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Ollie
@olliejack.bsky.social
· Nov 26
In defence of COP
Why is the public less engaged with COP? Does anything significant happen anymore? What does the climate community need to do to reignite belief in the process?
odi.org
To kick things off here, I'll shamelessly plug something I wrote.
Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter
#COP29
odi.org/en/insights/...
Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter
#COP29
odi.org/en/insights/...
To save my long suffering friends, I have started a Substack. First post below, likely saying things you already know about Nigel Farage and Labour.
More to come!
olivermoyles.substack.com/p/act-like-r...
More to come!
olivermoyles.substack.com/p/act-like-r...
Act like Reform, get Reform.
Labour must connect the dots, tell the Farage story and pin him to his record.
olivermoyles.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To save my long suffering friends, I have started a Substack. First post below, likely saying things you already know about Nigel Farage and Labour.
More to come!
olivermoyles.substack.com/p/act-like-r...
More to come!
olivermoyles.substack.com/p/act-like-r...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Incentivising this kind of thing is parasitic, but what's even worse is that for a £100 oversize bag fee, they still only give staff £1 a pop for spotting them. Race to the bottom stuff.
UK airport staff get bonuses for spotting easyJet oversize bags, email shows
Swissport staff at seven airports in UK and Channel Islands eligible for £1.20-a-bag payment through incentive scheme
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Incentivising this kind of thing is parasitic, but what's even worse is that for a £100 oversize bag fee, they still only give staff £1 a pop for spotting them. Race to the bottom stuff.
Brilliant workaround here for the global oil price spike. He’s using his best plays when it matters most.
Donald Trump called for the US to increase its oil production after prices hit a five-month high in the aftermath of the US’s strikes on Iran, with international benchmarks rising to $81.40 a barrel at market opening https://on.ft.com/4nfwh4U
June 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Brilliant workaround here for the global oil price spike. He’s using his best plays when it matters most.
This whole interview is staggering
'Because, probably, you're racist...'
Emily Maitlis asks ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe why he only focuses on Pakistani grooming gangs and believes migrants are "ogling" UK school children
@maitlis.bsky.social
Emily Maitlis asks ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe why he only focuses on Pakistani grooming gangs and believes migrants are "ogling" UK school children
@maitlis.bsky.social
Rupert Lowe claims migrants are 'ogling your children in school'
Rupert Lowe, ex-Reform UK MP, has had charges against him dropped after claims from former colleagues over bullying allegations and making threats against the party leader. He tells Emily Maitlis why ...
articles.globalplayer.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This whole interview is staggering
Bang on.
A lot of what Musk has done via DOGE has been discussed by the online-right for years. Musk is just what happens when wealth and power allow those ideas to leap from the online to the real world. The consequence is unimaginable harm and suffering; the rich killing the poor.
A lot of what Musk has done via DOGE has been discussed by the online-right for years. Musk is just what happens when wealth and power allow those ideas to leap from the online to the real world. The consequence is unimaginable harm and suffering; the rich killing the poor.
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts
Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045
www.ft.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Bang on.
A lot of what Musk has done via DOGE has been discussed by the online-right for years. Musk is just what happens when wealth and power allow those ideas to leap from the online to the real world. The consequence is unimaginable harm and suffering; the rich killing the poor.
A lot of what Musk has done via DOGE has been discussed by the online-right for years. Musk is just what happens when wealth and power allow those ideas to leap from the online to the real world. The consequence is unimaginable harm and suffering; the rich killing the poor.
About time. Greens have been asleep for too long and while influential, you can't blame it all on the media's Farage fetish. Blair's net zero blunder should have been their biggest moment of the year.
Green deputy launches leadership bid with UK ‘eco-populism’ vision
Exclusive: Surprise challenger Zack Polanski says party can learn from success of Nigel Farage and Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
About time. Greens have been asleep for too long and while influential, you can't blame it all on the media's Farage fetish. Blair's net zero blunder should have been their biggest moment of the year.
The art of the deal
America is to scale back its role in mediating peace talks between Russia and Ukraine as JD Vance admitted that the war will “not end any time soon”
US steps back from Ukraine talks as Vance admits ‘no end in sight’
www.thetimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The art of the deal
It was inevitable the American Right would start eating each other. But Jordan Peterson going on Joe Rogan to complain about the delegitimising effects of right-wing media outlets platforming 'psychopaths' and weirdos is too much irony for a Thursday.
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It was inevitable the American Right would start eating each other. But Jordan Peterson going on Joe Rogan to complain about the delegitimising effects of right-wing media outlets platforming 'psychopaths' and weirdos is too much irony for a Thursday.
