The Times picks up on the @badvertising.bsky.social London transport campaign to stop polluting ads from undermining action on clean air and climate in the city link.thetimes.co.uk/view/62e2a8a...

Stop autobesity! Jenny Jones speaking now at the House of Lords launch of the alliance for safer fairer streets to reverse the spread of heavier, higher and wider SUVs... See the 5pt plan here 👇🏼

www.suv-alliance.org.uk
@adfreecities.bsky.social @badvertising.bsky.social @responsiblesci.bsky.social

They say football is the beautiful game, but it can be a dirty one too, and in ways that you might not imagine. We've discovered that the game's dirtiest secret could be in how it lets itself be a billboard for some of the world's worst polluters... follow the 🧵 👇

Two stories on the BBC front page. Worse than Heathrow expansion being a dud, ineffective, polluting policy, is seeing such damage done just to send political signals. Government by dead gestures (in every sense) is hopeless...

From John Le Carré's late novel, 'An Agent Running in the Field', published in 2019...

Couldn't agree more - made me dig this out of the archives - cover story I wrote 21 years ago for @newstatesman.com arguing the same (probably too soon) when the big car-maker promoted shift to SUVs was gathering steam (smoke?) - @badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social

Don't worry, all the additional expenditure caused by Storm Bert due to property damage, getting stranded because of transport failure etc etc will at least contribute to our government's economic growth priority 🙄... (river in South West 👇🏼)

At the London premiere of Buy Now! last night & it lands 3 big pts:
- you can't have you planet & eat it
- the appalling corporate trickery & duplicity trapping people in overconsumption hell
- big business will only ever be dragged screaming to do the right thing 👇
www.netflix.com/title/81554996