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@jamestcmanning
James Manning
1 year
#travelwriters , we've just published new pitching guidelines for @TimeOutTravel ! check 'em out right… here
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1 year
📣 @TimeOutTravel seeks new writers *currently based in* major European cities! (not UK, sorry) DMs are open: let me know which city you live in, a bit about you and what you love writing about. #journorequest
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1 year
@AmandaSmithSays no one told Mr Strong.
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James Manning
9 months
sorry to all concerned but this is the new ugliest building in London, right?? Ilona Rose House on the former site of @Foyles , Charing Cross Road
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James Manning
3 years
@timeout is looking for a freelance writer/editor to work on UK travel news and features this spring and summer! sound good? DM me with some links to your work, UK travel relevant if poss. #journojobs
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James Manning
3 months
are you a freelance magazine editor who's got 4-5 days per week free from May? unlikely I know, but if so, my DMs are open… #journorequests #freelancejobs
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James Manning
7 years
Jeanette Winterson ( @Wintersonworld ) on the existential threat to small London businesses like hers in Spitalfields:
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2 years
@EmilyKerr36 ventilation and shade vs air conditioning.
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James Manning
6 years
Interviewed the genius @RobertSmith (who definitely isn't a goth) about his @meltdownfest . Thanks so much @southbankcentre for facilitating!
@TimeOutLondon
Time Out London
6 years
Robert Smith: ‘One day my hair will fall out and I won’t look gothic any more’.
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5 years
calling all travel/culture/food writers! I'm looking for people to write @timeout features about… 🇭🇺 Budapest 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 🇮🇹 Naples 🇳🇱 Rotterdam 🇿🇦 Johannesburg 🇵🇪 Lima 🇷🇸 Novi Sad if you're an expert on one of those cities, my DMs are open! #journorequest #journorequests
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James Manning
6 years
Thank you @RobertSmith , I can now die happy having heard ‘A Strange Day’ live
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5 years
West London writers! I'm looking for someone to write a @TimeOutLondon local's guide to #NottingHill , covering the underground, overlooked, non-Instagrammable side of the neighbourhood. sound like your cuppa? my DMs are open! #journorequests #journorequest
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James Manning
2 years
@ travel writers: I'm on the hunt for write-ups of hotels that are both ultra-sustainable AND ultra-stylish in 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇩🇪🇬🇧🇲🇽🇨🇦🇵🇷🇨🇴 or 🇨🇷. my DMs are open! #journorequests #journorequest @writing_travel
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James Manning
2 years
sad to say goodbye to the print edition of @TimeOutLondon . this summer will be 10yrs since my first byline in the music section. it’s still the only place i’ve ever worked. and putting together the 50th anniversary book and exhibition in 2018 was a huge privilege.
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James Manning
6 years
we're looking for a social media editor at @TimeOutLondon – gimme a shout if you want some insider info!
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James Manning
4 years
👋 very pleased and proud to have been named one of the PPA 30 Under 30 in this otherwise cursed year. thanks @PPA_Live !
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PPA
4 years
It's time to say hello to the PPA 30 Under 30 Class of 2020 and Student of the Year. We are so proud to recognise those who have demonstrated exceptional talent across the board, from editorial to design, marketing to events. View all the winners here:
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James Manning
6 years
Thanks @cityoflondon for letting me raise @TowerBridge today! Another item off the London geek bucket list ✔️
@cityoflondon
City of London
6 years
A view from the bridge... @jamestcmanning raises @TowerBridge this afternoon for @timeout videos #Thames @visitlondon
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James Manning
3 years
happy to say that @timeout is hiring an INTERIM TRAVEL EDITOR on a 12-month contract. come work with us! #journojobs @CisionJobs @journojobuk @journalism_jobs
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James Manning
2 years
very proud to have edited tomorrow's special edition of @TimeOutLondon – a one-off mag celebrating 54 years of London life through a Time Out-shaped lens. pick it up across town tomorrow!
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James Manning
7 years
@annaleszkie ‘Suffering, sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in a stone-cold tomb’ - Christmas carol or Cradle of Filth?
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James Manning
1 year
@giulio_mattioli god, this all the time with ‘hospitality in [X country] is all about coming together over food’
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James Manning
6 years
I have edited a book and it is officially published TODAY! It's a look back at 50 years of @timeout via some amazing cover designs and stories. it would make me very happy if you were to buy it:
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James Manning
2 years
gutted to see the destruction of these lovely trees @GayhurstE8 . can’t find any explanation on the planning portal of why they had to go. @hackneycouncil @HackneyLFUG @TM_Hackney 😢
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James Manning
7 years
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, PIPE THE FUCK DOWN #oxfordcircus
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James Manning
4 years
thank you @ltmuseum for my brand new @districtline mug! as is only appropriate, I'm using it to drink green tea… very, very, slowly.
