nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles are a threat to global security - Bulletin
an update on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Real Climate
NGO support for Ukraine is important and should be supported by governments - Foreign Affairs
the "bin lorry effect", and how to stop highway regulations crippling street design - Create Streets
our old stories and old monsters, re-packaged for an AI world - Bruce Sterling
"a majority (53%) of Londoners would support the pedestrianisation of the entirety of central London" - Redfield and Wilton
Britain is in a deep hole - Spiegel
genetic evidence for early Polynesian-Native American contact - Science
in 1995 I led a protest march against Internet censorship legislation by a New South Wales government which knew nothing about the Internet - it's amazing that the UK is planning something just as stupid in 2023 - Verge
Britain is a bad country to be poor in; its child poverty is particularly shocking - Guardian
the average height of five-year-olds is actually dropping
humans do production line factory work to train AIs - Verge
Brexit the UK fishing industry - Politico
Committee on Climate Change: the UK needs to halt all new road building - Guardian
stop destroying footways: a pedestrian manifesto - Oxford Blog

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