Dreadful news of a woman killed by a lorry being driven on Hornsey Rise. My thoughts with her family, friends and work colleagues and with first responders. World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims yesterday. I hope any lessons can be learned from the investigation and any changes made.

In my wildest dreams I never imagined that the answer to the question "What does the Labour Party mean to you?" would be "Confiscating jewellery from asylum seekers"

So why amplify the “dark forces”?

Just spoken at the Roadpeace event for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. The experiences of bereaved families and injured people must be heard so institutions like the Met and TfL behave with empathy and understanding of the acute trauma and violence involved in road death.

It really doesn’t have to be this way. 🤦‍♀️

Watching online @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak with grace and power at @londongreenparty.bsky.social Winter conference at Conway Hall. 30K London Greens? OMG = Oh My Greens! Great intro by @mothinali.bsky.social and fulsome praise for @zoegarbett.bsky.social and @carolinerussell.bsky.social

With all Green MPs, I voted to keep the vital nature protections in Lords Amendment 130 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill last night (now no.40 in our weird processes). The Govt is ignoring evidence and playing political games with our ecosystem. hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

Trans+ people deserve to live, thrive, and belong in this country - without fear or barriers, and without being dehumanised, vilified, and treated as convenient political targets 📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this 1.

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Disappointed that the Met Commissioner does not see the part that a good collision investigation plays in road traffic victims getting justice after a crash.

I agree 100%. My experience working in the London Assembly was that it didn't just do excellent scrutiny for the wider public, but also generated a lot of very good ideas that went on to be mayoral policy (in my own work e.g. CLTs, ULEZ, cycle infrastructure, and prior to me the living wage unit)

Nurses are also being affected bsky.app/profile/padd...

Prisons will also be affected by the visa changes; it seems the government didn’t conduct a proper impact assessment. www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

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The Government must give us more time in Parliament to progress #EllasLaw and make breathing clean air a human right. Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.

This is fantastic progress and of course we love peering at civil engineering projects! Thanks, Caroline! And thanks also to TfL!

Hey 👋 anyone who likes peering at civil engineering projects as they get underway. There's a new and helpful TFL update on the Cutty Sark Station escalators. They seem to have made decent progress in September and October.

Always worth checking out @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social threads. 👏 This one on walking speeds, crossing times and older people. Properly important to consider these details if we want inclusive streets where people are enabled to get around safely and conveniently on foot.

And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all. Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks. And every day we are growing. Join.greenparty.org.uk

If you want occasional delights like this in your timeline follow @pastpostcard.bsky.social

“The public are being told by reporters that climate scientists are warning that we must stop burning fossil fuels, but those who still buy print newspapers are bombarded with adverts suggesting everyone else is enjoying long haul flights and luxury cruises,”

I wonder how the British Olympic Association/Team GB will react to this. It'd surely be illegal for them to support such a policy – direct discrimination on the basis of gender reassignment status.

It's exasperating to witness how almost everyone everywhere in any position of power if any kind currently seems pre-occupied with doing unnecessary but seriously harmful things. They could be doing truly important and valuable things to make positive, meaningful changes and yet they choose harm.

This is utterly shocking. The Olympic spirit is about inclusive humanity and kindness. The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.

Great “station domination” work by @badvertising.bsky.social calling on the Mayor of London to get TfL to ditch fossil fuel adverts. Use their template letter in thread below. 👇

If you care about the coordinated assault on trans rights and on our democracy, read this research from A Just Society. “This is strategic, funded, coordinated litigation being used as a policy change tool”.

Such is the power of @zackpolanski.bsky.social that he's prompted the Daily Express(!) to write a totally respectful article about the meaning of the white poppy www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...

👌 Pitch perfect interview by my Assembly colleague @zackpolanski.bsky.social calmly answering every question. Especially loved his answer on why wearing both a red and a white poppy too.

The response from Cycling UK exposes critical flaws with the ruling. 🤦‍♀️ We hope their commitment to trans and non-binary people won't "third gender" us. 🙅 It's telling that they don't even acknowledge intersex people, who lack protections in EA2010. They may be the biggest losers in this.

The dire situation of TfL workers expecting to transition from graduate visas to skilled worker visas but facing deportation due to cruel and abrupt government visa changes is picked up in the Sunday Times. I raised this with the Mayor last month so am glad to see he has ⏱️ now written to Mike Tapp.

The ultimate aim should be that all pedestrian crossings are green for pedestrians by default and motorists should have to press a button to activate the lights so they can cross the footway.

An excellent thread for #IntersexDayOfSolidarity by @jenniekermode.bsky.social

I am a little late to this, but I have also requested my name and face to be removed from @cyclinguk.bsky.social publicity due to the decision to remove trans women from their awards. Trans women are women, gender is on a spectrum (and I did a genetics degree), and cycling is for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲❤️

Cis women have had enough of Transphobes speaking for them They unambiguously reject the anti-Trans+ rhetoric used to divide and exclude Women say it’s time to stand up and say it loud: Not In Our Name Join the pushback 👇🏼

IMHO they had poor legal advice. That's no excuse. But orgs that want to be inclusive need to be bolder. Being overtly inclusive WILL result in being shouted at and, possibly, threatened with legal action. But compliance in advance is at the top of a very slippery slope...

I was included in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social 2017 list of 100 women in cycling and am dismayed to see their transphobia. The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that. Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.

Thank you @feministgreens.bsky.social for supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social! Women — if you haven’t yet signed our NION open letter, go here: notinourname.org.uk Everyone — if you haven’t yet joined the Green Party, go here 😆 join.greenparty.org.uk

Is it fair that public transport fare payers see annual increases in ticket prices, while costs for people driving remain static?

I was at the Spurs v Chelsea match a week ago Two Spurs fans near me used that homophobic slur I called them out - not an easy or safe thing to do, especially as a woman in that environment But once I did, others turned and stared them down They went quiet after that Speaking up matters

May I never grow too old to be interested in bits of stone & old china that I’ve found in the garden & elsewhere. #PocketMuseum #Geology #BlueAndWhiteChina #GardenTreasures

Looking forward to this in twenty minutes. 🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights 💚

According to Caroline Russell AM, TfL staff recruited under the previous immigration system are now 'left in limbo' after the Home Office unexpectedly removed their job categories from the list eligible for sponsorship. Many face losing their right to remain in the UK within weeks.

The job adverts for EHRC Commissioners (4 posts) are finally out. Deadline: 1st December. If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

A morning learning about level access and when legally compliant gaps need a mini ramp to make them properly accessible. Big thanks to TfL - Met the man who designed mini ramps and surveyed 128 locations they were needed. Nathan and I found another location and ramps are on order for Kennington.

Everyone should be able to use our cities, but as disabled people, broken lifts can stop some of us in our tracks. If you're in London, @escalatenow.bsky.social is working on improving lift access in Greenwich. Find out more below and head down!

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

7. In the biggest news, New York City elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor—a rebuke to his opponents’ anti-trans rhetoric and a victory built on an unapologetically pro-trans platform. Just weeks ago, Mamdani released a two-minute pro-trans ad set to transgender artist SOPHIE’s “It’s OK to Cry."

75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it. We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life. We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!

Women are hugely underrepresented in cycling at all levels. There are lots of reasons for this. It’s kinda complicated. I know many people who’ve worked for years to make cycling safer and more accessible for all women. Excluding a minority achieves nothing except further emboldening bigots.