Andrew King

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

[James McAsh jamesmcash.bsky.social @mcash]

I have left the Labour Party and joined the @TheGreenParty. Full statement below.

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

No Green voice when Reform, Lab & Tories all get representation looks like a BBC stitch-up ahead of a crucial by-election (between Greens, Reform & to a lesser extent Labour).

How are licence fee payers meant to trust their public broadcaster when it pulls this sort of shit?

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

@bbcquestiontime @BBCiPlayer @BBCSounds @BBCOne How on earth is it acceptable to only have 2 of the 3 parties competing for the Gorton and Denton by-election a week before the vote? Where is a green? Or even a green voice?

It looks intentional.

[Andrew King @A_King221]

Still available!

1× The Love That Remains, Friday 10th, £16 FV.

DM me if you want to buy/swap for one of the Sat 11th screenings.

@LFFstubs #bfilff #lff

[Andrew King @A_King221]

Looking to swap a ticket for the Love that Remains on Friday 10th for either screening on Sat 11th. If not, happy to sell FV. #lff @LFFstubs

[Andrew King @A_King221]

@GeorgeTFilm @LFFstubs Would be interested in buying both if they're still available! Feel free to dm me

[Andrew King @A_King221]

@jinglespark @LFFstubs I'd be interested in this if its still available!

[Andrew King @A_King221]

Looking to swap a ticket for the Love that Remains on Friday 10th for either screening on Sat 11th. If not, happy to sell FV. #lff @LFFstubs

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

I hope people properly understand, it has never been migrants or asylum-seekers making you worse off.
It is your landlord, your bank, your supermarket, your energy supplier, and your government.

https://t.co/v3CSumDU9e

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

the £3 billion annual cost of extending the 5p fuel duty cut is roughly equivalent to the annual fare take of every bus in England — £3.1 billion in 2023. so you could nearly make every bus free for the same cost https://t.co/1bWvqcYVx8

[Llwty 𐂂🦌🌹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 @llwtydeer]

A Thread of Suggestions from the Public from the NHS Consultation

NHS-Wetherspoons Partnership to put Pubs in Hospitals

[Andrew King @A_King221]

@mi4d0lan @LFFstubs Hey Bella, sent you a dm but if this is still available I'd love to take it:)

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

£22 billion for a machine that will capture carbon and store it?

You've been robbed mate

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Ed Miliband.

Keir Starmer.

The Labour Party.

Climate credibility in tatters.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Solidarity to my old home town of Northampton and the hundreds who turned up to protest the far-right.

What a turnout! ❤️❤️

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I would rather pull my own nails out than vote for this