Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈

On my way out of the consultation event, I spoke to a person on the steps of the building. They said they wouldn't know how to get to Edinburgh if they couldn't drive along the M8 in Glasgow.

The answer: more quickly.

Transport Scotland are consulting on removing a stretch of the M8 motorway from Glasgow *today*.

This work is fundamental to tackling the climate crisis, dealing with air pollution and improving public health.

Head to Woodside Halls before 5pm to support Approach 3. maps.app.goo.gl/usaEtwE7peZh...

I'll be there! Heading up at lunchtime.

Yet another example showing how the main people pushing a simplistic identity politics narrative are right-wing politicians & pundits promoting a regressive patriarchal white supremacy. Many folks are opposed to this narrative as seen in the campaign & election of Hannah Spencer in Manchester.

Me doing preacher curls with a 45kg EZ-curl bar. I'm wearing BFR bands and a Welsh Rugby singlet.

Me stood next to my gym buddy. I look ridiculously tall.

Gym spam.

I think Jonn is very possibly representative of the many who voted Labour but got Reform Lite instead. When the choice is between Reform with a blue rosette and Reform with a red rosette, it's inevitable that the whole "vote Labour or get Reform" shtick is gonna lose its power.

That's the way to do it. So good to see progressive politicians pushing back hard on Reform's messaging. Highly effective and so refreshing and Labour could learn a lot from Polanski in this regard. Take the attack to the Faragists - don't let them get away with it.

I'm not even a Green Party member and I'm so tired of this kinda thing from Labour...

1) Neither of those are actually Green policies. Stop lying.
2) This government is not progressive. Own it.
3) Labour 'split the vote' in this by-election, not the Greens. Don't like it? Change the voting system.

...And if it's a bad bill of health? You may well die unless you change something up.

It's equally interesting that Labour hardly ever talks about ecological/environmental issues, despite having a relatively strong track record in this area. In part, I think this shows Labour's attitide to Green-leaning voters; that it is entitled to—and doesn't therefore have to earn—their votes.

Just a hunch, but some voters might find it within themsleves to be enraged by *all* injustice, whether against Gazans or trans people. It says a lot about much of the commentariant that they struggle so hard to grasp this. Hell, some people in modern Britain are queer *and* Muslim. Gasp!

As well as being 117th on the Greens' wish list, Gorton and Denton was Labour's 38th safest seat.

If Labour treats the threat from the Greens as anything less than existential, that threat is being underplayed.

Big test for much of the media today as to how this victory is covered vs a Reform by election win, or any revolt on the populist right. It’s as important and as meaningful. Something tells me the tone might be a touch different!

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

This seat is 117th on the Greens' list of targets—and they secured a stonking 41% of the vote.

The Greens' threat to Labour from its left is very real but continues to be underplayed by the media and Labour itself. If they have any sense, that changes from today—with some concrete shifts in policy.

The inability of Labour's leadership to project any sense of hope or even joy in a progressive vision of English identity opened the space for Zack Polanski's form of Bring Me Sunshine politics

Permanent closure of M8 in Glasgow among options for ageing 55-year motorway viaducts Spans may be repaired or replaced instead at cost of up to £500m

Do it. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

I decided it'd be my mid-life crisis hobby... And can recommend.

My thoughts exactly.

The constellation Orion from inside the observatory. The blueish hue of the night sky contracts with the red light within the observatory.

Jupiter from the telescope. The Big Red Spot is visible as well as one of the Galilean Moons.

Went to an observatory last night and had a little perve on Jupiter. Saw the Big Red Spot and the Galilean Moons. Nature will forever amaze me and space is an extension of that. Life ambition unlocked. 💪

It was always remarkable to me that, during my time in Wales at least, the agricultural sector was the one most vociferously opposed to climate action. Still trying to figure out why that is and what to do about it.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Any leadership hopeful who claims they would be tougher on immigration should, for that reason alone, not be trusted with the economy.

These numbers are only countless if you can't count to six.

You could ask about the feasibility of frequent flier levies, the scalability of sustainable aviation fuels, the cost of decarbonising aviation compared to the cost of climate impacts. Or you could do this facile gotcha question bullshit.

This is becoming a critical election for control of the left bloc

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Me looking grumpy in an office.

A close up on my t-shirt. It reads "Grateful to be here".

Been called into the office to work on a Sunday. Thought I'd wear the most ironic t-shirt I have.

This is such a daft and revealing line of questioning. I don't think we elect Greens because they don't fly; surely we elect them because they'd deliver the alternatives to flying for all of us? I think the Greens are the only English party to support the delivery of HS2 in full, for example.

Probably my neurodivergence speaking but having to order my drink in a rush without first perusing the bar cos I've been queuing several metres away... Weirdly anxiety-inducing. Forgive me for skipping the queue and getting a decent gander of the offerings while I wait to be served.

The receptionist job was fun considering it mostly involved handling other people's shoes.