James Ward
@jamesward81.bsky.social
Campaigner at Adfree Cities // Host of the Better Without Billboards Podcast // Words in The Ecologist, Bristol Cable, Bristol 24/7 // Facilitator // Tall man.
Come and work with me at Adfree Cities!
This is a great role, combining creative campaigning with real-world policy development. Full details on our website.
This is a great role, combining creative campaigning with real-world policy development. Full details on our website.
📣We're hiring!📣
We're looking for a creative campaigner to join our small, dynamic team to support our efforts countering the influence of Big Oil.
Find full details and job description here: adfreecities.org.uk/work-with-us...
We're looking for a creative campaigner to join our small, dynamic team to support our efforts countering the influence of Big Oil.
Find full details and job description here: adfreecities.org.uk/work-with-us...
Job Vacancy: Big Oil Creative Campaigner - Adfree Cities
Location: Bristol-based.Days per week: 3 days per week.Start Date: Late February 2026 / March 2026Salary: £34,000 pro-rata (see below for details)Contract: 2 year fixed term contract - with the possib...
adfreecities.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Come and work with me at Adfree Cities!
This is a great role, combining creative campaigning with real-world policy development. Full details on our website.
This is a great role, combining creative campaigning with real-world policy development. Full details on our website.
Population density of The Netherlands, transport policy of Texas.
This latest piece in @theconversation.com cuts straight to how car dependence is a burden on us all, and makes a clear case for dethroning "king car".
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
This latest piece in @theconversation.com cuts straight to how car dependence is a burden on us all, and makes a clear case for dethroning "king car".
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy
Clogged up Britain
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Population density of The Netherlands, transport policy of Texas.
This latest piece in @theconversation.com cuts straight to how car dependence is a burden on us all, and makes a clear case for dethroning "king car".
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
This latest piece in @theconversation.com cuts straight to how car dependence is a burden on us all, and makes a clear case for dethroning "king car".
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
Another day another SUV ad from the BBC.
Gone Fishing is supposed to be a celebration of the countryside, does it really need an extended clip of a massive SUV fording a river for no reason? Save it for Top Gear!
Gone Fishing is supposed to be a celebration of the countryside, does it really need an extended clip of a massive SUV fording a river for no reason? Save it for Top Gear!
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Another day another SUV ad from the BBC.
Gone Fishing is supposed to be a celebration of the countryside, does it really need an extended clip of a massive SUV fording a river for no reason? Save it for Top Gear!
Gone Fishing is supposed to be a celebration of the countryside, does it really need an extended clip of a massive SUV fording a river for no reason? Save it for Top Gear!
Forget coffee. I'm starting my day drinking the salty tears of drivers in Salisbury who are shocked - SHOCKED! - to learn that the consequences of their bad driving are in fact theirs to pay for. #motonormativity
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
‘Killer kerb’ that wrecks cars installed by pro-pedestrian council
Furious motorists complain over 13-inch high construction introduced by Lib Dem-led local authority
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Forget coffee. I'm starting my day drinking the salty tears of drivers in Salisbury who are shocked - SHOCKED! - to learn that the consequences of their bad driving are in fact theirs to pay for. #motonormativity
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
Reposted by James Ward
It’s astonishing Wimbledon insists on deploying large SUVs in our crowded capital despite excellent public transport and mounting evidence of the danger to children. Why can't guests use more normal sized cars and/or the tube like most Londoners? #carspreading
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...
Campaigners call for Wimbledon to CANCEL Range Rover sponsorship deal
Group says Wimbledon must stop shuttling tennis players in 'dangerous supersized' Range Rover SUVs and instead force the likes of Emma Raducanu to take the tube or a bus.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It’s astonishing Wimbledon insists on deploying large SUVs in our crowded capital despite excellent public transport and mounting evidence of the danger to children. Why can't guests use more normal sized cars and/or the tube like most Londoners? #carspreading
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...
Reposted by James Ward
🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship.
This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco.
✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins.
👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco.
✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins.
👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
July 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship.
This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco.
✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins.
👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco.
✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins.
👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Thank you for raising this Carla. Such an overlooked issue for too long!
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Thank you for raising this Carla. Such an overlooked issue for too long!
It was a pleasure to write this guest blog for Parents 4 Future Scotland. Ending the SUV arms race and creating safer, fairer streets for us and our kids is a personal and professional fight for me as a parent.
