3/ Irony number two. I was told for years that climate change is a hoax and British summers aren't getting hotter. Now the same voices demand to know why Britain never installed AC. You cannot have it both ways. The case for cooling IS the case that the climate is changing.

Weird that a song can be number 1 for sixteen weeks and I have no idea what it sounds like. Love is All Around and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You felt absolutely inescapable at the time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Language matters here. Every time the word “e-bike” is attached to these machines, a legal, healthy and increasingly important form of transport takes the blame for the behaviour of people riding illegal motorbikes."

I think my favourite thing is spelling out someone's full name hoping it will make sound like some Prussian viscount Jonathan! David!

Good grief. Wandsworth Council’s plans to “tackle the gridlock” & “get Puntey’s roads mvping again” all involve stealing space & time from pedestrians in a self-defeating effort to increase traffic throughput 🤦‍♂️ Really bleak, horribly misguided stuff

Really important article from @lauralaker.bsky.social - we need better training & guidance for police & legal changes to stop legal e-cycles & other mobility aids being wrongly seized by police. Wheels for Wellbeing briefing on current rules here: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

We talk a lot here about X going Nazi, but the sheer amount of racist, anti-black, Islamophobic, antisemitic, racist and homophobic content I see on Facebook nowadays overwhelms it. And unlike X, which does at least still have a Following feed, it's much harder to avoid.

The Times ought to correct this misleading claim that is an either deliberate or dumb misreading of the stats to promote an entirely false meme of "care worker sponsors 15 relatives"

Very proud of this, and still lots more to come building out an integrated network to cycle safely in in Camden!

Anti-gay views prove unpopular and this is unfair somehow?

It’s really astounding how little Helen Lewis has said about the EHRC guidance - a huge development in her home country on the issue she writes about most. She’s a coward.

Do you fancy dodging delivery robots clogging up our pavements? Pedestrians already get a raw deal on Britain’s streets. Happy to support @livingstreets.bsky.social Pavement Overload campaign.

The idea of a bimble down to Hammersmith for a wander over the bridge ... is now attractive. It never was while the bridge carried traffic. Hopefully the gyratory and flyover are next!

Happy Pride, NYC. Today, tomorrow, and every day we will celebrate and fight for our queer and trans neighbors.

Take a look at Serbia (and to a degree, Turkey).

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study by @transportenvironment.org finds - Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gosh, Jeremy Hunt making stuff up. Surely not. (Politico)

Many said we couldn’t do it. Data says we have. Toxic air-related deaths in London have dropped by 40%. 👏👏 @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

POV new separated cycle lane, westbound uphill Clerkenwell Road. @camdencouncil.bsky.social is really setting the benchmark in London. @willnorman.co.uk

It is extremely important that Labour understands that the movement of voters between Lab and Ref was not the crucial factor, it was consolidation of the anti-Ref vote and Lab voters turning out in droves. Otherwise Burnham will make the same mistakes as Starmer in targeting only one set of voters.

The tragedy of the Dartmoor Pony Cull Conspiracy is that misinformation can lead to scientific advice being ignored, & environmental watchdogs like Natural England having their powers curtailed - exactly what the Tories & rightwing press have always wanted. I spoke to @mrjamesob.bsky.social:

‘Let’s spark our political imagination – especially in BAME Labour’ – @camdenlabour.bsky.social's, Dan Bilenga, via @labourlist.bsky.social labourlist.org/2026/06/lets...

I watched their podcast on this non-story and they completely doubled down on this nonsense

The Times is a disgrace on multiple fronts.

What is this "hydration break" and why is it still going on??

The consultation doc explicitly links action on plug in solar to the government's response to the conflict in the Middle East and to tackle the cost of living. Ministers want panels in shops "within months". Probably not the summer as planned, but autumn seems likely

I’d have a lot more time for this if the answer was “by not cutting employee NICS”. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

A good plain-English description of why I think it’s completely legitimate to say the Supreme Court fucked up _as a matter of law_ www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Helen Lewis’ new article bemoans how the far-right is pushing for a Gilead-type existence. Yet she totally ignores how she (& other ‘gender critical’ transphobes) ACTIVELY collaborated with them in their joint “wedge issue” to attack trans rights! Spot her name on the anti-trans coalition website)

It is a great privilege to have come second in the ballot for Private Member’s Bills. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. You can read my full statement on this here or on my website: buff.ly/I78DfUX

1/ Ukraine's forces keep hammering Russia's logistics into Crimea. Commander Filatov says a railway bridge and pontoon crossing near Chongar got hit today, after Russia tried replacing the destroyed Chongar bridge with pontoons, which also got hit.

Yes. More people walking and cycling is literally a growth strategy. More people getting to the high street more easily & affordably, with more money freed up to spend. More infrastructure to help people get where they want to go, more healthily, reducing impact on the NHS & fewer sick days

Particularly when the roads budgets includes the dualing of roads and new roads which have no business case because they will induce demand for new driving and so have no medium or long term impact on congestion. And where a single one of these pointless projects dwarfs active travel spending.

Well done to the 37% 🐙

ECFR’s latest poll confirms the collapse in European faith in the US. Only 11% of respondents now consider it an ally, down from 16% half a year ago and 22% in November 2024. https://ecfr.eu/publication/home-alone-europeans-are-ready-to-defend-themselves/

L'artiste britannique David Hockney, l'une des figures les plus influentes de l'art contemporain, est décédé jeudi à l'âge de 88 ans chez lui à Londres.

London could follow the Dutch example of zero emission zones to crack down on commercial diesel vans, which are actually on the rise. City Hall is considering it and campaigners are calling for it. Kumail Jaffer reports www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...

This is a very good piece.

The only option is unspecified welfare cuts, says man who forced through broad based tax cuts as an election gimmick for an election his party lost catastrophically.

It seems obvious but needs saying that most of Labour's core vote is fundamentally opposed to the far right. Failing to fight back against it rioting on Britain's streets will leave many of those supporters wondering what the point of having a Labour government is.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Yesterday's session exposed the weaknesses of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Rather than bring "clarity", it will lead to more confusion for businesses, staff and customers, as this example highlighted. This is one of the many reasons, I have signed the fatal motion.

We have! Very proud of this. A proper joined up network is what the whole city needs.

It’s finished now I think. Camden has been quietly making lots of good infrastructure and people are using it in growing numbers.

Cycling in London is booming - with 1.5m cycle trips every day. So we're expanding London's network of cycleways to keep people safe. Great to see construction underway on permanent bike lanes on Goodsway, Kings Cross, Camden. @camdencouncil.bsky.social TfL 🚲🚲

Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

Telling that this horrendous story has been completely ignored by Farage and Co. A shocking murder.

It appears Policy Exchange are again trying to Americanise the UK, with all the misery and woe that would cause – taking a leaf right out of the Trump book ⤵️ @goodlawproject.org goodlawproject.org/rightwing-th...

As cycle numbers soar in London, we're expanding our network of safe cycleways. Fabulous to see the new cycle lanes and crossings on Clerkenwell Road. Well done @camdencouncil.bsky.social @TfL