Zoe Avison
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Senior political adviser at Uplift. Fossil fuels, climate change and politics.
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Matt Steinglass
about 16 hours ago
Our data journalism is great and this was instructive, but note that burning a barrel of oil produces 433kg CO2 equivalent. So this is the difference between adding 22% (Venezuela) or 6% (Brazil) to the CO2 emitted. Significant but not game-changing
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jacks microblog
10 days ago
bluesky's discover function is like na'vi style tail connecting with stephen bush's inner monolouge
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Man, the PM's substack has an unfortunate name
15 days ago
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Including the wonderful observation of budget coverage: "Newspapers were filled with the victims of a brutal reverse-mugging by the housing market, which wrestled their wallets open and filled them with housing equity."
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The perfect job doesn't exi-
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Ed King
about 1 month ago
Merz memes at
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murmurs over Westminster last week
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about 1 month ago
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Hannah Ritchie
about 2 months ago
Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
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It is 6th November and, incredibly, people in London are still enjoying al fresco dining. Ironically, right outside Shell HQ.
about 2 months ago
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Tessa Khan
2 months ago
🔈We've got two exciting short-term opportunities at Uplift: a 3-month research consultancy to start ASAP and a 6-month policy advisor role starting in January 2026. Get in touch with any Qs! More details on our website:
www.upliftuk.org/jobs
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Jobs
https://www.upliftuk.org/jobs
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Dylan Difford
2 months ago
Even in Labour vs Reform contests, where the nature of swing means Labour to Reform defections count double, the electoral strength/cost of losses to LDs and Grns is now ~66% higher than that of losses to Reform.
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Duncan Robinson
2 months ago
Magnificent piece
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It's a good article about an infuriating market trend but it doesn't mention that it's not just women's pockets that are smaller, it's also our hands.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Massive lol at the honesty from Total Politics and OEUK here "our client felt that it was important to ensure that all messaging at the event aligns very closely with OEUK’s priorities during this particularly sensitive moment for their advocacy efforts”.
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Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy
Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/sustainability-professors-talk-at-uk-party-conferences-cancelled
2 months ago
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needless to say but, if you were actually talking to students, The Times would be a very strange place to do it
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G🅰️reth
5 months ago
State of the nation novel that follows the lives of 12 diverse, seemingly unconnected people living in London, interspersed with vignettes about the dismantling of wet wipe island. At the end of the book it's revealed they all flushed wetwipes that contributed to the island.
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Sophie E. Hill
3 months ago
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵
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Tessa Khan
3 months ago
While the Tory party's energy & climate policy grows increasingly detached from reality, worth reflecting on a remarkable, under-reported event at Labour conference: the launch of Climate Jobs UK, a campaign by GMB, Prospect & other TUs focused on the creation of good jobs in the energy transition 🧵
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Akshat Rathi
3 months ago
The US is pursuing "energy dominance" and forcing allies to buy US oil and gas. And, yet, China is beating the US on energy exports. Surprised? Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Andrew Sissons
3 months ago
I know this is a futile exercise, but let’s count the mistakes in that one Payne paragraph… 1. “Renewables are no longer the cheapest form of energy” - don’t think so. Offshore wind has got more expensive recently, but onshore and solar remain cheap. And gas probably still costs more than offshore
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Actually, lots of people know. This is just an admission that someone has never bothered asking, despite once being in charge of managing some really chunky transitions for sectors that fall under DBT, like steel, cars and ceramics.
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Morten Morland
3 months ago
Friday’s
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Tom Haddon
3 months ago
On the day the Conservative party is telling you that natural gas is the cheap choice, this analysis is perfectly timed. Almost every type of energy generation is currently being smashed by inflationary factors riddled throughout the supply chain. We would do well to engage with reality.
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Nicolas Fulghum
3 months ago
NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️ Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019. As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.
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Andrew Sissons
3 months ago
I have a question for the Conservative Party
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G🅰️reth
3 months ago
In the future, everyone will run a your party membership portal for 5 minutes
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Eliot Higgins
3 months ago
This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.
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Corners of wikipedia
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David Walsh
3 months ago
The tone of this from the BBC. Khan 'Has not announced any plans' could so easily be ready as he has them, they just aren't public yet. The tone of rebuttal really should be so much more decisive.
