Michael Dnes (@michaeldnes1) 's Twitter Profile
Michael Dnes

@michaeldnes1

Killed one motorway; failed to build another; wrote about ones that never happened. Ex-civil servant. Views personal

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calendar_today07-11-2012 00:13:36

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Alec Stapp (@alecstapp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Forecasters like BloombergNEF keep predicting solar will hit a wall and they keep being wrong. Forecast in January 2022: Global solar PV installation won't hit 300 GW until 2029. Reality: We added 600 GW of solar capacity ***last year***

Forecasters like BloombergNEF keep predicting solar will hit a wall and they keep being wrong.

Forecast in January 2022:

Global solar PV installation won't hit 300 GW until 2029.

Reality:

We added 600 GW of solar capacity ***last year***
Michael Dnes (@michaeldnes1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This project may end up being the biggest thing I ever did in government, and almost no one knows about it. James does though...

Ed Conway (@edconwaysky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵 You may recall a spate of stories a few years ago about appalling working conditions & abysmally low pay in Leicester's clothes factories. The hope was those stories would shame businesses into improving working conditions. But here's what ACTUALLY happened next... 👇

The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland (@timesscotland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Roz Foyer, who has condemned impact that multiple properties have on communities, owns family home in Glasgow, holiday cottage on Jura and an apartment in Spain thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Ant Breach (@antbreach) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great piece on the facts of the Government's planning reforms from one of their drafters. This is the key point. The nature orgs know a new approach would be better - they have just caved to pressure from Nimbys to oppose new homes + infra even at the cost of hurting nature.

Great piece on the facts of the Government's planning reforms from one of their drafters.

This is the key point. The nature orgs know a new approach would be better - they have just caved to pressure from Nimbys to oppose new homes + infra even at the cost of hurting nature.
Katie Lam (@katie_lam_mp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We all know that courts have too much power over our country's immigration policy. But increasingly they're also telling businesses exactly what to pay their workers. Sounds mad? That’s because it is. And it's going to destroy our economy. A 🧵 on the Equality Act:

We all know that courts have too much power over our country's immigration policy.

But increasingly they're also telling businesses exactly what to pay their workers.

Sounds mad? That’s because it is. And it's going to destroy our economy.

A 🧵 on the Equality Act:
Michael Dnes (@michaeldnes1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sometimes, I wonder how much the simplest way of dealing with problems is to turn up and fix them. And then I wonder why that isn’t what I think all the time.