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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10h
The death of Harry Webb and London’s gas-and-drive problem. www.londoncentric.media/p/nitrous-ox...
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“The killing of Harry Webb wasn’t just another statistic”: London’s gas-and-drive crisis
Plus: What will pedestrianised Oxford Street look? • Where in London are the Greens targeting next? • Phone theft decline is a central London thing
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2026 has likely finished with 85 days exceeding 25C at #London Heathrow Airport this is a staggering 25 days above next highest year, 2018. We've never known anything like it.
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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what we are up against. It’s why I’ve always said the under 16 social media ban doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn’t be banning it for children, we should be properly regulating it for everyone. This is scary. How do we fight this?
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Our public transport and active travel network helps make London one of the best cities in the world. And we’re keen to expand it to connect more communities. Have your say on a new Overground route in west London. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/west-london-...
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Oliver Turner @ucestur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.mylondon.news/news/transpo... It's almost as if sitting in a 50 year old train that gets over 40C in the summer isn't very appealing to users🤔
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Tube strikes and heatwaves hit TfL causing swing from profit to £128m loss
The authority could be put into a worse position if the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) decides to resume its strike over plans for a four-day week
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on widespread acceptance - including by the police - of antisocial driving. Lovely to see a link to our recent motonormativity paper in here too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Lady Of Seven @ladyof7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI could never - NEVER - give us the delight of real upside down peas...
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've never really liked public speaking, but I think that was beaten out of me having to present at council area committees where: A) Councillors chairing the meetings were almost always completely incapable of chairing meetings. B) Half the public in the room were sociopaths. At best.
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
✊ WIN for Unite bus drivers striking over safe heatwave working. Arriva has agreed to fit air conditioning before next summer, plus other improvements to driver conditions. www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
Photo of buses "Arriva North London drivers win ground breaking 'hot bus' victory.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 02/09/2026
🔴 NEW - Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference Nigel Farage’s party is welcoming polluting interests and radical pressure groups to its annual gathering. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference
Corporate titans including Google, Meta, and TikTok will be appearing at Reform UK’s annual conference this week, rubbing shoulders with fossil fuel interests, far-right politicians, and Christian rig...
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ESA Navigation @navigation.esa.int · 28/08/2026
⛵ 🛰️🏛️ What would have happened if Odysseus had Galileo when he set sail for Ithaca after the Trojan War? A ten-year journey completed in a matter of weeks…but then we wouldn't have The Odyssey. How does modern satellite navigation relate to Odysseus’s journey? Find out below⬇️
A comparison of two satellite images of Europe centred on the Mediterranean Sea showing two routes (one circuitous and one direct) with red dashed lines.
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One more thing to add to the list alongside crop failure and water shortages: Homes in London cracking due to ‘horrendous subsidence’ on clay in repeated heatwaves.
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Londoners Find 'Horrendous' Cracks in Their Homes After Successive Heat Waves
Londoners are facing historic levels of subsidence risk after five successive heat waves dried out the clay soil on which much of the city is built.
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Oliver Turner @ucestur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Firefighter injured after being bitten by a dog while responding to reports of people having a barbecue in Ravenscourt Park. What the f**k is wrong with people?! www.hammersmithtoday.co.uk#!pages/share...
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Headline news, via @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES IN FULL

Dangerous wildfire nearly reaches nuclear power plant

300,000 people evacuated in France and Spain

Why NOW is the time to scrap Net Zero targets

Wildfires "uncontrollable", say European leaders

Our climate is heading into uncharted territory

Polar bear keeps cool at zoo with a nice lolly

How to claim insurance if your holiday hotel burns down

How to keep your children/parents safe in the heat

Why you must NEVER get a heat pump or electric car

Attractive women sunbathing!
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ironically that alert just made me drop my portable bbq onto my firework collection
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Climate breakdown isn't a political negotiation. It's a scientic reality borne out in lives lost and wildfires. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefight helicopters, a cool space in every community and a maximum working temperature.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/08/2026
Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...
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Kavzar The Blind @kavzar-the-blind.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Love that song.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Every single person who rides an ostentatiously noisy motorbike can just fuck off. Those who do so in London or any town or city, and especially those who use chainsaw-volume engine revving as a “warning” can then fuck off all over again.
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Still 34⁰ in Paris at 21:30. I'm finding it harder and harder to see some friends' and acquaintances' posts of frequent flights. When will this addiction be cured and why does the link to a planet that is literally on fire continue to be ignored? #ClimateCrisis
Sunset above a Paris street
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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Ava Santina @avasantina.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
my blood runs blue when people don’t let you off the tube before they get on. Gov need to be tougher on crime specifically the crime of being discourteous
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇
Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. 

A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Kids are on their phones too much. I don't know why they don't use the many youth clubs, public swimming pools, community clubs or sports facilities successive governments and skint local authorities have underfunded, closed or sold to property developers.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/06/2026
An Ibis hotel by Wembley Stadium is coated in flammable Grenfell cladding. 100,000s of guests stayed without realising. No one knew because of a mysteriously bodged fire test and and a rewritten safety report. The freeholder? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s firm. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Asif Aziz's hotel and a "mystery" fire test
Plus: Self-driving taxis with a human in the driver's seat • Pizza Pilgrims' HMO failings • Labour sued by one of its own ex-councillors
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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I did a thread on 15 minute cities on X which went so viral I ended up in the Times and on BBC Radio. I thought I'd repeat it here... This was my parents house in Coventry. They bought it in 1965 and it was my home throughout the 1970s & 80s. My mum lived there until 2021. It was a happy home. 1/22
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 24/05/2026
The dude who runs Twitter, controls your feed, and makes money off your posts is on week two of posting about how Chris Nolan casting a black woman as a beautiful woman is anti-white genocide. I do not want to write for that guy for free, which is what you're doing when you post to his platform.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Tory legacy. England hospital waiting list at March 2026: 7.11m cases, 6.02m patients. July 2024: 7.62m cases, 6.38m patients. 300,000 people a year die prematurely whilst waiting for treatment. Austerity, fiscal rules kill and disable people. NHS waiting list increased under every Tory govt.
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NHS backlog data analysis
Analysis of monthly data releases by NHS England to highlight the huge pressures being placed on backlogs across the NHS - including operations data, cancer waiting list GP referrals and A&E waiting t...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Has Britain reversed some of its sanctions on Russia? Skys Ed Conway deep dives into yesterdays claims it has
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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This bung is going to only save £60 a year for drivers but will cost tax-payers £2.4bn (yes BILLION). That's 16 times larger than the entire UK-government annual spend on cycling AND walking. Imagine the positive impact that you could make with £2.4bn spent on improving cycling and walking.
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Planned fuel duty rise to be scrapped, says Keir Starmer
PM tells Commons extending the temporary 5p cut is a necessary response to cost-of-living pressures
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beany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Social Media in 2035
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This deserves to be circulated. A former Red Cross staff member got in touch. She testifies about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's role. For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau. The whole thing is a desperate smear.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Can't wait to see how Labour's strategy of showing open contempt for the people who voted for them while desperately sucking up to people who'll never vote for them in a million years works out.
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🟢 🚲 Lime will offer free rides across London tomorrow (Thursday) to help people get to and from polling stations during the local elections. The offer can be accessed by entering the code ‘VOTEUK2026’ in the Lime app on the day only and applies to riders in London.
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Lime offers free e-bike rides to help Londoners get to the polls | South West Londoner
Lime will offer free rides across London on Thursday to help people get to and from polling stations during the local elections.
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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you haven't yet explored London Decides, a borough by borough, ward by ward, guide to the London local elections by me & @lewisbaston.bsky.social, you'd better have a pretty good excuse for not paying attention: londondecides.lowickhedry.com #london @mrjamesob.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social
londondecides.lowickhedry.com
London Decides – 32 boroughs. One guide.
Expert, non-partisan analysis of all 32 London boroughs ahead of the 7 May 2026 elections. Written by Dave Hill and Lewis Baston and powered by Lowick Hedry. Register to receive it first.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: More than 18,000 vehicles are being used in the UK without proper records of where their owners live, it has emerged, part of what Labour MP Sarah Coombes has called an increasing problem of “ghost owners” who cannot be held accountable for their driving. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...
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Rise of the ‘ghost owners’: 18,000 UK vehicles in use without proper records
Exclusive: Labour MP calls on DVLA to take action, saying ‘speeding, hit and runs and worse’ are going unpunished
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 19/03/2026
Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Night Into Day
The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Going to get some great images from NASA in the coming days. Here’s a couple of post-splashdown snaps of actual heroes.
Victor Glover and Christina Koch in orange spacesuits sit in the doorway of the rescue helicopter Commander Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen sit in the doorway of the rescue chopper
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
NEW: A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation Our new investigation 🐄 🌳 ✈️: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...
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UK ‘green’ jet fuel imports linked to illegal Amazon deforestation
A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/
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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It’s hellish. Waking up every day witnessing hell. While fully understanding we’re ‘just’ witnessing it. Unbearable that millions of people are suffering it, losing their loved ones, experiencing trauma, pain, seeing their homes and lives obliterated. 2026 & evil men still rule the world.
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Brent Cycling Campaign @brentlcc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Join a family ride starting from Roundwood Park on Wednesday 1 April at 2pm. Find out more and register ▶️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/easter-hol...
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Oliver Turner @ucestur.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Can't get over what a vibe this song is @knomercy.com Also, your Tidal page is mixed up with some other "Kno" btw music.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWH...
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The Off Daze – Trade Places (Remix) | 2 Piece & A Biscuit
YouTube video by The Off Daze
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