Sam Brookes

Love to ride my bike, drink coffee and ski! Work in comms for now and you can expect creative thinking as well as creative spelling #MadeByDyslexia

[Sam Brookes @sambrookes]

Dear @established when we return to to "normal life" promise me Established at Home boxes will still be a thing...

[Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1]

This weekend, Britain may be about to have its worst traffic jam ever. Up to five hours of delay for 100,000 drivers or more.

Would you believe me if I told you the reason is because Britain's most hated motorway is too good?

Or that someone had a semi-secret plan to fix that🧵

[Neil Morrow @mrneilmorrow]

Belfast in the fog today.

[Sam Brookes @sambrookes]

Been a while... #MyTwitterAnniversary

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

The official list of woke things.

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

A common confusion is that to decarbonise, the world will need to produce the equivalent of coal, oil & gas in the form of low-carbon energy.

That's not true.

Most fossil energy gets wasted. In the US, just one-third gets turned into useful services. The rest is wasted as heat.

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

In Paris, owners of big, heavy cars will have to pay extra to park.

Deputy Mayor: “There are no dirt paths , no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture."
https://t.co/Racbx5ui9Z

[Carlton Reid @carltonreid]

Cycles Now Outnumber Cars In City Of London.

This significant stat is revealed in new 24-hour traffic survey conducted in the Square Mile last November and released ahead of transport committee meeting on July 18th. HT @lastnotlost https://t.co/jkdVhcMTxf

[Richard Hewison @RichardHewison]

Average house price today: £285,000
Average salary today: £26,000

Multiple : 11x

House price 1993: £56,500
Salary 1993: £17,800

Multiple : 3.2x

To those saying “oh we survived higher interest rates in the 90s” : YOUR house price was NOT 11 times your salary!

#InterestRate

[London Cycles @London_Cycles]

It's not Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Paris.

This is London 🇬🇧

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

One of the greatest achievements of the fossil 🚗 car system is convincing business owners & parts of the public that parking spaces lead to more revenue.

The opposite is true 👇👇

[Sam Brookes @sambrookes]

Love this

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

It’s the Dutch national bike helmet day!
#DagvandeFietshelm* 🇳🇱🚲⛑️

* paid for by helmet producers, pushed by doctors, virtue-signalling by politians)

(cartoon by @davewalker)

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.

Via @StreetsblogUSA
https://t.co/vTLLMEQiYe

[Sam Brookes @sambrookes]

Incredible new! The Fluency team are so good. Generating and aggregating data is easy, but spotting what's interesting and knowing what to do with it is the hard bit and I've never worked with anyone better at doing it.

[Campaign @Campaignmag]

Congratulations to: @MCSaatchiLondon

For winning Gold in the Start-up Agency category at the Agency of the Year Awards UK

#CampaignAOY

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

HIGNFY producers hoping BBC don’t find out that Ian Hislop also edits a satirical magazine occasionally critical of government policy.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Thank you @BBCRosAtkins as ever for being one of the very rare UK journalists to show UK has far fewer asylum applications than big EU countries👇

Most UK media never point this out, fanning the "they're all coming here" hysteria behind Sunak and Braverman's hateful policies

[4 Day Week Foundation @4Day_Week]

IT WORKS.

⁃ 92% of companies keep it
⁃ Burnout down by 71%
⁃ Sick days down by 65%
⁃ Revenue up 1.4% on avg.

No question about it - the UK’s 4-day week trial was a 𝙝𝙪𝙜𝙚 success.

It’s time for the 4-day week to go mainstream.

#4DayWeek

[Sam Brookes @sambrookes]

@drewb @psigrist @philsheard @dose_espresso I think it's worth meeting up with a steak buddy as I'm pretty sure we had to buy a massive stack and split them Pete :)

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

Engine running for 1 minute 👇�

[Sam Brookes @sambrookes]

@Testinstrument Awesome, well I will see you at some point for sure!