Caroline Russell
@carolinerussell.bsky.social
London Assembly Member since 2016, Green Group Leader and Transport lead. Highbury Councillor since 2014. Green Party
https://cityhallgreens.com/
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of Caroline Russell, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
https://cityhallgreens.com/
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of Caroline Russell, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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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"
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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”?
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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.
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.
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.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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.
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.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It really doesn’t have to be this way.
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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
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
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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
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
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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...
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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...
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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
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📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this
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70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
Poll shows 70% of trans people think BBC News is ‘hostile’
The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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
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📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this
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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 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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.
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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)
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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)
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Nurses are also being affected bsky.app/profile/padd...
Due to the new Home Office rules, 300 NHS workers could lose both their jobs and their right to remain in the UK – simply because their salary falls just £63 short of the required visa renewal threshold. patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Nurses are also being affected bsky.app/profile/padd...
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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...
www.itv.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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LONDON (TDOR)
6:30-8:00pm Thu 20th Nov
Soho Square
6:30-8:00pm Thu 20th Nov
Soho Square
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
LONDON (TDOR)
6:30-8:00pm Thu 20th Nov
Soho Square
6:30-8:00pm Thu 20th Nov
Soho Square
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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.
Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant
@ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant
@ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
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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.
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.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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.
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.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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.
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.
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.
I've been looking at a pedestrian crossing this afternoon and specifically crossing times. While lots of people worry about the length of time the green man shows (which is important to some extent), the key think is the "blackout period" when someone sets foot on the crossing just as the green
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November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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.
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.
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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
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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
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
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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,”
buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.
UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage
Space devoted to promoting flights, cruises, SUVs, and the oil industry dwarfed the column inches given to last year's U.N. climate summit, study finds.
www.desmog.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
“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,”
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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.
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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.
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.
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.
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. 👇
Use their template letter in thread below. 👇
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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. 👇
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”.
“This is strategic, funded, coordinated litigation being used as a policy change tool”.
Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion?
“The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”
“The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”
Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion?
A 40-fold surge in cases and the litigation infrastructure behind it
ajustsociety.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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”.
“This is strategic, funded, coordinated litigation being used as a policy change tool”.