NYT thinks it has found the American Adrian Chiles. NYT is wrong.
Dave Vetter
@davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Climate writer; consultant; duck monitor.
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I mean, I don't think any sentient person can read his Diaries and think otherwise.
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Racists are created, and right now they are being created by a media and political class in thrall to a handful of fantastically wealthy men.
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Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him
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“‘Simplification, not deregulation’: the more it's repeated, the clearer it becomes: this IS deregulation.”
CIEL's @silviap.bsky.social warns that the EU’s new climate rules bend to the will of big polluters. Time to call it what it is.
#ClimateJustice #EU
‘Climate action is too costly’: how the far right and big business are weaponising social instability to block progress
Far-right parties and industry lobbies across Europe exploit economic insecurity to undermine climate policies, claiming a choice between green transition and social justice. But researchers stress bo...
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large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.
it's "cool" that every conservative pundit in the UK basically seems to want to turn the country into Norsefire
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Almost the entirety of the UK broadcast and print media are uncritically reporting Reform's racist talking points as fact, and as far as I can tell the current government is backing that messaging. This is what institutional capture by a tiny, incredibly wealthy elite looks like.
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On the one hand, far fewer people are being killed. On the other, some people get to work two minutes later. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not.
Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on
Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’
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Thinking about how, in 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House roof, to provide hot water for the building. Ronald Reagan removed them.
The forgotten story of Jimmy Carter's White House solar panels » Yale Climate Connections
More than four decades ago, President Carter said the U.S. could harness “the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”
