Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lets see, eh?
It’s the renewables, stupid.
10 days of war have cost our taxpayers an additional €3 billion in fossil fuel imports.
As long as Europe depends on imported fossil fuels, our security & our energy bills remain hostage to geopolitical chaos.
Europe must invest in independence, not dependency. ⚡🌍
Edinburgh's own little Trump.
So many buses (Image by Roger Close)
More people are taking the bus since Oxford's temporary congestion charge was introduced say Oxfordshire County Council. Data from six local bus companies including Oxford Bus Company shows an 8% increase vs prior year since the introduction of the charge.
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...
Memo to the Department for Infrastructure:
Instead of spending money on adverts to encourage people to cycle in Belfast, when large parts of the city aren't safe for it, how about investing in safe cycling infrastructure?
These tick box exercises serve no one, but yourselves.
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Chart showing the exponential collapse of the lag, extrapolated to 2.0C. Reference points show 10, 20 and 30 year lag scenarios projecting 2033, 2043 and 2053 respectively.
1/🌡️ Global warming passed a milestone on 17th Nov 2023 that barely made the news
For the first time ever, the world's daily average temperature was 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels
Here's what the data says about when that becomes the annual norm, & whether it's coming sooner than anyone expects🧵
“Electrification has been touted as a silver bullet: an easy solution that alleviates the GHG burden from car owners worldwide. This isn’t the case. Extensive vehicle electrification only lowers emissions by a portion of what’s needed.” Via @wrirosscities.bsky.social
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You're right, cars shouldn't dominate a space like this. I'm also not sure if the local businesses are aware of how unappealing the present situation is.
"Everywhere he went, Andrew was described as rude, arrogant, petulant, shallow, uninformed, unethical, contrary, childish and spoiled"
We don't need the royals and we certainly don't need their idea of "public service".
Great read.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Personally, I'm much more likely to be put off visiting North Berwick because of the locals' wildly disproportionate response to small parking charges, rather than the parking charges themselves.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities
Germany Green Party look like winning the Baden-Wurttemberg state election tonight, a huge turnaround after being behind in the polls for months 🇩🇪💚🗳️ @gruene.de
Montage of Hannah Dadds (L) climbing up into a District Line R Stock cab, and Karen Harrison (R) in her British Rail uniform, with the IWD logo
Happy International Women's Day 2026 to all of the amazing women in the transport industry and beyond! Here's two trailblazers: Hannah Dadds the first woman Underground driver (1978) and Karen Harrison her British Rail counterpart ('Traction Trainee' from 1979) #IWD2026 LT Museum Collection
“Men of Steel drive cars made of cardboard”. #Berlin
Unfortunately we still live a world where parking, shopping and flying take greater priority.
#woke #wokeness
Fantastic, the Tories’ top fact-based transport analysts.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/holyroo...
Anyhow, congestion charging has proven to be very effective elsewhere and should be considered again in Edinburgh.
Tory MSP 'could' be making things up to get re-elected.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...
By no means as efficient and reliable as battery.
Electric (not-hydrogen) bus travels from Copenhagen to Berlin without stopping. It can be done.
www.n-tv.de/auto/Reisebu...
The downgrading of modern language teaching is Scotland is short-sighted culturally as well as economically. As a graduate in German and Russian from a Scottish university, I'm in a good place to know.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wes...
BREAKING — The UK is joining in with the US/Israeli/French campaign against independent UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
In response to a question from arch Israel lobbyist Luke Akehurst, it says it wants her comments on Israel to be “urgently investigated”.
the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz
I can already hear the frothing rage this will cause, but it makes complete sense.
greens.scot/glasgow/news...
Screenshot of The Byline Times Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war Stuart Spray 3 March 2026
🚨 Ukraine has seen vulnerable habitats consumed by wildfires, plants & animals pushed to the brink of extinction, widespread soil & water contamination & an estimated 237m tonnes of conflict-related CO₂ emissions.
@stuartspray.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
