Jack 🚊🏙️🚲

Just your average socialist, tree hugging, liberal, left-wing degenerate. All views expressed here are my own.

[Snail Mail @snailmail]

dead end video directed by me and my best bud elsie richter :) shot during an all nighter in nc by Nikki Burnett, Isadora Knutsen and thank u to Gummy Films 📷. painted the tie/patches and dyed the pants myself :) https://t.co/LeACHLKznz

[Chloë @chloe_d1306]

Players paid the most in the league but run the least. People still claim that they care and that they’re trying. Symptomatic of the culture of the whole place. #lcfc

[Jack 🚊🏙️🚲 @Jack_AJP]

@hanwelltownfc Hanwell Town FPL game week 15 winner, you'll never sing that

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I grew up in Lozells, just a stone’s throw from Handsworth — where much of my family still live and where I went for sixth form. It’s a proud, diverse, working-class community.

Robert Jenrick called it “as close as I’ve come to a slum” and complained he “didn’t see another white face.”

This is white-supremacist thinking dressed up as “legitimate concerns”.

The political and media establishment normalises this racism, but we won’t stay silent. We stand with all our communities and against the far-right.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Let's make hope normal again.

[Jack 🚊🏙️🚲 @Jack_AJP]

Nor have refugees sold off our social housing stock, drastically cut funding for local authorities, dumped sewage in our waterways, cut major infrastructure projects, massively mishandled COVID or dragged us out of the world's biggest trading bloc. Shit governance is the problem.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel bombed a hospital.

Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.

Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.

Read that again.

Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Nirvana @Nirvana]

Thank you Ozzy Osbourne for the inspiration. @BlackSabbath is the template for heavy Rock. #Ozzy

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

"People are allowed to come here and claim asylum."

@CarolineLucas challenges Tim Montgomerie's irresponsible language on BBC Newsnight.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Elliott Smith’s former band Heatmiser are marking the 30th anniversary of their final album, Mic City Sons, with a new deluxe reissue with rare demos and unreleased tracks → https://t.co/6jat3aUeCM

[shame @shamebanduk]

Our new album Cutthroat comes out 5th September - let the joyride begin.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Pandering to Reform UK won’t end child poverty, bring down rents or fix the NHS.

[James May @MrJamesMay]

Please stop queuing at the bars in pubs. I know we have a Nobel prize for lining up, but this is un-British.

[The Wytches @TheWytches]

What could this be.... https://t.co/GvCPqIHCRI

[Leicester City @LCFC]

Straight back up, Leicester City! 🦊

[Union FS @UFS2013]

No Football Pyramid means no stories like Jamie Vardy's.

English football is for more than a handful of clubs and greedy billionaires.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Words fail me that PM & Piers Morgan can be so callous about awful Rwanda policy that they place a bet on it

These are people’s lives they’re gambling over. Yet Sunak thinks nothing of agreeing a £1k bet. He’s supposed to be the head of government, not a punter in a casino

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

So the size of it is that it has only taken delegates 28 years to actually mention the source and scale of the problem. 
Well whoop-y-doop. At that rate, by 2051 maybe they will agree a (non-binding) pledge to phase out fossil fuels…
@billmckibben famously says that winning slowly on climate is the same as losing. Well, this sure is the quintessence of SLOWLY!

What that is concrete, that actually means something, has come out of this CoP? Nothing. Only a few more unbelievable, unenforceable voluntary pledges. (There was that early success on loss and damage - but even that achievement melts almost into thin air when one actually scrutinises it. The fund is tiny, and not parameterised in any of the ways that the affected countries wanted.)

Should I be kinder to this agreement? After all, there is, famously, some reasonably decent novel language in the agreement they managed to reach at CoP28, language that speaks of “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems”. Good. But look closer: “in energy systems”. Why did they add that phrase? Why not just say “transitioning away from fossil fuel”, full stop? What do they mean by the (in this context) slightly odd, rarely used phrase, “energy systems”? The most plausible interpretation - the one that will certainly be in the minds of the likes of Sultan Jaber - is that they mean power (I.e. power-stations) and heat (as in for instance combined heat-and-power plants, or in home-heating). I.e. “Energy systems” mean the generation (and transmission) of electricity (and of heating). So let’s be clear: CoP28 did NOT even actually ‘call on’ countries to transition away from fossil fuels. They only called on countries to transition away from fossil fuels in the generation of electricity (and of heat for heating purposes).
CoP28 simply did not ‘call on’ countries to transition away from fossil fuels in their use in transportation, or in heavy industry (eg chemicals or steel production), or in the food system. Only in the production and transmission of ‘energy’: I.e. basically electricity (plus heating).
This is the real significance of the failure to call for the phasing out of fossil fuels, at CoP28.

Let us put the matter bluntly and clearly. This just is not the breakthrough that some are inadvisedly and rather desperately trying to convince themselves (and the less will-informed) that it is. It is a loophole- ridden, merely rhetorical advance, without teeth.
CoP in anything like its present form has, inevitably, categorically failed us and is never going to effectively deal with this more-than-emergency. 
The most powerful, transformative thing that CoP delegates could do as they leave Dubai and trail home is to admit - to proclaim - exactly this.
They need to do so, to counter the impression that the CoP PR machine is giving: that this is summit has somehow been a success that has put the world on the path to salvation. On the contrary. This is yet another power-less sticking plaster. A mere rhetorical flourish.
The CoP system is moribund. It needs to end.

What is actually needed is smaller, nimbler, bolder coalitions of the willing, collaborations of countries (and businesses, and other entities) willing to go much further toward what actually needs to be done, if we are to have a future.

[Jack 🚊🏙️🚲 @Jack_AJP]

@EastMidRailway Thank you