Labour: There's no money to spend £3.7bn lifting kids out of poverty.

Also Labour: We're investing £21.7bn in carbon capture, helping fossil fuel criminals continue to destroy our planet.

Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-as-a-climate-solution/

#FuckLabour #Labour #Poverty #ChildPoverty #Inequality #Pollution #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ukpol #politics @ukpolitics

You know what would be a great feature on an iPhone?

The ability to turn off Silence Unknown Callers for a specific time period.

I turn it off all the time for callbacks, deliveries, and other random phone calls that I know are going to be happening in the next few hours. You have to turn off the firewall sometimes.

And then I forget to turn it back on and get a stupid telemarketer the next day.

Pretty sure this little computer could remember to do it for me.

Shocking, powerful stuff from Chris Boardman and Active Travel England.

A study of over 100 cycle schemes has revealed that old-fashioned schemes (i.e. just painting the road) will 'kill 10% more people than doing nothing and you get no uptake because it doesn't make people feel safe', whereas a scheme designed to modern standards will get 'between 20-60% increase in uptake and halve the number of deaths.'

https://youtu.be/MPgi8_rHD9E?si=ZncCIn7nhqivhi4t&t=1621

#ActiveTravel #ChrisBoardman #ActiveTravelCafe