Pete Morgan

My grandad smoked all through his emphysema years; through his cancer diagnosis; and right up to his death from lung cancer.

One of my dad's final memories was helping with his request to go outside of Gloucestershire Royal so he could have a cigarette.

That's the 40%.

"except from among Reform supporters" 🙄

I find the NICS rise baffling from any perspective, left or right.

A bunch of undergrad, economics students in a room could have gamed the outcome for Reeves & predicted its negative effects for organisations. And not just businesses - Government departments, councils, charities, The NHS etc.

BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Feels like the McSweeney culture of avoiding territory that Reform voters may disprove of has taken root in the whole Cabinet.

Re-upping this:

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...

25 Countries, Housing One-Quarter of the Population, Face Extremely High Water Stress New data on WRI's Aqueduct platform ranks the world's most water-stressed countries. One-quarter of the global population regularly use up their entire water supply.

You can read more here: www.wri.org/insights/hig...

Flooding gets bigger headlines but the creeping decline of water in many developed & densely populated parts of the world is an equally big issue.

You can read about Phoenix here, but São Paulo, Cape Town, Tehran, Southern Spain, the whole of Greece, & many others places are facing similar issues.

Fairland COP7 R290 ATW HeatPump - The Future of AI HeatPump /PRNewswire/ -- As gentle heat wraps around you, you walk barefoot to bathroom and enjoy an instant hot shower—no waiting, no cold shock. Every corner indoors...

Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.

A 4,000 year old Hippo, casually looking like something you could find in a charity shop today!

High density residential street in downtown Vancouver with 5(!) rows of street trees creating “kissing canopies”.

This is really important.

The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

This tech should be everywhere. #solar

There are lots of natural alternatives to mindlessly pouring concrete into all our buildings.

This is a very good account to follow if you'd like to know more.

Quality idea 👌

Suggestions for the next series of #CelebrityTraitors

Matt Berry and Diane Morgan

Did a lot of damage that man.

It was easy to know that leading conservative skeptics - most notably Nigel Lawson in the UK - were either blind to the evidence or willfully biased.

Lomborg wasn't so easy to spot.

For anyone now - or 25 years ago - tempted to take Bjorn Lomborg seriously on climate change.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...

Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.

I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs

Ignorant & scaremongering

www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...

Correct 👍

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John Houghton & many others were so, scientifically clear in the 90s about what was coming.

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 97, ratified in 2005. Govs widely knew it by then.

Countless mainstream books meant people then understood.

Just baffling we're blindly still letting this happen.

Good summary of issues from the article in 2024/25.

To paraphrase:

– Ocean heat continued to rise
– Long term sea level rise has doubled
– Arctic sea ice at lowest level on record for time of year
– Concentrations of 3 key greenhouse gases at record highs
– World hit by extreme weather events

Seeing a lot of Popper references recently - and Marcuse popped up yesterday. And a bit of Carl Schmitt talk prior to that.

Either the algorithms have my interests sussed, or truth and liberal democracy are in trouble!

Not a big fan of Labour but some of Barnett's questioning is pretty dire - being lead directly from Jenrick's earlier hysterics.

It would be good if R4Today tried to be informative too; like delving into the structural problems in an interview and not just chasing an on-air humiliation.

Taking some of her lines directly from the earlier Jenrick interview.

I've had to switch it off. Couldn't listen to Humphrys for the last few years of his time either.

Been a while but I'd imagine Marcuse is due a revival given current US politics and the explosion of A.I.

That's a tame looking 90s rave either way.

"knee jerk cuts to investment in warmer homes"

'Knee jerk' seems to be the default once The Treasury gets involved.

Luckily Streeting only has around a 500 majority. Purely on pragmatic grounds, I can't see him being leader anytime soon.