To have been in public life for the past decade and not be fully across climate issues - both the basic science, risks, and policy options - is a choice. And it’s a choice that far too many politicians and media types are still bizarrely happy to advertise.

I'm at Westminster Mags Court where three Metropolitan police officers are accused of sending grossly offensive messages in which they joked about sexually assaulting domestic violence victims and much more. This will be a thread.

The most 'popularist' solutions, overwhelmingly supported by voters overall and swing voters, are in the top right hand corner: price cap, renewables, cash support, insulation.

TIPPING POINT: for the first time in human history, over 50% of global energy jobs are now clean energy jobs💪

🌎🔥 Today I asked World Bank president @DavidMalpassWBG if he believed in the scientific consensus that the man made burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet. “I’m not a scientist,” he said. Here’s a thread about the remarkable exchange. 🧵 1/

People who have no suspicions about power or the powerful should not be analyzing the politics of the climate crisis.

Underestimate local radio presenters at your peril.

How do views of UK MPs on climate change compare to the public? In short, there's a few alarming gaps. A quick thread on new polling with ECIU, plus a few thoughts (some hope and some despair!) #ukclimate #cop27egypt 👇🧵

"Finding pleasure in another person’s good fortune is what social scientists call “freudenfreude,” a term (inspired by the German word for “joy”) that describes the bliss we feel when someone else succeeds" [gift article] nytimes.com/2022/11/25/wel…

An opportunity to help lead a smart, fun and low-ego team, and work on the biggest issue of the century - recommend.

Resolution for Editors No. 8: To remember that positive direction is often more productive than negative. Rather than say, “You buried the lede,” I like to say, “This is so good we gotta move it up.”

This Marie Howe poem gets me every time.

...but he should say to himself, ‘How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?’ and avoid ‘How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?’”

💯 "The other common misconception that needs addressing is that thinking is necessarily solitary. The tech industry suffers from a deep association of work with individual productive toil, and that just isn’t what knowledge work is." medium.com/@ElizAyer/meet…

the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/

I find it interesting that so few working in insight management/insight generation have realized how significantly their work would improve if they just used the "180 test" from strategy. If the opposite of your insight is a complete nonsense, it is not an insight.

I'm looking for some simple analysis of the most covered topics + stories in the UK media over the last year or two. Does anyone have any pointers?

Shouldn’t have to be said, but Uxbridge result *doesn’t* speak to wider voter concern on green issues. Polling shows environment remains top tier issue. However, what it does show is that voters will react if they feel a specific intervention isn’t fair… bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

If you are a modern professional, focus on mastering the art of skimmable writing. Skimmable doesn’t mean short. It means well-organized, logical, and visually not an eye sore. It means thinking clearly. It means using information hierarchy. It means reducing cognitive load.

Every once in a while I think about the insanity of HBR asking Seinfeld if McKinsey could have made him more efficient