Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with @cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.

So pleased to be part of @RosendaleSchool 's efforts towards achieving TFL GOLD 🥇in their travel for life programme. @TheNorwoodForum are posting lots of great local stories whilst #COP30 is running - many can save you money and reduce environmental impact 🌱 www.norwoodforum.org/Norwood-and-...

Thrilled with the turnout for yesterday's bike bus 🚲 🌧️🚲🌧️🚲🌧️ Featuring Walking and cycling commissioner @willnorman.co.uk and Lambeth's @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social It was a great display of the vital necessity of *safe routes to school* 🚸🚲 Rosendale Bike Lane & Safer Crossings Now 📢

An astonishing 90% of primary schools in Lambeth now have school streets. These are helping make journeys to school safer, they improving air quality for the children and are enabling more kids to walk, scoot and cycle to school. It is great working with @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and team.

It was great to see @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social , Deputy Leader of Lambeth Council and @willnorman.co.uk, London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner today on an epic bike bus organised by @solverosendale.bsky.social. It was to celebrate one year of their amazing and transformational school street!

Great to join mums, dads, kids and teachers today scooting and cycling to school on the Solve The School Run bike bus and to celebrate Rosendale Road School Street’s 1st birthday. Thanks to @willnorman.co.uk for joining us this wet and soggy but joyous morning! @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

Alongside the poppy, I’m wearing a Marigold today to recognise the bravery & sacrifice of the Indian subcontinent in the World Wars. Over 1.3 million Indian servicemen fought across Europe, Middle East, & East Africa with over 70,000 fatalities in WW1 alone. #Remembrance #Marigold #LestWeForget

Busy morning painting over unsightly graffiti on Russell’s footpath in Streatham. Great to be joined by Steve Reed MP who picked up a brush and started painting with us. Very proud of the repainted pigeon even though I had to resort to finger painting due to a lack of fine tip brushes!

BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.

Tonight at 9pm see a Streetfilm that just doesn't exist on Youtube or anywhere: @solomonge.bsky.social takes us on a #London tour of nearby LTN's and shows us how some of the installations work to keep vehicles out of neighborhoods. And don't miss the final minute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaRc...

Lambeth Council partnered with Big Local North Brixton & Impact on Urban Health to explore heat risk, identifying the most heat-vulnerable areas & with hyper local partners engaging residents directly. This is what climate action looks like: local, collaborative, & full of heart. lnkd.in/eaCCKyPq

An article in the Financial Times argued that Britain should “fall in love with cars again” and invest in more motorways. Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not. open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...

Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play! FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps. @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social

Remembering the Bengal Famine of 1943. Manchester Museum, 22 October 2025. Free, but booking required. Presentation starts at 6PM. Builds on Kavita Puri's podcast series.

So pleased that I managed to attend the Nisa-Nashim Annual Conference today with the amazing @saraconway.bsky.social It was an inspiring afternoon full of hope as we listened to Jewish and Muslim women on how we can work together in facing the challenges in an increasingly polarised world.

I was so delighted to join a delegation of council members and Senators from New York City and the Regional Plan Association for lunch to spoke about healthy neighbourhoods, clean air and transport decarbonisation in London. All excited about prospect of mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ❤️

It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

New from Institute of Jewish Policy Research: most comprehensive study of Jewish attitudes > Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe > Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel (July 2025 fieldwork) www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...

New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

LTNs, School Streets, CPZ, emission based parking, 20mph, more cycling infrastructure, bus priority together with congestion pricing and ULEZ has massively sped up cleaner air for London. Thank you @london.gov.uk @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social

I think that was Keir Starmer’s best speech as Labour leader, in part because he clearly believed most of it and the argument actually cohered and had some policy substance to it.

We're underway at our third and final day of #LAB25 in the LCEF x Anacta Hub with 'Cleaning the Air through Labour's Health Mission'

Twitter is an utter cesspit of bigotry and racism, making it harder for someone like me to stay on there. Also, bit ironic that those who opine free speech make it impossible for others to exercise their right to Freedom of Expression.