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
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There’s something joyously comic about Kemi Badenoch, a politician being radicalised on social media before our eyes, saying that Adolescence is not “the biggest thing that is happening in the world today” in terms of radicalisation on social media.
🚨 New entry into the Kemi Badenoch does not do her homework canon:
Adolescence's creators have denied the series is based on true events, contradicting a theory doing the rounds on X that suggested the main character was “race swapped”
Badenoch tells LBC the story was “fundamentally changed”
Adolescence's creators have denied the series is based on true events, contradicting a theory doing the rounds on X that suggested the main character was “race swapped”
Badenoch tells LBC the story was “fundamentally changed”
April 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
There’s something joyously comic about Kemi Badenoch, a politician being radicalised on social media before our eyes, saying that Adolescence is not “the biggest thing that is happening in the world today” in terms of radicalisation on social media.
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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
theatln.tc
March 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
And we wonder why the overwhelming majority of women don't report sexual abuse.
The most disgraceful thing this US admin has done so far, but I suspect that won't last.
The most disgraceful thing this US admin has done so far, but I suspect that won't last.
The White House is hosting Conor McGregor today, who the Irish High Court ruled four months ago assaulted and raped a woman.
Press Secretary Karoline Levitt says the Trump Administration "couldn't think of a better guest to have on St Patrick's Day."
He will be meeting Trump later.
Press Secretary Karoline Levitt says the Trump Administration "couldn't think of a better guest to have on St Patrick's Day."
He will be meeting Trump later.
March 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
And we wonder why the overwhelming majority of women don't report sexual abuse.
The most disgraceful thing this US admin has done so far, but I suspect that won't last.
The most disgraceful thing this US admin has done so far, but I suspect that won't last.
Phew!
The billionaire chief of the Department of Government Efficiency defends his cost-cutting measures alongside the president in the Oval Office
Elon Musk denies ‘hostile takeover’ of US government
www.thetimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Phew!
American first!
President Trump said he will block funding to South Africa pending an investigation into its new land laws and the treatment of “certain classes of people”, taken to refer to the country’s white minority⬇️
Trump threatens South Africa over land seizures from ‘certain classes’
www.thetimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
American first!
This is a lie. Capital costs of phase outs by sector mapped against projected price decline of renewables - plus emissions budgets by sector - all analysed and reported on by @thecccuk.bsky.social. CCC also had mandate to order certain sectors to report, including on adaptation.
Kemi Badenoch is apologising for things today, including that 'we made it the law that we would deliver net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. And only then did we start thinking about how we would do that.'
But is that true, and is it really a bad thing if it is?
But is that true, and is it really a bad thing if it is?
January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is a lie. Capital costs of phase outs by sector mapped against projected price decline of renewables - plus emissions budgets by sector - all analysed and reported on by @thecccuk.bsky.social. CCC also had mandate to order certain sectors to report, including on adaptation.
I think this is the clearest evidence to date that Musk has been radicalised by his own platform - now actively seeking biased information about European politics from the echo chamber he helped create.
On his public journey to embracing Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Elon Musk has frequently amplified the online content of one young supporter of the party - climate change and COVID-19 lockdown sceptic Naomi Seibt reut.rs/405LtXL 1/8
Meet the influencer who has Elon Musk's ear on Germany's far-right
On his public journey to embracing Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, Elon Musk has amplified the online content of one young supporter of the party: Climate change and COVID-19 lockdown sceptic Naomi Seibt.
reut.rs
January 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I think this is the clearest evidence to date that Musk has been radicalised by his own platform - now actively seeking biased information about European politics from the echo chamber he helped create.
so far in 2025, the incoming US administration has threatened to take over a country every 2 days. If that frequency continues we are in for a spicy year
January 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
so far in 2025, the incoming US administration has threatened to take over a country every 2 days. If that frequency continues we are in for a spicy year
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"...if you're not prepared to stand up as a Tory MP and denounce what's been said about her, then you need to seriously think about why you're in politics in my view."
January 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"...if you're not prepared to stand up as a Tory MP and denounce what's been said about her, then you need to seriously think about why you're in politics in my view."
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Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 5, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
To kick things off here, I'll shamelessly plug something I wrote.
Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter
#COP29
odi.org/en/insights/...
Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter
#COP29
odi.org/en/insights/...
In defence of COP
Why is the public less engaged with COP? Does anything significant happen anymore? What does the climate community need to do to reignite belief in the process?
odi.org
November 26, 2024 at 11:17 AM
To kick things off here, I'll shamelessly plug something I wrote.
Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter
#COP29
odi.org/en/insights/...
Why COP29 - and all COPs - still matter
#COP29
odi.org/en/insights/...