David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @davidw456.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Many Chinese companies are opening factories in Europe so it probably won't result in a reduction in Chinese cars sold in Europe. They just won't be built in China. 110
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/10/2026Stratford is one of Europe’s great regeneration success stories. It’s ready for its next chapter - European rail links. I’m proud to say I’m working with the government to deliver new cross-Channel trains from East London. The benefits would be felt far beyond our city.cityam.comSadiq Khan: Run international trains from Stratford instead of expanding HeathrowWith more Brits supporting increasing international rail over expanding airports, connecting Stratford to Europe is a no-brainer, writes Sadiq Khan. 1336978
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/10/2026⚡️ Lithuania calls for EU sanctions against Russian grain. Russia being able to trade grain while it blockades Ukraine from doing likewise "is an unacceptable situation," said Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius.kyivindependent.comLithuania calls for EU sanctions against Russian grainRussia being able to trade grain while it blockades Ukraine from doing likewise "is an unacceptable situation," said Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius. 334489
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This, too, cannot be undone. It is just wanton death and destruction. 18532
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Meanwhile…. 032
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I stood in the presence of several very ancient oaks in Bandon's Castlebernard Woods a few months ago, and was in total awe. Such trees are now *incredibly* rare in Ireland. Please support Bandon Environmental Action Group in getting the 34.5-acre ecosystem protected. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...corkbeo.iePublic urged to join fight to protect ancient West Cork woodlandSome of these magnificent trees date back hundreds of years 630197
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There’s no hypocrisy like Reform hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities 011
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵 872112339
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The former PM of Israel just said very very very bluntly when asked — without even blinking — that Bibi was absolutely told about the Oct 7 attack days before because he knows this as fact. He also said that Israeli soldiers absolutely committed war crimes in Gaza. #gaza #israel #cdnpoli 15425230
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 04/10/2026The electric mobility shift is already happening in Africa. ⚡ 🚌 From buses to motorbikes and bicycles, e-mobility is taking to the streets across the continent, helping #BeatAirPollution and cut emissions. Read on: www.unep.org/news-and-sto... 410245
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Electric cars just had their best month ever in the UK (28%, near 100,000 EVs sold)... and Spain (18%) and Taiwan (19%) and Switzerland (35%) and Belgium (50%) and Denmark (88%) (!) and Norway (98%) and France (41%) and Portugal (48%) and probably more to follow when numbers arrive :D ⚡️ 45313
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2026Israeli barrier cuts off water to West Bank Palestinians before elections aje.news/hl1cc7 7132112
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🇵🇹 Portugal - September 26 - BEV Trajectory 47.7% BEV 15.4% PHEV 36.9% ICE (of which 17.6%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 29.0% BEV 15.5% PHEV 55.5% ICE (of which 24.5%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery 16614
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🇮🇪 Ireland - September 26 - BEV Trajectory 49.3% BEV 16.8% PHEV 33.9% ICE (of which 15.4%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 27.7% BEV 15.3% PHEV 57.0% ICE (of which 25.1%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall... 1449
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Bill Tubbs @billtubbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Copenhagen during rush hour. If they were in cars it would be grid lock. 19720
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚆🔋 And now…the train. Metra is preparing to bring battery-electric trains to the Chicago area. Cars → buses → trucks → trains. Electrification keeps reaching places that once seemed impossible. #Electrification #CleanTransportation www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/29/m...chicagotribune.com‘First in the country’: Metra to showcase game-changing battery-operated passenger trainThe trainsets initially will be deployed on the Rock Island Line, where they’re expected to improve air quality as Metra retires older diesel locomotives. 3227
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026More terrorist attacks from terrorist Russia as they bomb a hospital in Kyiv and the Science Academy Every single day Russia carries out mass terrorist attacks across Ukraine 210967
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 28/09/2026By end of August 2026, the BEV share of the Danish car fleet was 23%. As to be expected, the highest share is in/around the larger cities, but actually there is relatively low variation. 1143
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ukrainian civilians heroically ride bicycles, evading landmines while under Russian bombs and drones, to retrieve food and aid for others left behind in Russian-occupied Oleshky. About 40 children remain, while most of the other survivors are elderly people. 13562270
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New York Times confirms reports that, days before Oct. 7, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack. According to five former senior Israeli officials, Netanyahu never passed the warning to Israel.yacnews.comNew York Times sources back Haaretz report that UAE president warned Netanyahu before 7 OctoberFive former senior Israeli officials told the Times the warning never reached Israel's security chiefs. Netanyahu denies the call and has ordered lawyers to sue Haaretz. 59839405
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Climate reality... The UK’s latest harvest figures are another reminder that climate risk isn’t some distant scientific forecast. It's already affecting our farms, our food security and our economy. eciu.net/media/press-...eciu.netUK faces worst harvest on record after summer drought: commentSnap analysis of these yield estimates, including a ranking of where 2026 sits alongside other harvests going back to 1984. 110566
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Where are the GOP bills to lower costs, deal with the price of housing, or provide relief at the gas pump? Nowhere. Instead, we spend our time debating the culture wars. Under GOP leadership, Congress debates trivial issues passionately & important issues not at all. 35924