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James Manning
2 years
@crisortunity @HackneyLabour 40% traffic reduction target in first mayoral term from @hackneygreens / @Zoe4Hackney
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James Manning
6 years
lovely to rep @TimeOutLondon at @hoxtonradio today, chatting about the #lovelondonawards with the @TheAlma_N1 crew!
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James Manning
9 months
impressively it’s hideous in a totally different way to the previous record holder, the queasy magic-eye puzzle that is the Montcalm hotel on City Road
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James Manning
3 years
pleased to say we are now looking for freelance writers and editors based in cities and regions across most of the UK! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 more info here:
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James Manning
5 years
just a note that ‘Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell’ at @CoachSoho was excellent, and you should see it if you give even the slightest toss about the past, present or future of Soho (and if you can get a ticket, of course).
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James Manning
2 years
travel writer urgently needed to write about the best restaurants in Germany, deadline this friday! DMs open + pls share @TravMedia_UK #journorequest
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James Manning
1 year
update: I have (happily) had a lot of messages about this and am aiming to work through them all eventually! many thanks for the excellent response. PS. my DMs are still working, if you can’t get through it’s probs Elon’s fault so maybe just try again later?!
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James Manning
4 years
Excited to reveal this year's @timeout list of the world's coolest neighbourhoods. My fave project, this year with a strong focus on community + local biz in the time of Covid. Please read + share! 🏡
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James Manning
1 year
@youngvulgarian always order different things so you can go halves and share, obviously. if you don’t share food you’re a fool for only trying half as many dishes.
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James Manning
3 years
@indieHackney @EvanDriscoll10 @ShimanoSteve @carltonreid @PaulLomax @EcoTransportEB @LittleNinjaUK @MicheleRagusa6 @visitcamberwell @BillParryDavies @jksmith34 @BeaumontThad @JAlaszewski these all sound good to me. so instead of tearing chunks out of our neighbours, let’s all lobby for progressive road user pricing (with exemptions for disabled etc) and cut traffic on main roads for everyone?
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James Manning
3 months
@read_this_if @IsSaddleThereIs depressingly ironic to see this pic in this context
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Laura Laker
4 months
Nice to spot transport campaigner @VincentStops out enjoying a bike ride along Lea Bridge Road earlier. PS: The buses would be able to pass more easily if you used the high-quality cycle lane next to you.
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James Manning
4 years
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PPA
4 years
. @jamestcmanning , International Editor of @timeout , is also part of our #PPA30 . It is an impressive feat to be where he is now at such a young age and he clearly embodies the Time Out spirit along with the creativity to deliver some of the brands most successful projects.
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James Manning
5 years
hello #peckham locals! I'm looking for someone to write me a @TimeOutLondon area guide on a tight turnaround that gets under the skin of the neighbourhood in 2019, ie. isn't just about the pink staircase at frank's. DM me if that's you! #journorequest
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James Manning
4 years
very pleased to have been nominated for a @bsmeinfo talent award! (🤞 for next month's virtual awards ceremony)
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James Manning
5 years
very happy to have been nominated for a @bsmeinfo talent award for Best Digital Content Idea – I and many others put loads of hard work into this monster last year, and it's lovely to be recognised!
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James Manning
1 year
FAO #IMM2023 attendees: the @TimeOutTravel team still has a couple of free slots on Tuesday and would love to chat to… ✍️ freelance writers covering destinations beyond UK 🏨 hotel PRs repping properties beyond UK DMs are open! will post below when we're full. @TravMedia_UK
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James Manning
1 year
looking for a #travelwriter who has been Interrailing post-pandemic – ideally more than once! 🚆🇪🇺 (DMs are open) #journorequest #traintravel
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James Manning
6 years
an exceptionally good interview with the life-saving dude who pilots @LDNairamb .
@TimeOutLondon
Time Out London
6 years
Things you only know if you’re an Air Ambulance pilot.
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James Manning
6 years
If you’re #HereandFabulous my DMs are open and I would love to commission you thanks!
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James Manning
6 years
I'm on the lookout for amazing new openings/events/festivals/menus/products etc for kids in London over the summer holidays! Send 'em over and they could get a mention in @TimeOutLondon Kids mag. james dot manning at timeout dot com #journorequest
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James Manning
8 years
big up @afrinahmed_ for writing this about why safe spaces are really important, actually:
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James Manning
5 years
@timeout thanks everyone for the responses! some of these are now sorted but I'm still very much on the lookout for writers in 🇭🇺Budapest and 🇵🇪Lima, plus 🇲🇽Oaxaca, 🇹🇼Taipei and 🇨🇳Shenzhen – if that's you, h.m.u!
