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Richard Foster

@richardjfoster.bsky.social

Materials Physicist now H&S officer, Injured runner, orienteer, hockey player and cyclist. Failing swimmer. Fights weeds at the allotment and in the garden. Map drawing person. Unhealthy interest in politics. Taskmaster, Only Connect, R4 and Pleasant Green

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Zoe Gardner@zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 2y ago

Labour never should have let Duffield run as an MP at the election. This fallout is predictable and she is reprehensible in so many ways.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rosie Duffield to resign Labour whip & sit as an Independent within 3 months after being re-elected as Labour MP for Canterbury. She had been a vocal critic of the leadership and party esp on gender issues for several years www.thetimes.com/article/f7ea...

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2y ago

I mean we are, at this moment, shutting our last coal-fired power station - that's after 14 years of collapsing coal usage during a *Tory* government. It's not about awareness of "climate change" - everyone knows that. It's the distribution of the costs of mitigating and limiting it

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2y ago

it's about how to pay for transition, who bears the cost, how to enable economic growth in poor countries and recently industrialising countries without further damaging the environment, whether existing measures (carbon trading, for example) actually work, etc etc.

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2y ago

it's not about "getting everyone's attention". people know about climate change. people are more concerned about climate change than ever before. we have a government committed to spending more on climate change than any of its other new spending commitments. that is not what it's about.

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2y ago

The pro and anti yelling over Just Stop Oil - and, ofc, Just Stop Oil's antics themselves - is just completely irrelevant to anything that actually matters in terms of climate change. It's all just noise.

Nick Hedley@nickhedley.bsky.social · 2y ago

The European Union's electricity mix in August: Wind + solar 31% Nuclear 25% Hydro 12% Bioenergy 4% Gas and related 19% Coal 9% -> 72% renewables + nuclear -> 28% fossil fuels - Ember data

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2y ago

There is no historical precedent for that. In 2015 they got 24% with that group. In 1979 they got 42% with that group and were the favourite party. The brand is destroyed.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's a stat to indicate exactly how much trouble the Tory party are in long-term: For women under 25, according to YouGov's large sample post-election poll, they didn't just come behind Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and Reform, they were also beaten by "Others". They got 6%.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2y ago

New post just out: Notes on a dismal leadership contest... "Can anyone save the Conservative Party?" (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...

Richard Foster@richardjfoster.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think the fact that it is still impossible for any US presidental candidate to acknowledge that we have to move away from fossil fuels and particularly oil is a damning for any realistic chances of avoiding significant climate change.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 2y ago

In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!

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Richard Foster@richardjfoster.bsky.social · 2y ago

At some point can we have a sensible discussion about: (a) council tax being totally broken (b) the triple lock on pensions being unsustainable (and I suspect without doing the numbers probably bigger than the pay awards we've had for 15years) (c) the EU and benefits of a close relationship