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I mostly enjoy hiking, cycling, jogging, and a bit of golf on my time off! #WestMidlands and #Warwickshire
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🚨BREAKING: The Met Office has announced the UK experienced its HOTTEST summer on record this year.
How many more records need to be BROKEN before we ditch fossil fuels?
How many more records need to be BROKEN before we ditch fossil fuels?
September 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Met Office has announced the UK experienced its HOTTEST summer on record this year.
How many more records need to be BROKEN before we ditch fossil fuels?
How many more records need to be BROKEN before we ditch fossil fuels?
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Shocking: Thames Water connected lobbyist hired as Treasury advisor 😠
As my colleague @sophieconquest.bsky.social just told @boycottthameswater.bsky.social "If that's not corruption I don't know what is"
Our letter to Rachel Reeves demanding Jenny Scott step down 👇
weownit.org.uk/news/water-l...
As my colleague @sophieconquest.bsky.social just told @boycottthameswater.bsky.social "If that's not corruption I don't know what is"
Our letter to Rachel Reeves demanding Jenny Scott step down 👇
weownit.org.uk/news/water-l...
Open Letter to Rachel Reeves: Water lobbyists have no place in the Treasury
Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP,
Open letter: tell Jenny Scott to step down from the Treasury Board
In the 2024 Labour Manifesto, this government promised to ensure ‘...
weownit.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Shocking: Thames Water connected lobbyist hired as Treasury advisor 😠
As my colleague @sophieconquest.bsky.social just told @boycottthameswater.bsky.social "If that's not corruption I don't know what is"
Our letter to Rachel Reeves demanding Jenny Scott step down 👇
weownit.org.uk/news/water-l...
As my colleague @sophieconquest.bsky.social just told @boycottthameswater.bsky.social "If that's not corruption I don't know what is"
Our letter to Rachel Reeves demanding Jenny Scott step down 👇
weownit.org.uk/news/water-l...
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The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.
August 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.
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Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments
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Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"
Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*
Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*
August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"
Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*
Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*
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Blast from the past: why I was arguing, over 9 years ago, the electric cars aren't the answer to most of our problems www.theguardian.com/sustainable-...
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Blast from the past: why I was arguing, over 9 years ago, the electric cars aren't the answer to most of our problems www.theguardian.com/sustainable-...
🌳 We need the return of ancient woodlands. Petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🌳 We need the return of ancient woodlands. Petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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You can read the unprecedented joint statement signed by 12 metro mayors to create a 3,500 mile national active travel network here
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July 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
You can read the unprecedented joint statement signed by 12 metro mayors to create a 3,500 mile national active travel network here
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Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
June 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
Very cool seeing two rainbows so close to each other. One is rather lovely with how bright it is! #relaxingrain #nature
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Very cool seeing two rainbows so close to each other. One is rather lovely with how bright it is! #relaxingrain #nature
Changed my bike tyres for the first time ever (I'm in my mid-thirties) and I popped two inner tubes in the process. Yeahhhh 🤦♂️. But the bike feels noticeably nicer to ride so that's a victory. #cycling
June 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Changed my bike tyres for the first time ever (I'm in my mid-thirties) and I popped two inner tubes in the process. Yeahhhh 🤦♂️. But the bike feels noticeably nicer to ride so that's a victory. #cycling
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Sir John Major at the Institute for Govt conference just now: "Britain [once] enjoyed a very good global reputation for being as free of corruption and bad practice as any nation in the world.
"I think that's a little less true today, and so it's in our national interest to regain that reputation."
"I think that's a little less true today, and so it's in our national interest to regain that reputation."
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Sir John Major at the Institute for Govt conference just now: "Britain [once] enjoyed a very good global reputation for being as free of corruption and bad practice as any nation in the world.
"I think that's a little less true today, and so it's in our national interest to regain that reputation."
"I think that's a little less true today, and so it's in our national interest to regain that reputation."