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James Manning
1 year
so I took the new @EuropeanSlpr overnight train to Berlin! and here’s what it was like… 👇🏻
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James Manning
4 months
Looks like @ellamdoyle called it
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Jay Rayner
4 months
Just had an email from a reader who is a vegetarian. Complaining about too much vegan food on menus. And asking for my sympathy and support. I intend to think very seriously about this issue.
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James Manning
6 years
Goths of Twitter! I would like to commune with you for a @TimeOutLondon feature. All ages, races, genders, professions, goth tribes welcome 🦇 #journorequest
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James Manning
4 years
GUYS, IT'S GOTH BAND AID
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James Manning
3 years
work will include writing news and features, SEO updates, digital production, commissioning and editing. working remotely so can be based anywhere, including Not London
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James Manning
2 years
a deft summary of the shit that we are in:
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Moya Lothian-McLean
2 years
As the Lords vote on a particularly pernicious part of the Police Bill today, I've got a new piece in @nytimes examining the raft of authoritarian legislation being pushed through by Boris Johnson & his lieutenants – and what this says about Boris himself.
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James Manning
8 years
I wrote about why @YussefKamaal are excellent:
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James Manning
5 years
hello! thanks to everyone who's RTed and replied. I'm now not looking for anyone else for this piece. but will be looking for writers for other @TimeOutLondon bits and pieces in the coming months (paid, obvs) so stay tuned!
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James Manning
2 years
@christianwolmar @JohnJohnStewart sadly the increase on my residential A-road in Hackney remains very much noticeable. hoping election results mean we can move on from LTN bickering to tackling overall traffic volumes including on main/boundary/distributor roads.
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James Manning
5 years
So the Still & Star pub in Aldgate is going to be demolished after all, 2 years after being declared an Asset of Community Value: @thegentleauthor
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James Manning
4 years
Thank you @bsmeinfo ! Very honoured. Thanks to all the @timeout city editors and experts who contributed to this NOW AWARD-WINNING piece:
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BSME
4 years
The winner of the Best Content Idea – Digital Award not only delivered a clear value for his publication’s audience, but also executed his idea perfectly. A round of applause for James Manning of @TimeOutLondon , ladies and gentlemen!
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James Manning
2 years
still looking for writers in 🇳🇬 LAGOS 🇳🇬 hit me up #journojobs
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James Manning
7 years
big up @SadiqKhan for backing @LondonNPC campaign. here's its mastermind @DanRavenEllison for @TimeOutLondon :
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James Manning
6 years
basically Trump isn't coming because he won't go south of the river.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
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2 years
I try to never tweet about LTNs these days but… very refreshing to see a pro view explained with so much frankness and nuance, including admitting they don’t decrease traffic everywhere for everybody in the short or even medium term, and more focus is needed on main roads
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Mike Hakata
2 years
A🧵on congestion and boundary roads. With new LTNs traffic increases significantly on some main roads. This added disruption is painful for all residents, including those who travel by sustainable modes or who live on those roads. This is part of the design. Here's how it works..
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James Manning
2 years
Buckingham Palace regrets to inform the nation that Her Majesty done already done had herses
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James Manning
4 years
tonight’s Hackney Marshes ravers are 2040’s Radio 4 stalwarts
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Richard Coles
4 years
Mentioned I had a dripping tap on a Facebook and BOOM my plumber parishioner was round in a trice and as he fixed it we discovered our paths had crossed before at a rave in Hackney Marshes in the summer of 1990 #ReasonsToBeCheerful #ReasonsToBeAVicar
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7 years
I really enjoyed writing this one:
@TimeOutLondon
Time Out London
7 years
‘My office is 6½ miles long’: what it was like to work on London’s underground Mail Rail.
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James Manning
8 years
me on a cool sound art project based on samples from London tube stations 👌 @citiesandmemory
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James Manning
6 years
If anyone wants to compile this I will commission it for @TimeOutLondon and pay your expenses.
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Jeffrey Jones@OldParish
6 years
@stephenkb We need a map of the cost of a Greggs pastie across London.
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James Manning
2 years
today I learned that the train from New York to Montreal takes 11 HOURS. the distance is less than London to Edinburgh, which takes just over 4 hours. what gives? anyone care to explain?
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James Manning
6 years
This National Park City thing is getting out of hand @LondonNPC
@LondonAssembly
London Assembly
6 years
🐿️Squirrel goes NUTS for the London Assembly and gate crashes committee meeting 🐿️
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James Manning
6 years
@MunicipalDreams The Alton Estate in Roehampton maybe?
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James Manning
6 years
We are live at the @MuseumofLondon talking about counterculture in the city!
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James Manning
7 years
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@timeout
Time Out Group
7 years
. @TimeOutLondon City Life Editor @jamestcmanning speaks to @BBCNews about #BigBen 's final bongs
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James Manning
6 years
me getting up to make coffee every morning
@silentmoviegifs
Silent Movie GIFs
7 years
F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)
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James Manning
2 years
@JonnElledge yeah it’s been a great way to spend my entire adult life.
