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Michael Warhurst

@mwarhurst.eurosky.social
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My work focusses on EU environmental policy, heading up environment/health NGO CHEM Trust, but this is a personal account. Also interested in democracy, regulation, sustainability, science-policy etc

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 3h
Exclusive: Reform mayor Luke Campbell is under police investigation for allegedly cyberflashing a female member of staff Campbell, an Olympic gold boxer, is accused of having shown a a senior female officer four fully “naked and sexualised images” of himself observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Reform mayor under police investigation for alleged cyber...
Luke Campbell, an Olympic gold medallist boxer and rising star in Nigel Farage’s party, is accused of showing naked pictures of himself to female colleague
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5h
It is sensible for Braverman to retreat, for Reform to recognise the settled consensus. Maybe media elite, after 18 months, will now notice breadth of a common sense consensus for the whole of this century (which they sort of get for black English people, but Asians less) bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 15/10/2026
Oh yeah I'm supposed to link to the newsletter to drive traffic and stuff that's how social promo works, bollocks, lots of news in here: www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...
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Prince Charles Cinema saved
Plus: Angel tube station faces temporary closure • Would you live in a railway arch? • We take our dodgy shops campaign to parliament • Palantir on top • Sin bin for cyclists
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
“the core reason Trump is not just dangerous for the world at large but is also such an incompetent leader for the United States is that he recognizes no distinction between his private desires and interests and his public office and duties” chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-ne...
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A new conversation?
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
"Chinese policymakers unleashed new entrants and rapidly scaled clean-tech manufacturing, while EU and American policymakers mostly worked with incumbents (which enabled the latter to slow the pace of change)"
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
As Merz and Macron find an agreement to further water down EU emission regulations for cars, I go back to these words, from a peer-reviewed study into the reasons why China overtook Europe on clean tech.
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Luke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
This is an often forgotten point. UK is holding thousands of people in a status limbo. They get status, but no way of knowing how long it'll last and no settlement options. Planning work? School? One of the few things the UK has control over in the response to the war and they do this.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
never heard this zinging PJ O’Rourke quote before
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🚨 I'm proud to share that on Tuesday 27 October, ClientEarth is hosting a screening of 'In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal' at the Barbican. Register here to attend: brnw.ch/21x6qKK
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In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 15/10/2026
According to a Swedish expert in the automotive industry, car dealers no longer wish to keep cars with internal combustion engines in stock for fear of accelerated depreciation
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Bilhandeln stänger dörren för fossilbilar: "I praktiken inköpsstopp" | Energy Loop
De stora uppköparna inom bilhandeln vill inte längre ta in bensin- och dieselbilar i lagren, av rädsla för fallande andrahandsvärden. Enligt branschkonsulten Ronnie Svensson är elbilarnas historiska v...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
One big down side of reopening the Brexit debate is that there will be more vacuous and misleading articles like this that say since the UK has trade deals then Brexit must be working, that don't notice the EU still has more... labourlist.org/2026/10/reop...
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'Reopening the Brexit debate would be a mistake' - LabourList
If we were to rejoin, we would not be joining a progressive trading bloc, but one dominated by the hard right.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Taxing private jets at the same rate as regular flights, and ending the tax exemption on plane fuel could give the Chancellor an extra £2.7 bn. £2.7bn for our green transport networks! With other MPs I am calling on the Govt to end the tax breaks for wealthy private jet users. buff.ly/B65XyNf
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Private jet tax open letter — Possible
For *one week only* all donations have double the impact.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is interesting and at least helps to put the FoM issue into perspective (I’m not surprised by this at all). The interesting thing here for me is the much greater sensitivity re budget contributions…
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just a reminder, the Irish government has used its time holding the EU presidency to introduce a proposal to weaken EU data privacy regulations. This measure would allow AI companies to scrap private information from hundreds of millions of EU citizens to use for their training models.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is quite a journey….
