There is no one alive today who can remember a time when North Bridge was roadworks-free.
Chris Murray
The Public Record
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August 2, 2026
North Bridge is fully open! Huge thanks to everyone involved in the mammoth repair job to get it reopened in both directions.
— Chris Murray
Further drilling for fossil fuels is madness when we face these challenges.
The consequences of climate change are clear to see - whether that is emergency services stretched by tackling heatwaves, farmers struggling through droughts or towns coping with the economic and human impacts of flooding.
Now, more than ever, we need politicians willing to stand strong on climate action as the country swelters through record-breaking heatwaves, in the hottest summer of our lives - so far.
We are seeing the consequences of our reliance on fossil fuels play out in real time. This is only the hottest June of your life so far. It makes no sense that, as the country swelters, some are calling for us to permit Rosebank, the UK’s…
It's an incredibly simple, cheap and now turning out to be effective intervention both for individuals, but also for communities.
There's clearly a relationship between how much people are out and about and how much transmission occurs.
We've really got to focus on scaling up testing and contact tracing and isolation.
I think we've entered a new phase. People in the U.S. are going to become more active. States are going to take off mandates.
If more states started putting those orders in place immediately, would that affect the death toll? Absolutely.
I am frankly astonished at the suggestion that we should not extend this compulsory license because if you want to see the marketplace break down almost instantaneously and you want to see consumer prices go through the roof almost…