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James Manning
2 years
calling all 🇪🇸spanish/english🇬🇧 bilingual journalists/translators – I need you for a decent sized (and fun) @timeout job *this week*! #journorequest #translator
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James Manning
3 years
we're also looking for freelance writers and editors in cities and regions across the USA! 🇺🇸 more info here:
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James Manning
2 years
I was once in a lift with the guy from Manic Street Preachers. not the biggest possible act but maybe the smallest possible room.
@starlandNJ
Starland Ballroom
2 years
Let’s play ⬇️
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James Manning
6 years
Finished the #RoyalParksHalf in a pleasingly sequential 02:03:04! Thanks so much if you’ve sponsored me - if you didn’t, there is still time at
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2 years
@jessicadefino_ yeah that’s why it’s bs to call it ‘beauty’ in the first place 👀
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James Manning
3 years
obvs love all you non-Londoner Londoners but it is SO nice here when everyone has left for Christmas.
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@MirandaLarbi @StylistMagazine use running as a way of going out and exploring nice, interesting places. like: ooh, a park or neighbourhood or cool building I’ve not been to before/recently, and it’s a 2km run away! this was the only thing that kept me going en route to a half marathon.
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@EvanDriscoll10 @ShimanoSteve @carltonreid @PaulLomax @EcoTransportEB @LittleNinjaUK @MicheleRagusa6 @visitcamberwell @BillParryDavies @jksmith34 @indieHackney @BeaumontThad @JAlaszewski ideas: as a non-expert I’d say C-charge for ULEZ area and eventually whole of Greater London. suppress peak traffic and raise money to improve/subsidise public transport & active travel.
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James Manning
5 years
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Sonya Barber
5 years
In today's @hackneygazette chatting about the new version of the @HoxtonMiniPress Opinionated Guide to East London 🎉 thanks @splarny91
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James Manning
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wrote about Peep Show and I, CLAVDIVS for @timeoutfilm ’s magisterial countdown of the best TV ever. mad props to @PhildeSemlyen for wrangling this 100-item beast!
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James Manning
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@EvanDriscoll10 @ShimanoSteve @carltonreid @PaulLomax @EcoTransportEB @LittleNinjaUK @MicheleRagusa6 @visitcamberwell @BillParryDavies @jksmith34 @indieHackney @BeaumontThad @JAlaszewski actual question for you Evan: what is your idea for a solution, besides scrapping LTNs? would genuinely love to hear from you and any other LTN opponents! (and hi btw, I think we’re neighbours)
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James Manning
2 years
@realnickperry @Zoe4Hackney @alastairis first green councillors since 2006 election, first green group since 1998 👍🏻
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James Manning
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@winkeladvokat79 @BillParryDavies @indieHackney @ShimanoSteve @EvanDriscoll10 @carltonreid @PaulLomax @EcoTransportEB @LittleNinjaUK @MicheleRagusa6 @visitcamberwell @jksmith34 @BeaumontThad @JAlaszewski @mayorofhackney residents of some but not all boundary roads (including me) report increases at some but not all times. council monitoring seems to have been done during lockdowns. further monitoring data has been promised but not yet delivered. also some roads are affected but not ‘boundary’.
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James Manning
6 years
@soxgnasher Closed in 2006 – but reopened in 2009 and still thriving!
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James Manning
3 years
ta to those who've got in touch! q overwhelmed by the response. if you're replying please include your availability for freelance shifts right now!
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James Manning
1 year
@charlie_baker23 @seatsixtyone bring earplugs, and possibly electrical tape (our blind kept pinging up). if you’re totally stuck for food there’s a reasonably priced takeaway pasta place in Brussels-Midi. hilariously called ‘Pasta Way’ (say it out loud)
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James Manning
7 years
this is fascinating and scary and worth a read, by @chakrabortty :
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James Manning
3 years
@indieHackney @EvanDriscoll10 @ShimanoSteve @carltonreid @PaulLomax @EcoTransportEB @LittleNinjaUK @MicheleRagusa6 @visitcamberwell @BillParryDavies @jksmith34 @BeaumontThad @JAlaszewski I believe LTN implementation plus drastic main-road measures would have been fine in tandem. so now it’s time to finish the job and fix that divide by sorting Hackney roads out for everyone.
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James Manning
5 years
quick, get your tix to come and hear me and people from some great hyperlocal magazines chat about London's amazing neighbourhoods this evening!
@magculture
magCulture
5 years
A handful of extra tickets have been released for our sold out talk @thehoxton Shoreditch! Join us to hear about the making of neighbourhood mags with @TimeOutLondon , @couriermedia , @selondonjournal + @VillageRawMag
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James Manning
7 years
The wonderful @maggieinlondon on the joy of bollards:
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