Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadCycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today we were outside Liverpool City Region Combined Authority as the Transport Committee met, joined by 200+ people standing against Merseyrail’s ban on non-folding e-bikes. Together, we then rode to Merseyrail HQ to hand over 100+ personal stories showing the impact of the ban. 2236
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12/09/2026Unlimited donations from unaccountable sources are a threat to democratic integrity. We're calling on the Government to introduce emergency legislation to cap political donations. Last week we raised this in the Commons. This week we've chased the minister again, because this cannot wait. 9301140
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.comeuronews.comCycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprintIf everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint. 741775696
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadFiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026As Andy Burnham contemplates “drill, baby, drill” for the North Sea - a little reminder of why it would be electoral madness to desert net zero, whatever Tony Blair and the Treasury might think www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Act on the evidence outside the window’: Andy Burnham urged to stick to net zero targets if he becomes PMBurnham is coming under pressure from some to ditch net zero targets but this could be highly damaging on many levels 712867
Sarah Whitebread @swhitebread.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Thank you! I thought Reform might take control of Mid Cambs on the assumption they are very strong in Fenland. But LDs do have a lot of East Cambs and some of the Hunts wards that would come in, too. Maybe a Con / Reform coalition with LDs as largest opposition group most likely. 000
Sarah Whitebread @swhitebread.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Any chance you fancy doing a quick analysis of the likely political make up of each authority? I know in broad strokes but not up to speed enough on Hunts to work out how the Mid Cambs one would shake out... 100
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadLeo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links" 451588792
Reposted by Sarah Whitebreadclareskeltonmorris.bsky.social @clareskeltonmorris.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Dream team! Brilliant to speak alongside new friends Finnish Cyclists Federation, Fietserbond Belgium, Capital Region Denmark, @swhitebread.bsky.social from @cyclinguk.bsky.social and Chris @modacitylife.com @dutchcycling.nl on cycling in the media, language choice, and positive, inclusive stories. 0122
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadTony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 20/01/2026An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukNature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national securityThis strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity. 217892
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇assets.publishing.service.gov.uk 18638355
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025This is *really* important. Our elections regulator isn’t independent. Reform’s Arron Banks has said the Electoral Commission should be abolished The architecture of British democracy is really weak and easily ripped out. It needs to be protected now 14239112
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!" And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college. This is, in fact, good politics. 4948681108
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadShaun Spiers @shaunspiers1.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Fiona Harvey pulls no punches in this great podcast. Why do most of the media cover climate change so poorly? 1. Vested interests (follow the money). 2. Right wing papers can't now blame all thing bad on the EU: net zero is a convenient substitute. 3. Willful ignorance (hello BBC presenters!). 077
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadTransport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Why has the government failed to announce funding for Ely and Haughley junctions, a rail freight scheme that has a far superior value compared to the many roads funded today?! transportactionnetwork.org.uk/labour-splur...transportactionnetwork.org.ukLabour splurges taxpayers’ cash on poor value road schemesTransport Action Network is dismayed at today’s announcement by the UK Government to fund a raft of poor value and expensive road schemes. Most of these are legacy schemes from the Conservative govern... 087
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025In the five years leading up to the replacement of blue paint with segregated cycle tracks and floating bus stops 5 people were killed on CS2. In the ten years since they were constructed no cyclists had died and there have been no significant collisions between cycles and pedestrians at bus stops 223262
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadNew Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Improving living standards, particularly for those on the lowest incomes, should be seen as a precondition for a healthy and prosperous country, not an eventual reward for growth. 3/3 1154
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadTom McTague @tommctague.bsky.social · 01/07/2025New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday. 10336108
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadCecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 30/06/2025Not a lot of love for the press at the tipping points conference Rockström says the media is “getting it very wrong, seriously wrong” Dr Carlos Nobre points to a lack of coverage of the impacts of the degradation of topical forests, noting the "tremendous risk of epidemics and pandemics” 2157
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Really interesting and I think very insightful thread on Mumsnet about just how entirely different the intergenerational financial experience has been: 2618541
Sarah Whitebread @swhitebread.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Interesting to ponder whether the govt would have been better to leave winter fuel alone and raise fuel duty a small amount instead. They would have been hammered for either decision...but maybe easier to move on from the fuel duty one as they could freeze in subsequent years& still get the benefit. 010
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Thoroughly depressing statement. From this open access article: ‘Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a crisis: a retrospective observational analysis’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 511726
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadDoug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025No-one, NO-ONE,should be granted a “request for near-blanket immunity for serious environmental crimes” If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comBidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimesExclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management 721691
