Dave Powell
@powellds.bsky.social
Head of Programmes & Development, Local Storytelling Exchange. Chair of Somerset Wildlands. Host of Your Brain on Climate podcast.
Flooding and a targeted campaign response can lead to a noticeable (but small) effect on voting.
Søren Damsbo-Svendsen@soerendamsbo.bsky.social · 2y agoReally happy that two of my papers on climate voting and attitudes are finally out in print link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
She hints at what her plan will entail - nature, nuclear, flood defences, markets and innovation - but all this is already being done. If free markets and innovation (without carbon pricing) worked as an adequate answer on their own to the climate crisis the problem would be solved already.
One billion plastic pellets about to go up the gullets of fish off the coast of England. A Martian would ask: I mean someone’s going to prison for this, right? Right?
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last wk.“This incident is believed to be the largest recorded nurdle spill in Northern Europe and the UK.” @northwildlife.bsky.social
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Whoever designed this Times front page has a dark and wicked sense of ironic humour. Hyper-sensitivity to predictable technical challenges of energy transition. Meanwhile, Europe burns.
It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.
Karl Whelan@karlwhelan.bsky.social · 2w agoChrist almighty. The British obsession with itemized “pay fors” for everything is insane. This is just really not how fiscal policy or government works anywhere functional.
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
New episode of YOUR BRAIN ON CLIMATE may come in very useful this week. Why is elite politics turning against ‘net zero’? @beccam-c.bsky.social tells me all about it - including what the UK’s fracturing consensus on climate action reveals about how we form our views about big abstract concepts.
‘54 Toni Turek Max Morlock (W. Germany) ‘78 Leopoldo Luque, Oscar Ortiz (Argentina) ‘82 Alessandro Altobelli (Italy) ‘98 Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane (France) ‘06 Gennaro Gattuso, Marco Materazzi (Italy) Daniele De Rossi (Italy) ‘18 Paul Pogba (France) ‘26 Pedro Porro, Mikel Merino (Spain)
Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 2w agoPedro Porro would be only the 11th of this very specific type of World Cup winner …what is it?
Over 85% Britons say that climate change is responsible - strikingly this extends even across more socially conservative segments more sceptical about things like net-zero. More broadly 66% of Brits are worried about climate change.
There's gonna be a new PM. What he needs is an op-ed telling him what to do, of which there's no doubt a lamentable absence. Here's the time-hallowed method for creating one: 1. Set out the problem cleanly, as if the PM had literally no idea that growth, the cost of living and deficit matter. 1/
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Vale Sam Neill 🥹 An actor that used his platform to raise awareness of environmental issues, including single use plastics and climate change. He spent this year fighting a mining project in Otago, NZ. A true role model. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Breaking: Actor Sam Neill dies aged 78
New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78.
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The result is that the Conservatives are now a party for people who, in denial of all evidence, think climate change is nothing to worry about.
United argued that a window seat is just a seat near a wall boingboing.net/2026/07/08/u...
United argued that a window seat is just a seat near a wall
Airlines have finally discovered basic nouns as a revenue opportunity.
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Bereft of constant football, I sit around, a husk. What is there to do? To wait, I suppose. Only to wait.
I seriously think if an actual party stood on a platform of “abolish VAR” and “water bosses have to swim in their own sewage” they’d sweep the nation
