Richard Leeming
Innovation consultant, working on digital and data transformation for the public good. Labour & Co-op candidate for Dulwich Village Ward.
Promoted by Conor Carolan on behalf of Southwark Labour Party both at 264 Rosendale Road SE24 9DL
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingEU tech law EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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- The glacial pace of change in regulation of micromobility by the DfT has left a situation where the rules are often out of line with what many people are doing.”
- Reposted by Richard Leeming3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days. Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI. My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Richard LeemingReminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Richard LeemingBrilliant letter in The Economist from Professor Ian Wray Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool www.economist.com/letters/2026...
- Hi Google. Precisely the best time to get your deprecated Nest protects to chirp every minute to tell they’re deprecated (which I know) is 4.45am … thank you.
- Reposted by Richard LeemingPolice in Birmingham held a roads policing operation, supported by volunteer Special Constables. In one evening on one road, they pulled over 166 vehicles and took action in a staggering 1 in 3 stops. Imagine if Roads Policing was properly funded!
- Baffled by the new statesman. I cancelled my print subscription and replaced it with a digital subscription at 1/6 the price and get an email offering me loads of extra benefits…
- As I’ve been saying: “slam a new tax on the devices consumers need to access AI — phones, laptops, iPads and so on — then channel the revenue back into the creative industries.” Call it a levy & this a) replaces the licence fee and b) provides revenue for ACE www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
- Reposted by Richard LeemingWhat we are seeing in their case, as Kidron says, is a “massive transfer of wealth from creators to corporations and from the UK to the US”. www.thetimes.com/article/3c0c...
- Reposted by Richard LeemingOn almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
- This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Richard Leeming💬 Big moment for #MyRideOurRight Yesterday, MPs from across parties debated women’s safety while walking, wheeling, cycling and running, hearing how road design must reflect real experiences and why safety fears still deter many from cycling. 🧡 cyclinguk.org/westminster-mror
- Reposted by Richard LeemingThe defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform
- Reposted by Richard Leeming443 children are injured on the school run in London every year. That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious. London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingA Swedish city's one-year project is testing how various public services would function in the scenario of a digital blackout theconversation.com/europe-wants...
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingAnother example of us doing what is right for Londoners: More liveable neighbourhoods Healthier communities Fewer Collisions Fewer deaths and serious injuries Change isn’t easy, but I’m willing to make tough choices to make our city safer.
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingBanning children from using devices won't stop kids going online. It creates secrecy, it will stop kids from talking to trusted adults when they come across dangerous content. It also takes the responsibility from companies like X cleaning up their act on misinformation, abusive/dangerous content.
- Talked to my 13 year old about this earlier, this was basically the conclusion we came to. Accountability must rest with the platforms.
- Reposted by Richard LeemingAfter one day of unity over Trump the Mail, the Telegraph, Times and Badenoch have decided the Chagos are more important than the destruction of the western alliance and backed the insane ramblings of a rogue president who was fine with the deal last year. We see you #collaborators
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingHard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out
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- Reposted by Richard Leemingadded this to my moodboard on technology's ongoing erosion of leeway and a closing of all the gaps, workarounds, loopholes that previous generations benefitted from. 'Bureaucracies often have something that computers do not: logical escape valves' www.publicstrategist.com/2015/05/leew...
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- This is a classic example of how everything Reform touch they make worse. Our high streets are dying largely because of car culture. People drive to out of town shopping centres. The 15 minute city concept promotes liveable neighbourhoods. Reform are pro car anti 15 minute city. And so it goes on.
- Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingHouseholds could be offered interest-free loans to install solar panels and heat pumps as part of the government's Warm Homes Plan, which could come as soon as next week, PolHome understands @nadinebh.bsky.social reports
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- Neither are Spotify “podcasting pioneers”. Working in syndication for BBC radio in about 2009 I met Spotify and offered them access to the BBC’s podcasting catalogue. They written weren’t interested.
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingShutting down X is no longer a matter of free speech. It is a matter of child protection.
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- Seconded. In a tiny victory this morning I’ve ensured that the preamble to southwark council meetings no longer includes telling attendees that they’re allowed to ‘tweet’ the proceedings.
- Reposted by Richard LeemingIf the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
- Reposted by Richard LeemingCritically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc
- 90% of Britons support government proposals to require drivers over the age of 70 to have their vision checked every three years - including 89% of the over-65s yougov.co.uk/topics/trave...
- Reposted by Richard LeemingSorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
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- “In Britain the most important lesson is the old one: we cannot rely on anyone else and must look after ourselves. That means protecting our democracy aggressively against outsiders, from US tech moguls to Russian troll farms, who want to subvert it.” magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/01/06/a...
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingUnder the Treason Felony Act 1848, it is a crime punishable by life imprisonment to intimidate parliament or encourage any foreign power to invade the U.K. We should be applying this law to every traitor openly calling for the U.S to depose our democratically elected government.
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- There are few things less progressive and more repulsive than weaponising foreign military adventurism for your supposed domestic political advantage.
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- Where “Analysis by The Times” = “health advice from an obese alcoholic”
- I’ve raised the question of whether Southwark Council should be using X a couple of times now. I’ll be raising it again tomorrow.
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- Reposted by Richard LeemingIn news that should surprise no one…
