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🔖 Today marks 1000 days since the Environment Act became law. 🌍 This extensive Act of Parliament was billed as “world leading”, “flagship” and a “lodestar”. 🧵 A thread on whether it is living up to its potential.

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Oliver Bater has been doing a great job on the Public First mission tracker! Some interesting developments on economic growth, clean energy and opportunity missions. publicfirst.co.uk/public-first-g… Quick summary below...

We got YouGov to ask non-EV drivers 10 questions to test their EV knowledge 59% got 2 or less out of 10 right And they're 11x less likely to want an EV as next car than those who got 8 or more Misinformation is having an effect Thread coming shortly mirror.co.uk/money/drivers-…

🚨 10 former Defra UK Secretaries of State and ministers urge the government to protect the nature-friendly farming budget. "the government needs to put its money where its mouth is and keep the farming budget intact or - better still - increase it in line with inflation."

Since I started teaching seven years ago, we've had a global pandemic, a cost-of-living crisis and some of my first students have entered the classroom as teachers. In this report for Teach First, Jess, our polling team and I looked at what Gen Z want from teaching.🧵

Amusing little update to this story Having penned an article for The i Paper slamming EVs... ...Esther Walker may well still have an EV Her husband, Giles Coren, mentioned how he drove to a restaurant in his BMW i3 last year Would be good to have clarification on this

"I'm not a climate denier, I'm just anti-climate action" is one of the weirder political tropes du jour: "Make me your leader! I believe there is a massive problem but i plan to ignore it!"

The focus from Conservative leadership candidates today on getting Britain building again is hugely welcome. We need more homes, transport links, and clean energy asap. But there’s some confusion about net zero 🧵

Thanks for hosting a robust debate Centre for Policy Studies . Emma Revell has a future in diplomacy…

1. "cats kill 10,000 times as many birds as wind turbines!" "yeah but cats kill small birds! wind turbines kill endangered birds like eagles!" I've seen this same exchange hundreds of times and it always stops there. Here's what's missing...

🚨 MPs warn cutting nature-friendly farming budget is an "act of self harm" In a letter to the Chancellor, MPs said ELMs are vital for: 🔵 Farmers' finances 🔵 Our nation's food security 🔵 Nature restoration Read more in the The Telegraph 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

We had the great pleasure of the company of Ed Dorrell on our podcast this week. We talked about his work at Public First and the enormity of the issues facing education, including the SEN crisis. He brought an optimism which is often hard to find! twoheadspodcast.podbean.com

This is Joe Overton The famous "Overton Window" is named after him It's the best mental model for understanding how political change ACTUALLY happens A thread...

Public First's research on "antipolitics" featured in The i Paper today - few stand-out findings in the thread below, with huge credit to Michela for her work on this inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

"VW to shut three factories, axe jobs and cut pay by 10%" A sad consequence of companies dragging their heels in moving to EVs As a recent report we commissioned from the CBI found - going slow on electrification means factories close and jobs are lost theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Back in July, I got into trouble for writing about road pricing. But there was one thing so explosive I had to leave it out. Now I'm free, I should finish the story. And, thanks to my new employer, I have the numbers🧵

A lot of smart people are talking about this chart, but missing the single most important factor behind the UK's position: Gas It's a very perplexing omission: Let me explain why 1/3

Climate campaigners: this is worth a read. Let the US election be a reminder that we need all of the possible potential allies, not just the ones we like or agree with about many issues.

Dear London – did you just rewrite the rules of congestion charging? By accident? And find a massive clean air hack? Which you’re now about to switch off?🧵