Environmental policy/politics 🦋 Host of Political Heat podcast, making sense of climate politics 🌍 Writing at political-heat.substack.com ✍️
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10 Aug 2024
I’ve been conflicted about Twitter for a while. Will’s post has persuaded me to stop participating. This is, ever more so, the unaccountable vanity project of an owner who’s pitifully & dangerously lost the plot. 1/ 3
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10 Aug 2024
The same reasoning applies here! You can still follow or subscribe to Political Heat wherever you get your podcasts & on Substack. Or get in touch at politicalheatpod@gmail.com
10 Aug 2024
I’ve been conflicted about Twitter for a while. Will’s post has persuaded me to stop participating. This is, ever more so, the unaccountable vanity project of an owner who’s pitifully & dangerously lost the plot. 1/ 3
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10 Aug 2024
I’ve been conflicted about Twitter for a while. Will’s post has persuaded me to stop participating. This is, ever more so, the unaccountable vanity project of an owner who’s pitifully & dangerously lost the plot. 1/ 3
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10 Aug 2024
I’m deleting the app, but keeping the handle so no one can pretend to be me.
For now, I’ll be on LinkedIn and Substack 2/ 3
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10 Aug 2024
Most likely it’ll be better for my general wellbeing & productivity too. Maybe I’ll do more writing and less doom-scrolling 🤷♀️
It’s also just not a very useful platform anymore.
Thanks for all the good-faith interactions on here over the years! 3/ 3
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4 Aug 2024
Our diversity is our greatest strength, there is no place in our city for those who try to divide us.
The violence we have seen across the country, and in South Yorkshire, since the devastating attack in Southport is not protest, but hate. 1/
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31 Jul 2024
Welcome to see @Ed_Miliband announce a bumper renewables auction round budget of over £1.5bn 👏
As @Ember recently reminded us, offshore wind is 60% cheaper than the alternative - fossil gas. gov.uk/government/news/recor…
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28 Jul 2024
The latest blog explores an expansive idea of #beauty put forward by @fionacreynolds, a former Director General of the @nationaltrust. She told Amy on the podcast: “we need to get back to the soul of our movement, and beauty is a wonderful way of capturing that….” (1)
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26 Jul 2024
Hopeful comments from @Ed_Miliband on new grid developments:
"This is not just about community benefits but community shares, #community ownership"
"We can integrate concerns about #nature right at the beginning of the planning process" theguardian.com/environment/…
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26 Jul 2024
Recent report from @Regen_insight had some good suggestions on how to deliver energy infrastructure more efficiently, with better public engagement. (NB already good progress on #4!) regen.co.uk/publications/loc…
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31 May 2024
Exaggerating the costs of climate action is a classic "discourse of delay"
Yes we need trillions of dollars, but it's an investment: the benefits (avoided damage, economic growth, fuel savings) outweigh costs.
Ask whose interests are served by massive climate finance estimates.
4 Jun 2022
No @McKinsey, it will not cost $9 trillion per year to solve #ClimateChange, it will only cost a small fraction of this amount medium.com/oneearth/no-mckin… #EnergyTransition
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25 Jul 2024
As @Ed_Miliband & @Keir_Starmer launch GB Energy today, note this was a hugely popular policy with voters during the general election campaign moreincommon.org.uk/general-…
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25 Jul 2024
Some quick thoughts on Great British Energy, now that more detail has been revealed. /1
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25 Jul 2024
The UK’s strength in offshore #wind is old news. But the prospect of the British public having a direct stake in its success is a new direction for #energy policy thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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23 Jul 2024
Primary #steel production is a strategic industry for the UK. Instead of letting the sector continue to lurch from crisis to crisis, the govt should insist on - and invest in - a proper transition from #coal to #hydrogen
22 Jul 2024
🚨BREAKING: Right now the climate movement is uniting in solidarity with steelworkers outside Tata Steel HQ in London.
You may be wondering - why is Greenpeace supporting steelworkers? 🧵
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23 Jul 2024
Encouraging snapshots of @KamalaHarris positions on #climate gathered in today’s @CarbonBrief newsletter.
Sources: washingtonpost.com/politics/… & nytimes.com/2024/07/22/clima…
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23 Jul 2024
Might seem counterintuitive but I think it’s v important - bringing together politics and an expansive idea of “beauty”. With a cast of characters including @fionacreynolds @adriennemaree @cprepdsy @nationaltrust & my former neighbour affectionately known as Gordon the Warden
23 Jul 2024
Out now: the blog post to accompany Episode 8 with @fionacreynolds. It explores whether the #climate movement should be fighting for #beauty
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22 Jul 2024
Strong argument from @martinwolf_ based on new @Demos report which argues “if government wants to be trusted by the people, it must itself start to trust the people.” ft.com/content/40bab0b3-5f19…
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22 Jul 2024
And I've written on similar themes (#climate, #democracy, #trust) more recently on my @PoliticalHeat24 substack politicalheat.substack.com/p…
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22 Jul 2024
There must be something in the air today... another report in the same vein x.com/ASmallAMount/status/18…
22 Jul 2024
Unusual collaboration between @CPRE, @RenewableUK & @AldersgateGrp today concludes "the planning system for energy infrastructure needs increased strategic direction, stronger resourcing and improved engagement to deliver net zero and protect nature" greenallianceblog.org.uk/202…
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Unusual collaboration between @CPRE, @RenewableUK & @AldersgateGrp today concludes "the planning system for energy infrastructure needs increased strategic direction, stronger resourcing and improved engagement to deliver net zero and protect nature" greenallianceblog.org.uk/202…
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