The media needs to stop providing people with extreme fringe views such frequent platforms. And it also needs to recognise that viewpoints it rarely platforms are in fact widespread amongst the public

want a budget scoop? Here it is www.ft.com/content/6cbb...

My colleague Leo Vincent, who is quoted in this piece, sums up my feelings about this story better than I can:

Really great to see @pickardje.bsky.social and Rachel Millard covering E3G's letter signed by more than 60 groups, including energy companies, consumer groups and climate charities calling on the Chancellor to cut electricity bills not VAT. My colleague Chris Galpin is quoted:

Apropos of nothing I just want to say "well duh"

Not sure "the bond market chooses the Prime Minister and they've chosen me" is a winning argument

Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.

I just don't think setting up a new party needs to be this dramatic www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Renewables are the future

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

"progressives have really gotta figure out how to deal with this buzzkill problem" Marc Maron

Fantasising about the alternate reality in which the BBC Director General resigns for not adequately covering climate change

Climate change, coming soon to a town near you

E3G is on the front page of the Guardian website today with 60 other organisations, from energy suppliers to consumer groups, fuel poverty charities and climate NGOs, urging the government not to cut one of its major decarbonisation schemes, ECO, in the budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

E3G is on the front page of the Guardian website today with 60 other organisations, from energy suppliers to consumer groups, fuel poverty charities and climate NGOs, urging the government not to cut one of its major decarbonisation schemes, ECO, in the budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Frightening stuff in Camarthenshire on the same day as the Prince of Wales' speech at COP. Any government that claims to care about working people must take climate action www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Evidence that being "gender critical" has nothing to do with listening to women. Women have made it clear that trans women are welcome in the ladies' pond at Hamstead Heath, and now a small group of transphobes is going to court to override them.

Important thread here on the possibility of scrapping ECO. I would add that when ECO was cut in 2013, 10,000 people lost their jobs. That's more than 3 times as many than Scunthorpe steel works and a whopping 20 times more than Grangemouth oil refinery

Renewable energy is the future

My comms hero @anatosaurus.bsky.social always says "if you want to recruit people to your cause, be attractive." I think the Zohran Mandani campaign is the apotheosis of that theory. It just looked fun, and I think that's a really underrated factor in his victory

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

Zohran Mamdani ran one of the best political campaigns of my lifetime against opponents that had billions of dollars to play with, and with a split Democrat vote. His victory is well earned

Sorry but this is mad. Cutting a scheme that will deliver insulation that can lower bills by up to £300 a year so you can pay for £170 in bill reductions? Make it make sense www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING 65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction China is an outlier - but maybe not for long @e3g.bsky.social www.e3g.org/publications...

"The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is." Dick Cheney

A total and utter hero

A politician's job is to improve the world

Watched Sinners yesterday and I think it is an absolutely superb film. I could have written reams about it. But a cameo from Buddy Guy? A cover of Wang Dang Doodle by RL Burnside's grandson? Ryan Coogler you are really spoiling us

Please consider donating whatever you can to help the people of Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa 🇯🇲 www.projecthope.org/news-stories...

Please consider donating whatever you can to help the people of Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa 🇯🇲 www.projecthope.org/news-stories...

I fucking knew it.

If there is a way out for Graham Planter, it starts with solemnly recognising that the tattoo is a pretty fkn big deal

Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

je sais qui a cambriole la Louve

Via City Hall: "Sadiq Khan has launched a new £2.7 million programme to deliver indoor air quality filters to hundreds of schools across the capital, bringing cleaner air to tens of thousands of children in their classrooms. "At least 200 schools across London will receive HEPA filters."

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

If you told the average British person you've never eaten most takeaways because they're not British, you would simply come off as weird I'm afraid

Recommendations for non fiction books that are page turners, like Say Nothing, The Looming Tower?

Delays to the #UK government’s £13bn Warm Homes Plan risk holding back investment, jobs and household savings. As E3G's @jamesdyson.bsky.social told @thetimes.com, swift action is vital to boost the economy, cut bills and deliver cleaner, more secure energy. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

ugh its just too terrifying really

The mounting evidence of natural carbon sinks failing really should be one of the biggest stories in the world right now, demanding a response from governments and boardrooms everywhere. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520467...

This is interesting from the founders of Green New Deal Rising - it's a big challenge to the climate movement changetheweather.substack.com/p/reform-is-...

The Onion can re-run this today with D’Angelo swapped in for Prince RIP a(nother) legend @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

oh my god

🧵Quarterly post that is actually about energy policy: There was an NAO report out today about big failures of a scheme introduced by the previous government to reduce households' CO2 emissions. The scheme, ECO, obligated energy companies to pay installers to fit heat pumps, solar, insulation etc.