Badenoch and the Tories are a strategic risk to the security of the UK

Two headlines from today's papers

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...

In Japan, valuable trees are relocated instead of cut down during development. Arborists use nemawashi, a technique combining horticultural knowledge and modern engineering, to prepare the trees for relocation.

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

If this were an “e-bike” it would have been crushed by now, but London’s Metropolitan Police Service don’t care

Navigating Putney Bridge & Putney on a cycle is indeed an Odyssey

Meanwhile on the north side of Putney Bridge @crisortunity.bsky.social

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

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

This Putney Bridge north side for the past 12+ months. Dozens of near misses everyday courtesy of the Environment Agency and @hfcouncil.bsky.social as people cycling try to turn right across six lanes of moving traffic @peterwalker99.bsky.social @lastnotlost.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

For Count & Country @countbinface.bsky.social

I really hope the people of Clacton do their duty. #Count&Country.

Battery deployment is the next big revolution within the renewables revolution. A dream within a dream, soon to be made real.

www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your... Wandsworth remains 13th overall this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score falling from 5.45 to 5.27 out of 10. The borough still has some strong baseline conditions, but the score fall reflects worsening casualty-rate indicators and

I hope Count Binface wins in Clacton, and this demonstrates what an increasing farce British “democracy” is

The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.

Leader of the free world 😆🫣😆

On my way, Clacton.

I’m thoroughly enjoying just how much Nigel Farage’s millions of pounds in gifts “for his security” have left him feeling in such a state of insecurity.

Game on, Nige.

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

Effective immediately. I have signed an Executive Order banning Belgian waffles, because the World Cup was rigged and stollen.

@tomflood.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DadasWD...

In today’s episode of the American president does something embarrassing:

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After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

Norway. Excellent at winter sports and and at football so it turns out.

Ever seen a dog scoop its own poop? Nope, me neither.

I presume Farage has fallen foul of Murdoch

The reintroduction of the Supplementary Vote is a move towards a system that values voters and promotes broader support for elected leaders. buff.ly/psE3axx

It’s lovely how the media has “cleansed” the image of Camilla. There was a time that they all vilified her of course #royalaffair apple.news/AQQoz-L8nQKu...

UK Labour still promoting themselves on the platform of hate 🙄

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That’s Europe.

#Westminster Council, a car park operator with side lines in emptying bins and teaching a declining number of kids to read, beat it's parking revenue targets by £17m in 2025/26 'cos drivers are stupid Revenue papers to Cabinet 13/7/26: committees.westminster.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

Tech companies: Our pavement robots are safe for pedestrians and don't get in their way! The robots:

The one good thing about the Trump 2nd term is that has clearly highlighted who the US tech bros really are

Apparently posting about Donald Trump's dodgy stock trades is 'too much free speech'.

Oh, hello.

One thing that is particularly telling here is that I lobbied all of the relevant authorities (Richmond, H&F, TfL) to install automated cycle & pedestrian counters at Hammersmith Bridge, without success. So I installed this one myself. Institutional windscreen POV is very selective in what it sees

The Board directors of TfL can and should mandate telemetry & speed limiters for any vehicle used in its direct & indirect supply chain - buses, taxis, PHVs, FM Conway, Ringway Jacobs & all @willnorman.co.uk

37% of new heavy trucks sold in China: now fully electric. Not delivery vans — 49-tonne heavy-duty rigs. This one swapped ~550 kWh in just 5 mins. Competitive, proven & inevitable. China's heavy EV truck sales surged 182% YoY in 2025, rising from single digits just two years ago.

Meanwhile, an actual expert - Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency - has had this to say: "These fields [Jackdaw & Rosebank] would not change much for the UK’s energy security, nor would they change the price of oil and gas. Renewables offer a no-regrets alternative."

It warms my heart to see #pashley still build beautiful, steel framed cycles including a tricycle www.pashley.co.uk