ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵
@climatenick.bsky.social
All-round Sustainability professional, work focus on sustainable transport. Views are entirely my own. 🌍🇯🇵🇬🇧🏳️🌈 🚲 🚊 ⚡️ 🚶 🚌 🚋 🛴 みんなで持続可能な世界へ
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The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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🔴EXCLUSIVE🔴
11 months ago, I sent my first FOI request to the MoD asking about bullying, violent behaviour and sexual abuse at its army foundation college in Harrogate.
Now, after much back & forth, PQs being asked on our behalf, & interviews with parents and a former soldier, I'm proud to publish
11 months ago, I sent my first FOI request to the MoD asking about bullying, violent behaviour and sexual abuse at its army foundation college in Harrogate.
Now, after much back & forth, PQs being asked on our behalf, & interviews with parents and a former soldier, I'm proud to publish
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🔴EXCLUSIVE🔴
11 months ago, I sent my first FOI request to the MoD asking about bullying, violent behaviour and sexual abuse at its army foundation college in Harrogate.
Now, after much back & forth, PQs being asked on our behalf, & interviews with parents and a former soldier, I'm proud to publish
11 months ago, I sent my first FOI request to the MoD asking about bullying, violent behaviour and sexual abuse at its army foundation college in Harrogate.
Now, after much back & forth, PQs being asked on our behalf, & interviews with parents and a former soldier, I'm proud to publish
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“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one
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‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions.
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Climate #Heat #Health
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Climate #Heat #Health
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions.
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Climate #Heat #Health
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org/health/lance...
#Climate #Heat #Health
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At risk of repetition...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
At risk of repetition...
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
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Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.
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Well done everyone who has pressed the Tories constantly on this - proof that if people just point out that an unpopular and insane policy is unpopular and insane repeatedly and consistently then you can get it changed. A relief to many in sure - now same pressure needed with Reform
Tories confirm Chris Philp's bill proposing mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain no longer party policy - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Well done everyone who has pressed the Tories constantly on this - proof that if people just point out that an unpopular and insane policy is unpopular and insane repeatedly and consistently then you can get it changed. A relief to many in sure - now same pressure needed with Reform
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It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.
The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.
You won't win him over with another conference on AI
The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.
You won't win him over with another conference on AI
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.
The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.
You won't win him over with another conference on AI
The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.
You won't win him over with another conference on AI
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
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When bad news is good news...
"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA.
Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮
www.iea.org/commentaries...
Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮
www.iea.org/commentaries...
As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give – Analysis - IEA
As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give - A commentary by Toril Bosoni
www.iea.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
When bad news is good news...
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“There’s always a next right thing to do.”
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“There’s always a next right thing to do.”
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the presumption that someone whose views or actions generate abhorrence has a right not only to run for office but to win, and not in spite of those views or actions but precisely because of the authenticity they demonstrate to audiences who supposedly abhor them, springs up as if by clockwork
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
the presumption that someone whose views or actions generate abhorrence has a right not only to run for office but to win, and not in spite of those views or actions but precisely because of the authenticity they demonstrate to audiences who supposedly abhor them, springs up as if by clockwork
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"The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain
Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage
www.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
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⭐ After quite some time in the making, I’m excited to share our new paper!🌿⭐
We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts).
🧵(1/4)
We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts).
🧵(1/4)
October 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
⭐ After quite some time in the making, I’m excited to share our new paper!🌿⭐
We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts).
🧵(1/4)
We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts).
🧵(1/4)
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Tory policy would deport about 5% of the UK population.
"This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."
"This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."
it's just so so mad and evil, as I pointed out yesterday!
Clearly, I wasn't interpreting it wrong.
Clearly, I wasn't interpreting it wrong.
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Tory policy would deport about 5% of the UK population.
"This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."
"This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."
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My partner is part of this cohort - and I went through the equivalent process when I lived in Hong Kong. After 7 years on a work visa, I was given Permanent Residency, as a right under HK law, not a discretionary privilege.
Changing the rules under people trying to build a life would be appalling.
Changing the rules under people trying to build a life would be appalling.
You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...
UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes
People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My partner is part of this cohort - and I went through the equivalent process when I lived in Hong Kong. After 7 years on a work visa, I was given Permanent Residency, as a right under HK law, not a discretionary privilege.
Changing the rules under people trying to build a life would be appalling.
Changing the rules under people trying to build a life would be appalling.
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This essentially means you cannot marry or form a long term relationship with a foreigner - if they fall sick, have a baby, lose their job, or just decide to take a break and write a book about cheeses of the West Country, they can be deported.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This essentially means you cannot marry or form a long term relationship with a foreigner - if they fall sick, have a baby, lose their job, or just decide to take a break and write a book about cheeses of the West Country, they can be deported.
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Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
x.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
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Also this is just the sheerest nonsense from Katie Lam, bc you won’t have accessed social security unless the conditions of your stay permitted it, & if you have indefinite leave to remain, you don’t have any conditions (as to time, work, benefits) - that’s literally part of the definition of ILR 1/
Here is the clip.
- The interviewer claims not to know the policy.
- The Tory frontbencher clearly misleads with "because those are not the conditions on which you came"
- The interviewer twice sums up the policy misleadingly, to say it is much narrower than it it
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- The interviewer claims not to know the policy.
- The Tory frontbencher clearly misleads with "because those are not the conditions on which you came"
- The interviewer twice sums up the policy misleadingly, to say it is much narrower than it it
bsky.app/profile/raks...
“… need to go home…” says Katie Lam on #Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social coherently racist enough for Reform to take notes? Or recoil?
Which region of China will the Lam family go home to?
Which region of China will the Lam family go home to?
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Also this is just the sheerest nonsense from Katie Lam, bc you won’t have accessed social security unless the conditions of your stay permitted it, & if you have indefinite leave to remain, you don’t have any conditions (as to time, work, benefits) - that’s literally part of the definition of ILR 1/