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Jack Lenox

@jacklenox.com
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Cargo bike enthusiast, @eradicals.bike shop owner, @carspiracy.bsky.social podcast host, software engineer and Green Party Councillor. Born at 349ppm. eradicals.bike

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thrilled to visit Oxfordshire’s first of the new Quiet Lanes: filtered to motor traffic, safe for us cyclists and walkers and horse-riders. First time I have ever felt safe to cycle to the fabulous Rectory Farm: love supporting local businesses.
Me in hi viz by the shepherds pit lane QLBike and QLEntrance now safe.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stuff for drivers left on sidewalks for pedestrians is just another front in the #WarOnWalking.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Posts like this about biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.” The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
People riding bikes along a Dutch canal in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We don't bring back hope again by burning the planet and giving in to the fossil fuel industry. Hope and a plan is bringing in wealth taxes, rent controls and investing in renewables. That's how we make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There’s a lot of space for greenery on our streets if you just reallocate a bit from cars.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 06/06/2026
Interesting piece from @danneidle.bsky.social on whether Britain has "run out of other people to tax". Much is right: the UK taxes ordinary and low-paid workers lightly by global standards, and you can't fund a big state from the very wealthy alone. But it overclaims where it matters.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 09/05/2026
My favourite thing about travelling with a bike on Avanti West Coast is not only do they make it as difficult as possible beforehand (needs to be booked way in advance because hardly any spaces, paper tickets only etc.)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 08/05/2026
It's nauseating to watch the positive spin and soft balls Kuenssberg keeps tossing to Reform on the BBC's local election coverage. While seemingly only capable of asking the same negative questions of the Greens that have been addressed dozens of times already.
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you're thinking of staying up all night to watch Kuenssberg and Mason frothing over the local election results, just ring the Samaritans instead, there are people who can help you.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/05/2026
I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.
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richiebryan.bsky.social @richiebryan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today's the day! 💚✊🏽✨ Time to Vote Green across London and all over the country Let's make hope normal 🤞🏽💚🌎
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Green party threat to Labour in London laid bare in Starmer’s own back yard
In inner London boroughs such as Camden, home to PM’s constituency, Greens have capitalised on collapse of Labour support
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove admitted taking cocaine and a Tory MP in the last parliament had to go to rehab to treat his addiction. But no rightwing commentators mention this when discussing the Greens' drug policy.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Many Jewish people don't want non Jewish people telling us what to believe & say. For the Prime Minister to criticise the single Jewish party leader on Antisemitism demonstrates the lack of credibility and seriousness of Labour on the issue. www.thenational.scot/news/2604932...
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Zack Polanski slams 'disgusting' Keir Starmer over antisemitism remarks
Zack Polanski has slammed the Prime Minister over claims Keir Starmer is conflating "criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide [with]…
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 15/04/2026
Blessed are the warmongers…
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In the news today, a cyclist on the pavement who killed a man is charged with manslaughter. By contrast, here's a van driver who killed a little girl. He was driving on the pavement: common, and illegal. Killed her. Only charged with dangerous driving. Fully let off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Cheshire van driver cleared of dangerous driving after four-year-old's death
Four-year-old Esmé Rose Weir was run over as she rode her scooter along the pavement to pre-school.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 02/03/2026
The Daily Mail has said it obtained "internal documents" revealing the Green Party's migration policy. As a long-term Green Party activist, I'm very familiar with the actual policy. And what the Mail describes and what the document says are two very different things. A thread 🧵
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 28/02/2026
With the Gorton and Denton win, our opponents have been working overtime to misrepresent Green Party drugs policy. Heroin in corner shops? Crack for kids? Let's clear this up. 🧵
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 27/02/2026
I see Reform are desperately trying to spin their crushing defeat last night as a positive. It really is anything but. They garnered just over 5,000 votes in 2024, with the Tories getting just under 3,000. Given their recent absorption of so many Tory dropouts…
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 27/02/2026
For anyone who likes to quote Electoral Calculus as "polling", just a note that they're still predicting a solid Reform gain in Gorton and Denton. They maybe need to update their model…
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 27/02/2026
In a symbol that nothing has changed from the BBC's perspective despite the Green Party's seismic win overnight, it gave its main Today 8:10am interview slot (when listenership peaks) to Heidi Alexander of the Labour Party. Naturally this allowed Heidi to frame this incredible victory as a negative.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 27/02/2026
Narrator: Labour did not have it in the bag.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 27/02/2026
A new dawn has broken, has it not? Hannah Spencer elected as the new MP for Gorton and Denton with a majority of over 4,000!
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 27/02/2026
Sadly no surprise to see Reform following Trump's playbook to the letter. If your hateful bile doesn't get you over the line, cry election fraud and claim the system is rigged against you. Utterly pathetic from Matt Badloss in Gorton and Denton.
