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Cycling, Energy and Space are my interests. NW London.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan
1 day ago
It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her
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End Of The World News ✊ 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
1 day ago
God our politicians are so thick. They should move to Bluesky & just get a subordinate to cross post to twitter. The only state representatives that should be on there are the police & security services, gathering evidence.
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Kevin Anderson
4 days ago
Quelle surprise: my comment on the Govt's latest climate commitment (
www.gov.uk/government/n...
is out of step, at least publicly, with many colleagues:
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
With expert whitewash on one side & charlatans on the other, an honest climate debate stands no chance.
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Ma Carol
2 days ago
One of the most competent politicians we’ve ever had, but stooopid voters screwed us.
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BladeoftheSun
2 days ago
There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons. North Korea and Israel. One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide. It isn't North Korea.
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Cool Bike Art
4 days ago
John Kemp Starley on the cover of an 1898 Rover catalogue. In 1885 Starley invented the rear-wheel drive, chain-driven Rover safety bicycle, with two similar sized wheels, and the design revolutionized the bicycle industry. Most bicycles to this day use a Starley-inspired design.
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James Ball
3 days ago
Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...
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Our ‘pure cold rage’ should be at Farage and Robinson
The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-our-pure-cold-rage-should-be-at-farage-and-robinson/
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Oliver Lord
5 months ago
It's remarkable Westminster Council doesnt charge for car parking in the West End after 18:30... coupled with free congestion charge from TfL and no wonder there's a wild west of traffic in the evenings 😬. More and more SUVs don't help either...
#carspreading
www.westminster.gov.uk/parking/park...
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Dr Charlie Gardner
4 days ago
Even if climate change wasn't happening Even if burning fossil fuels didn't kill millions It would still make sense to invest in the green economy because these are the technologies of the future, and fossil fuels are the technologies of the past You don't sit out an industrial revolution
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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/uk-green-economy-worth-more-than-100bn-a-year-net-zero
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Daniel Sugarman
4 days ago
When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.
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Bruce
5 days ago
Make it stop.. Repeat after me... I will not borrow at expensive market rates (& pay a profit%) just to appear to borrow less To use politicians favourite metaphor your putting it in a credit card rather than getting a mortgage
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Russ Jones
5 days ago
How did we reach the stage where a repressive Islamist dictatorship holds a more defensible position on genocide than the governments of most liberal democracies?
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#StupidSuez
6 days ago
Israel already invaded Lebanon twice, in 1978 and 1982, before Hezbollah was founded. Israel had already been continuously occupying the Gaza Strip for 21 years before Hamas was founded. And putting these things aside, not a single thing Hezb does justifies Israel destroying 80+ Lebanese villages.
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Camden Cyclists
5 days ago
The C6 cycle route in Camden is "fantastic" according to Jon Stone's video above. Do check it out. CCC will be celebrating the new safe cycle infrastructure on Haverstock Hill once it is fully complete. Our thanks and gratitude to Adam Harrison for all that he has done for cycling in Camden :-)
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Mr RobertBob
6 days ago
EU not US. Investment not Austerity. Inclusion not division. People not profit. Open hearts not clenched fists.
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Eccentrist Dad
6 days ago
In the case of the UK left, Labour is getting killed in the info wars because - despite being in power with a large majority - they refuse to deploy such big guns as they have. Fiddling ineffectively at the edges e.g banning U16s from social media instead of going after dark money & radicalisation.
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Antony Carpen
6 days ago
Next, nationalise the rolling stock companies 😁
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Jon Stone (aka londoncycleroutes) has done a video of the now completed Haverstock Hill cycle lanes. He likes them!
@adamdkharrison.bsky.social
thank you again for these and the comprehensive Camden Transport Strategy.
youtu.be/T09cTMnP2no?...
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
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🚲 A great new way to cycle from King's Cross to Belsize Park
YouTube video by London cycle routes
https://youtu.be/T09cTMnP2no?si=-EgFH1kS8IKF01ZO
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Mike Galsworthy
7 days ago
What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔
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Katharine Hayhoe
7 days ago
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Should all the Aldridges that know about Ruairi be sent down for perverting the course of justice? George got sent down after his grandparents reported him. Also G did a good thing (helping Alice) that went wrong, whilst R did a bad thing and was lucky G was OK
#TheArchers
@slowbikeiain.bsky.social
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The ferry terminals should have been forced to have big electrical supplies years ago (at their expense), to remove the need for burning bunker fuel whilst at dock.
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I missed this significant news on Bluesky Map feeds. Bye bye Mercator, hello Equal Earth.
youtube.com/shorts/BH9rG...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Can we expect a map Men about this?
