Jack Lenox
@jacklenox.com
Cargo bike enthusiast, @eradicals.bike shop owner, @carspiracy.bsky.social podcast host, software engineer and Green Party Councillor. Born at 349ppm.
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UK: 29th of 30 countries for e-bikes 📉
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
UK: 29th of 30 countries for e-bikes 📉
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
Norway (NORWAY!): 17x more than us 📈
We can salary sacrifice £150k Porsches but not £4k bikes?
Bike industry at 1970s sales levels. Tomorrow's budget could finish us off.
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There's always money for more driving
Reeves to announce £1.5bn boost in EV subsidies amid pay-per-mile concerns
Reeves to announce £1.5bn boost in EV subsidies amid pay-per-mile concerns
Industry experts welcome extra incentives but fear a consultation on a mileage tax sends mixed messages
Drivers will be able to claim government subsidies to cut the cost of buying a new electric car until 2030 under plans to be announced by Rachel Reeves at next week’s budget.
The chancellor will unveil an extra £1.3bn for subsidies for new electric vehicles (EVs) and a further £200m for charging points, as she attempts to prevent the market for clean cars drying up amid concerns about a new pay-per-mile tax. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
There's always money for more driving
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
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Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
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Since the counter was fixed, well over half a million cycle journeys have been made in less than two months. At peak times, records show that rush hour traffic consists of 250 motor vehicles ph in the am & 350 in the pm, considerably less than the number of bikes. Time for another cycle lane
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Since the counter was fixed, well over half a million cycle journeys have been made in less than two months. At peak times, records show that rush hour traffic consists of 250 motor vehicles ph in the am & 350 in the pm, considerably less than the number of bikes. Time for another cycle lane
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
According to the FT, Rachel Reeves wants to cap the cycle to work scheme. This is lunacy, and represents a curb on what is effectively the UK's only active travel incentive.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
According to the FT, Rachel Reeves wants to cap the cycle to work scheme. This is lunacy, and represents a curb on what is effectively the UK's only active travel incentive.
This news is so dispiriting. Plenty of e-bikes around the £4,000 mark are absolutely not luxury items, such as this Tern. We should be expanding cycle to work. Especially when it seems the “drive to work” salary sacrifice scheme for cars will be untouched. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/taxpaye...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This news is so dispiriting. Plenty of e-bikes around the £4,000 mark are absolutely not luxury items, such as this Tern. We should be expanding cycle to work. Especially when it seems the “drive to work” salary sacrifice scheme for cars will be untouched. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/taxpaye...
A £4,000 e-bike replaces a £35,000 car. An e-bike saves the NHS £1,400/year. An e-bike cuts emissions immediately. Yet Rachel Reeves wants to limit the cycle to work scheme while preserving tax breaks for £60,000 Teslas? Make it make sense.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A £4,000 e-bike replaces a £35,000 car. An e-bike saves the NHS £1,400/year. An e-bike cuts emissions immediately. Yet Rachel Reeves wants to limit the cycle to work scheme while preserving tax breaks for £60,000 Teslas? Make it make sense.
Once more for those at the back:
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Once more for those at the back:
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
👏🏻 Zack 👏🏻 Polanski 👏🏻 hasn't 👏🏻 changed 👏🏻 anything 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 Green 👏🏻 Party 👏🏻 stands 👏🏻 for 👏🏻
What he is doing is communicating our party policy more effectively than any of his predecessors.
"If you increase taxes on the wealthy, they'll just take their wealth elsewhere!"
Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
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Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"If you increase taxes on the wealthy, they'll just take their wealth elsewhere!"
Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Said the gullible lackey for the wealthiest people on the planet who has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the most readily disprovable lies going.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Victoria Derbyshire dismisses the Green Party's wealth tax by citing that Switzerland's similar policy ONLY raises £9.5 billion a year.
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Victoria Derbyshire dismisses the Green Party's wealth tax by citing that Switzerland's similar policy ONLY raises £9.5 billion a year.
