Arrested, handcuffed & imprisoned for journalism. And yet when the Tory government seeks *more* powers to police peaceful protests, much of the media cheers them to the rafters…
Record on decarbonising homes:
2012 insulation subsidies scrapped
2014 Green Deal failed
2014 Green Deal Home Improvement Fund run out after 6 wks
2015 Zero Carbon Homes scrapped
2020 GHG scrapped
2022 Less than 6,000 BUS vouchers issued
We need substantial & consistent support
UK Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk letter to UK government today:
🏠Ten years ago: 2.3 million energy efficiency measures installed per year through Government-backed schemes
🏚️2021: less than 100k measures installed in one year. That's 4% of the amount a decade ago.
Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25.
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The new Home Secretary, responsible for law and order in this country, masqueraded as a “multimillion-dollar web marketer” called "Michael Green", while engaging in what I see as highly questionable business practices.
Delighted to be tabling Bill to extend #RightToRoam in England, where we only have legal access to 8% of land & 3% of rivers. So many health & wellbeing benefits come from nature - it’s simply wrong to be denied access to so much of it #ThisLandIsOurLand https://t.co/Y1QLKAFM1S
Arguing with a Trump supporter is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it won…
Nadhim Zahawi really, really, doesn't want anyone referring to the reports he was investigated by the NCA, and really really doesn't like me saying that HMRC are probably investigating him now.
“Shell has no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio over our investment horizon of 10-20 years” - from page 196/226 of the internal oil company and pr docs shared by Congress this week
NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia https://t.co/gtHvhNsnuT
Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.
A thread:
13. #RegenesisFact 13: The Cambrian Dead Zone should be a nationally-infamous disaster area. It’s the biggest terrestrial dead zone in the UK and probably in western Europe. But, amazingly, it’s almost unknown to us, despite the fact that it covers roughly 300km2. 🧵
When we destroy forests, overfish or burn coal, we are increasing gross domestic product.
It’s time to change an accounting system that counts the destruction of the planet as if it was the production of richness.
Watch this refusal by Minister to answer me on why flights are cheap & trains so expensive - not helped by patronising substitute Tory Cttee Chair shushing me when I dare to do my job holding Govt to account
Share if you think we need answers, not obfuscation from the boys 💪