Read today's guest blog from James Ward at SUV Alliance 'It's time to end the SUV Arms Race...' @adfreecities.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social www.parentsforfuturescotland.org.uk/blog-3-1/its...
April 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It was a pleasure to write this guest blog for Parents 4 Future Scotland. Ending the SUV arms race and creating safer, fairer streets for us and our kids is a personal and professional fight for me as a parent.
Colchester council spaffing £1 million to widen parking spaces makes very clear how massive SUVs are only possible thanks to public subsidies.
Those inside enjoy their heated seats whilst those outside pay for the parking spaces, air pollution, road danger...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Those inside enjoy their heated seats whilst those outside pay for the parking spaces, air pollution, road danger...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Colchester parking spaces 'too narrow for modern vehicles'
A city is widening spaces in two of its car parks to accommodate larger cars.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Colchester council spaffing £1 million to widen parking spaces makes very clear how massive SUVs are only possible thanks to public subsidies.
Those inside enjoy their heated seats whilst those outside pay for the parking spaces, air pollution, road danger...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Those inside enjoy their heated seats whilst those outside pay for the parking spaces, air pollution, road danger...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What Labour's "growth" really means:
pulling aid from foreign countries and bombing them instead.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
pulling aid from foreign countries and bombing them instead.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
UK defence spending to rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 with aid budget slashed to help fund move - UK politics live
Keir Starmer says now is the time to deepen European security, as he announces move in the Commons
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
What Labour's "growth" really means:
pulling aid from foreign countries and bombing them instead.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
pulling aid from foreign countries and bombing them instead.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Fantastic to see Norwich council considering higher parking charges for SUVs.
Bigger, heavier SUVs are more dangerous, more polluting and more damaging to the road surface than smaller cars. It's only fair that they should pay more.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2490844...
Bigger, heavier SUVs are more dangerous, more polluting and more damaging to the road surface than smaller cars. It's only fair that they should pay more.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2490844...
Councillors call for SUV owners to pay higher parking fees
Norwich's SUV owners should be charged more for parking than their smaller counterparts, councillors have urged.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Fantastic to see Norwich council considering higher parking charges for SUVs.
Bigger, heavier SUVs are more dangerous, more polluting and more damaging to the road surface than smaller cars. It's only fair that they should pay more.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2490844...
Bigger, heavier SUVs are more dangerous, more polluting and more damaging to the road surface than smaller cars. It's only fair that they should pay more.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2490844...
A man who previously used his SUV as a weapon is now on trial for using his SUV to murder someone.
Hard to see this story playing out with a Fiat Punto. SUVs are inherently violent machines and have no place on our streets.
www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...
Hard to see this story playing out with a Fiat Punto. SUVs are inherently violent machines and have no place on our streets.
www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...
'Violent' driver crushed man under SUV then tried to flee to Dubai, court told
Trevelle Rowland allegedly used his Volkswagen Tiguan as a weapon to murder Fergany Mvuezolo before calling on his girlfriend to help him flee the country and evade arrest
www.essexlive.news
February 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A man who previously used his SUV as a weapon is now on trial for using his SUV to murder someone.
Hard to see this story playing out with a Fiat Punto. SUVs are inherently violent machines and have no place on our streets.
www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...
Hard to see this story playing out with a Fiat Punto. SUVs are inherently violent machines and have no place on our streets.
www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...
Reposted by James Ward
This is drop off at a primary school in South East London.
At the same time, 75% of primary pupils and 90% of secondary pupils are travelling sustainably to London schools. Can they safely walk/cycle their journeys with cars this size driving past?
Check out: www.suv-alliance.org.uk
At the same time, 75% of primary pupils and 90% of secondary pupils are travelling sustainably to London schools. Can they safely walk/cycle their journeys with cars this size driving past?
Check out: www.suv-alliance.org.uk
February 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is drop off at a primary school in South East London.
At the same time, 75% of primary pupils and 90% of secondary pupils are travelling sustainably to London schools. Can they safely walk/cycle their journeys with cars this size driving past?
Check out: www.suv-alliance.org.uk
At the same time, 75% of primary pupils and 90% of secondary pupils are travelling sustainably to London schools. Can they safely walk/cycle their journeys with cars this size driving past?
Check out: www.suv-alliance.org.uk
Maybe a vehicle that can mount another vehicle should be subject to some kind of regulation before being driven in the millions on our streets?
www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/n...
www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/n...
February 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Maybe a vehicle that can mount another vehicle should be subject to some kind of regulation before being driven in the millions on our streets?
www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/n...
www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/n...
