Doug Read

CTO of @formisimo, bad bird watcher

[Doug Read @read_doug]

@Barclays Your online banking is literally the worst application I've had to use in years. And you're looking after our money!!!!

[Doug Read @read_doug]

@AndrewAllsop @sweatystartup sweatyagent?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

2021 is a good year to ditch GDP as a measure of economic success. Governments should focus instead on things we actually need: public health, good livelihoods, climate stability, ecological regeneration, and a fairer distribution of income.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

As predicted, @BorisJohnson about to cave for a miserable (for the U.K.) deal that could have been had yonks ago without this chaos, as Brextremist editors, or future Sirs as they’re called in Corrupt chumocracy, get ready to claim a great victory. Some history. Poorer and weaker

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

For all these reasons, if we want our Green New Deal to be technologically feasible, socially just, and ecologically coherent, we need to abandon GDP growth as an objective and actively scale down aggregate energy use. We don't need growth; in fact, we can thrive without it.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

4. All sorts of regressive social and ecological policy is justified in the name of growth, including cuts to labour standards and environmental regulations. When we affirm growth as the ultimate objective, we play into the hands of neoliberals.

[Paul Johnson @paul__johnson]

'David Cameron is doing what Asquith threatened to do in 1910: de-legitimising the House of Lords by flooding it with inconsequential nobodies'
-Daniel Hannan 2015 via @ConHome

-Daniel Hannan today accepted a place in the House of Lords

[World Health Organization South-East Asia @WHOSEARO]

Listen to what @WHO’s @DrMikeRyan has to say about equitable and fair distribution of #Covid_19 #vaccines

[Mujtaba Rahman @Mij_Europe]

I worry that the chaos at Dover over the last few days & France's hardline on fish could give @BorisJohnson the political cover he's seeking to do no deal - by “blaming the French“ & Macron

Yes, this is No10 spin. But it could become the narrative to rally Tory MPs & the public

[Ayesha Hazarika @ayeshahazarika]

A useful reminder that your twitter echo chamber is not reality

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

We forgot what borders look like.
Some thought they would remain open with or without the EU.
They will now start to understand what leaving the EU really means...

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Some of that you couldn't foresee - the virus, rather obviously. But if you'd suggested that Brexit would drive UK politics into such a state of lunacy that the government would severe its own supply lines during a pandemic, you'd have been laughed out the room.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Imagine if you'd described this timeline during the 2016 referendum. You'd have been branded the most extreme of all the Project Fear advocates. And now it's real.

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

A former Secretary of the Interior once proclaimed it his goal to “civilize or exterminate” Indigenous people. I’m a living testament to the failure of that horrific ideology.

I’m here on the shoulders of my ancestors and all the people who have sacrificed.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If we had a serious Prime Minister and a serious government, he would be on the phone to European leaders now, saying that given the resurgence of Covid, and the new strain, the already complex Brexit situation has become even more complicated and all things considered ... 1/2

[Sunny Hundal @sunny_hundal]

Some quick thoughts on Keir Starmer and racism and *that* LBC interview yesterday.

This will apply a lot over the next few years, so consider them ever-green tweets.