Sorry David, but I think this argument rests on several false premises that don't quite add up. 🧵⬇️

Such interesting data to publish. Not least because I'm told semi-regularly that MPs don't hear enough from constituents about climate, nature and the environment. Allowing for some agriculture/food and international affairs contact being on environmental issues, it's the single most common issue!

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

The generation that grew up under New Labour should have an affinity to Labour. They could give Starmer the benefit of the doubt on Mandelson. Say Reeves is doing a good enough job with an impossible hand. That Ed is great, education & the NHS are fine, renters & workers rights are what they want.

A small point from the Mandelson/Robbins saga. Refom and many Tories argue for a civil service than can be more easily bent to the will and whims of their elected political masters. This is precisely what happened here.

Based on what we know of the No 10 operation it's entirely possible that both things are true. Huge pressure exerted by McSweeney while the PM (chose to) remain uninformed.

Ed Miliband becoming the more obvious answer every day.

Making this grim read even more depressing is that "the belief that process can, in and of itself, lead to better outcomes" is probably quite widely shared across the UK political class.

Tomorrow, UK retail time of use power prices will fall as low as -11p/kWh because it's sunny and windy. Renewables are decoupling electricity prices from fossil fuels, starting an afternoon at a time.

institute.global/insights/cli... Kind of mad that 11 years on we live in a world where the level of support for not burning the world is partly determined by a group of people who don't like Ed Miliband, blame him for losing in 2015, and so think his political judgement on everything is suspect.

Emperor penguins have been reclassified from ‘Near Threatened’ to ‘Endangered’. We need to take action to tackle climate change and safeguard their habitats. The fate of these magnificent birds is in our hands. www.wwf.org.uk/press-releas...

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction

Tice said again today that Reform would introduce fracking to bring down gas prices. It remains super unpopular, especially in the places Reform want to win. They aren't getting hammered on it by Labour or NGOs nearly enough. It should be on every leaflet in North East Derbyshire and Blackpool South

I wonder how quickly petrol prices and mortgage rates will fall compared to how quickly they rose, and just how big the profits will be in the gap?

That is an amazing saving compared to how much that we have lost over the last 10 years

It's a day of the week with a "y" in it so of course Reform are lying to you. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Daily Mirror: Spoils of War #TomorrowsPapersToday

This is such incredible abject nonsense. If the straight stays closed ordinary people will have to use less oil and gas. Price is the fairest rationing mechanism that incentivises people who can to switch and to reduce consumption.

If you want to imagine an incredibly bleak future, you'd start by trying to make a country like the UK economically self-suffucient. Amazing thing for someone who was the economics editor of a major newspaper for decades to say.

Huge respect for Ed Miliband's refusal to back down to pressure over North Sea oil. The fact is drilling for oil in the North Sea will do NOTHING to fix the Iran crisis. The only long term solution to this crisis, and others that will follow, is renewables. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda

Doing boring stuff that makes every day life better is the job of government. Labour could learn a thing or two from this kind of message backed by real activity. Rather than vague 'growth' stuff.

Scratch that, having just listened to the 6 o’clock news on Radio 4, I think I must have imagined the march. Not a mention.

I remember a seminar at uni on 'power'. The 8 of us were asked to present on different aspects of power - religious, military, political, cultural, economic, patriarchal, etc., and after each one the Fellow leading it would sigh deeply and say 'but isn't that all just money'.

You could make a new category of Peer - all metro mayors in the Lords for a fixed term for the period they are mayors. A step towards creating the assembly of nations and regions.

We’re in Parliament today for our #EarthHour event! 🌍 From 11am we’re inviting MPs to drop in, make a pledge, and show their support for our world ahead of Earth Hour, 28th March. Want to help? Tag your MP in the replies and ask them to come say hello. 👋

Remember how we kept hearing about Denmark's crackdown on immigration as the supposed saviour of the centre-left and a model for Labour? The social democrats have lost 12 of their 50 seats and around a fifth of their vote share. They might, just barely, stay in power. But a triumph it ain't.

Lots of big delivery challenges remains, but taken in conjunction with the Warm Homes Plan, the clean power mission, planning reforms, and today's news of new energy bill discounts on windy days, the government's long term green economy and energy security plans are making some real progress.

I wrote about James Orr, Reform UK's head of policy, and whether Britain might start to see a US-style Christian right as.ft.com/r/9fbbf6c8-9...

"Dear Diary, I've had to stop doing Cameo videos after being caught shouting "CUNT!" and supporting Neo-Nazis. I'll just have to indulge my need to say anything for money by repeating lies about North Sea oil in exchange for cash from donors linked to fossil fuels"

It’s genuinely rather sweet how the people who were wrong about austerity, wrong about Brexit, wrong about Trump, and are now wrong about Iran still think everyone should take them seriously.

Abolish the Home Office.

My full quote to the Times on why it’s bananas to let landowners release 50m pheasants into the British countryside without proper regulations, given their ecological impacts and role as a vector for bird flu:

Painfully short-sighted. Everything David Lammy said as Foreign Secretary at Kew 18 months ago remains true. The climate and nature emergency is "the most profound and universal source of global disorder", "it would be a... failure of imagination to hope that they will stay far from our shores."

Stagflation here we come.

Is it just me, or does this look like government statement by ai? A classic em-dash. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Nigel Farage at #PMQs with all the bluster and none of the evidence. Apparently he believes UK oil drilling, with tax on produces cut, will increase tax receipts and reduce bills. When all the evidence is to the contrary. A fossilised mouthpiece of a fossil industry in Parliament.

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

And why shouldn't a barman have a degree?

Is this even legal?

How quite a lot of university colleges allocate rooms. Top of the ballot one year you get the beautiful apartment with ensuite and kitchenette. Then you're at the bottom of the list next year in the windowless basement.

Not sure Reform'll Fix It is the best message given the other famous user of that phrase.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Obviously there shouldn't be hereditary peers, but doesn't take away that there are some nice individuals who are great to work with & care passionately about making good legislation. Often the ones who won't be trying to cling on, like the Earl of Devon featured here.

Can this be a solution?

Only 3 of the UK's 23 nature targets are currently on track. We need urgent Government action to protect and restore nature for people & wildlife. 🍃 👉 jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-publ...

"The lessons of our history are clear: Britain can have a successful nuclear industry, we can build power stations quickly and it need not threaten our glorious natural inheritance" Sure thing Keir. Sounds legit. No need to investigate further.

Initial thoughts from Campaign for National Parks CEO: "It’s deeply frustrating especially when the evidence shows that the [protected landscapes] duty supports well-planned development, and the case for repeal made by Fingleton was largely based on a blog." www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ros...

How come the Fingleton Review Response - a policy document on just one area of energy infrastructure - got a foreword from the PM? Something the far more consequential Environment Improvement Plan and the Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan didn't deserve.