Eilidh Murray
@letsgetcracking.bsky.social
Scot living cycling walking in London. LCC trustee. Cycle Islington coordinator. Joy Riders leader. LCC Women’s Network Steering Group member. No longer in Cycling UK's 100 women. Quite likes bicycles
Pinned
What our community lost on 18 February 2021. A reminder of why Islington council should have done better. Remembering Connor’s campaign.
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A small nugget of good news.
So it looks like Rachel Reeves has *not* abolished or cut back the cycle to work scheme. Perhaps she has read the Treasury's own 2023 assessment of the scheme, which found that in terms of creating modal shift, and thus boosting public health, it is very, very effective.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Evaluation of the Cycle to Work Scheme: quantitative and qualitative research
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A small nugget of good news.
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Our Head of Campaigns @psimonk.bsky.social quoted in this 👇
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
Cycle journeys soar 43% in London since 2019
Cycle journeys in London have surged by 43% since 2019, Transport for London (TfL) has revealed.
zagdaily.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Our Head of Campaigns @psimonk.bsky.social quoted in this 👇
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
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This is shocking but not surprising. While private jets are the worst offenders, all flights are massively undertaxed.
NEW | Our latest research exposes just how lightly private jet users are taxed — and how much the UK is losing because of it.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is shocking but not surprising. While private jets are the worst offenders, all flights are massively undertaxed.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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We agree!
We're calling on the Chancellor to use the Budget to:
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
✈️Add VAT to private jet flights
✈️Raise the rate of Air Passenger Duty for private jet passengers.
We're calling on the Chancellor to use the Budget to:
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
✈️Add VAT to private jet flights
✈️Raise the rate of Air Passenger Duty for private jet passengers.
NEW | Our latest research exposes just how lightly private jet users are taxed — and how much the UK is losing because of it.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We agree!
We're calling on the Chancellor to use the Budget to:
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
✈️Add VAT to private jet flights
✈️Raise the rate of Air Passenger Duty for private jet passengers.
We're calling on the Chancellor to use the Budget to:
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
✈️Add VAT to private jet flights
✈️Raise the rate of Air Passenger Duty for private jet passengers.
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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New York City mayor John Lindsay rides during the first Earth Day in 1970, in which an estimated one million people crowded Manhattan streets for the event.
#BicycleBirthday
November 24 (1921-2000)
#BicycleBirthday
November 24 (1921-2000)
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
New York City mayor John Lindsay rides during the first Earth Day in 1970, in which an estimated one million people crowded Manhattan streets for the event.
#BicycleBirthday
November 24 (1921-2000)
#BicycleBirthday
November 24 (1921-2000)
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New books ordered! Looking forward to reading about adventures on two wheels.
Follow the link in this thread if you want your own copies.
Follow the link in this thread if you want your own copies.
I've been thinking a lot about my book Eat Sleep Cycle lately. It's the reason I met @timcyclesthecoast.bsky.social. It's about my 10-week odyssey around the coast of Britain, which Tim read, then did the journey himself. We became firm friends after that unique and life-changing shared experience.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New books ordered! Looking forward to reading about adventures on two wheels.
Follow the link in this thread if you want your own copies.
Follow the link in this thread if you want your own copies.
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Sigrid is not impressed by the new security camera. 🐱🎥
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sigrid is not impressed by the new security camera. 🐱🎥
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Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/sigirides
Visit our shop: sigirides.bigcartel.com
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🛍️ Great to see this latest consultation on Oxford Steet...
Plus, good that they recognise the need to "provide high-quality alternative routes through the area" for cycling, now we just need to see what that actually looks like 👀
More info: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Plus, good that they recognise the need to "provide high-quality alternative routes through the area" for cycling, now we just need to see what that actually looks like 👀
More info: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oxford Street traffic diversion plan ahead of pedestrianisation
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🛍️ Great to see this latest consultation on Oxford Steet...
Plus, good that they recognise the need to "provide high-quality alternative routes through the area" for cycling, now we just need to see what that actually looks like 👀
More info: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Plus, good that they recognise the need to "provide high-quality alternative routes through the area" for cycling, now we just need to see what that actually looks like 👀
More info: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Our latest research with @cleancitiescampaign.org released this week shows:
🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children
🚑16% of these are serious injuries
We need change. We need #streetsforkids.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...
🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children
🚑16% of these are serious injuries
We need change. We need #streetsforkids.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...
Mum shares story of her 12 year old daughter’s hit and run as research shows entire primary school injured every year during school run
Press release - Mums shares story of her 12 year old daughter's hit and run as research shows an entire primary school injured every year during school run.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Our latest research with @cleancitiescampaign.org released this week shows:
🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children
🚑16% of these are serious injuries
We need change. We need #streetsforkids.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...
🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children
🚑16% of these are serious injuries
We need change. We need #streetsforkids.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...
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Wheels for Wellbeing are concerned by reports that the Chancellor is considering putting a maximum price for cycles allowed through the Cycle to Work scheme.
We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped.
Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...
We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped.
Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Wheels for Wellbeing are concerned by reports that the Chancellor is considering putting a maximum price for cycles allowed through the Cycle to Work scheme.
We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped.
Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...
We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped.
Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Isn't this basically treason?
How many more of Reform are eating from the same trough and are working against the state?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many more of Reform are eating from the same trough and are working against the state?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Isn't this basically treason?
How many more of Reform are eating from the same trough and are working against the state?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many more of Reform are eating from the same trough and are working against the state?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Why should hardworking tax payers subsidise those pootling around the countryside on weekends in their fancy cars?
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Why should hardworking tax payers subsidise those pootling around the countryside on weekends in their fancy cars?
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For those BlueSky connections who are popping out to pick up some "I'm not harming anyone" drugs for tonight, a reminder of something known but ignored... the "vast criminal ecosystem that is funding some really bad things all around the world".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Friday-night drug deals helping Russian war machine, UK crime agency warns
The National Crime Agency says a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
For those BlueSky connections who are popping out to pick up some "I'm not harming anyone" drugs for tonight, a reminder of something known but ignored... the "vast criminal ecosystem that is funding some really bad things all around the world".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It never stops.
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It never stops.
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
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I should give a massive shout out to the work of @badvertising.bsky.social and @adfreecities.bsky.social and their awesome station “domination” at
Southwark.
Worth dropping by Southwark station (Jubilee line) to have a look and ponder why ads for fossil fuel products are still allowed?
Southwark.
Worth dropping by Southwark station (Jubilee line) to have a look and ponder why ads for fossil fuel products are still allowed?
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I should give a massive shout out to the work of @badvertising.bsky.social and @adfreecities.bsky.social and their awesome station “domination” at
Southwark.
Worth dropping by Southwark station (Jubilee line) to have a look and ponder why ads for fossil fuel products are still allowed?
Southwark.
Worth dropping by Southwark station (Jubilee line) to have a look and ponder why ads for fossil fuel products are still allowed?
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Our Christmas gift to you; an evening with expert campaigners. Mince pies on offer and followed by drinks in our habitual hostelry. Register now - places limited !
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
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Our Christmas gift to you; an evening with expert campaigners. Mince pies on offer and followed by drinks in our habitual hostelry. Register now - places limited !
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Influencing active travel outcomes with Christian Wolmar and Leo Murray - London Cycling Campaign
Technical discussions on dropped kerbs or route widths or parallel crossings are on hold for our last meeting of the year; our Christmas social is a gift to all campaigners […]
lcc.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Our Christmas gift to you; an evening with expert campaigners. Mince pies on offer and followed by drinks in our habitual hostelry. Register now - places limited !
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
@hackneylcc.bsky.social
@haringeycyclists.bsky.social
lcc.org.uk/events/influ...
Our Christmas gift to you; an evening with expert campaigners. Mince pies on offer and followed by drinks in our habitual hostelry. Register now - places limited !
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
@hackneylcc.bsky.social
@haringeycyclists.bsky.social
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Its London Mayor’s Questions tomorrow & I understand that Greens on the London Assembly will be asking Sadiq Khan what the delay is with ending fossil fuel advertising on the tube & buses. If you too would like to drop the Mayor a polite email on this topic, please go to www.badverts.org/fossil-ads
Fossil Ads — Badvertising
www.badverts.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Its London Mayor’s Questions tomorrow & I understand that Greens on the London Assembly will be asking Sadiq Khan what the delay is with ending fossil fuel advertising on the tube & buses. If you too would like to drop the Mayor a polite email on this topic, please go to www.badverts.org/fossil-ads
