A Memorandum of Understanding with Active Travel England, adopted in 2024, wasn't published until we unearthed it under the Freedom of Information Act. Even now, we can see no signs of the promised annual reports on progress in putting it into practice transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

National Highways must come clean on pedestrian and cycle safety

We recently highlighted National Highways' serious failure to meet its road casualty reduction targets - despite their claim that "safety is our most important commitment”. Worse still is their failur...

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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Worth noting that whilst the crossing point for the Dartford Tunnel cycle minibus was moved due to air pollution, the Silvertown Tunnel Cycle Shuttle is immediately adjacent to a dual carriageway, near to a good ten lanes of traffic and an energy centre which burns huge quantities of gas.

Laura Laker@lauralaker.bsky.social · yesterday

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

Fun fact: as part of their Water Resources Management Plans, water companies are required to assess the full range of options for securing water supplies, which includes... ...towing *icebergs* up the Thames

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2d ago

This wasn't on my adaptation bingo card. "Romania used 180kg explosive to blow rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The ST leader is even worse. No realism on adaptation costs and how they will rise indefinitely until net zero is reached. No question about who pays these costs. No understanding of the marginal nature of N Sea gas. No acceptance of the risks of continued gas reliance. bsky.app/profile/jes1...

Jason Scott-Warren@jes1003.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sunday Times leader today. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

This is clearly a real divide in the Scottish Labour left - but stepping back, this sentence is crazy. Not only did Monica Lennon back the GRR reform bill, but every Labour MSP was *whipped* to back it! The movement has been entirely on the other side in the last four years!

RDCK98@comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reading this, and thinking about the 2026 election where activists boycotted campaigning for Scottish Labour and LGBT+ voters held with SNP on the constituency and Greens on the list, wondering what on earth the theory of victory is from left-wing transphobes www.heraldscotland.com/news/2642848...

Quite like that this poses the (abundantly obvious reality) that climate is the national security threat in Europe right now. As opposed to whatever the American presidency might claim.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

It's not going to become 'the norm' though, is it? That's what so fucking terrifying about it. It's going to become a lot worse, very quickly.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

Would you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Updated number of 30C days in London with 25 days we see 2026 now towering above any other year, while still only being in July.

In this Allister rehashes the adapt, don’t mitigate argument. And then forgets about the impact of sea level rise in a country where nowhere is more than 70 miles from the sea.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nighty night.

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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Got too excited on the train into Paris and started taking lots of photos of the shading on blocks of flats.

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

This isn't news, but it's still a shocking sign of what Elon Musk has done to the platform formerly know as Twitter 2 identical posts 2x as many followers on X as on Bsky 100x more engagement on Bsky than on X

The cavalier passing up of teachable moments on the climate crisis, even among those politicians and governments who care deeply about the issue, never stops being shocking. And they will then privately complain that they can't get the public engaged enough to enable bolder action.

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obviously the Tories and Reform are *monstrously* irresponsible on the climate emergency. But where are the statements from Labour on the drought and wildfires? Has Andy Burnham once mentioned the crisis we're going through or used it to defend Net Zero? The political silence feels like gaslighting.

These works on Byward Street, by the Tower of London, are authorised by #TfL Another failure by #TfL (cc @willnorman.co.uk ), allowing Thames Water to block cycleway #C3 with no traffic management bsky.app/profile/bean...

Kerena@beancycling.bsky.social · 2w ago

Latest example is at Tower Hill on C3. Incredibly busy cycle route, loads of vehicle traffic & hundreds of pedestrians.

I am increasingly baffled by TfL & @london.gov.uk building fantastic protected cycle routes, only to let Thames Water close them off with absolutely no alternative other than joining a busy road or trying to negotiate pushing a bike down a narrow pavement full of pedestrians.

Been a while since I checked Facebook for these AI-slop videos but I just popped over the there and, yes, they are still being posted at a fair pace - and getting a LOT of engagement

The Environment Agency has warned boaters on the River Thames of an increased risk of grounding due to low water levels. They also say “Plant growth can become more noticeable, so check your propeller.” Shallows have been reported by river users in central Oxford, by Port Meadow, and near Eynsham.

We can now see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the UK. Meanwhile, the rightwing press are pushing for more drilling in the North Sea, and Badenoch is banning Tory candidates who support net zero. Cool cool bsky.app/profile/meto...

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2w ago

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

This is such an extraordinary story. Hopefully this court case will give the police pause. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Birmingham man's legal e-bike seized and destroyed by police in error

The BBC finds the bike was legal and supplied as part of a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.

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Chagos with Ed Milliband! [Am I doing this right?]

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ed Miliband is foreign sec

An absolutely unbelievable amount of damage to homes in Drammen, Norway, after a fire that may have been ignited from a household accident spread with unprecedented speed and scale thanks to record heat and dry conditions. The worst fire in Norway during peacetime. www.nrk.no/norge/krimte...

Managed to turn on BBC1 exactly fifteen seconds before Starmer walked out to give his speech. Fear I’ve wasted all my luck on something inconsequential.

Reminded of this by @stephenkb.bsky.social's observation that "landslide majorities create more problems than they solve. Large majorities create a class of MPs who, to be blunt, are not that likely to be re-elected, who know they have no hope of promotion and just in general create trouble."

this shot is so bleak lmao

Why do they bother with the World Cup final when you’ve got the intense sporting competition of the Bronze final the day before?

In a matter of seconds she says we’ve stopped drilling when we haven’t, we’re now importing fossil fuels when we’ve been doing so for decades, and this law doesn’t work when UK emissions, including imported emissions, have plummeted since it was adopted.

This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.

Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

Am I meant to believe the lie that our emissions don’t matter, or the lie that they are going up?

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue