Leo Murray

Screenshot from Telegraph daily newsletter Today we can reveal the source of Sir Keir Starmer's hesitation over Iran. It was Ed Miliband. Tony Diver, our new Political Editor, has the full story.

Just imagine the depths of uselessness and ghastliness this government could achieve if it didn’t have Ed Miliband in it

This is so great. Over the last 12 years beavers have gone from something that governments wanted rid of and few of the NGOs cared about, to being recognised as a native species right across GB. Well done to all those who campaigned to get us here.

“Oakeshott did not move to Dubai because she was persecuted in the United Kingdom, nor did she immigrate to flee censorship or imprisonment.

She moved, in her own words, for tax reasons, specifically VAT on private schooling - something that makes her, say it with me, an economic migrant.”

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As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.

Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.

They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.

Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.

Unpublished national security report ‘warns of rise of UK populist politics from nature breakdown’ The risk of diseases like Anthrax emerging from thawing ice, and an increased threat of nuclear exchanges due to shrinking glaciers, are among the details reportedly revealed in the classified version...

“Instead of sitting on these vital insights, the government should release the full report, along with a clear plan on how it is going to take action to reduce and tackle them”.

@ruthchambers.bsky.social in @endsreport.com:

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Relatedly: over half of all the freight moved on Indian Railways is coal. Ditching coal power would release huge amounts of rail network capacity to take lorries off roads in India

Shipping is often seen as a hard to abate sector of the economy. While it’s true that it is a challenge to power a container ship with zero fossil fuels, just getting rid of fossil fuels as a thing we move around the world’s oceans cuts shipping sector emissions by a whopping 40%.

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave. No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.

Very obviously but if you said this ten years ago, you got wall-to-wall screaming and finger-pointing for being divisive, insulting, ideologically purist and tribalistic. But it was plainly horrible National Front stuff then, just as it is now.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

CO2 Newsletter - All Our Yesterdays The CO2 Newsletter was an eight-page round up of current knowledge about carbon dioxide build-up and policy developments. It was published bi-monthly from September 1979 to July 1982 by William N. Bar...

You already know enough.
So do I.
It is not knowledge we lack.
What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.

So begins a great commentary by my friend Arwa Aburawa, writing about the 4th issue of the CO2 Newsletter

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"It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions." Arwa Aburawa on the CO2 Newsletter... - All Our Yesterdays Arwa Aburawa is a filmmaker whose work focuses on race, the environment, and the enduring legacies of colonialism.  www.arwaaburawa.co.uk In his book ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ (1), the writer Sven ...

"In his book ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, the writer Sven Lindqvist carefully and meticulously traces the European colonial legacy of extermination and genocide as he treks across North Africa. And yet, he starts the book with a simple quote:

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Just been wondering about this myself. H&F is not in general fertile ground for Reform politics and I can’t see chiswick being much better for them.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

'once projects are given a chance to embed, it’s only a small percentage of people who keep ranting on about such projects. Few to no political voices advocate ripping out projects (with some exceptions to populists). The general public acceptance grows over time'

They’re still doing it!!! This was pushed through my door the other day 🤪😵‍💫

Local ward Tory election flyer

Almost the only issue mentioned is their obsession with removing the cycle lane (and preventing any other curbs on motorists in the area)

Children cycling to school on king street C9, via a bus stop bypass

LOLs

Ah but the UK has actually found a magical way to go one better than this, by building HALF a high speed line and then stopping, meaning nearly all of the public expense with almost none of the benefit!
Beat that, America!

This is off the table stuff. We were meant to have moved in from this. This should finish the party unless it's seen to radically address it. And Labour should stop using Reforms popularity as a justification for its right wing policies. Of course none of this will happen

Why do surveys show strong public support for cycle paths, but Facebookers call it “fake news”? -- "Leadership means pushing past the noise — and over the Hill of Hysteria," says a leading mobility academic. The National Transport Authority has just published the latest findings of its Walking and Cycling Index for 2025 research which led The Irish Times to report that "the vast majority of residents across the State’s five main cities want increased investment in cycling infrastructure, even when that results in less road space for cars." That and other news reports have led many on social media to cry foul!

Why do surveys show strong public support for cycle paths, but Facebookers call it “fake news”?

-- "Leadership means pushing past the noise — and over the Hill of Hysteria," says a leading mobility academic. The National Transport Authority has just published the latest findings of its Walking and…

POLL: “Dems' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak… The path to 2026 doesn’t run through the center. It runs through the fight.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

“This policy doesn’t target people who broke the rules. It targets people who trusted them.”

We inadvertently selected an ineligible case study, as it was a solar scheme our consortium had *built* but not yet *commissioned*. We then offered a lot of examples of other projects we could have used as case studies which would have been eligible, but these were not considered so we failed PQQ 🤦‍♂️

I would definitely buy that water bottle. Maybe you could do a range of coasters with ‘I think that’s really helpful’ and so on

This is bittersweet for me, b/c I initiated the process with TfL that has led to this outcome all the way back in 2017 when TfL supported our initial Riding Sunbeams feasibility study to explore the potential for solar traction.
But we fell out of their subsequent tender process at the first hurdle

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

Haringey u-turning on bringing in bus lanes so returning £10m to TfL, and buses will still be blocked by tons of cars. 🤷‍♀️

What a contrast to Oxford St where we are finally seeing the radical reprioritisation of road space needed to meet a future vision for our city.