Martin McKee
Politics, environment, climate action, development and active travel
- OK it’s a UN office and it is called the Cuba Room, but still a surprise to a big photo of old Fidel up on the wall
- A party with 400+ MPs has just surrendered to a party with five. Starmer might as well have stuck a “Vote Farage” in the window of Downing Street.
- First time I’ve seen one of these on a car in the UK 👍
- Reposted by Martin McKee"Unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we're going to have a covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit" -- here's the @stephruhle.bsky.social commentary that triggered a Trump Truth Social meltdown
- Reposted by Martin McKeeColumn, on an EU 'reset' that has already happened and the limits on reaching the next level without telling anyone what that level is www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- This seems like an obvious but weirdly under-appreciated point.
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- Reposted by Martin McKee💥London bucks national trends as cycling boom continues💥 New City of London data shows biggest increase cycling since records began: 📈cycling up 57% since 2022 🚲🚲nearly 2x more bikes than cars 📈500% increase in cycling since 1999 www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
- Reposted by Martin McKeeThis may be the greatest ever chart in the history of public opinion studies.
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- Reposted by Martin McKeeAbsolutely batshit quote in @patrickmaguire.bsky.social must-read column on Labour’s thinking about The Current Events
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- An incredibly middle class London problem but does anyone else have parakeets plucking all the blossoms off fruit trees? I suspect it is what is causing my plums to shrivel (🫣)
- Or stop freezing fuel duty
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- I’m screening job applications this week and over 60% have near-identical ChatGPT-written cover letters. I get why people do it but it does mean anyone who writes something original immediately stands out.
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- Reposted by Martin McKeeThis helps. And I bet you it really upsets them. youtu.be/CUpOMSJ1MdU?...
- The UK’s aid programme was the best in world and saved millions from poverty and hunger. To see it gutted like this by the Tories and Labour is depressing. Well done Anneliese Dodds for making a stand.
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- The commitment and enthusiasm of everyone involved in the York Viking festival is a lovely thing.
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- You would think Badenoch would be pleased that we live in a country where a woman from Nigeria can lead a major political party, but apparently not.
- Counterpoint to all the angst about this - the Living Daylights was the last actually moderately good Bond film.
- Reposted by Martin McKeeThe data could not be more clear: our public services will collapse without immigration. People desperately need to come here & we desperately need people, too. Me, for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...
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- I’d love to know what David Mitchell really thinks about his obnoxious brother in law.
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- Reposted by Martin McKeeIn what possible universe do low paid workers not contribute?
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- Was chatting this week to some friends who work for the US government. One guy’s partner was fired on Monday for no reason. Another had time at home to look after his disabled wife cancelled and will have to quit. It’s the performative cruelty that is so stomach churning.
- @bsky.app how can you not love stuff like this ?
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- A bit more of this please. We need people who will take the argument to Trump and Farage
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- Fewer people go through Heathrow than go through Charing Cross station, and most of them are either going on holiday somewhere else or changing planes. The idea that increasing airport capacity will any meaningful impact on growth is nonsense.
- This is such a wasted opportunity. It must have been predictable that people wouldn’t want to hang out in a gloomy, polluted concrete mess that is cut off from the rest of the high street by six lanes of traffic.
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- Reposted by Martin McKeeWhich is worse - a couple of days of headlines in the Telegraph/Mail? Or actually failing to build houses and grow the economy? Tough choices.. 😉
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- Yuck