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18/09/2026BREAKING: Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to protect free speech as president, is escalating his effort to silence media outlets who don’t lick his boots, this time by attempting to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House press pool. Details ↓rollingstone.comSelf-Proclaimed Free Speech Defender Bans CNN, MSNOW, Politco From White HouseDonald Trump announced on Friday that he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, calling them "fake news." 51335135
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Anna Busy Bee @annabusybee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'll wait for the statements from Greenland, Denmark and the EU. Nothing this møron says has any meaning. 11738
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I still can’t get over the fact that Putin’s close buddy pays for the wedding of Trump’s son and then Trump returns the favor by pushing Ukraine to capitulate. This is the most corrupt president in the US history by a huge margin! 712361
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Monsters arming monsters. 04016
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yup—and it makes sense because the resulting forced glut of crude meant prices went down, so the cost of refined fuels went down for everyone except Russia, who has to sell their oil to India at a loss and then buy it back as converted fuel at full price… 0302
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Democrats @democrats.org · 15/09/2026Jon Ossoff is right: Donald Trump has raised prices, given billionaires a tax cut, started a new forever war, and covered up Epstein’s crimes. 69541
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026☀️🇬🇧 Solar panels do not currently cover “thousands of square miles” of UK farmland. DESNZ estimated in 2024 that ground-mounted solar covered 21,200 hectares, or around 81.9 square miles. That’s just 0.1% of the UK’s total land area. 🌱fullfact.orgSolar panels do not currently occupy ‘thousands of square miles’ of farmland – Full FactReform UK party chair Lee Anderson claimed there are “thousands of square miles” of solar panels on farmland in the UK. This is a huge overstatement. 1116
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Calling the UK a “minnow contributor” to climate change isn’t a climate argument. It’s like refusing to bail out a sinking ship because your bucket’s too small. By all means, make the energy-security case for Jackdaw. Just don’t dress it up as climate science. www.scotsman.com/education/pr...scotsman.comProfessor calls UK 'minnow culprit' in climate change and makes case for JackdawProfessor John Underhill says the UK is a “minnow contributor” to climate change and should pour its resources into affecting change overseas 4265
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Richard Knott @richardknott.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026Unfortunately he's dropped it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donorsPM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour 095
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 06/09/2026If this data was about the cash flow of a major economy, it would be covered by media everywhere. But as it 'only' shows global heat flow, it won't be covered anywhere.. 410466
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's good to remember that the Chinese car market is the largest in the world (roughly double the US market) and around 1/3 of global vehicles sales every year. 0176
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🇺🇾 Uruguay - August 26 - BEV Trajectory 64.0% BEV 6.3% PHEV 29.7% ICE (of which 3.8%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 42.9% BEV 4.0% PHEV 53.1% ICE (of which 7.5%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall... 35410
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026🇩🇰 Denmark (Private) - August 26 - BEV Trajectory 96.1% BEV 0.1% PHEV 3.8% ICE Trailing 12 months are: 93.8% BEV 0.9% PHEV 5.3% ICE Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall... 14512
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Let’s go.bbc.co.ukPolice launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donationsThe investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been underway into other donations. 681348301
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...schoolsweek.co.ukReform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules 4982281759
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Andy Walker @redwalker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It would seem that this fascist operation fits a definition of terrorism much more closely than, say, old age pensioners holding placards. 537544
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/09/2026Palestinians in Gaza bury remains of 100 people recovered from rubble aje.news/sjwvg9 5208121
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage. 93934452234
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🇫🇷 France - August 26 - BEV Trajectory 38.2% BEV 6.3% PHEV 55.5% ICE (of which 37.3%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 27.6% BEV 6.4% PHEV 66.0% ICE (of which 42.9%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall... 25211
David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @davidw456.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Id say lack of fuel security due to trumps Hormuz crisis would play a big factor. 020
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026🇦🇺 Australia - August 26 - BEV Trajectory 25.6% BEV 10.0% PHEV 64.4% ICE (of which 17.7%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 16.0% BEV 7.8% PHEV 76.2% ICE (of which 17.4%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall... 24312
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026'tis and all! Protested the fare increases on behalf of @irishdocsenv.bsky.social yesterday. The fare increases are absolutely an attack on public health and well-being. This decision will cost lives. 0165
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Thomas M KochNev @masonkochnev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes he’s sleeping through another meeting but it’s important to note that every single person in this photo is named in the Epstein files. Every. Single. One. 830071
Reposted by David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It wasn't that long ago we were told that batteries would never succeed in big trucks. This is some very good news for everyone not in the business of selling diesel. 512845
David Wicks 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @davidw456.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There was a golf course in Beckenham (London suburbs) that was turned into a public park and it's absolutely gorgeous. So many people now use it regularly compared to the handful of people it used to serve as a golf course. 000
