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ajpendleton.bsky.social
Strategy, policy, campaigns. Own views here. Working for The Sunrise Project. Formerly @globalactionplan @Neweconomics @IPPR and Friends of the Earth UK. He/Him One time Radio Journalist and Sony Radio Awards winner. NFFC fan #COYR
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📢 We've joined forces with Lord Jim O'Neill to call on Treasury to take a big bet on northern growth 🚨 The North missed out on £140bn in transport spending over the last 10yrs 🚉 But we've got a plan - Great Northern Rail 📚 www.ippr.org/articles/on-...

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I think the word "important" is overused when it comes to the publication of words. It should be used sparingly. This new piece of research from @teraallas.bsky.social and co-author Dimitri Zenghellis *is important*. www.productivity.ac.uk/news/mind-th... It explains weak UK productivity. 1/

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It’s Bluebell Time in the UK, the global HQ of these wonderful evocative magical flowers. It’s said the bells rang to summon faeries to their parties. We should have a national Bluebell Day. @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajpendleton.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social @celiarichardson.bsky.social

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Much appreciation for my council Hammersmith & Fulham’s new rain garden on King Street, which has just been planted up in time for spring! Special thanks to Cllr Wes Harcourt, Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Ecology 🌱🙌

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Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation www.theguardian.com/environment/... blimey. ~ This rivals climate change for seriousness. If only they had a common source … err @thehorsman.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @ajpendleton.bsky.social

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Huge scramble to beat Trump tariffs on imports in the US.

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🚨 Extraordinary exchanges at the SIT committee today, as X official Wifredo Fernandez was questioned on the platform's content/moderation policies He was confronted with a series of malicious, racist, anti-semitic and misogynistic posts Watch his response 👇 www.politics.co.uk/parliament/m...

submitted 107 days ago • 11 comments

Very important this from CBI and @eciu.net. The future of the UK economy is green and growth is impossible without it. In fact the CBI's chief economist says: “It is clear, you can’t have growth without green..."

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Great news for young people’s careers, jobs, UK economy & envt. Hope CBI and @eciu.net repeat this every year. @ajpendleton.bsky.social

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This is Vance's Munich Security Conference speech. Make yourself watch it. It's chilling, but not to be dismissed or underestimated. It's based in some degree of truth - leaders distant from people, the need to allow free speech - as all extremism is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOs...

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Those tofu-scoffing eco loons in the *checks notes* pensions and investment industry want much bolder climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409751...

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Predictions of growth from airport expansion are based on faulty forecasts. Airport expansion won't create real economic growth, @alchap.bsky.social told the transport select committee this morning. 1/

submitted 121 days ago • 3 comments

I concur.

submitted 125 days ago • 26 comments

Yes. Yes. Yes. Why do we visit this on ourselves in a world in which capital markets are as sensitive to the feels as they are to the detail.

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Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging #AirPollution www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ai...

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Heat pumps are vastly more efficient than gas heating systems. With the right policies they can also be significantly cheaper from a total cost of ownership perspective. Our new paper on how to make heat pumps the cheapest option.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Visual @ember-energy.org

submitted 131 days ago • 19 comments

There's something very Day Today about being on a massive trade war footing in the morning and agreeing to send a few thousand troops to the border in the afternoon.

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The UK desperately needs investment, but pushing for airport expansion suggests the government haven’t done their home work because it will not lead to the the sort of economic growth they want. 1/3

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

submitted 135 days ago • 40 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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"There is something cosy & appealing about settling down next to a roaring fire in winter but, every year, nearly 61,000 premature deaths in Europe are caused by #airpollution.. [from] people burning wood or coal to heat their homes." @johnwenger9.bsky.social theconversation.com/wood-burning...

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