Good. There are many uses for green hydrogen (truly green, not the methane-with-extra-steps, blue hydrogen the fossil industry wants us to use) but burning it in homes is very nearly the least useful thing on that list.

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My article in this week's The Common Weal newsletter.

Comments on this week's political turmoil and some thoughts on what could come after if Scottish politics is willing to try something new - pulling each other up instead of dragging each other down.

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Excellent reminder.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 And the Tories cut aid with no notice and then used remaining aid to fund accommodation for people seeking asylum, which was roundly condemned by their own inspectorate.

Wasting eye-watering sums on doing really bad, cruel things is now their mission #Rwanda 1/

Reminder that both the UK Conservatives and UK Labour have pledged to spend at least £5 on war for every £1 spent on aid (only some of which will be spent repairing the damages of war).

These figures are eye-opening.

The expected cost of the new border checks exceeds the £330 million estimated by the Gov by a factor of 10. When you take into account not only official charges but also a range of direct and indirect business costs.

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My article in this week's The Common Weal newsletter.

Comments on this week's political turmoil and some thoughts on what could come after if Scottish politics is willing to try something new - pulling each other up instead of dragging each other down.

commonweal.scot/a-bute-house-d…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 With the Bute House agreement collapsing, what would be the seat outcome of a Holyrood election?

🟨 SNP 43 (-21)
🟥 LAB 42 (+20)
🟦 CON 22 (-9)
🟧 LD 12 (+8)
🟩 GRN 10 (+2)

Result: Hung Parliament (Unionist majority)

Purely as a matter of constitutional pedantry, the tendency towards referring to 'unelected' Prime and First Ministers is not, necessarily, the most helpful or indeed advisable framing to be embedding in our politics - all parties have done mid-term leadership changes in govt.

Breaking: Labour to table no-confidence motion in Scottish Government holyrood.com/news/view,labo…

Dear oh dear… this tells us all we need to know about how ill considered and thought through the Rwanda legislation is. Minister of State does not know difference between Rwanda and DRC. Excellent question too. bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…

And again, just to see how truly mind-blowingly gobsmackingly bananas current global sea surface temperatures are, here is the graph of global sea surface temperatures with the year 2023 omitted.

🎵I don't want to set the world. on. fire.🎵

'No. Actually, I really really do.'

A couple of weeks ago I called for a 0.63% tax on wealth stored in Scottish property and land. The G20 are calling for that to be a lot higher.

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BREAKING | Greens will vote to oust First Minister meaning Humza Yousaf's fate hangs on single MSP.
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Having one of those 'revising the column I'm writing almost in real time because a reasonable guess at the future just turned out to be completely wrong again' days.

Statement | Bute House Agreement

#ForPeopleForPlanet 🌍

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UK Labour are making exactly the same mistake as ScotGov made on rail nationalisation.

See our paper from 2017! on how to nationalise rail properly - commonweal.scot/policies/a-pub…