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadRichard Hebditch @richard.hebditch.org · 12/05/2025Great to be at the launch of Liberals and Democrats for Nature & Climate tonight. Impressive turn out from MPs, peers and environmental NGOs inc party leader & deputy leader 161
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadEarl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025We don't want: UK Energy Security. Long tern reductions in our energy bills. The UK Green Economy which grew by 10.3% last year to drive UK economic growth & prosperity. Any new jobs or investment in our area. And lets stop investment in flood defences because we like being under water... 66818
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/05/2025In any other major city in Europe the streets of Soho would obviously be pedestrianised and businesses/visitors on a glorious day like today could enjoy al fresco dining. But thanks to Westminster Council and the way we give outsized power to absurd local complaints, not here! 661388185
Sarah Whitebread @swhitebread.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Why oh why is Cambridge so slow at counting...it's the eternal question that never gets answered. 000
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list. 27333123
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadPaul @birminghamkav.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Let's bring cars back to Carnaby Street (pedestrianised in 1973), said no-one ever. 165
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadAlex @acannon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025) 431243377
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadCarla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women? 702191550
Sarah Whitebread @swhitebread.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Hi Anthony, do you know if there a link to watch this online at all? 100
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/03/2025Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writertheguardian.comBan smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writerJack Thorne, whose Netflix series has shone a light on incel culture, calls for restrictions on teens’ social media access Smartphones should be treated like cigarettes and banned until the age of 16 in the UK, according to the writer of Adolescence,… 1124332
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025This is the critical point. Somehow net zero - a scientific term about how to halt anthropogenic climate change - has become completely detached in much political and media discourse from climate change - the phenomenon the target was adopted to tackle. 1197
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadLondon Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Your daily reminder that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods reduce air pollution across an entire area. Maps are nitrogen dioxide levels Waltham Forest 2007 vs 2017, after installing LTNs and protected cycle lanes. 🌱 lcc.org.uk/campaigns/lo... 04212
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadThe Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 13/02/2025🧵 NEW: The shift to prevention in public spending is gaining momentum, with recognition at the Autumn Budget and the NHS making it a priority in its 10-year plan. Our briefing with @demos-uk.bsky.social explores how to support this fundamental change. Read now ⬇️ buff.ly/4gAgJUNhealth.org.ukThe preventative shift: how can we embed prevention and achieve long term missionsPublished in collaboration with Demos, this briefing looks at how to shift the culture of public bodies to think ‘prevention first’ and target spending at activities which are value for money and… 1911
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/02/2025On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...youtube.comElon Musk's main aim is 'world domination' | Lewis Goodall on LBCYouTube video by LBC 841141335
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadCamcycle @camcycle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025By the end of the week we need a list of the top 10 walking and cycling routes in Cambridgeshire that need an urgent cut back of overgrown vegetation. Please pitch your ideas now! 📷 Trumpington Road cycleway, summer 2024 (timbo, Cyclestreets photomap) 373
Sarah Whitebread @swhitebread.bsky.social · 10/02/2025According to this article, a UK government spokesperson actually said “We are committed to raising the healthiest generation of children ever and recognise the importance of this to our number one mission – economic growth." ... I mean, where do you even start with that?!? 030
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Bradford clean air zone saves health service £360,000 in first year - Doctor visits for respiratory illnesses and heart problems were down by 25% #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first yearAfter one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter 118076
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025My Prospect column this month is on the increasingly feral Lobby and why Labour has little choice but to ignore them www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/691...prospectmagazine.co.ukThe press lobby is going feral—ignore itGiven the pressures of 24-hour news, lobby journalists cannot plausibly understand policy detail. Their skillset is to nose around and cause trouble 28375110
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadAdam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Imagine if we paid farmers properly to enable sustainable transport in rural areas? It would: ✅ Provide travel choices that work on people’s own schedule, especially important considering infrequent bus services in rural areas ✅ Improve road safety on country lanes ✅ Increase access to nature 1315942
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025So, after Nick Timothy on "How to win an election" and David Frost on "How to do a great trade deal", the Telegraph adds another to its list of star columnists... 2551674284
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Since Trump’s victory there’s been near daily attacks in the UK media aimed at the government’s energy and net zero policies (there have been three in the last 24 hours). And yet there’s been barely a peep in defence from the government or its outriders. 67627
Reposted by Sarah WhitebreadShaun Spiers @shaunspiers1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Please can we have a proper economic strategy, rooted in the government's wider commitments, and not the chancellor's desperate grasping after gimmicks and headlines? We've had years of performative, hard hat chancellors. They didn't grow the economy. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/23/t...greenallianceblog.org.ukThe Heathrow decision is economically and environmentally incoherentWell, this is depressing. Rachel Reeves, who once wanted to be Britain’s first green chancellor, now prefers to confect rows with her natural allies over new roads and runways. She briefs out her s… 1126