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
Switzerland's population is about an eighth the size of the UK's, and its economy is about a quarter the size of ours.
So… we're right on the money?
An LMGFY for those who still haven’t got it. Green politics – and by extension the Green Party – has never been simply about the environment.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
October 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
An LMGFY for those who still haven’t got it. Green politics – and by extension the Green Party – has never been simply about the environment.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
If you’re a journalist saying that we’ve “moved away from only talking about the environment”, you’re only demonstrating your own ignorance.
So tired of this loop…
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So tired of this loop…
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
Media: But isn't the trouble with the Green Party that it's just a single issue eco-party?
Green Party: Founded as the PEOPLE party, and has always had broad, progressive policies.
Media: Who do the Greens think they are, talking about anything other than the environment?
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Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value
September 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value
It’s Google’s 27th birthday and they’re celebrating by reminding us of the excellent search engine they used to be. A perfect opportunity to share this excoriating talk on enshittification by Corey Doctorow: youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...
Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
YouTube video by CloudFest
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September 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s Google’s 27th birthday and they’re celebrating by reminding us of the excellent search engine they used to be. A perfect opportunity to share this excoriating talk on enshittification by Corey Doctorow: youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...
Both funny and depressing how quickly "Your Party" has descended into Judean People's Front-ery. join.greenparty.org.uk
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September 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Both funny and depressing how quickly "Your Party" has descended into Judean People's Front-ery. join.greenparty.org.uk
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How do we fix this mess?
September 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
How do we fix this mess?
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The Prime Minister can call me names - “plastic progressive”? (Nope, me neither!)
Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.
We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.
Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.
We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The Prime Minister can call me names - “plastic progressive”? (Nope, me neither!)
Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.
We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.
Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.
We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.
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Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
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Tim laments about how the UK bike industry is centred around leisure and sports in our new podcast: Carspiracy.
This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.
This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.
September 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Tim laments about how the UK bike industry is centred around leisure and sports in our new podcast: Carspiracy.
This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.
This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.
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Tim makes the excellent point that in the UK there are currently no incentives for people to buy e-bikes. Tim cites an excellent article by Noel Flay Cass who makes the point that subsidising e-bike purchases will have a greater positive climate impact than EV subsidies.
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tim makes the excellent point that in the UK there are currently no incentives for people to buy e-bikes. Tim cites an excellent article by Noel Flay Cass who makes the point that subsidising e-bike purchases will have a greater positive climate impact than EV subsidies.
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Jack and Tim talk about a time in living memory when almost everyone cycled to work in industrial Lancashire – at the time – towns including Barrow and Kendal.
Listen to the full pilot episode of our podcast – Carspiracy – available now on all podcasting platforms.
Listen to the full pilot episode of our podcast – Carspiracy – available now on all podcasting platforms.
September 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Jack and Tim talk about a time in living memory when almost everyone cycled to work in industrial Lancashire – at the time – towns including Barrow and Kendal.
Listen to the full pilot episode of our podcast – Carspiracy – available now on all podcasting platforms.
Listen to the full pilot episode of our podcast – Carspiracy – available now on all podcasting platforms.
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I've started a podcast with fellow cargo bike enthusiast Tim – a man who also actually builds them as Ariel Bikes. I know there's a real dearth at the moment of podcasts featuring two middle-aged white men grumbling about the world, so this is me doing my bit to help.
Carspiracy | Carspiracy: How we woke up to the Carspiracy
In this pilot episode of Carspiracy, hosts Jack and Tim explore the detrimental impact of car-centric culture on society and the environment. They share their personal journeys with bicycles, discu...
eradicals.transistor.fm
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I've started a podcast with fellow cargo bike enthusiast Tim – a man who also actually builds them as Ariel Bikes. I know there's a real dearth at the moment of podcasts featuring two middle-aged white men grumbling about the world, so this is me doing my bit to help.
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As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
August 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.