The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK

Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking

YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS

Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

Kemi Badenoch and four members of her Shadow Cabinet received donations from funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which campaigns against Net Zero

GWPF don't release details of their funding, but US tax records reveal links to the fossil fuel industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Whatever happened to the Great British Truck Driver Shortage of 2021? Did it get resolved? Did anyone learn anything? The short answer is: drivers got more money & the acute shortage went away. However... www.ft.com/content/f320...

ICYMI: This week, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social launched the Peer Review, a free tool to help people better understand what happens in the Lords

We break down who works - and who doesn't
How they got their role
And ask - is HoL working?

Details here 👇

www.tortoisemedia.com/the-peer-rev...

We know the planning system is crucial to enable the delivery of the government's 2030 clean power mission. But it needs to do so in a way that brings the public along on the journey through proper engagement and enhances nature.

🧵 Short thread on the latest @aldersgategroup.bsky.social insights.

MPs to investigate links between social media algorithms and spread of harmful, false content - Politics.co.uk Disorder erupted onto England’s streets in July following the spread of misinformation about the fatal stabbing of three young girls.

NEW: MPs to probe links between social media algorithms and spread of harmful content

The science, innovation and technology committee will consider the role of false claims, spread via profit-driven social media algorithms, in triggering the recent riots

Story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/11...

For me, the government reforms of Agricultural Property Relief (APR) miss two big opportunities

1. The political opportunity Labour had coming in to win over more farmers & ‘deep rural’ voters

2. The policy opportunity to use APR more imaginatively

A 🧵 on what I mean…

Confirmed: England has second worst harvest on record with fears… Data released shows England experienced it’s second worst harvest since 1983 after record breaking wet weather last winter, with recent downpours leaving many farmers unable to drill crops again

Right, lets give this a go then shall we

I figured I’d start my time here with a quick thread on what we do on land, food & farming at @eciu.net

Our main focus this year has been on the impact of climate change on this year’s harvest

Spoiler alert - it wasn’t good

eciu.net/media/press-...

Not sure the NFU are going to be that militant 😅

Vintage photo of an early USA cowboy sitting beneath his shrieking horse

Where does nature fit within the modern American political psyche?

I've read some takes in the last few days that say environmental issues have broadly been silo-ed into the 'progressive' bucket of modern American politics, which is poisonous for the future of the US and untethered from US history