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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 22h

Sadly no, she wanted to go to a different Sainsbo’s

Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 23h

Vividly remember canvassing a woman who angrily told me that I’d made it impossible for her to drive to Sainsbury’s, when I could see a large Sainsbury’s local literally at the end of her road.

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Labour Walks & Cycles @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s quite simple. The Conservatives are not fit to be a potential party of Government. You can’t fit the number of ways this is deeply damaging, unfair and stupid into a single social media post.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every week is cycle to school week in Dulwich Village

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Bikeability @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#CycleToSchoolWeek is here! Supported by NatWest Rooster Money. This week, we’re celebrating the children, families, schools & communities choosing to cycle to school. Every cycle builds confidence, independence & healthy habits for life. Get involved: cycletoschoolweek.com 🚲🏫

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My mum was born in the 1930’s. She explained hypertext to me in the 1980s.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Matthew Patrick MP @matthewpatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There will be Green members and leaders who are sickened by today’s motion. They will be appalled at the message their party has just sent to Jewish people.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yay for the kids and parents at Judith Kerr primary school. They asked @margynewens.bsky.social and me to make Half Moon Lane safer. How could we say no! A @southwarklabour.bsky.social project!

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My dad bought a house with speakers in the ceiling of every room. He asked me how he should play music through them. I took him to John Lewis and we bought a couple of Sonos speakers. This was in 2018. What the builders were doing God only knows.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At my 94 year old father’s last week and apropos of nothing his carer remarked ‘we don’t do this job for the money’ …

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Labour Walks & Cycles @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lovely to hear a rousing speech from @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social at the start of our conference walk and cycle ride on the opening day of Labour conference

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Labour Walks & Cycles @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Final preparations for Labour Conference are taking shape with the last minute discovery of the long-lost password for this account! Stand by for updates across the week!

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wealth-creating entrepreneurs ride bikes add walk too…

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't believe he left the UK because of the odd filtered street. I do believe he's left cos he doesn't want to pay tax and contribute to the UK. Unpatriotic.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Call My Agent Deutschland 83/86/89 Le Bureau Des Legendes The Killing

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Local authority consultations and comments for planning and licensing applications are rife for abuse

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This 🧵 helps explain the reaction of some cyclists to the recent conversation here about cyclist behaviour. While it’s true that some cyclists behave badly and that’s unpleasant for pedestrians, while we have a moral panic about that we accept deaths caused by bad driving:

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can’t wait for @arseblog.bsky.social this morning. I expect it will be a doozy.

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 24/09/2026

Summer’s gone; parliament is back. In this blog for @futuregovforum.bsky.social, Jeni Tennison & Gavin Freeguard assert a digital, devolved state needs to be deliberate - and democratic. 🔗

futuregovforum.substack.com

A digital, devolved state needs to be deliberate – and democratic

By Gavin Freeguard and Jeni Tennison

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Keep at it. It’s potentially a really good measure!

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m English, though my father’s family are descendants of vikings and some of them moved to Argentina more than a century ago, my mother was born in Belfast and her grandmother was born in France. My wife is English though her dad was born in German, her mum in Dublin and her mum in Newfoundland.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As someone who’s worked on designing measures, usually we try and ensure they’re less flawed than this. It’s a good idea, but it needs more work.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Canada Water Decathlon is less than two minutes walk from Canada Water tube station. Feels like this measure has been so badly designed it’s irrelevant.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A #WarOnWalking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on any transportation choice other than driving. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. Cars still get most of the space, rights, budget, prioritization, etc. And any effort to add more choice is immediately attacked.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Glad to see this thread. I thought the claim that reduction in bus spends being partly due to cycle lanes was unjustified and spoiled an otherwise useful article.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Dulwich, with several public schools in close proximity @saferoutes.bsky.social has been doing good work for more than a decade to persuade schools they need to address this problem. But the data suggests the schools need to up their game.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/09/2026

I may get shouted out for this, but it's a real observation: Polanski has a pattern of behaviour of making trouble for himself by telling fibs when he absolutely doesn't need to do so. He lies reflexively and then creates several more news cycles as a result.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“What family needs a car with a 4.4-litre engine that goes from zero to 60 in four seconds?" Powerful piece on the need to ban SUV advertising and introduce limits on the width, length and bonnet height of cars. #Carspreading #RoadDanger

standard.co.uk

Daughter calls on Sadiq Khan to crack down on ‘monster’ SUVs after parents killed

Claire Corkery is calling on Sadiq Khan to back tougher controls on large SUVs after her parents were killed by a BMW X5 travelling at 87mph

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Given the style, content and manner of the author's contributions to a recent debate here on road safety this article comes as something of a surprise: "Acknowledging the other side might have point risks ceding territory, so the impulse is to double down." www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...

newstatesman.com

Britain is afraid of disagreement

Exclusive new research reveals we value robust debate – we just can't do it

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone on BlueSky lives in Holborn & St Pancras except for one man: the Green candidate.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you overload a boat on the starboard side it will flounder…

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?

ft.com

UK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in Britain

Betfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An alternative (and equally factual) description would be "Zack Polanski tries and fails to find a way to avoid taking a position on a horrendously toxic motion *prior* to standing for election as an MP"

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well if your point of view isn’t realistic, then it’s not worth very much is it?

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How do you check whether someone has a licence and insurance? Where ares you putting a number plate on a bicycle?

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Plus there’s a 6 month delay to take driving tests. Where are the tens of thousands of cycling instructors and examiners going to come from? Who pays?

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every place that regulates cycling ends up just seeing cycling numbers plummet, with no effect on the problem it’s trying to solve.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The *only* state in the world to demand licenses to ride a bike is North Korea and even in the world most repressive state that regulation is widely flouted.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We make regulations to deal with actual tangible problems, not the perception of problems. Both physics and statistics tells us that there is no tangible problem created by bad cycling. Yes it’s irritating, but your solution is a sledgehammer to crack a tiny nut.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How, exactly would you enforce that? It’s an incredibly expensive solution which will fail to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026

In 2012, Addison Lee boss John Griffin was all over the news when he ranted that cyclists should “pay road tax.” Yesterday, HMRC won its case saying that, since 2013, the taxi man has been avoiding paying income tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Telegraph headline from 2012:

Cyclists should pay road tax, says taxi boss Careless cyclists are on a
'voyage into the abyss'
The head of London's largest minicab company says cyclists should think more about their own safety before "throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world".

Guardian headline today:

Addison Lee founder owes
£20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin's claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood. With pic of old man in office.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Delighted to see this, while its vital to consider people's views when creating active travel infrastructure, the current approach to consultation creates a vehicle for opposition and misinformation which reduces the legitimacy of successful projects. thinklabour.substack.com/p/can-the-go...

thinklabour.substack.com

Can the government really stop consulting on microchipping cats?

Here’s one way

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