If you happen to be in Melksham this evening ...

Travel and Transport account for a high proportion of our greenhouse gas generation, and we do well to consider the effect of that  on our ongoing environment - what we leave for our children and grandchildren.

In Melksham, and across much of The West, our trains and buses remain fossil fuelled.  Now that's far better than us all taking individual petrol or diesel vehicles - for energy use, congestion, and indeed the exclusive financial and medical nature that limits who can drive.   However - still an issue to be considered.



Promoted for the Melksham Environment Group - full flyer at https://mkmeg.org.uk/peb.pdf - other screenings un the area:
10th June - Trowbridge Old Town Hall
11th June - Warminster Athenaeum
26th June - Market Lavington Community Hall

 
sounds a worthwhile cause. Do they propose any sensible solutions to the many problems we face.

 
For some strange and inexplicable reason, I do indeed happen to be in Melksham this evening.  

I'll be at the film viewing, dispensing some excellently produced public transport related timetable brochures to anyone else who is there, as well as watching the film.

Melksham Assembly Hall is just behind the Town Hall, on Market Place.

Chris from Melksham.

 

Don't know ... hoping to get a report  .   I went up to Devizes on the bus to see the film there, but it was "booked attendees only" and full, and I was turned away at the door, then last night's showing in Melksham was organised after the trip away I'm currently on.  The Melksham Environment Group had use of the huge Assembly Hall and I can't imagine there was a capacity issue here; traction on marketing was less than gripping, and the date chosen clashed with the Area Board which is required attendance for unitary councillors and other movers and shakers too.

 

Two shareable reports ...


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Background to that last comment ... as a free event with no need to register, our chair had been concerned that we would have an empty hall.  The concern was compounded when a number of the key movers and shakers who should have been attracted had a prior scheduled (Melksham Area Board) meeting

 

We used to have the Green Party, who when led by the admirable Caroline Lucas, sought to do exactly that.

Said party now under its new leadership however seems more concerned with convincing us that women can have male genitals, legalising hard drugs, opening up our borders to all and sundry and cuddling up to Islamists and as such lack the time to worry about the aversion of environmental catastrophe.

All a question of priorities I guess?

 
Er, that's a series of tropes pushed on the likes of Facebook and 'X' users by various far-right factions, often with the aid of what is sometimes generously referred to AI slop, and very often by organisations with shadowy and opaque funding and I suggest that it has no place on this forum.

Mark

 

"Far right factions/AI slop" like the BBC and The Guardian?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e20rzje2o

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/labour-green-party-muslim-voters-gorton-denton

 
Your first link: on the Green party leader's policy towards drug use, it can be instructive to reflect on Portugal's approach - decriminalising drugs, done right, and treating the issue as health-related, can kick the legs out from under the criminals who supply them. (Though I note that alcohol is legal and at 9.30 this morning there were a group of people in the local park rather the worse for wear from drink, and necking the stuff from wine bottles...)

The Guardian article, more wide ranging - but it's always good with any article to be wary of the headline and often the subheading, as these don't necessarily reflect the content - indeed they often do not, and content authors are often wearily resigned to the fact that they have not input to headlines/subheadings.

That aside, tropes that are intended to weaken the qualities that hold a society together, identify people as members of outgroups, and make them the targets of hate, these should be seen for what they are.

Mark