Chris Carus

A poppy in a field, marking remembrance.

One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.

It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.

It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.

That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

Heat in Buildings Bill appears to have been dropped and yet another Heat in Buildings Strategy (presumably with yet another consultation) is there in its place. Woeful.

Hasn’t this test been set and failed before? Is there any basis in track record for thinking they’ll follow through on much/ any of this? I’ve only skimmed the buildings annex and it’s watered down, delayed, rehashed. But not at all surprising. I won’t be surprised if they bin PRS MEES this parly.

If the price of an additional unit of supply is zero, why would anybody build additional generation capacity? Doesnt that mean it make no money?

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Good stuff from Tavsih? from Aberdeen Uni calling out the misinformation on the true drivers of O&G job losses including price volatility, productivity improvements and basin depletion - NOT CLIMATE POLICY.

It also strikes me how narrowly the Summit is focussed on oil and gas and energy generation. There won’t be transition with massive efforts to create demand for electricity, such as accelerating the deployment of heat pumps.

Tessa Khan of Uplift doing a great job of grounding discussion at the Just Transition Commission Summit in the ecological and economic reality of the climate crisis.
Discussion is otherwise dancing a little too politely around the feelings of the oil and gas industry IMO.

I'm very pleased to see that my work on the ScotWind scandal has been getting some traction again after being quoted recently by Future Economy Scotland. I do encourage folk to read their report as it ties my work in with the work of others like the STUC.

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So benefits are up as a proportion of all labour compensation, balancing out weak pay increases. Thats grounds for many people to be really angry - those people on middling and stagnant pay but ineligible for benefits - while also paying taxes and seeing public fabric decay. I’d say quite exciting.

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I’m not sorry for saying this what they did to our captured relatives was beyond cruelty. They were stripped of their dignity, tortured with electricity, and treated like less than human. It was horror designed to erase their humanity.

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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Out in Dennistoun today

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting

Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

I spent the afternoon in the woods, in a haze of peace and loveliness. Then came home and heard on the news an Irish doctor working in Gaza describe the clearly systematic, mass targeting of Palestinian children by Israeli snipers.

It's just crazy making. How can such pure evil exist in the world?

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The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

Electricians and plumbers will triumph in AI race – Nvidia boss We took a closer look at the potential economic benefits of this trip for the UK, with those promises from US tech firms to invest £31 billion in Britain. Our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi ha...

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breaking news: in response to a chant of “shoot keir starmer” at the fascist parade in london, the government has announced plans to shoot keir starmer

The size of the UTK rally and Reform’s rise in the polls aren’t isolated events. They’re signs of a strategy that’s working. 🧵