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Tessa Khan
3 months ago
If you're in sunny Bournemouth today, come along to the cracking panel we've organised to discuss how to secure a fair transition for the North Sea. Speakers include Lib Dem climate spokes
@pippaheylings.bsky.social
MP, Alastair Carmichael MP, Elliot Chapman-Jones &
@dominicmhinde.bsky.social
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Talk about low expectations: Kemi hasn't made a public statement on the Tommy Robinson march but, crucially, *nor has anybody noticed*
3 months ago
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Jack Stilgoe
3 months ago
Fascinating job opportunity at ARIA. Leading public engagement for the climate innovation programme
aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...
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Communications & Engagement Lead: Future Proofing our Climate & Weather
Job Opening: Communications & Engagement Lead: Future Proofing our Climate & Weather at ARIA in London.
https://aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/b2093824-4525-43a7-8c9f-8c7613dadbbb
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Sophie E. Hill
3 months ago
I've been wrangling some data on UK All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) recently, and I feel compelled to share my highly scientific ranking of APPG Vibes... 🧵
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Gabriel Milland
3 months ago
A lot of resistance to Net Zero is because people think we can no longer do stuff. Can't build things, like new nuclear and new grid infra. It's important to *show* incremental progress. Really important. Vital.
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Andrew Sparrow
4 months ago
Labour publishes 'expanded' list of 52 PPS appointments -
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Joel Suss
4 months ago
After my article on the rise in negative news yesterday, nice to see a good news story!: "the delivery of one of the largest UK infrastructure projects roughly on time and close to budget"
on.ft.com/41OFYOS
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‘Super sewer’ chief bows out to the sweet smell of success
London’s £5bn Thames Tideway project has been completed without drama using a pioneering financial model
https://on.ft.com/41OFYOS
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John Burn-Murdoch
4 months ago
British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
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hackney council let me shrink your deficit
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4 months ago
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Odds that this is the same anonymous government source that has been briefing all year that Ed Miliband is imminently getting sacked? 🤡 Also ignoring that there was already a DBT/DESNZ joint role, previously occupied by Sarah Jones
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From the excellent PoliticsHome piece behind the scenes with Your party
4 months ago
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Chaos....and Ed Miliband.
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Simon Evans
4 months ago
FACTCHECK: No, North Sea gas is not "four times cleaner" than LNG imports After Kemi Badenoch pledged to extract every last drop from the North Sea, we've been engulfed by waves of long-dead zombie factoids. "Four times cleaner" is one of the silliest.
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Jess Ralston
4 months ago
How much oil and gas is REALLY left in the North Sea? 🤔 According to a new report by oil and gas lobby group
@oeuk.bsky.social
, loads!!!! *As long as they get subsidies and deregulation* Is this true? And if so, would it lower bills? Let's investigate...
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Andrew Sissons
4 months ago
I’m late to this, but this is a nice analysis on electricity prices by Chris Goodall. It shows that in 2025 GB day-ahead wholesale electricity prices are lower (really quite a bit lower) on days where the grid has more renewable power.
www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2025/8/...
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Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices | Carbon Commentary
We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any trut...
https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2025/8/18/renewables-do-unambiguously-reduce-wholesale-power-prices
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Tessa Khan
4 months ago
Badenoch wants to unleash the O&G regulator (the NSTA) to finally focus on maximising extraction. But the NSTA already has a Principal Objective, enshrined in law no less, that is literally "maximising the economic recovery" of oil & gas. Does she want the NSTA to encourage uneconomic extraction? /2
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Torsten Bell
4 months ago
These Tory MPs are going to be furious when they find out who was in power when employment in offshore oil and gas HALVED between 2014 and 2023. The Conservatives are doubling down on being a cheap Reform tribute act rather than a serious party
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Badenoch pledges to make North Sea oil and gas ‘cornerstone’ of UK economy
Conservative leader says she will end 'Labour's ban' on new oil and gas licences.
https://news.stv.tv/politics/kemi-badenoch-pledges-to-make-north-sea-oil-and-gas-cornerstone-of-uk-economy
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Tessa Khan
4 months ago
This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:
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