Indeed. We’ve always known you can win on the basis that Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer did, but the reason not to do it is that it makes government impossible.

Truly not a day has passed in a political science department in the UK for the last two years where we are not all turning to each other in the hallways and going "WTAF are they smoking." We are not a discipline with a lot of consensus research findings, but there is absolute consensus on this.

I honestly don't know what it means to be "credible" on immigration when neither falling numbers nor extremely hostile rhetoric seem to make any difference whatsoever

Big win for the party that wants to increase gas reliance in the middle of a gas crisis, hates the clean technologies that are enjoying booming demand and will dominate the 21st century, and embraces Trumpist climate denial even as catastrophic climate impacts intensify everywhere.

Political parties dominated by urban graduates just don't seem to be able to speak to other areas but assume a lowest common denominator politics which doesn't get good outcomes electorally, socially, or economically. That's the picture that needs to change.

Chaos with Ed Miliband has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed. #LE2026

Remember that company that Trump paid a billion dollars so that they *wouldn't* build offshore wind farms in the US? They're doing amazing shit over in Europe. Floating turbines are so cool!

But also do Republican men think he's the AI Rambo image on X while Democratic women know he's a rotting heap of solipsisms?

There are only six ways to jumpstart growth: *More immigration *Rejoin EU Single Market *Return to high speed rail *Intensify green revolution *Spend more, change budget rules *Face down NIMBYs Reform will set us back on every single front. They can be beat. You just have to try.

Just seen a truly mind-blowing new report coming out tomorrow which politely points out to unnamed people (the Conservatives and Reform) that making the country more reliant on gas in the middle of A GLOBAL GAS CRISIS is not actually a great idea.

Labour has had success, particularly in departments where incoming ministers were across their briefs before the election - the contrast with those that were not is stark. But so often a highly defensive No10 has treated progressive, successful policy suspiciously as though it's a challenge.

Denial is among the most immature and destructive of human traits. Yet it is all around us: Denial of antisemitism Denial of Islamophobia Denial of climate breakdown Denial of democratic breakdown. We should put away childish things and face our monsters.

"Orban Wallace’s film about the @righttoroam.bsky.social movement shows us a campaigning group with a simple, reasonable aim: to give walkers in England & Wales the same rights that people have in Scotland" A glowing 4-star review of OUR LAND from Peter Bradshaw www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Stopping this lot is, in many ways, the only UK political project that matters in the next few years. Lots of us are going to have to hold our noses at various points because the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that

I can't make this - if a Bristol offshoot emerges I'll be there - but would encourage everyone to attend if you can

Ed Miliband is right. 'Spain's pivot to renewables has been a big win for household energy bills. In 2019, prior to its wind and solar revolution, it had some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Now it has some of the cheapest.' www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

There’s no “accused” about it - a politician being handed £5m IS a conflict of interest. Accepting such a gift is an open and shut case of not being interested in, let alone fit for, public service www.ft.com/content/6a56...

Not one mention of sustainability or overfishing in this BBC story about catfish replacing cod. *Why* are cod and haddock too expensive? The UK's national broadcaster doesn't deem that to be of public interest.

May Day in Berlin.

Governments in some of the world's leading economies once again state that they are basically done with fossil fuels. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529034...

the incoherence of the ecomodernist position is driving me absolutely crazy (not sure where this thread is going yet, it's hard to know where to start)

Golly. Mark Rowley not holding back. Looking on the brightside, someone in The Green's social media team just won a long running argument.

"We decided not to resign ourselves to an economy built on the destruction of life". Irene Vélez Torres, Colombia’s environment minister

The good people at 350.org have put out a report on the cost of fossil fuel reliance—beyond the cost of the stuff at the pumps and utility meters. $1400/year. 1/2

Easy to dismiss the legalistic approach to driving climate action given the raw power of those states blocking progress, but equally states do have legal obligations not to impose harms on their populations and neighbours. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528840...

Yep - thoughts on that: demos.co.uk/research/the...

Would repeat others praise for this - its very good and far too often we jusy break things down to pure economic stats without thinking more widely. There is obviously a balance to be struck: but that doesnt mean Europe is in the wrong place any more than the US is right

On Twitter I once shared that transport accounts for only 3-6% of food-related emissions, and the vast bulk of food emissions are from land use & ag production, and WHAT (eg beef) matters way more than WHERE. I woke up to hundreds of angry responses from people in the UK who produce or eat meat.

“The irony is that the government thinks it’s been quite busy but looks to the public like it’s inert and rudderless,” observes @robertsaunders.bsky.social, pointing to a communications strategy that's been "pulling in an opposite direction" to the government's legislative agenda.

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

The delink of gas and electricity is long overdue. Time to rid ourselves of fossil fuel reliance and fully embrace our renewable future. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mil...

Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.

Really welcome package of clean energy measures from Ed Miliband coming today. Should make a meaningful difference to energy bills relatively quickly. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528554...

Happily, the government has been listening to Sam. Ed Miliband will be doubling down on clean energy today (giving a speech at 11) announcing moves to shift more legacy renewables on to Contracts for Difference… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These are a really good set of reforms - and carries on the Govts outstanding record on clean power - and will get virtual no coversge because of everything else. Ffs

More good stuff in-coming from Miliband reportedly. An accelerated Warm Homes Plan and reforms to minimise the role of gas in setting power prices are precisely the levers the government should be pulling to try and tackle the oil and gas shock. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528505...

He'd get the worst imaginable abuse from the press, but if the task is to actually govern while uniting and mobilising the left-leaning bloc to vote tactically to defeat Farage and Badenoch he could well be the best candidate.

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.

By my count, this Telegraph article uses EIGHT unnamed sources. The bar for most newspapers using any unnamed source is high. It tells you a lot about the Telegraph's standards and culture that it's happy to do this for what's essentially a gossipy feature about a politician it obsessively hates

not the vicar of christ with another absolute banger of a post

Pope Leo:

The Green Party (and other NIMBYs) talk a lot about how things have to benefit ‘local communities’. What about the national interest? Why is it okay to oppose something that costs you a little but massively benefits the whole country. We don’t take this approach (rightly) to taxes.

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint! www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

These schemes do seem to exist and, thanks to this government, they're about to get a £1bn boost (www.gov.uk/government/n...).

Everyone thinks drones are changing war. Ukrainians say the real problem is much simpler: finding people willing to fight. My latest for @foreignpolicy.com