File under "all the worst people hate bike lanes"

This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...

With #Wandsworth Council's announcement that it's ripping out ped & cycle infra on Putney High Street to make more room for drivers, a thought about the private Putney High School (c300 juniors, c600 seniors) where half kids get driven, blue dots = staff, green = juniors, purple = seniors

Green Party London Assembly Member Caroline Russell told the report launch that City Hall and TfL could still be doing more to tackle the "elephant in the room" - traffic congestion. "The urgency to reduce the number of cars in London couldn't be clearer". www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

In which Wandsworth Tories declare war on pedestrians and cyclists. www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-ju...

Drivers who yell at me to “move over”: this is why I don’t ride as far to the right as you wish I would. I’m riding safely, and you can chill the fuck out.

British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.

And those groups treat people on bikes - especially children just trying to get to school or less confident people trying to replace car journeys - with contempt too. The difference is only one group is really at risk of death (and it isn’t those with disabilities).

This is a case study in motornormativity, car-brain, sloppy journalism and numerical illiteracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "£100m in e-bike insurance claims push up premiums for motorists". Big scary numbers, all the fault of lawless bike riders. Let's see, shall we?

The facade is cracking

It'll be interesting to see if this puts a dent in support for trash fash parties on this side of the Atlantic.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Worth noting (although this article fails to do so) that the Trump administration’s opposition to Miliband is rooted in the fact it does not think anthropogenic climate change is happening and believes fossil fuels are completely unproblematic. www.thetimes.com/article/cc02...

Will it be "Nul Points" for Jason Perry and the London Borough of Croydon? Tune in to find out.

It is ... very interesting that this keeps happening. Juries are by definition made up of a random sample from the electoral roll, and they continue to express support for climate protestors when put in a contemplative environment juststopoil.org/2026/07/03/a...

Belatedly: this is good and overdue. We need to get better at recognising that pan-London significance is a thing, boroughs don’t exist in isolation from each other, and the GLA has a legitimate role in stopping NIMBYs from paralysing London’s wider life. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nothing has radicalized me more than biking, with a bonus to walking to work. Now that I use my car less and less, I hate them more and more. I’m different behind the wheel. Less human. We all are. It’s awful. Constrained to roads, subject to others’ dehumanized actions, we lose ourselves.

The School Run™ Still my main political motivator. A disgrace. An embarrassment. Both hilarious and tragic in equal measure. Fix this, fix a lot of things.

We should make it easy for people to install these simple heat solutions

Great news an a victory for common sense. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

What we know about the sex trafficking that Andrew Tate is involved in is every bit as horrific and evil as the abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed, and Tate is actually still alive, and yet there are a lot more conspiracy theories about the "Epstein class."

In the midst of a murderous heatwave, EU politicians show their priorities. Meat and dairy production accounts for 20% of global carbon emissions.

The more pertinent question to me is why they can’t go on the road with the other motorised traffic? The answer to that tells you a lot about what is wrong with current street design, danger & traffic volumes & is a big hint as to how to accommodate this type of innovation without more harms.

“The rise of Fascism across the globe is directly linked to attempts to stifle any mitigation of the climate crisis. The Ukraine War, what’s happening in the Middle East, the surging power of the Oligarch class, each one influences the other in some way.”

Unions, 2026: "Moar Growth!" Unions, 2030: "Where Food? Why very Inflation?"

I voted for Sharon Graham as Unite General Secretary, one of the worst decisions I have ever made.

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

I've no connection to this company or the people behind it, but I've seen similar things first-hand in other places and, from the bottom of my heart, let me just say, fuck these people and fuck how they operate. blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried...

"How do you say 'NIMBY' in Mandarin?" "You don't."

Not saying the seasons are all messed up or anything, but I just had my first ripe blackberry of the year. In JUNE.

Today’s GFS 18Z for 11 July showing max temperatures in England reaching 41°C Not to be taken as a deterministic forecast. However, this suggests that yet more extreme heat is possible in the next few weeks, which is made more likely and intense by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels.

Jeffrey Epstein in an email to Peter Thiel wrote ‘Brexit, just the beginning’

One to keep an eye on - Eastern Europe & parts of the US get their turn from the climate blowtorch the next couple of weeks, the UK should be quite pleasant, but we're still three/four weeks from the usual peak of Summer heat.

Build more roads, expand airports, increase consumption, really?

Nobody ever suggests the bond markets will get spooked about buying another round of F-35s. Two possibilities. First: they will, in fact, get spooked but shh, don't talk about it. Second: they see it as rational investment, and so don't spook. Which means other rational investments are possible.

This. Labour should regard the right-wing press not as legitimate media but as enemy propaganda, and make no concessions to it.

For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK. The same story right across Europe. Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

Another good reason to use ebikes wherever we can, and full-size EVs only when we must. Leaner vehicles are far kinder on the grid - ebikes will do up to 100km on every kWh of charge, full size EVs typically between 4 and 8km.

A perfect summation of car brain. Oh dear, a car may get scratched!

This tracks tbf. 😎

One bright spot from this heatwave, different from 2022 - it's been rough on people and animals, but with the rain and humidity, seemingly a lot kinder on plants. So hopefully that means not much additional food inflation to stack on top of Hormuz.

I wonder how her NHS members, currently dealing with a mass influx of heat related emergency admissions, often in hospitals without air-conditioning, feel about her buddying up with the industry responsible for this week's heatwave?

In amplifying Big Oil misinformation, Unite's leader Sharon Graham is being incredibly short-sighted, not acting in the best interests of her members and undermining her own credibility. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That he'd put a few whingy drivers or old bangers from Uxbridge before the health of school kids in inner London certainly showed his knack for picking the wrong side in every single progressive argument.

I felt so ashamed of the national party’s reaction to the Uxbridge. Those of us in local government making the case for ULEZ expansion in our wards and LTN’s were undermined by spin from Morgan McS that this was part of the “anti-car agenda”.

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

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Solar and heat pumps for everyone, everywhere. Get rid of at least half the cars in cities. Ban SUVs. Massive increase in cycling infrastructure and pedestrianised areas. Any job which can be worked from home is offered on that basis, with office as an option.

Imagine having to say that the Uk needs to stick to Net Zero during a 40'C heatwave. OF COURSE WE NEED TO STICK TO NET ZERO YOU DRIBBLING HALFWITS www.theguardian.com/environment/...