Kev Warne
@kevwarne.bsky.social
Interested in climate, power, change
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Huge news and probably the most significant win for the UK left since Corbyn became Labour leader in 2015. A comprehensive rejection of Starmerism by the country's biggest union and Labour's largest affiliate.
🚨I am delighted to have been elected as UNISON's next General Secretary.
This is a win for ordinary UNISON members. Read my statement below:
This is a win for ordinary UNISON members. Read my statement below:
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Huge news and probably the most significant win for the UK left since Corbyn became Labour leader in 2015. A comprehensive rejection of Starmerism by the country's biggest union and Labour's largest affiliate.
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It’s frustrating seeing journalists reporting on the Unison General Secretary election primarily in party political instead of trade union terms. Andrea Egan won promising to raise the expectations of public sector workers. That could well have a big industrial relations impact very soon.
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It’s frustrating seeing journalists reporting on the Unison General Secretary election primarily in party political instead of trade union terms. Andrea Egan won promising to raise the expectations of public sector workers. That could well have a big industrial relations impact very soon.
Incredible public service by National Emergency Brieifing to put on the event and publish the talks on the scale of the crisis we are heading for without radical change. A must watch!
Link to a YouTube playlist with all the talks.
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Expert Briefings | The National Emergency Briefing - YouTube
These are the official expert briefings from the National Emergency Briefing. In this series, the nation’s leading scientists and experts present the unfilte...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Incredible public service by National Emergency Brieifing to put on the event and publish the talks on the scale of the crisis we are heading for without radical change. A must watch!
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Professor Tim Lenton of @exeter.ac.uk with an incredibly important warning about the dire consequences for the UK if we continue burning fossil fuels and cause the #AMOC ocean current to cross a tipping point—which could happen at 2°C.
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Professor Tim Lenton of @exeter.ac.uk with an incredibly important warning about the dire consequences for the UK if we continue burning fossil fuels and cause the #AMOC ocean current to cross a tipping point—which could happen at 2°C.
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
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"In the face of the biggest hunger strike in a generation led by Palestine Action prisoners, Bristol campaigners call for action while mainstream media remains silent"
thebristolcable.org/2025/12/prot...
thebristolcable.org/2025/12/prot...
Protests in Bristol in support of major prison hunger strike
In the face of the biggest hunger strike in a generation and a media blackout, Bristol campaigners call for action
thebristolcable.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"In the face of the biggest hunger strike in a generation led by Palestine Action prisoners, Bristol campaigners call for action while mainstream media remains silent"
thebristolcable.org/2025/12/prot...
thebristolcable.org/2025/12/prot...
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Maybe it's just me, but I find the positive tone of posts like this infuriating. It isn't "good" news.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Maybe it's just me, but I find the positive tone of posts like this infuriating. It isn't "good" news.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
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Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
There is not enough planet Earth to first turn it inside out and then turn it outside in again. Available resources do not allow for removal of the total aggregate of CO2 from the fossil fuels in s…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
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why did this make me laugh
July 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
why did this make me laugh
Trade union support, or lack of, will be crucial
BREAKING: Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn are set to launch a new political party
Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn to found new political party
The two former Labour MPs are set to launch a new party
leftfootforward.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Trade union support, or lack of, will be crucial
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@rmtunion.bsky.social Eddie Dempsey calls for cross-union alliance to win sectoral collective bargaining and right to take sympathy strike action.
The ERB is a step forward, but much more needed to "address fundamental power imbalance between workers and employers", says #RMT at its AGM in Glasgow
The ERB is a step forward, but much more needed to "address fundamental power imbalance between workers and employers", says #RMT at its AGM in Glasgow
June 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
@rmtunion.bsky.social Eddie Dempsey calls for cross-union alliance to win sectoral collective bargaining and right to take sympathy strike action.
The ERB is a step forward, but much more needed to "address fundamental power imbalance between workers and employers", says #RMT at its AGM in Glasgow
The ERB is a step forward, but much more needed to "address fundamental power imbalance between workers and employers", says #RMT at its AGM in Glasgow
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Culture, Power, Politics will be hosting a seminar with Yves Citton on July 5th. All details: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to....
From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality
An online seminar series led by Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy GilbertAt least since the 1960s, a particular strain of radical thought has explored the relationships – potential and act…
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June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Culture, Power, Politics will be hosting a seminar with Yves Citton on July 5th. All details: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to....
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"Starmer’s lack of political commitment leaves his government rudderless, its only real politics an amplified antipathy to the party’s own left." -
@piercepenniless.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@piercepenniless.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Butler · Short Cuts: Labour at the Cliff Edge
Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier promise...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Starmer’s lack of political commitment leaves his government rudderless, its only real politics an amplified antipathy to the party’s own left." -
@piercepenniless.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@piercepenniless.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Once again. It is NOT the case that Starmer et al believe that moving right will actually win them more votes. The situation is that they have to move somewhere, and they rightly fear that moving left would weaken Labour First's control of the party.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party? | Frances Ryan
The British public is more liberal and tolerant than you would believe from our politicians. Time for Keir Starmer to appeal to Britain’s best side, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Once again. It is NOT the case that Starmer et al believe that moving right will actually win them more votes. The situation is that they have to move somewhere, and they rightly fear that moving left would weaken Labour First's control of the party.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Amazing KINDER RISING swim trespass today attended by hundreds - remembering the unfinished business started by the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass in 1932, & calling on Labour to make history again by passing a Right to Roam Act. Great speech too by Labour MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social!
