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Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.

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It’s also particularly repulsive to be making these comments about climate change in a former mining area where the pits were closed down by his hero Thatcher and where green energy is creating good new jobs.

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Just before the pandemic I worked with Durham County Council on their new heritage centre. Part of the brief was to ensure that it was accessible to everyone- especially people living in former pit villages where transport links are poor. I assume Farage wants to close it down?

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Appalling write-up of an appalling incident on Monday where a woman and child were hit by a car driver: 1. This incident happened in Lambeth - why are Southwark school streets mentioned - the nearest is some distance away. 2. School streets DO NOT push drivers onto other roads.

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In any other major city in Europe the streets of Soho would obviously be pedestrianised and businesses/visitors on a glorious day like today could enjoy al fresco dining. But thanks to Westminster Council and the way we give outsized power to absurd local complaints, not here!

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Delighted to see this. At our community meeting on Monday night our local PC talked movingly about the lack of trust in the police. We need a police force we can trust and accountability, transparency and dialogue are crucial to that.

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Parents evening for my year 7 son at his local state school last night. Came away inspired by the dedication and energy of the teachers, the way they’re stretching him across the curriculum, the atmosphere at the school, how many friends he has and the way he’s growing into a fine young man. Free.

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I’ve written about the strange way that just thinking about cyclists makes otherwise rational people furious, in the light of Jeremy Vine’s decision to no longer post his cycling video because of all the abuse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

I hope this doesn’t explain why we’re playing like a late period Wenger team

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Am really looking forward to our family holiday in Canada this summer. 🇨🇦🍁

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TBH I’m almost surprised that my Nest Gen 2 lasted as long as it did. Another functioning bit of tech to landfill. We urgently need to regulate to insist on open source standards to wrest control from irresponsible techbros.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

😳😳😳😳

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In Dulwich - 10% of children cycle to school, five times the national average. The number rose sharply after we closed a busy, traffic saturated & complicated junction and created a beautiful public space, now used by primary school aged children as a place to meet and play.

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Some thoughts on road safety, street design and its impact on paediatric health in the UK from Mat MacDonald, @sarahchaundler.bsky.social, @aliceferguson.bsky.social and me. @bmj.com bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/9/1/...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I spoke in Parliament today about the fact that AI lies. It's a basic fact of machine learning tools that seems to pass many people by, because there's little to no education about what they are, and are not.

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Interesting if necessarily limited study on the idea of LTNs as a political liability - London Labour councillors who publicly backed LTNs (via Twitter) or just tweeted about them didn't seem to suffer any adverse electoral effects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

But the BBC absolutely should be marching headlong into areas of public controversy - to provide impartial and accurate reporting - but the fear is that the BBC no longer understands what impartial and accurate means ...

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One of the joys of canvassing in Dulwich is meeting knowledgeable voters. Just had an extremely informative lesson on the intricacies of energy pricing by someone who agrees with Ed!

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They always bury this bit.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

submitted 16 days ago • 248 comments

“We’re outsourcing the axe”

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The Remontada is back on again!

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I wish I hadn’t posted this

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I guess the Remontado is still on

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The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

This question is essentially pointless unless people are also polled on how they would like it to work. Would it apply to under 18s? If so would teenagers have to carry ID to show exemption? Would cyclists have to carry proof of license? The whole idea is bonkers, which is why no one does it.

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

The problem with polling is when you ask a stupid question like this one. It should have been: ‘Would you support the introduction of a license that would be unenforceable, cost hundreds of millions of pounds to solve a problem that doesn’t exist?”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

OK but only if you agree that I can take ownership of Starlink for nothing.

submitted 22 days ago • 68 comments

I'm horrified, as is @margynewens.bsky.social to learn of a very serious crash at the junction of Townley Road and East Dulwich Grove early this morning. A refuse lorry operated by a private contractor overturned onto the pavement outside Alleyns school destroying a tree and damaging the pavement.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

And the living are so much more complicated than we allow: got a decorator in at the moment. Lovely guy. Bromley to his core. He started berating ‘the snowflake generation’ within a minute he was talking of how proud he is that his daughter’s studying archaeology and anthropology at university.

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Talking to young people about a career in the creative industries:

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

SUVs increase the odds of killing in a collision. They're high at the front, your children get dragged under then crushed to death. They're also too big for parking spaces. They shld just be treated like vans, subject to lower speed limits, higher parking charges. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Our ‘Give it a Go’ Event, with friends #Bikeworks, is on Sunday, 4 May! It's the perfect opportunity to try a wide range of non-standard cycles and learn about our Wheels4Me.co.uk free cycle loan scheme. Event details: adaptive.bikeworks.org.uk/bikeworks-wh... 🌟 May the fourth be with you! 🌟

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment