Check out the photos from this community ride: camdencyclists.org.uk/2025/10/dart...
People want to see the bike lane between navigator square and whittington hospital cleared of constantly parked cars. Due to parked cars cyclist currently can’t use the lane and have to swerve into the road.
Big thank you to everyone who organised this ride - my kids so appreciated a chance to feel free out on their bikes in the neighbourhood. It would be amazing if our streets were always safe enough for them to cycle 🚲🚲🚲
The way @lewisgoodall.com described people who use drugs@ the start of the episode was especially dehumanising, implying they were barely or no longer human, as a result of their drug use. Messages like this entrench stigma. Please take more care when making programmes about already marginalised ppl
Commend this for anyone interesting what a public health, rather than a criminal justice, focused approach to the harms of drug use might look like
Not perfect, but this recent episode of Inside Health provides a much more informed and nuanced view of the causes of drug related deaths in the UK, recent trends and possible solutions www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
There is a great deal of evidence that criminalisation and stigma cause more harm than drug use itself, and this episode played into the worst tropes (even clipping Farage in support of its narrative)
I really disliked the way Lewis quizzed people dependent on opioids about the frequency of use (given their dependency, they will need to use regularly to avoid agonising withdrawal) and really led the Las Vegas interviewees into sensationalising life in the tunnels
Disappointed by this episode from a podcast I usually rate. Factual inaccuracies (nitazines are not a form of fentanyl), misleading stats (the Camden overdose cluster was awful but is not representative of general trends) but most of all the perpetuation of the stigma associated w/ illicit drug use
📊NEW ANALYSIS📊
Just 3% of the UK population take 30% of the fights. When this government expands UK airports, this 3% benefit the most.
Who are these people? Introducing... the ultra-frequent flyer. Our research with Possible. 1/5
Public health trainees past and present - please consider contributing to Rachel’s study
www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...
The idea that the majority of bar goers on inner Cowley Road are coming by car is wild…
It’s striking that every time anyone runs a story about the harm the Cowley LTN is causing to businesses their sole source is… Mr Pugh.
You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
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Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
NEW: We've uncovered a 33% increase in the number of babies & toddlers admitted to #GreaterManchester hospitals with breathing problems between 2023 & 2024.
#AirPollution levels in Manchester are illegal and have continued to rise.
@andyburnham.bsky.social & @bevcraig.bsky.social must do more.
Son’s middle name is Gordon on the demand of his then 2 year old sister
Following with interest. Neither quite fit your bill but I enjoyed both of these
www.penguin.co.uk/books/312884...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
The #GoodFoodLocal report for London boroughs is out today! Check out how your council is faring here at @sustainweb.org >> www.sustainweb.org/good-food-lo...
Thanks to @london.gov.uk @trustforlondon.bsky.social @impurbanhealth.bsky.social for supporting this work 🙏
Not sure what’s happened to @greenparty.org.uk recently - first the nimbyism, now my local Green councillor is celebrating the cancellation of a proposed LTN 🤦🏼♀️
Ooh! Have been going down Holloway Road to work recently to avoid all the York Way roadworks but NO MORE! Look forward to rolling down this!
Image of Government press release stating a "383% rise in less than five years" in the number of people considered too sick to look for work.
Yesterday, a Government press release claimed the number of people “considered too sick to work” had "quadrupled" since the pandemic (a "383% rise"). This is incorrect. In fact, it’s not even close. It's more like 40%.
This thread explains why 🧵1/7
Going next week and cannot wait!
This is one of the strangest, and most worrying, obstacles to long Covid research and support. After the profound trauma of the pandemic, we appear to have developed a collective amnesia about what has happened. It’s an understandable survival mechanism; collective amnesia after war is a well-documented phenomenon. But it means that, politically, long Covid has become something no one wants to engage with. “There is definitely a political
Government need to get over their #Covid amnesia and start engaging with the reality of #LongCovid.
Too many people affected, too many lives ruined.
This #LongCovidAwarenessMonth it's time for a government plan that addresses the scale of the problem & finds the treatments we need.
New @thecccuk.bsky.social carbon budget shows urgent demand management of flying is needed. How can this possibly happen if Gov insists on rampant airport expansion?
The report shows public support for a frequent flier levy and limiting expansion.
#Gatwick decision up next, will Labour listen?
It's #WorldCancerDay. One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime.
Kicked myself for having done exactly what I said I shouldn’t 😂 and remind myself to ask questions not offer solutions as everyone has already explored so many options and tried so many things. Will be thinking of you and sending solidarity from London to beautiful Shipley
LC has taught me never to offer unsolicited advice but let me know if you have any interest in the things I felt improved my quality of life… one I’ll add as you mention cycling so much was hiring a light weight ebike which meant I could still feel myself with v little exertion ❤️🚲
Also gutted that you have lost your work which you are clearly devoted to… I’d just secured my dream job when I got ill and deprioritised everything else to be able to hang onto it, and consider myself very lucky to have been able to
Focusing on what is still possible is a good start, and I found a lot of support and solidarity online from Facebook groups and LC research campaigners. But not being able to see any improvement is probably the hardest, it makes it so difficult to keep hoping.
