Traffic in every direction towards Manor Circus today 🚗 🚙 air quality utterly dreadful 🫁 75% of drivers in this queue were on their phones 📱 wouldn’t have seen a pedestrian step out 🚶🏽‍♀️Kew Police Richmond Police - any chance of some concerted action here? 👮‍♀️

Jon Burke FRSA 🌍 8 yrs ago, researching for Dispatches, talked to some of architects of Thames Super Sewer. One told us that building soakaways and parklets across london, paying for people to dig up paved gardens, plant trees etc would be far more effective and cost a fraction off the cost 1/2

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stockholm Cycling Club.

Drivers kill 600 pedestrians and cyclists a year and everyday aggressions like pavement parking are endemic in this country.

Our roads are hostile and unsafe for anyone who isn't in a car, and that culture is due to the unjustified influence wielded by people like Edmund King.

A single young street tree can reduce rain runoff by around 60%.

For 17% of the £2 billion earmarked for the Silvertown Tunnel we could deliver 40% street tree canopy cover across Inner London.

It will be much more expensive to operate gas-fired power plants in the long term than to build new solar PV capacity in Europe says new study by Rystad Energy.

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If you know how it’s made, you can trust what it says. Trust is Earned. #ThisIsOurBBC .

So yesterday morning, on Eddie Nestor MBE's BBC London show, Sadiq Khan falsely accused Silvertown Tunnel opponents of 'promulgating misinformation and basic lies' - while doing exactly that himself. From 1:29:00 here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…
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There's never been a better time to defend public service broadcasting.

Sunak has shown he'll go where he thinks the wind is blowing.

Keir Starmer - what are you going to do? Pledge to rebuild a BBC that's the envy of the world, or remain silent?

Terrible what's happening to BBC local radio. BBC management's approach to managing real-terms cuts to the licence fee has essentially been to go 'look, we're gonna cut the really important public service stuff! We're not bluffing!' and then the government goes 'ok'.

Heavy rain has thrown London's transport system into disarray today. The automated announcer lists the causes of train line closures as 'signalling system failure', 'signal failure', 'a London Fire Brigade investigation', and 'emergency engineering works'...

I try to avoid the term climate change, if I can, because it was a term developed by Republican pollster Frank Luntz specifically to sow confusion and slow action.

We should use Wally Broecker's measurable and verifiable 'global warming'.

'How could I be wrong when literally millions of the world's dumbest men think I'm right?'

Those who say that alternative proteins, are disgusting and unnatural, plant-based burgers for example, or cell-cultured pork chops, haven’t considered where real meat mostly comes from. There are not the words to describe the horrors of factory farming. thetimes.co.uk/article/chinas…

When you were at the Treasury, Shell and BP paid no corporation tax on North Sea oil operations and received tax relief of nearly £400m.

Meanwhile, you blocked Boris Johnson's attempts to deliver a low carbon home insulation programme.

Your window dressing doesn't fool me.