Flu virus sounds like an ideal weapon ;)

If the *main political issue* raised by my constituents on the doorstep was the chronic, intolerable traffic congestion on the streets of my inner London seat, I would make it a priority to *learn about the causes of & effective remedies to congestion*
which emphatically do not include road building

A coincidence that Islington, one of the lowest resident car owners in London, also has high levels of traffic congestion ? #TooManyCars

Nobody is disputing that Putney has a horrible traffic problem. The issue here is that actually doing something about this chronic congestion requires *measures to curb car use*, which demands much more political bravery than blaming someone else, somewhere else, for not spending £100s of millions

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Putney’s traffic woes are not caused by Hammersmith Bridge closing to cars, and cannot be solved by reopening it to cars. But it does make a very convenient get-out-of-jail-free-card to use on constituents living with 24-7 traffic blight, without having to expend any political capital on honesty

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chyron historically American, bbc tended to use Aston’s …
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Who else failed ?

“The prime minister has overall responsibility for intelligence and security matters,…”

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Shouldn’t they know ?

With the tube strike this week, worth considering: hire bike reservation, Lime Prime & Lime Pass.

Pavement parking on bin day in Camden

Pavement parking in Camden

… or often allowed where “local conditions” don’t allow it.

Did they tow as well, or just block the road with the addition of a ticket ?

Like the antis, protesting in Upper street Islington, which resulted in the main road being closed to traffic ;)

Why don't these people just admit they want to drive everywhere. It would be honest at least.

US/Israel/Iran war.

For lovers of irony.

It appears that one of Trump’s two metrics for ‘victory’ is the reopening of the Hormuz Strait to free navigation.

[irony on] Which was, of course, already open before he started dropping bombs. [irony off]

Police officers ticketing illegal parking in #RegentsPark today.

Ah, finally. After a year of no enforcement they have finally seen illegal parking is endangering children cycling to school.

Whoops, no. It turns out Princess Anne is opening the new Elizabeth II garden today. It was optics.

At least we, in london, can watch in person if we want, rather than pay for the privilege. Will it be covered free to air ?

We degraded our kettle to smaller and 1KW when we got solar panels, so boiling for tea comes off solar (mostly) not grid.
Extra time to boil hardly noticed.

Funny how Israel is allowed to defend itself but Iran isn't...

There is currently a Camden Green councillor that was opposing a local LTN last year.
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Perhaps the idea is for parents to drive their children to and from school… just in case they need to “ring home” ?

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How about taxing the companies who are making millions from the self inflicted “wars”