Adam Harrison

Healey reminding Badenoch of her support for the Iran war. This is one of her major potential weaknesses with Lab/Con swing voters (along with her net zero views), even if they like other things about her. One of Starmer's better jabs and not sure why new Govt abandoned it. (prompted list q)

And even more exciting that Camden council is making the pedestrianisation of Camden High Street permanent! A good week for better high streets in London. safetravelcamden.commonplace.is/news/camden-...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

I'm not as convinced as some others that Marine Le Pen will be France's next president. But in the event she does win, she'll still have to govern in co-habitation with a hostile parliament. And I suspect dissolution and new elections would be even worse for her than leaving this one in place.

Ah the Grade II listed structure wasn't wearing high-viz

The list sent by Harold Wilson to his cabinet of “little things that mean a lot”, including the protection of local breweries, concessionary fares for the elderly, empty office blocks and “the future of the pint”. Echoes of this in Burnham’s small but popular policies today.

Exactly why I am suspicious of anyone going on about things being "broken". Most things aren't. Maybe some things aren't working as well as they could or should – in which case, describe that.

I see drivers constantly go through red lights, turn without indicating etc, let alone speeding, which means common. None of this is a surprise. Sadly it remains too socially acceptable even as these things kill and maim people.

Excellent news: work has begun on Newham’s first fully protected Dutch-style intersection, with free left turns for cycling and straight-across crossings for pedestrians. Let’s hope for a speedy construction!

"You must deport the whole Boriswave" is a view in our society - but quite unpopular one esp once interview the care workers, vets and chefs, engineers & architects "We oppose the ugly mass remigration auction to kick out millions of legal migrants of Lowe v Farage" lands better for Mr Burnham

My little tribute to Andrew Boff in a by-election article from 2025. www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...

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The NHS has issued new guidance on same sex spaces for patients and staff. This guidance is based on the EHRC code of practice which we believe is exclusionary of trans and non-binary people. We continue to hold serious concerns about the implications of the guidance, and how it will be implemented.

Solutions! 1. Adopt WHO levels (as Camden Council was first to do) 2. At the very least, place this with both DEFRA and Dept of Health 2a. Bonus solution: task local NHS bodies with influencing what gets built and burnt in their areas: fuels in buildings, roads/travel, solid fuel burning Boom 🤸🏽‍♀️

Real risk that AVs will make congestion in London worse. Some of the key recommendations related to this below.

Sadly not much shocks me anymore about the far right, but this is sickening. The quotes from the Reform councillors about people who aren’t white or muslim are abhorrent. And I’m sure this man would still call himself a ‘patriot.’

Our thoughts are with Harry Webb's friends and family as the court case has, after three years, drawn to a conclusion. It's good that the sentence reflects the seriousness of drug driving. But more also needs to be done to reduce the known issues on this road, and prevent future harm from occurring.

A much-needed - and typically brilliant - counter(blast) to the current common wisdom. I've read so much motivated reasoning from Tory-inclined commentators and out-and-out Badenoch fan-boys (and girls) over the last few days that this was a real breath of fresh air.

God, the tone and content of Evan Davis's reporting on PM–almost aggrieved that it's not a major terrorist incident. And "scratching his head" because... the police at still investigating. What??!

Terribly sad news. She was always a voice of reason and will be even more missed now in today's climate of extremisms.

I swear satnavs don't necessarily provide quick routes, but actively distribute traffic round an area. Since when did we agree to the privatisation of traffic flows?

Please see below my statement on the Terminally Ill Adults (End Of Life) Bill.

Great to speak to Politics.co.uk ahead of today’s Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. In the interview, I set out why this legislation matters, the issues we need to address, and why getting it right is so important. Read more👇 buff.ly/VlK6SXd

I strongly welcome giving London the power to introduce an Overnight Visitor Levy. A modest, well-designed levy has the potential to provide an important additional source of funding to support growth, strengthen London’s offer to visitors and help us remain globally competitive.

Labour party members have selected the council leader, Sagal Abdi-Wali, to be the party's candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, from a shortlist of three local councillors. She grew up in Camden, after coming to the UK as a young child refugee, over 35 years ago

"Britain and Europe: how close should we get?" Published today @britishfuture.bsky.social Most voters say they would choose a closer UK/EU future relatiomship than the Labour government's 'red lines' would allow but there is no settled view of the destinaton www.britishfuture.org/uk-eu-relati...

Couldn't help but notice the irony of these two stories in my inbox today - 1) Camden Town air quality improves owing to pedestrianisation whilst 2) Westminster Council demands environment assessment of Oxford Street pedestrianisation 🙃

Labour showing it isn't impossible to run the asylum system (even if it isn't easy)...

So your area is replacing some car parking with cycle storage? Great! Next: maintenance. Here's a lovely chap from @cyclehoop.bsky.social cleaning leaves out of hangars in Westminster as part of the maintenance contract I kicked off. Checked for problems, misuse and cleaned every 3 months.

Instructive comparator to all the recent "they were a great person in private!" defences.

“I wouldn’t even say I’m religious, though I grew up with that background. But I have a lot of faith in myself.” Timely to re-read the wonderful interview with Dolly Parton in @newhumanist.bsky.social - a joyful inspired person with a broad and creative worldview newhumanist.org.uk/articles/the...

I don't understand why this is being framed first and foremost as a failure of social media companies (though it is also that to a lesser extent) and not as 'why aren't police arresting people who post videos of themselves committing crimes?' www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

So what? It's a robot lol

In @CamdenCouncil, the Haverstock Hill tracks are finally complete (now part of Cycleway 6), Clerkenwell Road is almost there and tracks on Shaftesbury Avenue have started emerging!

Thank you again @adamdkharrison.bsky.social and special mention to the quality of the work done by the contractor Marlborough Highways.

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

Climate action is a winning issue for (potential) *Labour* voters. It fires up our base, persuades the middle, and splits the right. Our opponents are split on Net Zero. Good for them. Substack link: jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/we-need-to... h/t @steveakehurst.bsky.social

Terrific piece this:

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

Very proud of the contribution made to London's cycle network in Camden – with still more to come! 🚲

London's Cycleways network now stretches a whopping 450km. That’s even further than the distance from London to Paris. And with 1.5 million daily cycle journeys, it's helping transform how Londoners travel, improving health and cleaning our air.