Tony Blair’s ideas for net zero are expensive and unpopular
The former PM’s clumsy climate intervention exposes the new political contest over the environment
Thanks @prospectmagazine.co.uk @aloner.bsky.social who let me write about Tony Blair's recent tribute act to the TB-GBs of New Labour, with some more serious consideration of where his NZ antipathy comes and the new politics if climate
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...
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every time i draft a thought on bluesky im like yeah…this could’ve easily been on a sumerian tablet
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Demystifying Flex
Is UK energy sector jargon alienating customers? An interesting study from the ADE suggests the highly technical and often mysterious language experts and companies use is itself a barrier to the energy transition.
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on second thought, i fear invisibility & any political and economic state of the world would not be a good mix
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big shame that the socially anxious strand of humanity haven’t evolved into being able to physically camouflage
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the labour market might’ve popped off with the skills-matching here
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for my first tweet, i present….the wonderful trade-off between sleep & staring at a tiny rectangle containing flawed iterations of all the knowledge of the cyberverse
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