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55 Countries Just Banned This Map
YouTube video by World Maps Online
https://youtube.com/shorts/BH9rGGQMy9A?si=jH5H1jKJOyv1P68f
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John O'Connell
8 days ago
Even if you are in the USA legally, the First Amendment apparently does not apply to you. Despite the fact that the Constitution explicitly says that it does. Because the Right to Free Speech in USA is an illusion. And it always has been.
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Philip Oldfield
9 days ago
92% of British homes will overheat in summer by 2050. Is air-conditioning part of the solution? Absolutely. But let’s not forget the passive elements that can assist us using *far less* air-conditioning and lower bills. External shading. Greenery. Reflective roof coatings.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
10 days ago
A 'coom', as corries are called in Ireland: lakes formed by glacial action. Before farming, this would have been completely enveloped by megadiverse temperate rainforest. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine some of it coming back?
#Rewilding
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So if it's a road scheme, it can be done quickly, at scale and create massive scars across the landscape.
youtu.be/Sd2-PnVRitE?...
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#A417 #Missing Link at #Birdlip - Update no.5 23rd May.
YouTube video by The Phobic Flyer
https://youtu.be/Sd2-PnVRitE?si=2MfCDN0WK18HOp69
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Martyn Brunt
over 1 year ago
My Dad passed away in 2010 (I still miss him 💔) . I remember him once saying to me of our family home: "When I bought this house I could walk to a grocers, bakers, butchers and newsagent. Now I have to drive to a supermarket, and they call it progress." 16/22
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Absolutely this - why are occasional vehicles more important than pedestrians?
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Andy Cox
12 days ago
Each figure in this poignant display represents a person injured or killed in a road crash in Northamptonshire during 2025 — 1,354 injured, 331 seriously injured and 26 killed. Utterly devastating! We hope it raises awareness, improves driver culture and influences safer travel policy.
#RoadSafety
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John Lubbock
12 days ago
Never forget that Labour abdicated their responsibility to speed up the energy transition but agreed to increase defence spending to double the current £70bn a year by 2035 because Trump told us to.
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Distribution infrastructure old and "new" - the Lee Valley Navigation
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Disgraceful from Labour. They really have learnt nothing from the recent elections.
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shauna
14 days ago
some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE
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jenny tightpants
3 months ago
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
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Jon Cooper
14 days ago
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Karl-on-Sea
15 days ago
I can't help feeling that the French have actually got the whole point of EVs. This, alongside their ridiculously cute microcars, and Renault's reinterpretation of the Twingo and Five are the sweet spot, not the ridiculous Teutonic Wänkpanzers that everyone else seems to favour.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦
15 days ago
Protestors in Greenland are outside the U.S. embassy chanting “Go Home USA.”
#cdnpoli
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
15 days ago
The Reform Party's Lord's Prayer ...
#RefUKkers
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The pedestrian access to Barkingside tube station isn't very good.
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO
18 days ago
Please repost if you agree that Brexit is the greatest betrayal of our country in modern British political history.
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Jonathan Portes
17 days ago
- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.
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Totally stupid. In the UK we're seeing lots of Jaecoo and Omoda fossil, big SUVs.
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John Munro
18 days ago
#UKCarCulture
has well established that collaborating with nasty regimes is preferable to taking the chance that a car owner might encounter inconvenience. No surprises here.
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UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy42x3g7r89o
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
18 days ago
It's this simple ... 1. We decide we want to rejoin. 2. WE approach the EU and tell them we want to apply to rejoin. 3. We listen to what the EU has to say about the best way to achieve membership – probably through rejoining the Single Market or EEA first. 4. We work a roadmap out for it together.
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No ‘tailor-made’ deal for UK if it wants to rejoin bloc, say former EU Brexit officials
Britain likely to face ‘warm, welcoming stance’ if it seeks re-entry but also a ‘hard-headed one’ – with no special deals
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/no-tailor-made-deal-uk-eu-brexit-officials-rejoin?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Best for Britain
18 days ago
Disinformation Journalist Marianna Spring:"I traced the origins of this content and quite a lot of it was being made by people who are based in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, the Maldives, miles away from the UK" "(They) seem to be just looking to get engagement and clicks and to exploit political outrage."
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
18 days ago
Here’s the rail network we wanted. Here’s the rail network Labour are trying to cancel.
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Rob Ford
18 days ago
Britain, 2335: The budget ceremony begins with the traditional Announcement of the Fuel Duty Rise. Two months later, there will be the traditional Postponement of the Fuel Duty Rise, continuing a ritual begun centuries earlier by Chancellors in the Fossil Fuel era
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Iain Roberts
19 days ago
People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more.
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Prof. Ian Walker
19 days ago
I just grabbed these screenshots from the Census in response to somebody suggesting that nearly everyone has to drive in poor northern towns (where I grew up, incidentally). The numbers who don't have cars can be staggering, not that you'd know it from a lot of transport discourse
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