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Patrick Willcocks

@patrickwillcocks.bsky.social
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A pro Palestine pro Sustainability photographer who loves cities. Currently in London but close ties to Brum ❤️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h
Prosecute the truth-tellers, shield the murderers: this has long been central to the Israeli government's genocidal policy. www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanya...
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Netanyahu seeks criminal charges for NAZA participants
Israeli prime minister escalates campaign against documentary, urging probes into insiders for alleged security breaches
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 25/09/2026
👀London's newest section of Cycleway!! This section of the Cycleway 4 extension - between Gallions Rd & Charlton Church Lane - is due to open this week. We've expanded our network of Cycleways from 90km in 2016 to 450+km today. And cycling across the capital is soaring🚲🚲🚲
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
✈️🇬🇧 Aviation could become an increasingly difficult part of the UK’s net zero challenge. The CCC says aviation emissions are already a concern, with emissions in 2025 reaching 37.9 MtCO₂e despite improvements in aircraft efficiency.
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/09/2026
The government’s action on illegal Israeli settlements is long overdue, but action must go much further. The UK must stop supplying arms to Israel, including F-35 components, and end its complicity in the genocide.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country. Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Shameful and saddening from Simon Schama. What is happening in Gaza is not the Holocaust. But it *is* genocidal, perpetrated by an explicitly and openly genocidal government, and he knows that. This denialism demeans him and his record as a great historian. www.jewishnews.co.uk/simon-schama...
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Simon Schama: Anybody accusing Israel of committing genocide should be ashamed - Jewish News
In speech at HET appeal dinner, the historian and professor says 'We, the victims of the greatest genocide the world has ever seen, are being called perpetrators of genocide'
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Heathrow expansion 'a risk we cannot afford to take', says mayor
Sir Sadiq Khan is repeating his opposition to a third runway in response to a government consultation.
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Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Quite. @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/08/2026
UN rights office spokesperson slams Israeli threat of forced evacuations from Gaza communities over kite flying.
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‘Outrageous': UN condemns Israeli threat to expel Gaza residents over kites
UN rights office spokesperson slams Israeli threat of forced evacuations from Gaza communities over kite flying.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just imagine if Birmingham did the same.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
*a council tries to limit standing in pubs* Number 10: "We vow to stop this!" *droughts, wildfires, and crop failures, all driven by / made worse by climate change* Number 10:
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Tumbleweed Rolls Across Desert Highway
Alt: Tumbleweed Rolls Across Desert Highway
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Energy storage is full of innovation at present. Hardly a day goes by without new battery technology advancing.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Sand batteries can help solve the problem of storing of intermittent solar and wind energy - but they perhaps are best when linked to District heating schemes. Something the UK sadly lacks many of. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Interesting to hear how the system for tackling harm on our roads is much better in London than in the W. Mids. (12mins 30 Seconds.) @betterstreetsbirmingham @johnmunro listening to Streets Ahead | The Road to Vision Zero in London, with Will Norman on Podbean, check it out!
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
SPOTTED IN SHEFFIELD Resilient bath bombs are available in LUSH branches across the UK, and the photos are still coming in from Defend Our Juries supporters everywhere 🛁 75% of retail sales will help to Defend Our Juries. Get yours here: www.lush.com/uk/en/p/resi...
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our kids would be safer if they'd banned Land Rovers instead of Instagram.
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Woman in court over fatal Wimbledon school crash
Claire Freemantle was driving the car that killed Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau outside a school in 2023.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Progress but a lot more to do.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
politico.eu
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Not a fan of Burnham anyway, but seriously, what is the point of changing leader if they are going to keep the same inhumane and hostile policies Starmer supports which have pushed so many voters away from Labour. Whoever takes over needs to u-turn on them, fast. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Exclusive: Greater Manchester understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Nakba78 march in London. I am sure he was there. Part of the @keirstarmer.bsky.social fight back?
A drummer wearing a Keir Starmer face mask attending the Nakba78 march in London
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Life after Cars. Looking forward to it.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Time for the UK to follow.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Now I am not fan of cars but this on balance is good news. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528995...
