Relatedly: over half of all the freight moved on Indian Railways is coal. Ditching coal power would release huge amounts of rail network capacity to take lorries off roads in India

Shipping is often seen as a hard to abate sector of the economy. While it’s true that it is a challenge to power a container ship with zero fossil fuels, just getting rid of fossil fuels as a thing we move around the world’s oceans cuts shipping sector emissions by a whopping 40%.

Very obviously but if you said this ten years ago, you got wall-to-wall screaming and finger-pointing for being divisive, insulting, ideologically purist and tribalistic. But it was plainly horrible National Front stuff then, just as it is now.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions. So begins a great commentary by my friend Arwa Aburawa, writing about the 4th issue of the CO2 Newsletter 2/9 allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett...

"In his book ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, the writer Sven Lindqvist carefully and meticulously traces the European colonial legacy of extermination and genocide as he treks across North Africa. And yet, he starts the book with a simple quote: 1/n allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/03/i...

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

'once projects are given a chance to embed, it’s only a small percentage of people who keep ranting on about such projects. Few to no political voices advocate ripping out projects (with some exceptions to populists). The general public acceptance grows over time'

This is off the table stuff. We were meant to have moved in from this. This should finish the party unless it's seen to radically address it. And Labour should stop using Reforms popularity as a justification for its right wing policies. Of course none of this will happen

Why do surveys show strong public support for cycle paths, but Facebookers call it “fake news”? -- "Leadership means pushing past the noise — and over the Hill of Hysteria," says a leading mobility academic. The National Transport Authority has just published the latest findings of its Walking and…

POLL: “Dems' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak… The path to 2026 doesn’t run through the center. It runs through the fight.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

“This policy doesn’t target people who broke the rules. It targets people who trusted them.”

This is bittersweet for me, b/c I initiated the process with TfL that has led to this outcome all the way back in 2017 when TfL supported our initial Riding Sunbeams feasibility study to explore the potential for solar traction. But we fell out of their subsequent tender process at the first hurdle

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge. A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

Haringey u-turning on bringing in bus lanes so returning £10m to TfL, and buses will still be blocked by tons of cars. 🤷‍♀️ What a contrast to Oxford St where we are finally seeing the radical reprioritisation of road space needed to meet a future vision for our city.

"In Paris, France, water is 100% municipally owned and the customer satisfaction rate of the publicly owned Eau de Paris ranges from 90-96%."

I have never really understood the phrase ‘chickens coming home to roost’, but I still know it when I see it

I know it’s only Tuesday and there’s a new World War on, but this is still the stupidest thing I’ve read all week "The feedback from residents was overwhelming and they made it clear these proposals would not reduce congestion in the area which was a key issue for the community."

THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight. But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.

Ellie Chowns asks the PM if he'll publish the legal advice the govt received on the initial US/Israel attack on Iran. Keir Starmer says no, he won't.

On Wednesday, we hand in our #UpTheEnergy open letter to Government. The message is simple: Back #CommunityEnergy. Remove the barriers. Turn plans into power. Britain is ready. Now we need acceleration. ⏰ The deadline for signing is midnight TODAY Mon 2 Mar ⏰ ✒️ actionnetwork.org/forms/open-l...

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…” @nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

🌱 New funding alert We are launching a Community Impact Fund offering up to £3,000 for community‑based environmental sustainability projects. Open to UoM researchers working with community partners across Manchester and beyond. Deadline: 29 March 2026 Apply here: forms.office.com/e/UetbMdsxS1

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

So, it turns out that the UK national security report on nature -only published last month thanks to an FOI request - omitted the most serious forecasts. I've updated my earlier piece here with the @itvnews.bsky.social revelations: medium.com/the-new-clim...

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

"Unquestionably blindly following the Americans is, in my view, the wrong thing to do.. I'd pass legislation that said military action could be taken if.. the lawful case for it was made.. there was a viable objective &.. you got consent of the commons" When's the vote, Keir?

Not that difficult is it

we have reached the “Nazi medical experiments” stage of our concentration camp effort

Good morning to nearly everyone

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we... ...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood. These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.

'The best-laid schemes and all that. At the outset of the contest for Gorton and Denton, one cabinet member offered me this description of Labour’s strategy for hanging on to the seat: “This is about killing the Greens and then slugging it out with Reform.”'' Ouch! c/o @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social

"Reputational Damage" as Labour Together supports 100 Lab MPs with undeclared cash. Labour Together still exists and these days claims to be a Think Tank, Ha!

Ma Jun: ‘No business interest’ in Chinese coal power due to cheaper renewables www.carbonbrief.org/ma-jun-no-bu...

#OtD 1 Mar 1954 a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8111...

“The vast majority of those who are thinking of voting Green are not extreme. Many share our values and hopes for the country but are disappointed with the government. Calling them extreme will only turn more people away.” @london.gov.uk

I’m seeing a lot of ‘Israeli officials confirm’ on my timeline, and well, I think I’ll wait until someone else confirms before concluding anything

Even the evidence point is superfluous. This is such an obviously stupid conflation that I cannot understand why senior people keep making it with a straight face. They aren’t the same. They just aren’t. This isn’t hard.

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

“It’s the kind of speech we would once have hoped to hear from a Labour candidate, but not these days. Too confrontational, too threatening to the status quo and to the inertia which grips the party. To choose her as their candidate was a masterstroke”

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

“Mahmood will argue next week that migration policies – including forcing people to wait 20 years before being able to claim leave to remain – were entirely consistent with Labour values” I just despair www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

When your own MPs are openly calling your response to the Green win an embarrassment then you've got problems

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started