Comms Manager at @ImpUrbanHealth, focusing on air pollution and making cities better places to live. Views are my own. Bluesky: @patrickjalee.bsky.social
London, England
Joined November 2013
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Burning wood is devastating people's health, especially in cities 🔥
Despite that, sales of wood burning stoves are increasing 🚨
So how can councils and campaigners inform people about the connections between wood burning and air pollution? 🧵👇
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Clean air shouldn’t be a privilege.
In London, we’ve seen how bold action on air quality can make a huge difference.
⬇️ Harmful roadside pollution down by 27%
⬇️ 40% fall in estimated deaths linked to toxic air
That’s real progress. But everyone, no matter their background or where they live, deserves cleaner air.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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The meat industry tries very hard to keep cameras out of factory farms and slaughterhouses -- and a new undercover video shows why. Some day, our descendants will wonder about our collective blind spot to animal cruelty. A gift link to my column: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/opini…
The UK worst country in Europe when it comes to paternity leave.
Doesn’t just deny fathers the chance to bond with their babies and grow more confidence in caring for them, it leaves new mothers as always with more to do.
Four ways the autumn budget can deliver growth while improving health:
urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/…
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This country is so car dependent that we vote governments in or out based on the current price of gas.
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All things considered, Reeves and Starmer are probably going to have better economic legacies than their departures might have indicated.
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It cannot be overstated how every one of these tankers going down either in Europe or the Middle East is its own massive ecological disaster.
Once you add them all up we’re talking about ecocide at that point. We’re killing everything with these wars. Not just us.
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Also funneling weapons to the RSF
Complicit in ethnic cleansing, civil war in Sudan
Disappearances and imprisonment of dissidents
Involvement in the Yemen conflict
Exploitation of migrant labour
Enabling global corruption and autocracy
Top lads
Sheikh Mansour’s impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football:
🏦 Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis
🏠 Thousands of new homes in Manchester
🏗️ Major regeneration of East Manchester
🎵 Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live arena
🏨 New hotels and commercial developments
👷 Thousands of jobs created
🏆 Bought City’s first FA Cup trophy and donated it to the National Football Museum
⚽ Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse
A legacy far bigger than football. 🩵
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Guaranteed annual increase in pensions plus no charges ever for care? Incredible deal!
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Everyone upset about the rumoured triple lock changes, remember, is insisting that the state pension should rise *faster* than the wages of the people who pay for it. That’s the only thing at stake here. Andy is not cutting the pension, or even suggesting it should stop rising.
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The UK’s spy chiefs examined the impacts of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, under pressure of climate crisis and biodiversity loss, on UK’s national security.
Their findings?
“Apocalyptic.”
UK defence and society at risk, impacts within 5 years.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Periodic reminder that AI is far more likely to cause an apocalypse because it is too dumb than because it is too smart.
NEW: An AI-assisted intel report sent the military scrambling to intercept a Chinese ship in the Middle East it believed was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
It turned out to be a hallucination. And it "almost started a war." cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…
Published in 2013:
"Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions."
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This fella doing amazing work in the comments
Hi. 😊 Swedish dude here.
When our children get sick, we have 60 paid days per year to stay home with them.
Per parent.
They're separate from my 25 paid vacation days.
Meaning I don't have to use my own paid sick leave.
If I'm a single parent: 120 days.
If my child has a chronic illness: 120 days
If my child is hospitalized: unlimited days.
These days reset every January.
By law. every year until child is 18.
Follow for more glimpses into life in a social democracy, where dignity is not a privilege.
Peace ✌🏼
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Hi. 😊 Swedish dude here.
When our children get sick, we have 60 paid days per year to stay home with them.
Per parent.
They're separate from my 25 paid vacation days.
Meaning I don't have to use my own paid sick leave.
If I'm a single parent: 120 days.
If my child has a chronic illness: 120 days
If my child is hospitalized: unlimited days.
These days reset every January.
By law. every year until child is 18.
Follow for more glimpses into life in a social democracy, where dignity is not a privilege.
Peace ✌🏼
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"If we want to oppose this new fascist strain, we really have to get a move on. 'I don’t tend to use this language, I try to be measured, but I think I’ve earned the right to escalate,' she says. 'The moment we’re in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough.
Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.' theguardian.com/books/2026/s…
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Sometimes it feels like Millennials, who were born after the lead poisoning but before the algorithms, are the only truly sane generation.
Two posts in a day from Anthropic saying there’s a “>10%” chance they “kill all humans” “within a decade”.