I left Twitter recently because of the constant harassment from certain people opposed to healthy neighbourhoods & any form of public realm improvement relating to road danger reduction and air quality improvement. Some are trying to follow me here. So I am blocking them of course 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Eric Pickles (remember him?) ended the Local Government Pension Scheme for new Councillors in 2014. Now, 11 years later, at the Labour Party conference, Steve Reed MP has just announced that he is reversing this decision in recognition of the huge contribution of local councillors! 🎉

Actually heard these two arguments from cranky speakers at a Community Board meeting back-to-back. How is it that they are useless and empty but the next person says they are so crowded it is dangerous to cross the street? Hmmm...

The new Bakerloop express electric bus from Waterloo to Lewisham gives Londoners better connections and shows the benefits a Bakerloo line extension could bring. Free to use in its first week, its a quicker, greener and more convenient service to transform everyday journeys.

Great to be at the launch of the new Superloop route BL1 (Bakerloop), which starts on 27 Sept between Waterloo & Lewisham

The new express bus service will mirror the proposed Bakerloo Tube line extension between Waterloo & Lewisham. Great news for bus lovers & it’s free for the first week!

If you are in Liverpool for this year's Labour Conference, come along and join the conversation (outside the secure zone!) #LPC25

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

The Bakerloop is here. A brand-new electric express bus service connecting communities from Waterloo to Lewisham. Launching on Saturday 27 September, we’re offering one week of free travel on the Bakerloop so Londoners can see for themselves how it could transform their everyday journeys.

Delighted to join staff and students at London South Bank Technical College for the opening of the Renewable Technologies Skills Hub This UK-first facility is equipping the next generation with green skills through: 🔋 EV charging points ☀️ Solar PV & thermal panels 🌱 Air & ground source heat pumps

They aren’t just flower beds!!! Fascinating peak beneath the surface of one of London’s new Cycleways - you can see the complex drainage system that ensures bike lanes help protect the capital from heavy rain & the effects of climate change. And don’t they look great when they’re finished? 💚🚲👍

Literally the most accurate obituary I've read to date. Thoughts?

Two days after #NationalDemocracyDay, the UK rolls out the red carpet for Trump. A billionaire built on misogyny, division and privilege. His presence in power silences women and rewards inequality. We won’t stand for it. Join the fight👉 bit.ly/46hEVZ5 #TrumpUKVisit #FawcettSociety

In London, hate will never win.

President Trump has fanned the flames of the far-right. And now a toxic form of politics is spilling out onto our streets. These are dark times, but those who seek to divide us will not win. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There’s a growing body of evidence, including govt-commissioned reviews, which say LTNs are effective in reducing traffic, improving safety & encouraging active travel So it was a pleasure to be part of this film by @streetfilms.bsky.social celebrating safer,greener,healthier streets in Lambeth

It was fantastic to see the annual London Cargo Bike Cruise return, uniting the world’s largest convoy of cargo bikes showcasing London’s growing freight revolution They play a vital role in cutting carbon from London’s transport system, cleaner & more efficient than traditional delivery methods

Premiering TODAY at 11am/EST see how a diagonal diverter & traffic calming can create a mini-town square. From Lambeth, London! with @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @solomonge.bsky.social & more! WATCH HERE/RESERVE A REMINDER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ho...

Would you push someone off this 54-foot ladder? Hitting them with your car at 40mph does the same damage.

Frightening to see both Reform and now the Conservatives taking a page out of the Trump playbook by banning press access to publications they see as critical to their political positioning.

RASKIN: The freedom of speech applies 365 days a year here under the 1st Amendment FARAGE: We have allowed massive mass pro-Gaza demonstrations in London weekend after weekend RASKIN: No thanks to you

“Recent polling finds that people conceive of their neighbourhoods at a hyper-local level – people who feel worse about their neighbourhoods, or are more animated about potholes & high streets with vacant shop fronts, are more likely to be considering voting Reform”

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

Terrific.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him