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'A key moment': Over two million fully electric vehicles now on UK's roads
Department for Transport confirms major new milestone for the country's battery electric vehicle fleet
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
So disappointing to see the lack of political will now in Birmingham for safer streets. After questions from Babiker Yahia, whose 4-year-old daughter Mayar was killed by a driver in April 2024, only one candidate (after quite a pause) backed 20mph limits on all residential streets.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Is the Hungarian vote of wider importance. An ex colleague of mine thinks so. open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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Has the Forward March of Populism Been Halted?
The victory of Péter Magyar over Viktor Orbán in Hungary's election has profound significance, not just for Hungarians but for the rest of the world too, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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Geoffrey Lean @geofflean.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Huge poll explodes the growing contention that #netzero should be dropped as unpopular. Most Europeans want #renewables expanded even if they cost more (which they don’t). Few would go for fossil fuels even if they were cheaper which they aren’t). www.politico.eu/article/poll...
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Europeans want more renewables, even if it increases energy bills
Public enthusiasm for clean energy comes as the Iran war exposes Europe’s vulnerability to global oil and gas markets.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened
Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
More mayors like this. #Paris @egregoire.bsky.social
New Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire riding on a bike-share Velib bike on the way to City Hall after his decisive election victory.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Now that's ambition.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Another Saturday another demonstration.
An elderly woman sitting in a chair being interviewed. She is holding a sign that says 'This Holocaust survivor says stop the genocide in gaza'
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
An interesting article about how London is not doing nearly enough to meet its 2030 transport climate targets. And yet London is doing far more than elsewhere. theecologist.org/2026/mar/18/...
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Speeding towards climate breakdown
London’s car-centred transport policies turbocharge climate danger.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A small step.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Cars should be treated as guests not owners in our streets.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
52% of U.K gas consumption is for heating and cooking (mainly heating). The Government committing to the simple task of delivering a heat pump, electric oven, and induction hob at every home in the land, to reduce emissions and increase energy security, should be a strategic national priority.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Seems like some great suggestions in this London policy paper. Extra charges for SUVs and more 20mph limits. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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SUV drivers could face extra charges for driving in London
TfL are also poised to increase 20mph zones and cut speed limits on the capital’s fastest roads later this year
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This catholic priest was murdered by a Tank Lebanon - trying to aid people injured in a house under attack - they saw him go in to tend to the wounded and murdered then all in cold blood - www.ncronline.org/news/lebanes...
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Lebanese Maronite Catholic priest killed by Israeli tank fire in southern Lebanon
Fr. Pierre al-Rahi, also known by his French name Pierre el-Raï, had earlier refused, along with other priests, to obey an order by the Israeli military to evacuate the Christian village of Qlayaa, a ...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
An emergency
white text on black 

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected mobility lane?
City: No, we'll lose parking spots
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This reminds me of that saying. 'Netanyahu is the worst President in USA history.' #stopbombingiran #stopbombinggaza
A demonstrator holding a representation of the American flag but with the stars replaced by star of David's. And with the heading below 'Regime Changed'
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Expense.
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WEVE MADE IT SO THAT
AUTOMOBILES
CAN GO
EVERYWHERE AT THE EXPENSE OF CHILDREN
GOING
ANYWHERE
ROVÉLO CREATIVE
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Dissecting greenwashing in the waste incineration sector.https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/carbon-capture-project-greenwashes-waste-incinerator-expansion/
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Greens now in second place ahead of Labour for the first time in a new YouGov poll, and just two points behind Reform. Lowest ever rating for Keir Starmer's party REF: 23% (-1) GRN 21% (+4) LAB 16%(-2) CON 16%(-2) LDEM 14%(nc)
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
How people can change when they get into power.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Going to reconcile myself to the fact that the “cost of net zero” debate will always be annoying. Mainly because: a) net zero isn’t a discrete spending line (e.g., you mainly buy an EV for the car bit); b) you need a counterfactual (what would it cost if we don’t do net zero?) and that’s hard
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
LTN'S slow up the emergency services... not.
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is today and I am on my way to it. ##freepalestine
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Patrick Willcocks @patrickwillcocks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Guess I was brought up to love cycling.
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