@johnandrewmullen.bsky.social
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There’s a solid majority of voters who loathe Reform, Farage, and their Trumpist vision for the UK. All the other parties need to do is not implode and/or alienate the people they need to vote tactically to keep out the populist right. And yet, here we are…
February 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
There’s a solid majority of voters who loathe Reform, Farage, and their Trumpist vision for the UK. All the other parties need to do is not implode and/or alienate the people they need to vote tactically to keep out the populist right. And yet, here we are…
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We're in a new climate reality - but how can we best operate in it?
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 AM
We're in a new climate reality - but how can we best operate in it?
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
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Meanwhile, the government has just announced a series of reforms designed to boost numbers of apprentices in the UK and tackle looming skills shortages facing critical infrastructure projects and industries. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525365...
Government to allow 'fast track' apprenticeships for major infrastructure projects
Workforce 2030: Reforms aim to give young people faster route into jobs on major projects, as concerns rise over widening electrical and green skills gap
www.businessgreen.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Meanwhile, the government has just announced a series of reforms designed to boost numbers of apprentices in the UK and tackle looming skills shortages facing critical infrastructure projects and industries. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525365...
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Meanwhile, scientists appointed by over 150 governments have today warned nature and ecosystems are being destroyed at a terrifying rate and could soon take the global economy down with them. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525406...
'Scientific reality check': Businesses warned they 'risk extinction' as nature loss accelerates
Landmark report from Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services warns continued failure to account for nature-related risks threatens catastrophic economic fallout
www.businessgreen.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Meanwhile, scientists appointed by over 150 governments have today warned nature and ecosystems are being destroyed at a terrifying rate and could soon take the global economy down with them. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525406...
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It really embodies the very specific ways that some people in politics are a) bad at their jobs and b) too online that you can be supportive of 'the Labour government 2024 to 2026, and McSweeney's role in it' and use these words *at all*, not least in many ways: that's what they're doing!
If you are using the phrase "full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism", especially if you are of the left, a loved one should take your phone off you and send you to Baden-Baden or somewhere for a month.
Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.
February 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
It really embodies the very specific ways that some people in politics are a) bad at their jobs and b) too online that you can be supportive of 'the Labour government 2024 to 2026, and McSweeney's role in it' and use these words *at all*, not least in many ways: that's what they're doing!
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This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.
…as well as being supported by the vast majority of Lab/Lib/Gn voters, almost all Labour MPs, a 2-1 majority of voters overall and – even now – a healthy majority of Con voters
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.
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Going to reconcile myself to the fact that the “cost of net zero” debate will always be annoying.
Mainly because:
a) net zero isn’t a discrete spending line (e.g., you mainly buy an EV for the car bit);
b) you need a counterfactual (what would it cost if we don’t do net zero?) and that’s hard
Mainly because:
a) net zero isn’t a discrete spending line (e.g., you mainly buy an EV for the car bit);
b) you need a counterfactual (what would it cost if we don’t do net zero?) and that’s hard
February 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Going to reconcile myself to the fact that the “cost of net zero” debate will always be annoying.
Mainly because:
a) net zero isn’t a discrete spending line (e.g., you mainly buy an EV for the car bit);
b) you need a counterfactual (what would it cost if we don’t do net zero?) and that’s hard
Mainly because:
a) net zero isn’t a discrete spending line (e.g., you mainly buy an EV for the car bit);
b) you need a counterfactual (what would it cost if we don’t do net zero?) and that’s hard
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"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development." Pedro Sánchez, Spanish PM
February 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development." Pedro Sánchez, Spanish PM
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Good piece from a series of conversations with Michael Sandel. Sandbu is right to highlight caring more about “the civic consequences of economic power” as key theme from his work, esp in current context www.ft.com/content/7804...
The pessimist who became a prophet
Philosopher Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Good piece from a series of conversations with Michael Sandel. Sandbu is right to highlight caring more about “the civic consequences of economic power” as key theme from his work, esp in current context www.ft.com/content/7804...
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Most people don't realize the truly staggering rate of improvement of renewable technologies - the pace has been *insane* and costs have fallen through the floor.
Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Last turbine on first commercial wind farm dismantled
The last wind turbine of what was Ireland's first commercial wind farm at Bellacorick in Co Mayo has been dismantled.
buff.ly
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Most people don't realize the truly staggering rate of improvement of renewable technologies - the pace has been *insane* and costs have fallen through the floor.
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Some actual bona fide good news. The domestic clean tech market is absolutely booming and is poised to keep growing. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525218...
'An extraordinary signal': UK homes installed renewables every 90 seconds in 2025
Solar panel, heat pump, and battery storage installations grew 34 per cent year-on-year, driven by government funding and new build installations
www.businessgreen.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Some actual bona fide good news. The domestic clean tech market is absolutely booming and is poised to keep growing. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525218...
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Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
February 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
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The latest podcast from @volts.wtf on reactionary centrism really is exceptional. Gets to the heart of so much that our media and politics get wrong in the face of climate crisis and rising fascism.
open.spotify.com/episode/5l5d...
open.spotify.com/episode/5l5d...
All about "reactionary centrism"
open.spotify.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The latest podcast from @volts.wtf on reactionary centrism really is exceptional. Gets to the heart of so much that our media and politics get wrong in the face of climate crisis and rising fascism.
open.spotify.com/episode/5l5d...
open.spotify.com/episode/5l5d...
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Some really significant clean energy and EV deals were announced on Starmer's trip to Beijing (even if a mooted Chinese investment in a major new wind turbine plant was not confirmed). www.businessgreen.com/news/4524963...
'A huge opportunity for Britain': Octopus Energy inks landmark deal to enter Chinese market
UK's largest energy supplier announces major new joint venture during Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to China, as BYD, Omoda, and Jaecoo all commit to strengthening presence in UK market
www.businessgreen.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Some really significant clean energy and EV deals were announced on Starmer's trip to Beijing (even if a mooted Chinese investment in a major new wind turbine plant was not confirmed). www.businessgreen.com/news/4524963...
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and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter
we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter
we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
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Our biggest live show yet is in London on 15 April. Jokes, ideas, debates, audience questions and clowning on terrible people guaranteed. If you’re a listener we’d love to see you
www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Our biggest live show yet is in London on 15 April. Jokes, ideas, debates, audience questions and clowning on terrible people guaranteed. If you’re a listener we’d love to see you
www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...
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My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream
January 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM
My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream
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Latest blog is on how the government has done a lot of good things for the clean energy sector, but retrospective subsidy changes are a bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Some perspective on retrospective renewables subsidy changes
Those warning changes to legacy renewables schemes could undermine future investment have a point, especially when opposition parties are talking about tearing up climate policies
www.businessgreen.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Latest blog is on how the government has done a lot of good things for the clean energy sector, but retrospective subsidy changes are a bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
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Clean energy investment up to a record high, fossil fuel supply investment down for first time since 2020. A world historic transformation happening in plain sight. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524748...
Global energy transition investment climbs to record $2.3tr
Annual report from BloombergNEF confirms investment in clean energy transition rose eight per cent, despite trade disputes and geopolitical tensions
www.businessgreen.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Clean energy investment up to a record high, fossil fuel supply investment down for first time since 2020. A world historic transformation happening in plain sight. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524748...
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Time for some courage in the climate fight too billmckibben.substack.com/p/time-for-s...
Time for some courage in the climate fight too
Big business, and its political enablers, have turned tail. They need to take a page from the resistance
billmckibben.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Time for some courage in the climate fight too billmckibben.substack.com/p/time-for-s...
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Absolute blockbuster of a new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, edited by @morganj0nes.bsky.social @neilwarner.bsky.social and @beccagold.bsky.social which takes a big picture view of the past year and a half of Labour government.
NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
Volume 33, Issue 3-4
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
renewal.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolute blockbuster of a new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, edited by @morganj0nes.bsky.social @neilwarner.bsky.social and @beccagold.bsky.social which takes a big picture view of the past year and a half of Labour government.
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if you want to understand the misinformation about Net Zero estimates this is a great starting point
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
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1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
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January 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
if you want to understand the misinformation about Net Zero estimates this is a great starting point
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RenewableUK has a new boss. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524098...
RenewableUK announces Tara Singh as new CEO
Former Number 10 advisor to start new role as head of clean energy trade body from next month
www.businessgreen.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
RenewableUK has a new boss. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524098...