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Andrew Pendleton

@ajpendleton.bsky.social
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Strategy, policy, campaigns. Own views here. Working for The Sunrise Project. Formerly @globalactionplan @Neweconomics @IPPR and Friends of the Earth UK. He/Him One time Radio Journalist and Sony Radio Awards winner. NFFC fan #COYR

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Research quietly released by OpenAI shows Big Tech Chatbot owners could stem the flow of synth/info pollution from false 'hallucinations'. threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org?p=3492 argues this could tip politics in favour of regulating AI LLM chatbots as tragedy>> scandal @ajpendleton.bsky.social
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This would be a regressive step. Shows a poverty of thinking inside No10 Why? 🧵🧵 1. There are ways of bringing bills down and keeping costs lower whilst continuing to build out clean power. 2. The problems the renewables build out addresses haven't gone away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Keir Starmer prepares to miss key green target in effort to keep energy bills down
Exclusive: Promise to remove almost all fossil fuels from UK’s electricity supply by 2030 may be quietly abandoned over cost
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Literally any football fan over 50 knows that’s just not true.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not sure what point he’s trying to make, but football was a violent, racist mess in the 80s (its worst decade, probably). I loved going to NFFC as a teenager, but football is far safer now than it was then. Unrecognisably so.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Lovely to bump into you, though I spend a good few minutes a week waiting at the level crossing in Mortlake.
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Carsten Jung @carsjung.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
NEW: UK taxpayers are losing £22 billion every year from losses at the Bank of England - the same as the entire Home Office annual budget. This is the result of a flawed implementation of the BoE's quantitative easing programme. We propose two steps to fix this leak. (1/4)
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Go on the news, say pre-determined thing that aligns with aims, clip for socials and throw down channels. Repeat.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
doubt I need to say this, but if literally everyone chopped wood for one hour a day every day, it would lead to a pretty rapid intensification of the climate emergency
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 27/06/2025
🩹 | NEW REPORT: After decades of failed reforms, it's time for a bold new vision for social care. Our latest paper sets out why change is urgent—and how to finally make it happen. Read here: www.ippr.org/articles/thi...
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
AI now making up dates (Gemini on Google). The prompt was ‘set out of office until 14 July).
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Have you blogged your thoughts?
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Will be interesting to see if certain media outlets just ignore the report from the Spanish government confirming the key role of thermal power plants in the Iberian power outage or still try to erroneously spin it as a failure of renewables. www.businessgreen.com/news/4515109...
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'Solar PV was not the cause of the blackout': Report on Spain's power outage reveals failure of thermal plants a key factor
Renewable energy advocates accuse commentators who blamed renewables for black out of 'jumping the gun and oversimplifying the cause'
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We have to work hardest for 2. Shifting demand fast will unfortunately strand assets, but it's the least worst option, though we do need some 3 as well.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Peak oil is about demand and not supply.
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Patrick Lee @patrickjalee.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"The effects of moving to an area with worse air pollution are not confined to mental health. "A 10-year study in southern California also showed that lung growth improved for children that moved to areas with less particle pollution." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How does air pollution affect mental health? New study aimed to find out
Research looked at records of 14,800 people in Bradford to see what happened after they moved to more polluted area
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is so true. would never have missed them for pure comedy value.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 09/06/2025
📢 We've joined forces with Lord Jim O'Neill to call on Treasury to take a big bet on northern growth 🚨 The North missed out on £140bn in transport spending over the last 10yrs 🚉 But we've got a plan - Great Northern Rail 📚 www.ippr.org/articles/on-...
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Loved Steve McQueen more than anything. Must have played it every day for ab out 6 months
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I think the word "important" is overused when it comes to the publication of words. It should be used sparingly. This new piece of research from @teraallas.bsky.social and co-author Dimitri Zenghellis *is important*. www.productivity.ac.uk/news/mind-th... It explains weak UK productivity. 1/
productivity.ac.uk
Mind the capital gap: British citizens are poorer because UK workers are denied capital - The Productivity Institute
British workers are operating with a third less capital per hour worked than their counterparts abroad, finds new research by Tera Allas and Dimitri Zenghelis.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
plus, it's only a part of the job of schools; the main job of schools is to equip young people with good critical skills, in my view. if industries want skilled workers then they have to invest in training, probably in partnership with the state which needs young people in work.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
if something came along that meant I never had to drive again, and that perhaps could also overcome fluid dynamics in a way that human decision making cannot, so traffic flow was smooth, then I would be very grateful.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
tends to look like a France #2 jersey. I like the 82 aesthetic, though
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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It’s Bluebell Time in the UK, the global HQ of these wonderful evocative magical flowers. It’s said the bells rang to summon faeries to their parties. We should have a national Bluebell Day. @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajpendleton.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social @celiarichardson.bsky.social
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
last night news night gave 10+ minutes to an interview with Douglas Murray. honestly makes you wonder about editorial judgement.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Much appreciation for my council Hammersmith & Fulham’s new rain garden on King Street, which has just been planted up in time for spring! Special thanks to Cllr Wes Harcourt, Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Ecology 🌱🙌
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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation www.theguardian.com/environment/... blimey. ~ This rivals climate change for seriousness. If only they had a common source … err @thehorsman.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @ajpendleton.bsky.social
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Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation
Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Huge scramble to beat Trump tariffs on imports in the US.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Took me a while to get there and then I read the end of this post and realised I'd wasted my brain time. So a massive reduction in feb?
