Z.M.
@schoolstreets.bsky.social
school governor, interested in education, equity and active travel (sometimes all at once)
Chiswick High Road congested from end to end with SUV-dominated school run traffic, despite having a frequent bus service and a parallel tube line. Time I got back to talking about this:
schoolstreets.substack.com/p/the-school...
schoolstreets.substack.com/p/the-school...
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Chiswick High Road congested from end to end with SUV-dominated school run traffic, despite having a frequent bus service and a parallel tube line. Time I got back to talking about this:
schoolstreets.substack.com/p/the-school...
schoolstreets.substack.com/p/the-school...
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This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle!
Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!
This was done despite fierce opposition.
📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve
Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!
This was done despite fierce opposition.
📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle!
Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!
This was done despite fierce opposition.
📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve
Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!
This was done despite fierce opposition.
📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve
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We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
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Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick
New YouGov Westminster poll:
RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)
RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick
Just 👏 build 👏 the 👏 effing 👏 railway
Flying electric taxis will be travelling between Oxford and Cambridge next year. A six-month pilot project (geddit) aims to prepare the infrastructure and develop a business case as a first step towards “commercially viable regional operations”.
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just 👏 build 👏 the 👏 effing 👏 railway
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
This is also inaccurate because the tunnel from the Natural History Museum to South Ken tube, which I remember being endless when I was 8, is still endless now I'm 40. So ostriches must be huge.
when i asked about the dangers he told me that he was 'pretty sure he could take on a poxy ostrich', and put forward the (imo false) theory that 'the only reason people think they're big birds is because they remember seeing them at the zoo when they were a child, when they themselves were small'
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is also inaccurate because the tunnel from the Natural History Museum to South Ken tube, which I remember being endless when I was 8, is still endless now I'm 40. So ostriches must be huge.
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
Incredible work by Laura Kuenssberg as ever, spending part of her set-piece interview with the Prime Minister talking about a field and the four donkeys which lived in it. Really focusing on the issues that matter.
September 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Incredible work by Laura Kuenssberg as ever, spending part of her set-piece interview with the Prime Minister talking about a field and the four donkeys which lived in it. Really focusing on the issues that matter.
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One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases known to humanity, Huntington's disease, has been successfully treated for the first time in our history.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases known to humanity, Huntington's disease, has been successfully treated for the first time in our history.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If it's all a bit much, a reminder that on BBC Sounds *every week* you can get, for free:
- 2 hours of David Rodigan
- 2 hours of @maryannehobbs.bsky.social
- 3 hours of @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
- 2 hours of Daniel P. Carter
- 3 hours of @gillespeterson.bsky.social
- Jazz Record Requests
- 2 hours of David Rodigan
- 2 hours of @maryannehobbs.bsky.social
- 3 hours of @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
- 2 hours of Daniel P. Carter
- 3 hours of @gillespeterson.bsky.social
- Jazz Record Requests
September 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If it's all a bit much, a reminder that on BBC Sounds *every week* you can get, for free:
- 2 hours of David Rodigan
- 2 hours of @maryannehobbs.bsky.social
- 3 hours of @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
- 2 hours of Daniel P. Carter
- 3 hours of @gillespeterson.bsky.social
- Jazz Record Requests
- 2 hours of David Rodigan
- 2 hours of @maryannehobbs.bsky.social
- 3 hours of @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
- 2 hours of Daniel P. Carter
- 3 hours of @gillespeterson.bsky.social
- Jazz Record Requests
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Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.
September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.
Great work by @age-uk.bsky.social, almost completely blocking the pavement in Pangbourne. Respect for the elderly, unless they're on foot!
September 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Great work by @age-uk.bsky.social, almost completely blocking the pavement in Pangbourne. Respect for the elderly, unless they're on foot!
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Fantastic yarn by @chloehadj.bsky.social this: about the falsehoods at the heart of a bestselling series of nature books:
The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Fantastic yarn by @chloehadj.bsky.social this: about the falsehoods at the heart of a bestselling series of nature books:
So gutted that Splooting Corus Anneka Rice has been knocked out of Wimbledon. A wonderful player with an incredible serve.
July 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So gutted that Splooting Corus Anneka Rice has been knocked out of Wimbledon. A wonderful player with an incredible serve.
Round the corner, I met a friend for a drink outside the Harp in Covent Garden last night. Crowds spilling out all down the street having a nice time, but all crammed onto insufficient pavements so the odd car could rush past. @citywestminster.bsky's car obsession remains a public policy disaster.
Was it dropped from a helicopter?
It must have been going at speeds insane in urban spaces for that much damage to be done.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It must have been going at speeds insane in urban spaces for that much damage to be done.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Piccadilly Circus: Car crashes and overturns by Eros statue
The car landed on its roof after the collision, which happened at about 05:30 BST on Sunday.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Round the corner, I met a friend for a drink outside the Harp in Covent Garden last night. Crowds spilling out all down the street having a nice time, but all crammed onto insufficient pavements so the odd car could rush past. @citywestminster.bsky's car obsession remains a public policy disaster.
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I watch 24 Hours In A&E every week. Here's why I should operate on patients 🙄
June 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I watch 24 Hours In A&E every week. Here's why I should operate on patients 🙄
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In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
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They described this as “an awful experience”. Stop laughing. People were OPENLY PICNICKING
June 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
They described this as “an awful experience”. Stop laughing. People were OPENLY PICNICKING
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk John can you retweet this?
1. A story. Please read.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk John can you retweet this?
