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imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Capitol storming is a January tradition for Donald

This is great: “How do we minimize upfront carbon and operating emissions while improving health and comfort with the least stuff for the most people?”

Surprisingly little coverage of the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, tbh. The undisputed high watermark for multilateralism and a belief in a better future, as well as the primary mechanism for averting civilisation-scale disaster, and the milestone is still passing largely without comment.

Vaccines cause adults. 👍

Delighted that my motion on 'Investing in Housing and Investigating Rent Controls' passed at full council today - thank you to everyone who wrote to their councillors, to Cllr Cowan for seconding and fellow councillors for your support. Watch the debate at m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeAR...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Your periodic reminder that if the global economy doesn’t get to net zero emissions temperatures will keep rising to the point where they trigger the failure of natural carbon sinks, runaway climate breakdown, and the collapse of the only civilisation-supporting biosphere in the known universe.

Wow, top article on UK National Emergency Briefing! By Claire Pool <notes name>. "food supply crisis cd cause civil unrest in the U.K. within the next decade, food security experts say". 👍 Mentions WW2 and mobilisation twice. Very good! Establish this image so itemised rationing is the logical next.

Yes. 8% is the global reduction rate from the start of 2026 &for an “83% chance of not exceeding 2°C” (based on Lamboll et al 2023 budgets). Include a relatively weak interpretation of international equity & the UK reduction rate would be nearer 13%pa; similar to that for most ‘developed’ countries.

Excellent action on just transition from UK Gov:

💼 IN THE BUDGET: Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms a call for evidence on support for co-op growth, as part of our shared mission to double the size of the co-operative sector.

⚡️🔒 Britain is still locked out of the electric future following today’s Budget. Yes, there’s short-term relief - but it doesn’t back the long-term electrification we need to escape the cost of living crisis.

If the EV road charge is set at 3p per mile tomorrow, that's about the same as adding 25p per litre to fuel duty. Let that sink in.

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Cutting #heatpump support would be a false economy. Yes it’s taken up by middle and higher income households but these early adopters are helping companies build out their customer journeys, deal with teething problems, support #greenjobs and normalise a new technology. It’s not a handout.

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Clearly the aim here is political rather than economic: it’s about building credibility with markets ahead of a push for independence That’s fine - as long as politicians are clear that’s the aim, and don’t mislead the public by acting like this will result in more investment

The cost of living crisis was caused in large part by gas prices. Heat pump policy supports a solution which which gets the country off gas AND reduces emissions. I seriously hope this is some crossed wires, if not we really are in trouble. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests. It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts. It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw. That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

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Tessa Khan of Uplift doing a great job of grounding discussion at the Just Transition Commission Summit in the ecological and economic reality of the climate crisis. Discussion is otherwise dancing a little too politely around the feelings of the oil and gas industry IMO.

I'm very pleased to see that my work on the ScotWind scandal has been getting some traction again after being quoted recently by Future Economy Scotland. I do encourage folk to read their report as it ties my work in with the work of others like the STUC.

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Dry-lining fail - meeting to discuss specific cases - Friday 21 November 2025. if this is of interest to you, contact [email protected] for further details.

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The Guild of Master Heat Engineers is up and running. Check it out👇 BetaTeach.co.uk #heatpumps #energy

I spent years reporting on digital IDs like the Brit Card. This is what I found ⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/digital-i...

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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Out in Dennistoun today

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

I spent the afternoon in the woods, in a haze of peace and loveliness. Then came home and heard on the news an Irish doctor working in Gaza describe the clearly systematic, mass targeting of Palestinian children by Israeli snipers. It's just crazy making. How can such pure evil exist in the world?

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The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Electricians and plumbers will triumph in AI race – Nvidia boss www.channel4.com/news/electri...

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breaking news: in response to a chant of “shoot keir starmer” at the fascist parade in london, the government has announced plans to shoot keir starmer

The size of the UTK rally and Reform’s rise in the polls aren’t isolated events. They’re signs of a strategy that’s working. 🧵

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This is great and I would further submit that a further destabilising force is huge numbers of people are losing any faith in the ‘rule of law’ because people are being arrested for their support for a spray painting gang that opposes genocide.

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