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The dominant narrative is that the world is rolling back climate policy. But what does the data say?
The latest Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review from the Oxford Climate Policy Hub tells three key stories.
bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...
The latest Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review from the Oxford Climate Policy Hub tells three key stories.
bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The dominant narrative is that the world is rolling back climate policy. But what does the data say?
The latest Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review from the Oxford Climate Policy Hub tells three key stories.
bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...
The latest Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review from the Oxford Climate Policy Hub tells three key stories.
bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...
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Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
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Insightful article. Here's a gift link so that people can actually read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A subscription to @theatlantic.com is a good thing.
A subscription to @theatlantic.com is a good thing.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Insightful article. Here's a gift link so that people can actually read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A subscription to @theatlantic.com is a good thing.
A subscription to @theatlantic.com is a good thing.
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Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
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For me this flat caricature of whole segments of the populatuon that in reality are socially and ideologically heterogenous is infuriating.
A reproduction of class prejudice cloaked in claims of fighting it.
A reproduction of class prejudice cloaked in claims of fighting it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
For me this flat caricature of whole segments of the populatuon that in reality are socially and ideologically heterogenous is infuriating.
A reproduction of class prejudice cloaked in claims of fighting it.
A reproduction of class prejudice cloaked in claims of fighting it.
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🧵In @economist.com this week there's a "special report" on China, energy and climate. It seeks to make clear the world changing nature of China's ability to manufacture renewable-energy capacity. As the associated leader says:
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🧵In @economist.com this week there's a "special report" on China, energy and climate. It seeks to make clear the world changing nature of China's ability to manufacture renewable-energy capacity. As the associated leader says:
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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A fun chart. AI as a general purpose tech. Is this time different or not? And if so will it lead to walhalla or human extinction? Take your pick.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A fun chart. AI as a general purpose tech. Is this time different or not? And if so will it lead to walhalla or human extinction? Take your pick.
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Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
![The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ygvvtokrezoev7nol4wgxjc/bafkreict5fc4gs3ctiqtgfxjkx7rliiylycp4bkm37eitwrjzqssbtddiy@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
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Yesterday Nigel Farage argued that the UK has failed to grasp Brexit opportunities to deregulate, which his 'pro-business' government would deliver.
I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...
I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Yesterday Nigel Farage argued that the UK has failed to grasp Brexit opportunities to deregulate, which his 'pro-business' government would deliver.
I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...
I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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And is something the current Government could do as a simple rebranding exercise, so that people understand what is being talked about.
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And is something the current Government could do as a simple rebranding exercise, so that people understand what is being talked about.
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Stephen Bush: "The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population..."
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 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Stephen Bush: "The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population..."
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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On the one hand this *is* a lot like Hungary or Turkey. On the other, it's also a lot like what it was like to cover South Africa in the throes of state capture around 2016, where many were very reluctant to call out Zuma on the record. Until suddenly they weren't. www.ft.com/content/1377...
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
On the one hand this *is* a lot like Hungary or Turkey. On the other, it's also a lot like what it was like to cover South Africa in the throes of state capture around 2016, where many were very reluctant to call out Zuma on the record. Until suddenly they weren't. www.ft.com/content/1377...
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The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove
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Rupert Lowe thinks it would cost £36 - £54 billion to remove everybody without legal status, if 3/4 people leave voluntarily, to reduce cost from quadruple that. (The Cons hope to do that bit for £6 billion)
New policy of creating a new undocumented population of 3 million is x5 bigger than that
New policy of creating a new undocumented population of 3 million is x5 bigger than that
October 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Rupert Lowe thinks it would cost £36 - £54 billion to remove everybody without legal status, if 3/4 people leave voluntarily, to reduce cost from quadruple that. (The Cons hope to do that bit for £6 billion)
New policy of creating a new undocumented population of 3 million is x5 bigger than that
New policy of creating a new undocumented population of 3 million is x5 bigger than that
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People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.
Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.
Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.
Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.
Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.
Absolutely, it shouldn't need saying.
Let's not humour those advocating deportation of UK residents with reasons why their plans would not work.
Keep it simple, this is not the action of a civilised country.
If needed, this will mean complete chaos and destruction of international reputation.
Keep it simple, this is not the action of a civilised country.
If needed, this will mean complete chaos and destruction of international reputation.
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Absolutely, it shouldn't need saying.
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
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So, another week when we'll continue to ignore the increasingly obvious issue of political radicalisation via social media? And indeed the tied issue of the large tech companies who promote this, and the tech bros who see this as some sort of move to a utopian paradise governed by them?
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
So, another week when we'll continue to ignore the increasingly obvious issue of political radicalisation via social media? And indeed the tied issue of the large tech companies who promote this, and the tech bros who see this as some sort of move to a utopian paradise governed by them?
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
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The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)
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-beats head on wall-
No government just lets experts run shit.
Experts provide recoommendations and analysis of the likely outcomes and consequences of contemplated policies.
RFK doesn't like what they're saying about the outcomes and consequences of his policies so he's stoking populist outcry.
No government just lets experts run shit.
Experts provide recoommendations and analysis of the likely outcomes and consequences of contemplated policies.
RFK doesn't like what they're saying about the outcomes and consequences of his policies so he's stoking populist outcry.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
-beats head on wall-
No government just lets experts run shit.
Experts provide recoommendations and analysis of the likely outcomes and consequences of contemplated policies.
RFK doesn't like what they're saying about the outcomes and consequences of his policies so he's stoking populist outcry.
No government just lets experts run shit.
Experts provide recoommendations and analysis of the likely outcomes and consequences of contemplated policies.
RFK doesn't like what they're saying about the outcomes and consequences of his policies so he's stoking populist outcry.
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why: