Chris Lavelle
@chrisplavelle.bsky.social
Senior Project Manager at Uni of Glasgow | Chair of Glasgow Eco Trust | Drumchapel Ladies Coach | Green Party Socialist | Views own |
I also ramble at https://horizonglasgow.uk/
I also ramble at https://horizonglasgow.uk/
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Investing in cycling to address the housing crisis? That's exactly what the Dutch government is going to do!
€2.5 billion is being invested to make housing projects accessible. A large portion of this will go towards cycling infrastructure, such as continuous cycle routes. 👌
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
€2.5 billion is being invested to make housing projects accessible. A large portion of this will go towards cycling infrastructure, such as continuous cycle routes. 👌
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Investing in cycling to address the housing crisis? That's exactly what the Dutch government is going to do!
€2.5 billion is being invested to make housing projects accessible. A large portion of this will go towards cycling infrastructure, such as continuous cycle routes. 👌
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
€2.5 billion is being invested to make housing projects accessible. A large portion of this will go towards cycling infrastructure, such as continuous cycle routes. 👌
nos.nl/artikel/2589...
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Is there a strong economic case for dropping the two-child benefits cap? This is what the evidence tells us. The limit was introduced to cut the welfare bill, but at what cost? Scrapping it could take 500k out of child poverty. theconversation.com/is-there-a-s...
Is there a strong economic case for dropping the two-child benefits cap? This is what the evidence tells us
The limit was introduced to cut the welfare bill, but at what cost?
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Is there a strong economic case for dropping the two-child benefits cap? This is what the evidence tells us. The limit was introduced to cut the welfare bill, but at what cost? Scrapping it could take 500k out of child poverty. theconversation.com/is-there-a-s...
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I’m not a YIMBY only in the sense that I don’t have time to go to meetings but I do believe that I shouldn’t accrue wealth as a homeowner just because of luck and timing. I also think more people being able to afford to live where I do has lots of other benefits, some of them material, others not!
many YIMBYs i know are actually quite explicit about working against their own financial interest
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m not a YIMBY only in the sense that I don’t have time to go to meetings but I do believe that I shouldn’t accrue wealth as a homeowner just because of luck and timing. I also think more people being able to afford to live where I do has lots of other benefits, some of them material, others not!
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Interview with Sky News on yet another week with questions around this Labour Government and their conduct in office.
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Interview with Sky News on yet another week with questions around this Labour Government and their conduct in office.
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Did an opposition campaign write this post?
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Did an opposition campaign write this post?
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Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group
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A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.
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On today’s live blog:
“Why don’t they punch up at gas-guzzlers instead?” SUV advert accused of “poking fun” at cyclists by comparing cargo bikes to “old-fashioned chaos” of horse and cart
Plus: Top British team SRCT folds; Budget cap debate; Van der Poel’s Ironman bet continues + lots more!
“Why don’t they punch up at gas-guzzlers instead?” SUV advert accused of “poking fun” at cyclists by comparing cargo bikes to “old-fashioned chaos” of horse and cart
Plus: Top British team SRCT folds; Budget cap debate; Van der Poel’s Ironman bet continues + lots more!
“Stupid, arrogant, and tone-deaf”: Car brand’s SUV advert accused of “punching down” at cyclists by comparing cargo bikes to “old-fashioned chaos” of horse and cart; Can cycling lead to divorce?; Budg...
The week’s just trundling along, the sun’s back out (kind of), and Ryan Mallon’s back with more cycling news, views, and questionable opinions on the Wednesday live blog
road.cc
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On today’s live blog:
“Why don’t they punch up at gas-guzzlers instead?” SUV advert accused of “poking fun” at cyclists by comparing cargo bikes to “old-fashioned chaos” of horse and cart
Plus: Top British team SRCT folds; Budget cap debate; Van der Poel’s Ironman bet continues + lots more!
“Why don’t they punch up at gas-guzzlers instead?” SUV advert accused of “poking fun” at cyclists by comparing cargo bikes to “old-fashioned chaos” of horse and cart
Plus: Top British team SRCT folds; Budget cap debate; Van der Poel’s Ironman bet continues + lots more!
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Simply magnificent
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Simply magnificent
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From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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England homelessness grown by a fifth since 2022, now 300,000.
Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing.
Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation.
Misery is a political choice.
Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing.
Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation.
Misery is a political choice.
Homelessness figures higher than data suggests, research shows
Official data for England underestimates the scale of the problem, according to research for charity Crisis says.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
England homelessness grown by a fifth since 2022, now 300,000.
Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing.
Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation.
Misery is a political choice.
Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing.
Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation.
Misery is a political choice.
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Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
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Every day this Labour Party gives us new reasons to hate them. They are heading for the dustbin of history and it's the best place for them.
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Every day this Labour Party gives us new reasons to hate them. They are heading for the dustbin of history and it's the best place for them.
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You can also check out the Stockholm syndrome apologists for the petrostate of Norway in response to this post of mine: bsky.app/profile/ianw...
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
You can also check out the Stockholm syndrome apologists for the petrostate of Norway in response to this post of mine: bsky.app/profile/ianw...
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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!
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!
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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!
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!
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Twitter is, at this point, openly a tool for Musk to further his toxic political ideology which includes the intent to whip up violence across the UK.
Targeting politicians is part of that strategy.
The best way to neuter it is Government action against Musk. The second best is a boycott.
Targeting politicians is part of that strategy.
The best way to neuter it is Government action against Musk. The second best is a boycott.
I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Twitter is, at this point, openly a tool for Musk to further his toxic political ideology which includes the intent to whip up violence across the UK.
Targeting politicians is part of that strategy.
The best way to neuter it is Government action against Musk. The second best is a boycott.
Targeting politicians is part of that strategy.
The best way to neuter it is Government action against Musk. The second best is a boycott.
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Alastair will be an amazing Lord Provost for Stirling. I’ve never met a councillor more dedicated to his local community. A model for all elected representatives 💚
A campaign to end a Labour/Tory local administration could see a councillor become the first Green Party lord provost
Campaign to end Unionist council coalition could see first Green lord provost
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Alastair will be an amazing Lord Provost for Stirling. I’ve never met a councillor more dedicated to his local community. A model for all elected representatives 💚
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As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵
Bill Gates defends contentious climate shift
"I'm glad people are listening," he said, before adding that it was hard to convey "nuanced positions nowadays."
www.axios.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵
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You might have seen me using the #OneHealth hashtag often: this is why...
A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day
A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
You might have seen me using the #OneHealth hashtag often: this is why...
A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day
A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day
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🚨 New article out!
The EU ‘veggie burger ban’ is facing fresh opposition — a development that reveals a tectonic shift in German agriculture economics.
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The EU ‘veggie burger ban’ is facing fresh opposition — a development that reveals a tectonic shift in German agriculture economics.
Read the full piece here & subscribe to receive new posts straight to your inbox 👇
German Ministers Take a Stand Against EU ‘Veggie Burger Ban’
A major shift in German agriculture economics
veganhorizon.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🚨 New article out!
The EU ‘veggie burger ban’ is facing fresh opposition — a development that reveals a tectonic shift in German agriculture economics.
Read the full piece here & subscribe to receive new posts straight to your inbox 👇
The EU ‘veggie burger ban’ is facing fresh opposition — a development that reveals a tectonic shift in German agriculture economics.
Read the full piece here & subscribe to receive new posts straight to your inbox 👇
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Do not pay for the confinement and exploitation of sentient beings.
The circumstances in which fHarm animals are put are cruel abusive and sickening 😡They don’t deserve this. Animal fHarming is backward and outdated. #EndAnimalExploitation We can do better: live a vegan lifestyle ✌️
November 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Do not pay for the confinement and exploitation of sentient beings.
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"it's only one bacon sandwich" - said 8 billion people
All animals, whatever farm they are raised in, did not choose to be there. They are prevented from living a life that’s natural to them, and they are prematurely slaughtered against their will.
All animals, whatever farm they are raised in, did not choose to be there. They are prevented from living a life that’s natural to them, and they are prematurely slaughtered against their will.
November 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"it's only one bacon sandwich" - said 8 billion people
All animals, whatever farm they are raised in, did not choose to be there. They are prevented from living a life that’s natural to them, and they are prematurely slaughtered against their will.
All animals, whatever farm they are raised in, did not choose to be there. They are prevented from living a life that’s natural to them, and they are prematurely slaughtered against their will.
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