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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 5h

Delighted to launch this yesterday. And the video’s really good too.

Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 17h

If I’d have known in advance that I was to share a platform with Mark E. Smith this afternoon, my speech might have been a bit different-uh.

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James Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 30/09/2026

Ah yes. That’s the Tom Watson I remember. The one who had a mob follow the Lib Dem candidate around in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, labelling her “Nokia Davies” and alleging she wanted to put up phone masts everywhere to give children cancer despite marketing himself as the pro-tech MP.

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Oxford University Hospitals @ouhospitals.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Visiting hospital in Oxford? You can reach the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre by car without driving through a traffic filter. 🔗 www.oxfordmail.co/.uk/news/265...

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They can’t even get the correction right!

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Oxfordshire County Council @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Work has started on developing ambitious plans to regenerate Banbury: news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/project-aims...

A signpost in a town centre in front of a civic building

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our local paper is known as the Oxford Fail, the toxic clickbait factory of Osney Mead (due to be regenerated). The penultimate paragraph is why. The hospitals are well away from traffic filters. Needless to say, the lazy hack didn’t bother checking his facts before fabricating disinformation.

Misinformation about Oxford’s traffic filters from miserable anti-Oxford rag, the Oxford Fail.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oxford's traffic filters switch on today. Oxford Liveable Streets' Siobhann Mansel-Pleydell looks at which one will be better for Oxford and commuters, the congestion charge or the traffic filters? oxfordclarion.uk/traffic-filt...

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Traffic Filters vs Congestion Charge : Contest or Evolution?

The Oxford Traffic Filters switch on this morning, and we've just got used to the congestion charge. Oxfordshire Liveable Streets are a not-for-profit organisation working alongside residents across O...

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oxfordshire residents: please register for your free permits if you haven’t already. We have achieved a lot in making Oxford cleaner, less congested and a better environment: the traffic filters trial is an important step to finding out what works best. And I’ll carry on listening to people.

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Oxfordshire County Council @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the best ways to travel into Oxford is by Park & Ride. There are five bus journeys into the city centre. Read traffic filters are coming: travel tips for getting around Oxford: blogs.oxfordshire.gov.uk/traffic-filt...

Oxfordshire County Council campaign graphic showing a Park & Ride bus on a yellow background with the message: 'Small changes. Better journeys'

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The other mystery of #ldconf. Who thought of the anchors that were extensively used in the backdrop? Hardly matched the official guff about progress under Davey. Was someone having a giggle?

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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/2 I held my head in my hands yesterday, when I heard Daisy Cooper say: “some of us came into this party carrying The Orange Book, while others came here under the banner of the SDP”. The SDP were substantially to the right of the old Liberals on a whole range of social & political issues.

Daisy Cooper speaking at conference yesterday.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THIS. And from what I hear, he was too chicken to run it through any sort of democratic process. Julian Brazil was right.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve just spoken at Liberal Democrat Conference highlighting the PFAS scandal and the failure of the Environment Agency to test at Gallos Brook. I’ve made some useful contacts on the issue and now have some next steps for action.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m at #ldconf and currently in a fringe meeting about PFAS and challenging the Government about the lack of action to tackle it.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are two issues here. The Gallos Brook campaign refers to highly disruptive utility work across Heyford Park. Barratt Redrow’s gaslighting response belies citizen testing results that highlight PFAS contamination when they have clearly done no testing. This is a planning enforcement issue.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today has largely been about fridges.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can now see rather more of the Botley Road bridge works as reopening gets closer. Line painting is done; work is focused on the western side.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Attending the latest Gallos Brook campaign meeting about PFAS contamination on Heyford Park. The Environment Agency are still - shamefully - dragging their heels on testing.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A Parliamentary standards commissioner, somewhere, is intrigued by the £36 million donation by the same emigré who gave the “non-political” £5m to its leader…..

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is obscene. By any measure. Enabled by inaction. We needed a new Pastor Niemoller, didn’t we?

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We have now jumped the shark. A Green Party motion calling for action to ensure infrastructure is provided to support new homes is being attacked by Labour. One of the Labour speakers even pressed me for action on roads which a developer consortium have failed to get adopted in 10 years….

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In County Hall. Answering petitions calling for traffic signal improvements, active travel corridors and pedestrian crossings. Now onto questions from Councillors. Delighted to welcome my new neighbour Cllr Jim Hartley to County Hall.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What a shambles. Not to mention, a waste of money!

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And so we retain our majority on Oxfordshire County Council, as the excellent @banburylibdems.bsky.social is elected with a 302-vote majority, up more than double compared to 2025. Jim will be a fantastic County Councillor and I look forward to working closely with my neighbour.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Football season must be back again.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wonderful news for Heyford Park. A peak bus service to Oxford restored; a new bus to the John Radcliffe Hospital; and the Bicester service half hourly. Run by Oxford Bus Company (Thames Travel) M-Sat, Stagecoach Sun. A lot of hard work and good collaboration to deliver it.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The truth is, CAMRA membership fell by around 20% from 2019 to 2025, the last figures I saw. It was close to 200,000 at its peak. Many ex-members like me saw a failure to adapt, outdated views, lack of pub campaigning and internal toxicity as reasons to quit. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Problems brewing for the proper pint as Camra membership falls

Cost of living has hit campaign group while multinational breweries are threatening to squeeze out independents

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Good to get out and talk to residents supporting Jim in Bucknell and Kirtlington tonight.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Every pre-season for the last dozen years: this will surely be the time Man Utd will wake from their post-Fergie slumber and challenge for the title Every season: They wake, and continue to be Man Utd.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The same will be true in Oxford where we are working to transform air quality, because it has these effects on children’s health. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It seems to me that "dropping a bombshell" by suddenly supporting new oil and gas is what counts for Dale Vince. By no means the first time he's taken a poorly-evidenced position that generates a lot of publicity. I see him as multi-millionaire self-publicist first, environmentalist a distant second

Post by Dale Vince stating he has just dropped a bombshell on North Sea oil and gas.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh dear. The main reason pubs sit vacant is because an asset-stripper has shut it, often deliberately running it down. Community pubs always work financially - for a reason. Pubs are community assets where people come together to talk and interact. Planning law can make asset-stripping unviable.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s time we talked about Sonia Sodha and her culture war ilk.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

RIP, Labour’s commitment to tackling climate change. (And this in the middle of historic drought and the hottest summer on record, with parts of the country melting or catching fire every day)

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A piece of trivia nobody expected: Farage is the first victor of a by-election not to attend the count since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oxfordshire now leads UK on clean air, claims the partnerships director at Climate Emergency UK. Isaac Beevor said that while clean air and a decarbonised transport system were seen as the realm of London and Labour, Oxfordshire County Council (LD) now leads the way. www.lgcplus.com/services/env...

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Isaac Beevor: Oxfordshire now leads UK on clean air

London is no longer ahead of the game, writes the partnerships director at Climate Emergency UK. Clean air and a decarbonised transport system were always

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I thought I could end the Parliamentary Investigation while being seen to take on The Establisment. Instead, the investigation carries on after I've wasted my summer fighting a bin.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Bicester’s local bus, the Bicester Bee, has been reprieved. After community bus operator Ability CIC had announced it would stop trading, Oxfordshire County Council has appointed Aylesbury-based operator Z&S Transport to run the service. The service connects Bicester with nearby villages.

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