Jack Lenox
@jacklenox.com
Cargo bike enthusiast, @eradicals.bike shop owner, @carspiracy.bsky.social podcast host, software engineer and Green Party Councillor. Born at 349ppm.
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Do you suffer with cold hands when cycling in the winter? In my experience, even the warmest cycling gloves on the market aren't up to the job when the temperatures really plummet.
January 16, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Do you suffer with cold hands when cycling in the winter? In my experience, even the warmest cycling gloves on the market aren't up to the job when the temperatures really plummet.
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You don't need an excuse to ride an e-bike. So many customers give various reasons why they feel they qualify for one, such as a long-term injury. But the truth is that e-bikes are a legitimate form of transport in their own right.
January 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
You don't need an excuse to ride an e-bike. So many customers give various reasons why they feel they qualify for one, such as a long-term injury. But the truth is that e-bikes are a legitimate form of transport in their own right.
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Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
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Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
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December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
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Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
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“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”
Listened to Rory Stewart grilling Zack Polanski on The Rest Is Politics. Rory’s been rightly critical of the Tories’ economic failures, and Labour’s continuing inability to improve our situation. I think he genuinely wants to hear something better.
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Listened to Rory Stewart grilling Zack Polanski on The Rest Is Politics. Rory’s been rightly critical of the Tories’ economic failures, and Labour’s continuing inability to improve our situation. I think he genuinely wants to hear something better.
So they really were planning to cap it?
Well, now is the time to support campaigns from bodies including the Association of Cycle Traders and the Bicycle Association in removing the "commute to work" element altogether.
Well, now is the time to support campaigns from bodies including the Association of Cycle Traders and the Bicycle Association in removing the "commute to work" element altogether.
Labour ditched Cycle to Work cap two weeks before Budget after deciding it “wasn’t worth the revenue”, as bike shops hail “common sense prevailing”
“E-bikes and cargo bikes cost more, but they’re the tools that make cycling practical for people who couldn’t otherwise manage it. A cap would have slammed the door on exactly the people we should be ...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
So they really were planning to cap it?
Well, now is the time to support campaigns from bodies including the Association of Cycle Traders and the Bicycle Association in removing the "commute to work" element altogether.
Well, now is the time to support campaigns from bodies including the Association of Cycle Traders and the Bicycle Association in removing the "commute to work" element altogether.
Them: The Greens' proposed wealth tax is flawed because other countries with different tax systems have tried it and it hasn't worked.
Us: *highlights countries where it has worked*
Them: You can't use other countries with different tax systems as an example of how something can work!
🙃
Us: *highlights countries where it has worked*
Them: You can't use other countries with different tax systems as an example of how something can work!
🙃
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Them: The Greens' proposed wealth tax is flawed because other countries with different tax systems have tried it and it hasn't worked.
Us: *highlights countries where it has worked*
Them: You can't use other countries with different tax systems as an example of how something can work!
🙃
Us: *highlights countries where it has worked*
Them: You can't use other countries with different tax systems as an example of how something can work!
🙃
Huge relief: Cycle to Work is untouched in today's Budget.
The salary sacrifice changes are specifically about pension contributions – the scheme that helps people swap their car for an e-bike remains exactly as it was.
The salary sacrifice changes are specifically about pension contributions – the scheme that helps people swap their car for an e-bike remains exactly as it was.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Huge relief: Cycle to Work is untouched in today's Budget.
The salary sacrifice changes are specifically about pension contributions – the scheme that helps people swap their car for an e-bike remains exactly as it was.
The salary sacrifice changes are specifically about pension contributions – the scheme that helps people swap their car for an e-bike remains exactly as it was.
UK: 29th of 30 countries for e-bikes 📉
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
UK: 29th of 30 countries for e-bikes 📉
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
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There's always money for more driving
Reeves to announce £1.5bn boost in EV subsidies amid pay-per-mile concerns
Reeves to announce £1.5bn boost in EV subsidies amid pay-per-mile concerns
Industry experts welcome extra incentives but fear a consultation on a mileage tax sends mixed messages
Drivers will be able to claim government subsidies to cut the cost of buying a new electric car until 2030 under plans to be announced by Rachel Reeves at next week’s budget.
The chancellor will unveil an extra £1.3bn for subsidies for new electric vehicles (EVs) and a further £200m for charging points, as she attempts to prevent the market for clean cars drying up amid concerns about a new pay-per-mile tax. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
There's always money for more driving
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
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Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
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Since the counter was fixed, well over half a million cycle journeys have been made in less than two months. At peak times, records show that rush hour traffic consists of 250 motor vehicles ph in the am & 350 in the pm, considerably less than the number of bikes. Time for another cycle lane
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Since the counter was fixed, well over half a million cycle journeys have been made in less than two months. At peak times, records show that rush hour traffic consists of 250 motor vehicles ph in the am & 350 in the pm, considerably less than the number of bikes. Time for another cycle lane
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
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November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
According to the FT, Rachel Reeves wants to cap the cycle to work scheme. This is lunacy, and represents a curb on what is effectively the UK's only active travel incentive.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
According to the FT, Rachel Reeves wants to cap the cycle to work scheme. This is lunacy, and represents a curb on what is effectively the UK's only active travel incentive.
This news is so dispiriting. Plenty of e-bikes around the £4,000 mark are absolutely not luxury items, such as this Tern. We should be expanding cycle to work. Especially when it seems the “drive to work” salary sacrifice scheme for cars will be untouched. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/taxpaye...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This news is so dispiriting. Plenty of e-bikes around the £4,000 mark are absolutely not luxury items, such as this Tern. We should be expanding cycle to work. Especially when it seems the “drive to work” salary sacrifice scheme for cars will be untouched. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/taxpaye...
A £4,000 e-bike replaces a £35,000 car. An e-bike saves the NHS £1,400/year. An e-bike cuts emissions immediately. Yet Rachel Reeves wants to limit the cycle to work scheme while preserving tax breaks for £60,000 Teslas? Make it make sense.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A £4,000 e-bike replaces a £35,000 car. An e-bike saves the NHS £1,400/year. An e-bike cuts emissions immediately. Yet Rachel Reeves wants to limit the cycle to work scheme while preserving tax breaks for £60,000 Teslas? Make it make sense.
Once more for those at the back:
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Once more for those at the back:
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
"If you increase taxes on the wealthy, they'll just take their wealth elsewhere!"
Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
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Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"If you increase taxes on the wealthy, they'll just take their wealth elsewhere!"
Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Victoria Derbyshire dismisses the Green Party's wealth tax by citing that Switzerland's similar policy ONLY raises £9.5 billion a year.
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Victoria Derbyshire dismisses the Green Party's wealth tax by citing that Switzerland's similar policy ONLY raises £9.5 billion a year.
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
An LMGFY for those who still haven’t got it. Green politics – and by extension the Green Party – has never been simply about the environment.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
October 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
An LMGFY for those who still haven’t got it. Green politics – and by extension the Green Party – has never been simply about the environment.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
So tired of this loop…
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So tired of this loop…
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
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Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value
September 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value
It’s Google’s 27th birthday and they’re celebrating by reminding us of the excellent search engine they used to be. A perfect opportunity to share this excoriating talk on enshittification by Corey Doctorow: youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...
Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
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September 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s Google’s 27th birthday and they’re celebrating by reminding us of the excellent search engine they used to be. A perfect opportunity to share this excoriating talk on enshittification by Corey Doctorow: youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...