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You cannot possibly underestimate the extent to which the lack of regulation of social media is contributing to the disintegration of social cohesion in this country - they actively amplify far-right agitators in our communities. And where is the UK government?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Old school Little Englander nonsense about regulations. The reason the UK didn't massively deregulate after Brexit was 1/ because regulations and standards are international norms, and 2/ the people and more importantly politicians even businesses of the UK want them.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another on the list of "things that are obvious from the evidence yet ignored" is "current immigration policy will deliver a great big hole in future budgets". The OBR currently assumes net migration bottoms out at 200k then rises. That isn't going to happen
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Harry Webb was cycling home when he was killed by a driver using nitrous oxide. His tragic death shows the devastating consequences of people taking drugs & driving. I hope that the seriousness of this judgement will deter other offenders in the future. www.londoncentric.media/p/nitrous-ox...
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This seems like the obvious response to a second fossil fuel crisis in 5 years. And yet in the UK, we have somehow lost our previously strong consensus on the green transition over that same period
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
There are some lobbyists who share both agendas - in Tufton Street for example… and the ‘interests’ that fund them
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Guess we can add “country which weakens support for fossil fuel alternatives in response to major increase in fossil fuel prices” to “country which shuns its main trade partner during period of low growth and geopolitical turmoil”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2026
Oracle is sending 30 TRUCKS OF GAS A DAY to one of its data centres due to delayed gas pipeline 🩻 still waiting for AI to solve climate change🩻 www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Stable genius update
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 09/10/2026
This is the direction of travel for all the far right. A Trumpian EU doing the barest minimum coordination, no European elections, EU enacting cultural warfare on anything the far right dislikes. Plus national vetos which will gut any other coordination. Can’t say we weren’t warned…
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pollutants that survive treatment are discharged into rivers, lakes + seas as “treated effluent”. Chemicals that bind to solid waste can end up in the sewage sludge spread on farm fields as fertliser. Our new investigation with @riveractionuk.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meme of Antonio Conte saying "one regular day of Barclays", but instead he is saying "One regular Friday not writing about the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. That's all I ask for. Will never happen"
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 09/10/2026
FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“At a fringe event at their conference Sir Bernard Jenkin, a veteran MP who helped to lead the Leave campaign, warned them: “Do not defend Brexit; Brexit is toxic with the voters.”” economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
Kemi Badenoch's pitch for power is incoherent
But Britain’s Tories still have a shot at reuniting the right
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 08/10/2026
👉REVEALED -- The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry by Stéffie Banatvala & Giorgio Michalopoulos Satellite imagery shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the...
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Revealed: The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry
Satellite imagery uncovered by Declassified shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"reopen"? A large part of the UK's problems with the EU comes down to refusing to acknowledge over 1000 years of entangled history in favour of a far more recent (and dubious) Empire / Commonwealth story which could in some hands break down into a little Englander one
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bring back the crime-free paradise depicted in Kings Cross by the Pet Shop Boys and the movie Mona Lisa
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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Pacific nations announce a regional #roadmap to transition away from #fossilfuels at #PreCOP31 - adding another 18 Nations who develop such a roadmap. Strong leadership from the #Pacific 💪 Ministers reaffirmed their vision of 100% renewable energy and a fossil fuel-free Pacific.
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s a PR problem if nothing else - including how they can avoid any responsibility!
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Meanwhile, in the real world…..
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Such a dereliction of duty to your country.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your regular reminder that a couple can already pass down a £1m property to their kids/grandkids (pass your home to spouse tax free; they get your £325k tax-free allowance - so £650k; you each get £175k "main residence allowance" if you pass to a direct relative - so £350k - total £1m).
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Documents obtained by Freedom of Information requests show that parts of the 'simplification drive' have ended up closely reflecting the demands of fertiliser & chemical companies to roll back environmental & health safeguards Insects in EU have declined 75% in 3 decades www.ft.com/content/3c86...
ft.com
Chemical groups succeed in watering down EU pesticide rules
European Commission and leading MEPs side with industry demands for laxer standards
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