I love how there are random signs for "ESSO" everywhere in the background – and then, suddenly, "she" is even wearing an ESSO-branded top...

Delighted to be down in Balcombe today for Repower Balcombe’s AGM! I helped them to start their solar coop after their brush with fracking over a decade ago, and hoping to work with them again soon to develop a community solar rail scheme down here…

Every day should be International Bat Appreciation Day 🦇🦇🦇

Another local resident who lives inside the LTN area said “This road used to be a traffic sewer. Since their installation, there has been a dramatic difference. Residents chat across the road. The behaviour of all road users is more courteous. It was worth all the late nights hunting bollards.”

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

Britain’s first proposed “nationally significant” data centre would be powered by gas, putting the government’s ambition to create an AI superpower on a collision course with its net-zero goals. 👇 www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Very special evening at a screening of the sublime new Our Land film about the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, with a moving and spicy panel debate with the film’s director & protagonists, including the wonderful @guyshrubsole.bsky.social & Nadia Shaikh www.iamcharlie.co/productions/...

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

For a more detailed description, here's my @observablehq.com notebook with raw data and methods used: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/c... [8/8]

It is in London where there are some localities where less deprivation is associated with lower car access (orange) and we might want to ask ourselves why this is the case. Perhaps car-rejection is more discretionary, with fewer incentives to own a private vehicle. [7/8]

Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) allows us to compare no-car access with deprivation more locally, showing the correlation is positive for most of the country (green), but with small pockets showing a negative correlation (orange). [6/8]

If we split the comparison between deprivation and no-car households by region, London stands out showing a greater spread of car access across deprivation levels. This suggests other geographic factors are influential such as urban density and transport policy. Let's explore this further... [5/8]

Improving non-car-based alternatives (public transport, local facilities, safe pedestrian and cycling infrastructure) will have greatest benefit for those in more deprived neighbourhoods, where driving is less likely an option. But the pattern is more subtle: We see some variation by region… [4/8]

If we examine each of the 34,000 'LSOAs' of England — local areas of c.800 households each — and compare deprivation with proportion of households with no access to a car, we see a clear pattern: Areas with more deprivation tend to have more households with no car access. [3/8]

As @ianwalker.bsky.social mentions in the video, richer → more driving. The census records the number of cars/vans every household has access to, which we can split by deprivation 'decile'. Consistently, the more deprived an area is, the less household access to private vehicles. [2/8]

Inspired by this video youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk I thought I'd explore some of the statistics around car access and deprivation with some #datavis and analysis. Usefully, the 2021 Census in the UK asked questions around car ownership as well as many aspects of 'deprivation'. So here is 📊 🧵... [1/8]

Something extra interesting about this is that most of the coal power reduction is from the US

My grandfather, Labour MP and CND co-founder Tony Greenwood, on a Ban the Bomb March from Aldermaston to London in 1963. He would be spinning in his grave at what the Labour party has become under Keir Starmer. flashbak.com/ban-the-bomb...

Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

New from me: No increase in global coal power generation after Hormuz closure - solar and wind growth covered the fall in gas-fired generation. The record buildout of clean energy in 2025 helped mitigate the impact of the Hormuz closure.

"Huge yellow blob? Solar generation, the dominant source of supply until 6:30pm when it drops to zero: a phenomenon called sunset, which used to be the main argument against solar. But the purple blob, that’s batteries coming online at sunset, having spent the afternoon soaking up cheap sunshine."

I often run into folks who seem slightly confused about where our greenhouse gas emissions come from. Many folks seem to think that greenhouse gases are basically "CO2 from burning fossil fuels" -- but that's only ~61% correct. The other ~39% of our emissions stem from other gases and processes.

The problem with cars in six books. A special selection of books to help you learn everything you need to know about cars and climate change. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...

I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 100 days in — and we’re just getting started.

Again, this is not an abstraction. There are trans adults who have had medical and surgical transition and have lived fully in their acquired gender for decades who are being told by this manifesto that they should be treated as a threat and restricted in where they can go and what they can do.

You have to understand that *that is not the agenda here*. The agenda here is being driven by groups who think trans people are deluded at best and sinister at worst and that society should be reconstituted to force them to stop being who they are.

Thought this was an interesting little chunk. The people running this government have forgotten how to make a sincere argument for what they are doing.

Policy shifts coming fast. France accelerates Electrification - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030 www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/el...

In the past few years, elite fashion trends among billionaires shifted and Trump got elected, so the msm rolled back climate coverage. Pols & the system, which operate downstream of billionaire preferences, got the message. Meanwhile public concern about climate change stayed high.

I bumped into my elderly Iranian neighbour Parvis this morning, the first time I have seen him since the US-Israel war on Iran began. Parvis is one of many Iranians here in the UK because of the regime in Iran. He told me his wife’s sister had just been killed by a US bomb falling on her village

Not only will Labour's hostile and inhumane immigration policies not provide the savings they claim, but they are also likely to create such massive external costs, including losses to key sectors and drops in income for the treasury as to crash the economy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“Given its record of support for progressive causes, for free speech and peaceful political protests, the bill does seem a betrayal of Labour traditions and values. MPs who vote in favour will be on the wrong side of their party’s own history.” www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

The Institution of Civil Engineers says heavier vehicles are a factor in pothole formation and reducing the lifespan of roads. 😮 A record £18.6bn of #taxpayermoney now funds road repairs. 💪 Our #streetsforkids campaign pushes for fairer parking tariffs to discourage #carspreading bit.ly/4vudtTK

"So far this century, a new tramway has opened in France every six months." What can we learn from France about building new tram networks and integrating them with new housing? Read our guest blog by @freewheeling.info: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/towns-a...

Make a cuppa and cosy up with The Most Controversial Street in London #LTNsAreGoodActually

"The government is spending £27 billion on new road building projects. There is no 'war on motorists.' That is absolute misinformation." - @zackpolanski.bsky.social @urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@zackpolansk...

With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

New: Communities face spiralling fuel prices, exacerbating transport poverty and car dependence - and many need car-free alternatives for short trips. I've spoken to successful greenway campaigners, and produced a toolkit! so others can help assemble low-carbon transport routes in their areas

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

China is poised to benefit from the Iran war as global energy disruptions accelerate a shift away from fossil fuels and toward clean technologies and renewable power, industries that China dominates.

Good for Hungary 🐱

C’mon you Hungarians! ✊

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Worth re-sharing this as Hungary votes. An extraordinary network of malign far right influence.

The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate. Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices? In this BBC interview I push back. This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.

Wonderful description from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social of the North Sea as ‘the oil bed equivalent of the last people standing when the nightclub closes’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It will truly be a tragedy if Westminster council falls to the Tories in May.

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.