Ben Myring

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Demolition of the old aracde that blocked the view of Peckham Rye station is starting to give a hint of how it will look when the hordings come down.

Spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social North Sea drilling makes no economic or energy security sense - but “the policy could scarcely be better designed to give the final push to voters who are minded – after so many disappointments since 2024 – to abandon Labour for a progressive alternative”

##ChalkStream #RiverRestoration restoring a hiddeous old "fish stew" back to a thriving chalk stream. River Test, Hampshire

This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."

also this is the finest song and scene Disney ever animated. crazy to look at the live action and infinte-sequel slop they churn out today, and then back on what they used to do. youtu.be/wTqQrRZi66Q?...

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big gap for being the “basic manners” party

This whole thread.

This is a very sensible plan for funding London's bridges. More importantly it is a very beautiful plan, or could be. www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-bui...

But only one Labour PM was successful enough to fire him twice.

Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”

HOLY SHIT

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

«What a wonderful victory! … Thank you to the people of Paris. … I would like to thank the voters who turned out in such large numbers to make their choice about the future of Paris. And that choice is clear and indisputable. … » @annehidalgo.bsky.social

Oxford Street is going traffic-free. I’ve given the green light to transform it into a world-class, fully accessible pedestrian avenue. The heart of London, reclaimed for people.

this is absolutely fantastic

Great video. The homes are thoughtful, attractive and well designed. Khan is eloquent and considerate. Much more like this please.

Thank you to @adamvaughan.bsky.social of the Times for covering the work of the Knepp beavers. They're busy rewilding the land, holding back flood water, cleaning streams. We urgently need more beavers in the UK. We urge the government to speed up wild releases. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Happy birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien, who faced the worst of humanity and dreamed anyway.

J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist

CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out. A new poll by DeltapollUK Create Streets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christ’s College library.

A pedestrianised Soho would be such a victory for civilisation. www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...

This is excellent

My article in The Times today, telling the tale of our family summer holiday to Kusadasi by train (includes a quote from Eurostar’s train manager Blake!): www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.

EUROSTAR GOES DOUBLE-DECK: Eurostar confirms order for 30 new double-deck trains from Alstom, similar to TGV-M, with option for 20 more, in service from May 2031. The 200m sets can run to/from London as 2 x 200m with 1,080 seats. (Another move in the Battle for Temple Mills...)

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London. I said: "No. It'll be ULEZ." (The low emissions zone)

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵

I think this might be one of the most clear-eyed articles about Cyberpunk 2077 I've read. Actually looking at the game's themes, rather than getting caught up on a thought-terminating cliche and single word in the title.

All too often we think and behave like a satrapy.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...

Foundation is the finest show on TV right now. The preposterous scale of it, and the sheer quality of the implementation.

Just a kickass episode of the Alien show, I dunno what else to tell you. I mean, I guess I *do* know what else to tell you, because here's a whole review, but that's the gist of it. (gift link)