Then he would come back to work, Greg

A thought this morning for the inspirational Caroline Lucas who spent over a decade working hard to establish the Greens as a viable Parliamentary Party. She now steps down by handing over to four Green MPs who not only won, but won comfortably.

This election result is a moment of reflection- but also an opportunity to restore the UK’s climate leadership and recognise the mistakes of dragging net zero into a needless culture war. My short piece for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🔵Reform won four seats. 🟢The Greens won four seats. This graphic shows the four Reform seats. The four Green seats are lumped in with ‘other’. It has begun. There will be more. Call it out when you see it. Give the Greens the platform they have earned.

Looking forward to the Greens receiving the same level of media attention as Farage now …

It is a privilege and honour to have been appointed as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. This government has won a mandate to deliver a bold plan for energy independence, lower energy bills, good jobs and to tackle the climate crisis. That work begins now.

Having a toddler turns your life into the world's longest game of Articulate. My partner asked if we would be visiting "the place with the small grains of stone" today

"1.5 degrees is not a target. It is not a goal. It is a physical limit."⁣ so says António Guterres What does this actually mean? It means ice sheets melting and sea level rise. It means livelihoods lost. It means more extreme weather. So. What should our response be?

Wow, that was quick. The effective ban on onshore wind farms in England has been lifted, just a few days after Labour took power. Planning barriers cut, so "onshore wind applications will be treated in the same way as other energy development proposals" gov.uk/government/pub…

This is just very good news. Absolutely mad the cheapest form of energy generation was effectively banned in the UK and a genuine dereliction of duty the ban was not lifted within days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggering a full blown energy crisis. businessgreen.com/news/4332875/l…

Nigel Farage received 12% of TV/press coverage in the election. The Green Party (with 4 seats to Reform’s 5) didn’t even make top 20. Great research from Loughborough CRCC👉 @[email protected] shows Greens & smaller parties were especially marginalised by a press mesmerised by Farage’s anti-migrant noise

NEW: CCC warns incoming UK govt that there are no "credible" climate policies in place for two-thirds of CO2 cuts needed by 2030 Says Labour must "make up lost ground" pronto to get back on track Coverage by Carbon Brief colleagues carbonbrief.org/ccc-labour-mus…

What we've all been waiting for - chaos with Ed Miliband

Today, The Guardian dedicates several pages to voices from the ground in Gaza. I am very grateful to those who spoke to me, in impossible circumstances, from tents and pavements and street corners. All the interview are in print today.

‘What world emerges after this? The war on Gaza is simply too big, too live, too relentless for its forced normalisation to occur without unintended consequences.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

👏 The fundraiser has reached its target but you could always chuck a few quid to the many great charities and support organisations for refugees and asylum seekers doing stellar work in Bristol. Find a list of orgs here: bit.ly/3LSGfIc

"Elon Musk is not just the Trump-supporting owner of X, formerly known as Twitter. It turns out he is also one of the platform’s biggest peddlers of election-related disinformation, according to a new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate" motherjones.com/politics/2024/…