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
X should be banned. Those responses aren't even vaguely acceptable.
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 25/02/2025
🚨 Extraordinary exchanges at the SIT committee today, as X official Wifredo Fernandez was questioned on the platform's content/moderation policies He was confronted with a series of malicious, racist, anti-semitic and misogynistic posts Watch his response 👇 www.politics.co.uk/parliament/m...
politics.co.uk
MPs probe X official on whether 'abhorrent' racist and misogynistic posts are in rules - Politics.co.uk
The House of Commons science, innovation and technology committee has heard oral evidence from TikTok, Meta and X officials as part of its inquiry into misinformation and harmful algorithms.  The sess...
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Very important this from CBI and @eciu.net. The future of the UK economy is green and growth is impossible without it. In fact the CBI's chief economist says: “It is clear, you can’t have growth without green..."
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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Great news for young people’s careers, jobs, UK economy & envt. Hope CBI and @eciu.net repeat this every year. @ajpendleton.bsky.social
theguardian.com
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Corralling freedom in the name of other things is nothing new. Dangerous but not new.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
depressing. even if they could describe their insurgency or had a strategy that met the description, they would be entirely unconvincing as insurgents. find things that are going to make a difference to people's lives before the end of this parliament and get on with them.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
not least because labour is as squeezed on the left flank as it is on the right and more comprehensively in terms of geography.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is Vance's Munich Security Conference speech. Make yourself watch it. It's chilling, but not to be dismissed or underestimated. It's based in some degree of truth - leaders distant from people, the need to allow free speech - as all extremism is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOs...
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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the Munich Security Conference
YouTube video by The White House
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Those tofu-scoffing eco loons in the *checks notes* pensions and investment industry want much bolder climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409751...
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UK investors and pension providers worth £1.2tr back climate stewardship statement
The Asset Owner Statement on Climate Stewardship - led by the People’s Pension, Brunel Pension Partnership and Scottish Widows and others - sets out expectations for the sector on tackling the climate...
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Predictions of growth from airport expansion are based on faulty forecasts. Airport expansion won't create real economic growth, @alchap.bsky.social told the transport select committee this morning. 1/
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So begs the question why, if you're Labour, would you deliberately pick fights on green issues (bats and newts) when you don't have to. But I guess that's your point.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Do you also have a breakdown of where the green curious voters are versus the reform curious? Guess there would probably need to be a lot more green curious voters in any one place to make a seat difference, though may gift seats to others.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
yes, thank you, found it the moment I posted the reply.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
what proportion of Labour 2024 voters to each group make up?
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Yes in some places. A great mission would be to make electricity as cheap as possible so it both incentivises electrification and helps bills - growthy too and (I’d guess) helps with inflation overall.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Yep. Switching policy costs away from electricity and pushing through ‘disruptive’ energy market reforms to bring down power bills would be a good start.
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I concur.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 07/02/2025
Much better would be to say. "We have been surprised by the UK economy's weakness. We expect most of this to dissipate in 2025 and growth thereafter to be stronger than we previously thought. That improvement will not fully recover the lost output we have experienced, but the differences are small"
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Yes. Yes. Yes. Why do we visit this on ourselves in a world in which capital markets are as sensitive to the feels as they are to the detail.
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Andrew Pendleton @ajpendleton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Apart from anything, random, organic clicks as a target is mad. Clicks come from boosting posts and from the cultivation of an ecosystem of accounts that will amplify, real or otherwise. In this context, any 'good story', however brilliantly written, could fail.
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Respro® Masks @resprouk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging #AirPollution www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ai...
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Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging - University of Birmingham
Brief exposure to high concentrations of particulate matter may impair a person’s ability to focus on tasks.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Heat pumps are vastly more efficient than gas heating systems. With the right policies they can also be significantly cheaper from a total cost of ownership perspective. Our new paper on how to make heat pumps the cheapest option.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Visual @ember-energy.org
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