Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
Have I missed the sound of dropping the terminal g in a plummy accent as if it was the 18th century?
No, not at all.
Cabinet minister on the Today Programme a few minutes ago said that “anyone who has any transport needs will benefit from the freeze in fuel duty”. I wish this was his idea of a funny April Fool, given the 50% increase in single bus fares a couple of months ago, 4.6% rise in rail fares last month, and impact of the driving encouraged by a(nother) duty freeze on pedestrians and cyclists. But while if asked the government will say it “doesn’t think that transport is just cars and really wants a to encourage more sustainable transport” I think he was serious.
Hurrah for #Autonormativity, also known as #CarBrain…
#ActionsSpeakLouderThanWords #TransportPlanning #Transport #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #Radio4Today #TodayProgramme
Malala Malala Malala
Hearing Malala speak on the Arga Khan is a shaft of light in today's populist political swamp of Trump and minions.Radio gold might be a better metaphor
Speaking up for Afghan women and girls when the white house spoke down so disrespectfully to an Afghan journalist the other day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027sx4?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Malala is on 1hr 48mins
#MalalaYousafzai #Malala #argakhan
#radio4today #SaturdayMotivation
#politics #radio
He's Leaving.... on that midnight
train
Recently left X for obvious reasons
I've been here a while too doing #sunrises #politics
#Wordletrek #MusicTrax4Life #radio4today #Whitleybay and others
#leavingx #twitterexodus #twittermigration #twitterexit #twitteroff #leavingX
Name that track and artist.
Took that train and not X ing back
The revelation that Ricky Gervais is an annoying yet funny shit probably isn't that great a surprise.
By accident, I just heard an item on BBC Radio 4's Today programme covering the Athens wildfires. Not a mention of global heating or the climate emergency. "Of course, Greece is used to wildfires," says the reporter, "they have them every year."
Mishal Hussein skewers the Israel representative just be asking questions.
Armando Iannucci
OccasionalDucks
Simon Lucy
jmorley
Julie grows
JuneSim63 💚