Robin Webster

Env issues & climate comms. Interested in storytelling, poetry & refugee issues. Views my own & don't represent any organisation.

[Robin Webster @RobinWebs]

This pic seems to me to be quite a good analogy for where we are on climate change more generally tbh.

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

So far, so good.

And it is undoubtedly a success story.

But.

Floods are getting bigger due to a rapidly changing climate.

During the floods of 2020 every flood defence on the Severn & Wye was within 0.5-1.0m of overtopping.

It will have been a similar story last week.

[Trumpton @Trump_ton]

Here's "Two-Tier Policing" in action

5 Racists were protected by dozens of police yesterday in Brighton from a huge crowd of peaceful, caring humans

The city was shut down for hours, buses rerouted, shops and pubs boarded up, so 5 Racists could exercise their right to be racist

[John Sutherland @policecommander]

In red - people who agree with Nigel Farage.
In green - people who disagree with Nigel Farage.
This is who we really are…

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

Josh Shapiro is genuinely a very, very, very good public speaker

[CWU @CWUnews]

How do we build a better society? Be more like Darren ❤️

[Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr]

Ada Limón

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

For days, I've wondered why the PM was so slow to call in the army to deal with these riots. Today, I've come to understand why; he knows what the far right is attempting to do. 🧵

[𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 @NikkiBarnes]

There’s a movement

[Robin Webster @RobinWebs]

Well that's a relief

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Here's the proof of that story we've read in that book 🥺😮

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

ME: The thing is, it’s actually pretty incredible just to *be* in the final two. Turning up, giving all you’ve got and falling short to a better opponent is no shame. In almost every way that matters, second place is a victory in itself

CLIENT: *STARES AS IS TAKEN DOWN TO CELLS*

[Seán Hickey @seannhickey]

“YEAH WELL MINE’S THE FUCKING KING”

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Our prisons are overflowing , yet 5 peaceful protestors have been remanded awaiting sentences for protesting climate breakdown . . . here's a radical idea– stop jailing protestors . They're not the fire , they're raising the alarm !

Thursday @ 4pm
Southwark Crown Court

[General Boles @GeneralBoles]

"get in the lamp, we're going to Berlin"

"but master, you promised some time off"

"get in the lamp"

[Josh Fenton-Glynn MP @JoshFG]

In year 7 at Calder High School Mrs. Gardner was one of my most fun teachers. I don’t think either of us imagined that years later we’d both be part of a new intake of fantastic Labour MPs @AllisonCGardner

[Robin Webster @RobinWebs]

Very on for this

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

Lisa Nandy to DCMS staff:

“For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation has not reflected them, their communities or their lives.

This is how polarisation, division and isolation thrives.

In recent years we’ve found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another.

And lost that sense of a self-confident, outward looking country which values its own people in every part of the UK.

Changing that is the mission of this department.

*The era of culture wars is over.*”

[Lewis Winks @curiousways]

There are many reasons to be cautious - but the tone-shift of this administration is palpable. Great to see such a bold attitude at last.

[Robin Webster @RobinWebs]

@CarolineVoaden So cool seeing you on the benches! Many congrats @CarolineVoaden really delighted to have you as my MP.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. This is a thread about a new form of political organising, which proved spectacularly successful in this election, and that other constituencies would do well to adopt. It’s a means of navigating our unfair, unrepresentative first-past-the-post electoral system. 🧵

[Robin Webster @RobinWebs]

what is this madness

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

A former government chief scientific adviser as science minister. A businessman with years of experience in rehabilitation as prisons minister. A barrister with years of experience as attorney general. A focus on specialism, domain knowledge and expertise.

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

🗳 #ElectionResults are in !

Of the 32 'Net-Zero Scrutiny Group' members that @DeSmog identified, only 8 were re-elected.

That means the 24 MPs most responsible for #climate obstruction were voted out! 🎉🥳

#ClimateActionNow

#GeneralElections2024 #GE24 #UKElections2024

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

Interesting – and v welcome – factoid via Greenpeace:

"18 out of 23 Conservative net-zero sceptics lost their seats"