Amy Barry

Founding Director of di:ga - strategy and communications for NGOs and other good causes

[Antoine C @Antoi_c]

@LegallJane @Eurostar It has reached the point where it is better to fly. Eurostar have zero respect for their customers. Let’s hope competition kicks in and remove Eurostar’s monopolistic position. They will finally realise they need to provide a proper service!

[Antoine C @Antoi_c]

No point travelling with ⁦@Eurostar⁩ anymore. Such a poor service. Chaotic security and passport controls. Time for @eurostar to lose its monopoly!

[Liam Hannagan @LJHannagan]

⁦@EurostarUK⁩ #Eurostar what’s happening? Horrendous queues why not warn us that the trains are delayed! Looks like this has been going on a while! Where is the text messaging servicie and pre/ advisory travel information?

[The Spectator @spectator]

'There are serious issues at stake in this general election, and the Tories have just released nonsense figures with fake attribution and given it to newspapers who took it on trust. I’m really not sure that this will help their chances very much.'

✍️ Fraser Nelson

[The Global Goals @TheGlobalGoals]

The global financial system needs an upgrade.

Read our #DearG20 open letter, signed by over 100 former leaders, activists, academics and artists calling on #G20 Leaders to: Triple the Investment. End crippling debt. Make polluters pay.

Read the letter: https://t.co/8Os6NcvI8R

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

At @ChathamHouse energy transitions conference @BlavatnikSchool’s @rkyte365 brilliant - taking no prisoners, clear on what needs to be done, impatient with excuses, so knowledgeable. #CHEnergy

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

@Yoga_by_the_Sea Hi, your website and your Twitter feed say different things. What time is the Yoga at Bronte this morning?

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

Great piece for finance day at #COP28. Good working with @PriceofOil & @shereentalaat to write and place the call for an overhaul of global public finance to increase resilience and finance a just transition: https://t.co/VS4EJ1ODt1

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

@MarinaHyde: keeping us honest and laughing.

This piece on the irony and outrage of a petrostate hosting a climate conference is gold standard content:

👏#COP28UAE
https://t.co/j19WopOfJY #COP28

[Centre for Climate Reporting @ClimateReport_]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

COP28 president secretly used climate summit role to push oil trade with foreign government officials.

A major new investigation with @BBCJustinR based on internal COP28 documents obtained by CCR.

https://t.co/wGHXRXvQlk

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

@adamvaughan_uk @AlokSharma_RDG Can you share the link Adam? Can't find it online...

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

Well, this just proves what everyone feared: https://t.co/hG8Vp66FfL

Fox in charge of the hen house. #COP28UAE

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

@jessphillips Wow. Principles. Rare thing in politics these days

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

The Prime Minister can't legislate away international legal obligations - the Supreme Court made that very clear, and even thew in a (lawyerly) warning that the non-refoulment principle exists in customary international law, so aside from any treaty or law.

Unless the serious systemic problems with the Rwandan asylum system can be resolved within weeks, no amount of emergency legislation is going to solve the issue identified by the Supreme Court in today's judgment.

If the government had any sense it would cut its (considerable) losses now and come up with a better policy which isn't going to lead to more litigation and no flights.

[James Murray @James_BG]

If Cameron does become Foreign Secretary on the eve of COP28 it's worth recalling he talked a good game on climate, helped drive coal off the UK grid, and pushed for an ambitious deal at the Paris Summit. And then blocked renewables development and slashed efficiency funding.

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

Completely outrageous service from @GWRHelp. Second rush hour train I am on that is severely overcrowded. Only 5 cars. Now train manager refusing to let the train leave Paddington. And we pay £70 for the privilege of a 40-minute return journey. It’s a joke. But it’s not funny.

[Jack Blanchard @Jack_Blanchard_]

NEW from Politico:

Tory rising star Kemi Badenoch met with Rupert Murdoch just days after joining the Cabinet, and failed to declare it in transparency data.

Contacted by Politico, her dept described this as an oversight

Scoop via @Stefan_Boscia

https://t.co/5Sb21n86qP

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

🚨Last week was 1.9C hotter than pre-industrial temperatures, the biggest anomaly ever recorded

https://t.co/yrKwIzau3a

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Do watch this. Even now, I can’t quite believe what has become of Britain in such a short period. We have a Republican Trump loving party in government.

[Amy Barry @amyabarry]

Loving @EvanHD taking Tory nonce to task on conspiracy theories re 15-min cities on @BBCPM this afternoon. Class interviewing of Party that seems to have lost touch with common sense and honesty.