Danny Yee

Not posting here any more. Try B (or M) instead.

car dependency is crippling the UK theconversation.com/how-the-uks-de… "for the UK to be more like Singapore, the government needs to make motorists pay much more for their car use. To be more like the Netherlands, it must take away their space"

insights from Hammersmith Bridge nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmith-… (Nick Maini) "closing a major bridge carrying 25,000 daily vehicles should lead to more traffic on other nearby crossings and less economic activity on either side. The evidence shows the exact opposite."

Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_Am… (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"

what are 16-18 year olds thinking? demos.co.uk/research/insid… "workshops and conversations with over 700 students ... reveal a generation that is thoughtful, diverse and far more politically aware than many assume"

Hi Twitter! Are you about to head home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat Oxford's Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share! oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-ha…

the Ukrainian use of aerostats pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2…

road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10/29/avz…

the two-child benefit cap: increasing child poverty while failing to achieve its goals largerfamilies.study/publications/t…

The History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wale… (my review)

@BeesterGee @HistoryGirlBW @bo66ie29 Nope. ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-a…

@DannyYee @HistoryGirlBW @bo66ie29 Life expectancy hasn't much changed since the middle ages, if you strip out infant mortality.

A rare and beautiful glimpse of Oxford, England, around 100 years ago.

@BeesterGee @HistoryGirlBW @bo66ie29 On pretty much any metric - life expectancy and general health, housing quality, food quality, etc - people are vastly better off now than they were in the 1920s. Even if you were an aristocrat then, no antibiotics and no vaccines against polio, measles, etc.

@HistoryGirlBW @bo66ie29 A coherent monoculture that reflected Cecil Rhodes comment that 'To borne a Englishman was to have come first in the lottery of life'. Sadly, if he could look around at the country today, I doubt he would be moved to say that now.

@RobChar17748533 @HistoryGirlBW Also maybe 1% as many motor vehicles in the city as there are now.

@HistoryGirlBW I love how the motor vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists all sort of intermingle, no highway code yet 🙂

@AFBrunelli @HistoryGirlBW Car ownership went from 2% of households to 68%.

@HistoryGirlBW What happened to this world?

Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_Trag… (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"

@AliceStainer @OxfordClarion A list of some of the new bus services that have been put in because of the promise of the traffic filters cohsat.org.uk/better-buses-2…

@AliceStainer @OxfordClarion The extra buses can only be freed up from existing routes if those can be decongested by restricting cars

Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet member for transport, Andrew Gant, has fired back at Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds over the city’s temporary congestion charge. In a 5-page open letter, the LibDem councillor calls Labour’s opposition to it “grotesque, upsetting and bizarre”.

advances in enumerative geometry quantamagazine.org/new-math-reviv… (Quanta)

Stockholm's approach to getting cars out of the city politico.eu/article/stockh… (Politico)