April 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Amazing KINDER RISING swim trespass today attended by hundreds - remembering the unfinished business started by the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass in 1932, & calling on Labour to make history again by passing a Right to Roam Act. Great speech too by Labour MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social!
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It’s the time of one of the most magic microseasons in British woodlands - bluebell carpets paint the forest floor, a sight unique to to the western fringes of Eurasia. Here at the ever-mesmerising Wytham Woods
@ox.ac.uk
@ox.ac.uk
April 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It’s the time of one of the most magic microseasons in British woodlands - bluebell carpets paint the forest floor, a sight unique to to the western fringes of Eurasia. Here at the ever-mesmerising Wytham Woods
@ox.ac.uk
@ox.ac.uk
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This is a fantastic, long and strongly-evidenced rebuttal of the "no energy transition" meme popularised wrongly by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
The Delusion of “No Energy Transition”: And How Renewables Can End Endless Energy Extraction
In popular book More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz says the ‘energy transition’ is a myth as we consume more fossil fuels than ever. In doing so, he masks real, rapid energy transitions, pa...
ageoftransformation.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is a fantastic, long and strongly-evidenced rebuttal of the "no energy transition" meme popularised wrongly by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
Always admired and respected George's writing. Another fantastic piece. Must read to understand the fundamental environmental weaknesses at the heart of the planning and infrastructure bill.
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Always admired and respected George's writing. Another fantastic piece. Must read to understand the fundamental environmental weaknesses at the heart of the planning and infrastructure bill.
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I spend 98% of my time pointing to garbage media nonsense on energy.
Welcome to the 2% club, this article:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Welcome to the 2% club, this article:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Why the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about it
From nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackled
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I spend 98% of my time pointing to garbage media nonsense on energy.
Welcome to the 2% club, this article:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Welcome to the 2% club, this article:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Very keen to hear just one of the people blaming net zero for the steel industry's woes to explain precisely what would happen if the government went 'OK then, we're scrapping net zero'. Do they honestly think energy bills would suddenly fall and reindustrialisation would immediately commence?
April 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Very keen to hear just one of the people blaming net zero for the steel industry's woes to explain precisely what would happen if the government went 'OK then, we're scrapping net zero'. Do they honestly think energy bills would suddenly fall and reindustrialisation would immediately commence?
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Every Usdaw member should have a copy of our invaluable Workers' Rights Guide - containing straightforward information to help you understand your basic rights at work.
Check it out online and bookmark the link: dtp.usdaw.co.uk/211/
Check it out online and bookmark the link: dtp.usdaw.co.uk/211/
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Every Usdaw member should have a copy of our invaluable Workers' Rights Guide - containing straightforward information to help you understand your basic rights at work.
Check it out online and bookmark the link: dtp.usdaw.co.uk/211/
Check it out online and bookmark the link: dtp.usdaw.co.uk/211/
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Energy workers are in upheaval as carbon sectors close and renewables jobs aren't delivered. Recent history offers both good and bad examples we can learn from.
On 24 March I'm launching my report - Workers’ Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Britain with @scottishtuc.bsky.social. Sign up!
On 24 March I'm launching my report - Workers’ Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Britain with @scottishtuc.bsky.social. Sign up!
Experiences of Energy Transitions – lessons from the past
Join us online to learn from historical energy transitions. Some of them were more successful in delivering a just transition than others.
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March 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Energy workers are in upheaval as carbon sectors close and renewables jobs aren't delivered. Recent history offers both good and bad examples we can learn from.
On 24 March I'm launching my report - Workers’ Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Britain with @scottishtuc.bsky.social. Sign up!
On 24 March I'm launching my report - Workers’ Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Britain with @scottishtuc.bsky.social. Sign up!
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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Did a long discussion with @novaramedia.com about the death of ESG, BlackRock rebuilding Britain (😂), the consultancy con, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Woke Capitalism Just COLLAPSED. Here’s Why. | Aaron Bastani Meets Brett Christophers
YouTube video by Novara Media
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January 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Did a long discussion with @novaramedia.com about the death of ESG, BlackRock rebuilding Britain (😂), the consultancy con, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
A superb general secretary who helped galavanise workers across the economy during the strike wave a couple of years ago.
A source of clean headed, straight talking wisdom. A real loss!
A source of clean headed, straight talking wisdom. A real loss!
Retirement of RMT general secretary Michael Lynch
RMT general secretary Michael Lynch has made the decision to retire at the age of 63 after serving the union in many capacities. He was elected general secretary in 2021.
www.rmt.org.uk/news/retirem...
RMT general secretary Michael Lynch has made the decision to retire at the age of 63 after serving the union in many capacities. He was elected general secretary in 2021.
www.rmt.org.uk/news/retirem...
Retirement of RMT general secretary Michael Lynch
RMT general secretary Michael Lynch has made the decision to retire at the age of 63 after serving the union in many capacities. He was elected general secretary in 2021.
www.rmt.org.uk
January 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A superb general secretary who helped galavanise workers across the economy during the strike wave a couple of years ago.
A source of clean headed, straight talking wisdom. A real loss!
A source of clean headed, straight talking wisdom. A real loss!