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Kemi Badenoch expected to announce plan to leave ECHR

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · 23d

Leave is no plan.

Leaving Europe weakened the UK
Leaving the commitment to the Climate Act provides no innovation
Leaving the ECHR provides no protections

Watch the politicians who have no real ideas.

#Brexit #ECHR #ClimateChangeAct #peoplepleaser

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Move to come if Conservatives win next election and is calculated to head off growing support for Reform UK

Do Britons think Reform UK are racist? | YouGov

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Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · 24d

People aren’t fooled.

Britons think the Reform UK party is racist.

The search continues for decent politicians and credible solutions.

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

A new YouGov survey conducted for ITV Peston finds that more than four in ten Britons consider the Reform UK party (47%), policies (46%) and voters (43%) to be “generally racist”.

yougov.co.uk

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 23

Shocking start to #ClimateWeekNYC with Trump at the #UNGeneralAssembly

Things this week can only get way way better.

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 22

A better route to #CCS…

www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Portugal’s kelp forests show remarkable carbon storage abilities

Scientists warn that climate change is threatening the seaweed's ability to store carbon and support biodiversity.

www.euronews.com

Moral Maze - Is ‘net zero’ a moral pursuit? - BBC Sounds

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 18

It doesn’t have to be sacrifice. It can be healthier eating & living, convenient travel, innovation, national energy security, individual fuel security & reduced costs of living (ultimately), economic growth, lucrative exports and improved trade
#netzero

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 18

Diplomacy is key but did the King have to leave climate change out of his speech?

#climatechange

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Read the King’s state banquet speech to Donald Trump in full

Here’s the speech in full

www.independent.co.uk

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Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 6

#callingitout

youtu.be/reQaq3ArAak?...

Nigel Farage absolutely destroyed by Democrat Congressman in Committee Hearing

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

Is Zack Polanski the Left's answer to Nigel Farage?

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 6

A very welcome and fresh approach - taking on the dominant false narratives

#callitout

youtu.be/1KsgxOrgbOA?...

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture?, 5. Interzone

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 4

Counter culture...
Networks vs institutions
Algorithms vs spontaneous ideas
Villages vs movements
Social & environmental collapse vs imagining new ways of living
(ESG / incrementalism vs sustainability / transformation?)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Stewart Lee explores the story and ideas of counter-culture and its importance today.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 2

There are some grownups still in politics…

youtu.be/F3MEtCAeG8w?...

The Man Standing Between Trump and a Nobel Peace Prize? | Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading

Historian Anthony Seldon criticises Nigel Farage and accuses Keir Starmer of 'flip-flop'

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Sep 1

Good to see @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social challenging the clowns.

while sadly #bbcquestiontime #BBCr4today #BBCPM indulges them.

#BBC

youtu.be/bTayzyD7K2E?...

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight

Victoria Derbyshire speaks to asylum hotel resident about protests and "abuse" of the visa system

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 23

At last! News that gets into the issue. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Asylum seekers - discuss without being triggered.

youtu.be/1S97xzqueM4?...

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight

Sustainability Bounce Back

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 22

The sustainability rebound...

#sustainabilityrecession #ESGbacklash #ESG #Sustainability #BounceBack #sustainabilityrebound

planet-positive.co.uk/blog/f/susta...

There is little leadership in this bleak period. The recent ERM Sustainability Institute, GlobeScan and Volans survey shows sustainability experts want change. They indicate government, business and U...

planet-positive.co.uk

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 19

A pity to see the UK go backwards on such a critical issue, on top of already being one of the most nature depleted countries.

#nature #protect #restore #naturepositive

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback

Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals

Labour will regret its attack on nature

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Even the @spectator thinks Labour's undervaluing of nature is a vote loser (even though it also does not understand the value of nature)
#nature #habitatsdirective
www.spectator.co.uk/article/labo...

Reeves is reported to be contemplating a second planning bill making it far harder for conservationists to hold up infrastructure projects.

www.spectator.co.uk

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Another abundance book.

Abundance promoters are right to champion more technological innovation but also continue to reveal blind spots in their push for unchecked deregulation.

Just look at plastic pollution.

#abundance #scarcity #ezraklein #derekthompson

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson review – make America build again

Over-regulation has rendered progressive change impossible, argue the authors of this clear and rigorous book. But what about the tradeoffs?

Companies representing more than 40% of the global market capitalisation have now set emissions reduction aims verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), with far more businesses setting...

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 17

The backlash against the ESG backlash...

While governments flounder, businesses feel the climate and nature risks and continue to set targets.

Next - we can get back to transformative shifts.

hashtag#ESG hashtag#Sustainability hashtag#businessrisk

www.edie.net/sbti-popular...

www.edie.net

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 12

#unintendedupside - #AI / automated fact checking counters #fakenews and human propaganda

www.independent.co.uk/tech/trump-a...

Trump’s new AI chatbot keeps fact-checking him

Truth Search AI feature promises to deliver users ‘direct, reliable answers’

www.independent.co.uk

Why Peak China may finally have arrived | George Magnus

Dax Lovegrove @1dax1.bsky.social · Aug 12

Peak China?

China’s share of global may have levelled off, but it is surely well placed ahead of the low carbon economy.

I imagine China’s growing dominance will continue as other nations fall behind in this space.

#greeneconomy #peakchina

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The technological and strategic brilliance of its world-class companies are being swamped by macroeconomic troubles