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Operation Snap submissions have more than doubled in two years, with more than 15,000 incidents reported in 2024 and over half of the reported drivers receiving notices of intended prosecution
Cyclists submit record number of close pass videos, as road safety charities warn over half of drivers still don’t know the Highway Code’s minimum passing distance
Operation Snap submissions have more than doubled in two years, with more than 15,000 incidents reported in 2024 and over half of reported drivers receiving notices of intended prosecution
road.cc
June 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Operation Snap submissions have more than doubled in two years, with more than 15,000 incidents reported in 2024 and over half of the reported drivers receiving notices of intended prosecution
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We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing
Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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We are celebrating #VolunteersWeek 🎉
In this video, volunteer Nicole shares her experience of volunteering on the Lias Line (Route 41 on the National Cycle Network) linking Rugby and Leamington Spa.
In this video, volunteer Nicole shares her experience of volunteering on the Lias Line (Route 41 on the National Cycle Network) linking Rugby and Leamington Spa.
June 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We are celebrating #VolunteersWeek 🎉
In this video, volunteer Nicole shares her experience of volunteering on the Lias Line (Route 41 on the National Cycle Network) linking Rugby and Leamington Spa.
In this video, volunteer Nicole shares her experience of volunteering on the Lias Line (Route 41 on the National Cycle Network) linking Rugby and Leamington Spa.
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So that's just £154m/year, less than £200m cut in 2023 (revealed in judgement for @transportaction.bsky.social yesterday transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...) & *well* below £246m funding for 2025/26 as @simonlightwood.org.uk stated in Feb questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
questions-statements.parliament.uk
June 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
So that's just £154m/year, less than £200m cut in 2023 (revealed in judgement for @transportaction.bsky.social yesterday transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...) & *well* below £246m funding for 2025/26 as @simonlightwood.org.uk stated in Feb questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
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Reeves is correct in what she is saying right now. Her reform of the fiscal rules to differentiate investment from current spending was crucial. There's much to criticise her for, but she gets nowhere near enough recognition for this.
June 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Reeves is correct in what she is saying right now. Her reform of the fiscal rules to differentiate investment from current spending was crucial. There's much to criticise her for, but she gets nowhere near enough recognition for this.
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Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget UNLAWFUL, rules Court of Appeal
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...
Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget unlawful, rules Court of Appeal
Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget unlawful, rules Court of Appeal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10 June 2025 In a historic judgment, the Court of Appeal has today ruled in Transport Action Network’...
transportactionnetwork.org.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Treasury cuts to cycling and walking budget UNLAWFUL, rules Court of Appeal
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/treasury-cut...
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This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did.
tinyurl.com/bdpzc399
tinyurl.com/bdpzc399
News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools
Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.
www.wsj.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did.
tinyurl.com/bdpzc399
tinyurl.com/bdpzc399
This is a screenshot from Google Maps - highlighting nicely why the decision by @warwickshirecc.bsky.social to put in a mixed use path on the main road instead of a high-quality separated cycleway was a properly smelly decision. And now we're stuck with this low-grade infrastructure for decades.
June 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is a screenshot from Google Maps - highlighting nicely why the decision by @warwickshirecc.bsky.social to put in a mixed use path on the main road instead of a high-quality separated cycleway was a properly smelly decision. And now we're stuck with this low-grade infrastructure for decades.
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'Gaslighting' comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movies based on that play.
The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
June 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
'Gaslighting' comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movies based on that play.
The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
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A ‘snafu’ is a situation marked by errors or confusion.
‘Snafu’ comes from WW2 and is an acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”
Yes, really.
‘Snafu’ comes from WW2 and is an acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”
Yes, really.
June 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A ‘snafu’ is a situation marked by errors or confusion.
‘Snafu’ comes from WW2 and is an acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”
Yes, really.
‘Snafu’ comes from WW2 and is an acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”
Yes, really.
It was only a low target, but I still cycled my target miles for the #LoveToRide Bike Month 2025. And I enjoyed all 6 rides, lovely stuff.
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It was only a low target, but I still cycled my target miles for the #LoveToRide Bike Month 2025. And I enjoyed all 6 rides, lovely stuff.
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The climate crisis plus a lack of funding means ageing waterways assets could be a risk to life, finds parliamentary magazine The House. We were pleased to give comment. The story has gone national and has been picked up by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cuts to England’s canal network could put lives at risk, experts say
Ageing assets and lack of funding could mean entire towns and villages vulnerable to flooding, investigation shows
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The climate crisis plus a lack of funding means ageing waterways assets could be a risk to life, finds parliamentary magazine The House. We were pleased to give comment. The story has gone national and has been picked up by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...