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 26/02/2026
Cycling to work can literally save your life. A major UK study of over 250,000 commuters found that people who cycle to work have a 41% lower risk of dying from any cause. A 52% lower risk of dying from heart disease. And a 45% lower risk of developing cancer. A separate study found they're 20%…
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 25/02/2026
On the eve of the Gorton and Denton by-election, @itvpeston.bsky.social has spent about a third of the show talking about the Green Party, but apparently haven't invited anyone from the party on. 2 x Labour 1 x Tory 1 x Reform 0 x Green Great job, folks. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 24/02/2026
On BBC Politics North West discussing Reform's appalling Gorton and Denton by-election candidate, Matt Goodwin. In addition to the many disgusting things he has said, he has featured dreadful people on his show like Renaud Camus. Camus is the man behind the Great Replacement Theory.
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Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com · 23/02/2026
As in the US, also in the UK - our voter ID law didn’t fix the vanishingly tiny amount of fraud. It disenfranchised marginal groups and suppressed turnout. We must reverse the voter ID law and give everyone their voice back. constitution-unit.com/2025/02/21/h...
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How have voter ID requirements affected British elections?
The July general election was the first UK-wide vote since new voter ID rules were introduced by the Elections Act 2022. Ralph Scott and Edward Fieldhouse examine recent data to show who lacks ID a…
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 17/02/2026
On BBC Politics North West yesterday discussing the appalling comments Jim Ratcliffe made last week.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 16/02/2026
Back from a wonderful time campaigning to get Hannah Spencer elected in Gorton and Denton. It's a close race with Reform, so we knew we had to bring out the big guns in the form of our chihuahua, Pablo! Big hit on the doorstep and with fellow campaigners.
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 12/02/2026
There seems to be a lot of confusion around about which types of e-bike are legal. But the law in the UK is very clear, legal e-bikes are officially known as EAPCs. This stands for 'electrically assisted pedal cycle', and these bikes are restricted to 15.5mph, with a 250W motor, and no throttle.
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Amstel, Amsterdam in 1979 and today
Split image showing the same Amsterdam street decades apart. Top: a black-and-white 1970s scene with trams, cars, and a pedestrian crossing a busy road. Bottom: a modern color view of the same street redesigned for cyclists and pedestrians, with bike lanes, fewer cars, people walking and biking, and cafés along the street.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 05/02/2026
Briefly looked at the hellscape formerly known as Twitter… one of these things is not like the others.
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 03/02/2026
Bike theft isn't inevitable. While there's no 100% guaranteed way of stopping your bike getting stolen, there are several things you can do to make it much less likely.
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 29/01/2026
There's a pervasive idea that using an e-bike is somehow cheating. If you're in a race where e-bikes are banned, yes: that's cheating. Otherwise, in what way is an e-bike a cheat? And why don't we apply the same logic to those who opt to drive by car instead of cycle by bike or e-bike?
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 26/01/2026
Can you replace your car with a bike? Perhaps not for every journey, but possibly more than half of them. In the UK, 60% of car trips are under 5 miles. Making these journeys by bike instead means not having to pay for parking, getting some exercise and seeing more of the world!
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 16/01/2026
Do you suffer with cold hands when cycling in the winter? In my experience, even the warmest cycling gloves on the market aren't up to the job when the temperatures really plummet.
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E-Radicals @eradicals.bike · 09/01/2026
You don't need an excuse to ride an e-bike. So many customers give various reasons why they feel they qualify for one, such as a long-term injury. But the truth is that e-bikes are a legitimate form of transport in their own right.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk
A green Christmas would be more awful than you can imagine
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 14/12/2025
“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”
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New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 01/12/2025
Listened to Rory Stewart grilling Zack Polanski on The Rest Is Politics. Rory’s been rightly critical of the Tories’ economic failures, and Labour’s continuing inability to improve our situation. I think he genuinely wants to hear something better.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 28/11/2025
So they really were planning to cap it? Well, now is the time to support campaigns from bodies including the Association of Cycle Traders and the Bicycle Association in removing the "commute to work" element altogether.
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Labour ditched Cycle to Work cap two weeks before Budget after deciding it “wasn’t worth the revenue”, as bike shops hail “common sense prevailing”
“E-bikes and cargo bikes cost more, but they’re the tools that make cycling practical for people who couldn’t otherwise manage it. A cap would have slammed the door on exactly the people we should be ...
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 26/11/2025
Them: The Greens' proposed wealth tax is flawed because other countries with different tax systems have tried it and it hasn't worked. Us: *highlights countries where it has worked* Them: You can't use other countries with different tax systems as an example of how something can work! 🙃
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 26/11/2025
Huge relief: Cycle to Work is untouched in today's Budget. The salary sacrifice changes are specifically about pension contributions – the scheme that helps people swap their car for an e-bike remains exactly as it was.
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Jack Lenox @jacklenox.com · 25/11/2025
UK: 29th of 30 countries for e-bikes 📉 Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈 We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes? Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
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