Thanks for the book rec. I've often thought the same, that with the exception of drink and drug driving, road violence is effectively decriminalised.
February 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thanks for the book rec. I've often thought the same, that with the exception of drink and drug driving, road violence is effectively decriminalised.
For sure. I did mean specifically in the context of promoting a car.
February 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
For sure. I did mean specifically in the context of promoting a car.
Anyone describing a car as a "weapon" should have their licence immediately and permanently revoked.
February 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Anyone describing a car as a "weapon" should have their licence immediately and permanently revoked.
Sounds unfair to me! And it is.
That's why, as part of our manifesto for safer and fairer streets, the SUV Alliance is calling for reform to first year vehicle excise duty (VED) so that heavier vehicles are charged more. Thus disincentivising the purchase of massive SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
That's why, as part of our manifesto for safer and fairer streets, the SUV Alliance is calling for reform to first year vehicle excise duty (VED) so that heavier vehicles are charged more. Thus disincentivising the purchase of massive SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
SUV Alliance
suv-alliance.org.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sounds unfair to me! And it is.
That's why, as part of our manifesto for safer and fairer streets, the SUV Alliance is calling for reform to first year vehicle excise duty (VED) so that heavier vehicles are charged more. Thus disincentivising the purchase of massive SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
That's why, as part of our manifesto for safer and fairer streets, the SUV Alliance is calling for reform to first year vehicle excise duty (VED) so that heavier vehicles are charged more. Thus disincentivising the purchase of massive SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
The Netherlands has eradicated potholes. So why can't the UK do the same?
The answer lies in how our two countries tax new vehicles.
In NL, vehicles are taxed on their weight, so heavy SUVs pay more.
In UK massive SUVs pay no more tax than small hatchbacks.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/nether...
The answer lies in how our two countries tax new vehicles.
In NL, vehicles are taxed on their weight, so heavy SUVs pay more.
In UK massive SUVs pay no more tax than small hatchbacks.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/nether...
How the Netherlands eradicated the pothole
Taxes on heavy cars ensure Dutch roads are among the smoothest in the world
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Netherlands has eradicated potholes. So why can't the UK do the same?
The answer lies in how our two countries tax new vehicles.
In NL, vehicles are taxed on their weight, so heavy SUVs pay more.
In UK massive SUVs pay no more tax than small hatchbacks.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/nether...
The answer lies in how our two countries tax new vehicles.
In NL, vehicles are taxed on their weight, so heavy SUVs pay more.
In UK massive SUVs pay no more tax than small hatchbacks.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/nether...
Slow clap for everyone who voted Labour in the last election thinking it would bring positive change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Reeves backs Heathrow expansion saying third runway is 'badly needed' - live updates
The chancellor says the airport is at
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Slow clap for everyone who voted Labour in the last election thinking it would bring positive change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Reposted by James Ward
Large, polluting, dangerous SUVs are taking over our streets. But there is an alternative…
The SUV Alliance are taking action with their 5-point manifesto for safer, fairer streets, without SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
#SaferStreets
#FairerStreets #WithoutSUVs
The SUV Alliance are taking action with their 5-point manifesto for safer, fairer streets, without SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
#SaferStreets
#FairerStreets #WithoutSUVs
January 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Large, polluting, dangerous SUVs are taking over our streets. But there is an alternative…
The SUV Alliance are taking action with their 5-point manifesto for safer, fairer streets, without SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
#SaferStreets
#FairerStreets #WithoutSUVs
The SUV Alliance are taking action with their 5-point manifesto for safer, fairer streets, without SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
#SaferStreets
#FairerStreets #WithoutSUVs
The driver in the Wimbledon school crash has been re-arrested 😮
To read this on the same day that we launch the SUV Alliance and manifesto reminds me of the importance of removing massive SUVs from our streets and the tragic consequences if we fail to act.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
To read this on the same day that we launch the SUV Alliance and manifesto reminds me of the importance of removing massive SUVs from our streets and the tragic consequences if we fail to act.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls
Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died at The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon on 6 July 2023.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The driver in the Wimbledon school crash has been re-arrested 😮
To read this on the same day that we launch the SUV Alliance and manifesto reminds me of the importance of removing massive SUVs from our streets and the tragic consequences if we fail to act.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
To read this on the same day that we launch the SUV Alliance and manifesto reminds me of the importance of removing massive SUVs from our streets and the tragic consequences if we fail to act.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...