Carlton Reid
@carltonreid.com
Journalist: WIRED.com and Forbes.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67 Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Carlton Reid
@carltonreid.com
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I was a finalist in the Travel Photographer of the Year competition 2024. I can now reveal the image I entered. It is an iPhone selfie taken in Cromford, Derbyshire.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
Fun to spot which websites use Cloudflare. ChatGPT is down for many. Cycling Industry News is down, but BikeBiz.com and Road.cc are not. And earlier today I interviewed a hotel group CEO who didn't know his company's website was down — that's lots of hotel rooms not book all of a sudden.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fun to spot which websites use Cloudflare. ChatGPT is down for many. Cycling Industry News is down, but BikeBiz.com and Road.cc are not. And earlier today I interviewed a hotel group CEO who didn't know his company's website was down — that's lots of hotel rooms not book all of a sudden.
AI and tech company crash must be imminent as I am getting press releases about it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
AI and tech company crash must be imminent as I am getting press releases about it.
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Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
Sugoi, though? Not even back then.
Happy to be of service.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sugoi, though? Not even back then.
After retiling and pointing the scaffolding comes down from our cottage tomorrow. Shame, I’ll miss the treehouse vibes.
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
After retiling and pointing the scaffolding comes down from our cottage tomorrow. Shame, I’ll miss the treehouse vibes.
16 years ago, as a favour to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling (it now has "walking" in the name, too), I produced this film on a Lords and MPs visit to see how Dutch railways coped with the bazillions of bikes in the Netherlands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypy0...
Bikes and trains Study Tour
YouTube video by carltonreid
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November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
16 years ago, as a favour to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling (it now has "walking" in the name, too), I produced this film on a Lords and MPs visit to see how Dutch railways coped with the bazillions of bikes in the Netherlands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypy0...
Evil deeds live long in the memory: “Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher.”
Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
My guess is they will end up u-turning on the jewellery thing (you can already see it being softening in interviews) and possibly the 20 years (which is way longer than Denmark).
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Evil deeds live long in the memory: “Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher.”
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Just done a pre-recorded segment for LBC on Active Travel England's road width's doc. Should be on after 11pm tonight with Nick Abbott. Why? Tabloid media getting in tizzy today over "war on motorists" crap. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling
www.gov.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just done a pre-recorded segment for LBC on Active Travel England's road width's doc. Should be on after 11pm tonight with Nick Abbott. Why? Tabloid media getting in tizzy today over "war on motorists" crap. www.gov.uk/government/p...
The Malmö District Turning Industrial Ruins Into Climate Assets—And Why Oatly Moved In www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
The Malmö District Turning Industrial Ruins Into Climate Assets—And Why Oatly Moved In
In Malmö’s Varvsstaden, developers are transforming shipyard relics into new offices, homes, and public spaces. Oatly’s HQ anchors the project’s circular-economy vision.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Malmö District Turning Industrial Ruins Into Climate Assets—And Why Oatly Moved In www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
No more Strictly, Celebrity Traitors or other stunningly popular BBC programmes? All of our licence fees forwarded to a felon?
When Truss fell out of the evil idiot tree she hit every branch on the way down.
When Truss fell out of the evil idiot tree she hit every branch on the way down.
Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
No more Strictly, Celebrity Traitors or other stunningly popular BBC programmes? All of our licence fees forwarded to a felon?
When Truss fell out of the evil idiot tree she hit every branch on the way down.
When Truss fell out of the evil idiot tree she hit every branch on the way down.
Yes.
Credit where credit is due.
Credit where credit is due.
Did I tell you about that when you visited?
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yes.
Credit where credit is due.
Credit where credit is due.
Bicycle connections for both clips. One is obvious, the other was shot on the Wilbraham Road Station, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, now on route of a well-used cycleway.
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bicycle connections for both clips. One is obvious, the other was shot on the Wilbraham Road Station, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, now on route of a well-used cycleway.
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This is brilliant.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is brilliant.
Brilliant! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Brilliant! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
It is OK to call fascism fascism, confirms today’s Daily Telegraph.
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
It is OK to call fascism fascism, confirms today’s Daily Telegraph.
Easy patriotism test for right wingers: do they think Brits, via the licence fee, should pay America’s bully-in-chief $5 billion for words he definitely uttered but in different parts of a rabble-rousing speech?
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Easy patriotism test for right wingers: do they think Brits, via the licence fee, should pay America’s bully-in-chief $5 billion for words he definitely uttered but in different parts of a rabble-rousing speech?
This will backfire massively, blowing a hole through which @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens will stroll through, taking many Labour supporters with them. Stupidity on stilts.
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This will backfire massively, blowing a hole through which @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens will stroll through, taking many Labour supporters with them. Stupidity on stilts.
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crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
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Look behind you?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Look behind you?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
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‼️ UNBELIEVABLE RESULTS‼️ Hold my baguette while I count the people on bikes! How did Paris increase cycling by 240% in a few short years?
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
‼️ UNBELIEVABLE RESULTS‼️ Hold my baguette while I count the people on bikes! How did Paris increase cycling by 240% in a few short years?