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Snr Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy. The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures. substack.com/@richsulley Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a sky tonight
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it, like so many problems, that we need to buy less stuff?
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Barbaric www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lots of stuff to celebrate coming out of Burnham's speech yesterday. On social care, on public infrastructure, on trying to break the link between international gas prices and domestic electricity, on electoral reform, on investing in young people. But where was the climate? lnkd.in/p/e3wC4RVP
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#burnham #climatechange #cop31 #rosebank #jackdaw #leadership | Richard Sulley
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽? Lots of stuff to celebrate coming out of Burnham's speech yesterday. On social care, on public infrastructure, on trying to break the link between international gas prices and domestic e...
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy #Carfreeday to those who celebrate
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Evri gaslighting me about the weather that i can see out of the window
A screenshot saying a parcel could not be delivered because of bad weather
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It gets worse. They don't even try to leave space anymore
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Useful reminder that it doesn't and shouldn't have to be this way. cc. @flockyousquabs.bsky.social
A "Pedestrians Good Luck" sign on a bollardA "Pedestrians Good Luck" sign on a bollard in front of a horrible road crossing
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such sad news about Joe Harkness. Bird Therapy was one of the crowd funders of any kind i got involved in, i remember the excitement seeing my name in the back. I know Joe had a complicated relationship with the book, but for me it was enlightening.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sheffield embracing the War on Cars cc. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not all problems can or should be solved by "Give the Mayors the powers", Combined authorities are the least democratically representative bodies in the structure of government.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UK could 'unlock' 100 more ̷o̷i̷l̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷g̷a̷s̷ ̷p̷r̷o̷j̷e̷c̷t̷s̷ expensive climate disasters, say ̷n̷o̷r̷t̷h̷ ̷s̷e̷a̷ ̷b̷o̷s̷s̷e̷s̷ those set to make millions keeping bills high and supercharging the climate crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK could 'unlock' 100 more oil and gas projects, say North Sea bosses
The UK could supply half of its oil and gas needs without imports if the government showed more support for the sector, an OEUK report claims.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an announcement.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We're probably only a few short weeks away from discovering a donation to Reform UK of Nazi gold
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What's potentially even better than this amazing sweater and this amazing sweater photo, is that it may be a very pre-007 Roger Moore, who - more than one source claims - was known as "The Big Knit" for all the sweater modeling he did.
Advertising photo, possibly from a catalog, featuring a man wearing a turtleneck sweater with three bicycles and riders on it. The man is himself standing with a bicycle.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A group of thugs turn up at a hotel where an under-19 cricket team were staying because they thought they were migrants. Can we stop pretending these people have 'legitimate concerns' and accept that they are racists looking for a fight? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Crowd gathers outside hotel containing Pakistan under-19 cricket team
People gather at a hotel as Pakistan's under-16 cricket team are wrongly identified as migrants.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lowe going even lower. An official carrying out the policies of an elected government is threatened with imprisonment. What's going on here is deeply disturbing.
Rupert Lowe

A high-ranking official in the Home Office is today ordering where to send those invaders that arrived in Portsmouth last night.

Which is the next Piddington, or Epping, or Crowborough, or Thetford?

I want that man or woman to know that if they give the order to place hundreds of unvetted young men into a British community, then a Restore Britain Government will aim to prosecute them.

This is retrospective.

If we win power, and we're already the fourth largest political party through membership, that official will be dragged through the courts.

With prison the ultimate aim.

Currently, we are fourth favourite with the bookmakers to win the most seats well ahead of the Lib Dems and the Greens. For a six month old party, that is impressive.

But we need more.

Lend us your support and give this threat real teeth.

That official needs to know that there will be consequences for their actions.

Not in 2029, but now. Today. 2026.

That is what Restore Britain is promising the British people.

Consequences.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't remember government ministers speaking this way about Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action. Why do they insist on pandering to racist thugs?
Minister says some agitators were 'intimidating and thuggish'
Some protestors showed “intimidating and thuggish behaviour” this weekend, Sarah Jones, the policing minister said.

But she added she did not seek to “minimise” legitimate concerns people had about small boat crossings.

“This government has taken action to fix the broken system we inherited and crack down on the people smugglers,” Jones said, pointing out that system-wide arrests were up 70%.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am more terrified of gangs of misinformed masked thugs roaming the streets looking for a fight, stoked up my lies peddled by racists hell bent on creating division. Now would be a great time for politicians to step up, condemn the gangs, the rhetoric and get actual facts into the public domain
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everyone of our politicians who uttered the phrase "stop the boats" is culpable for this. You had a chance to humanise those who were trying to cross the channel to show empathy and sympathy. But you didn't.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pleased to see Tories are still incapable of learning the lesson that “ending the war on motorists” is not an election winning stance in London, which has the highest walking & cycling rates, lowest car ownership & best public transport of anywhere in Britain. It’s like they don’t know any of this
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thirst trap: will AI solve climate change? (No) I wrote an explainer on data centres’ impact on climate & environment for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...
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The Lead Untangles: AI data centres
They are being built at a rapid rate to handle the explosion in data capacity needed for our modern lives, but what’s the environmental impact?
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If only it was that simple www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
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Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in six European nations, survey finds | Richard Sulley
𝗔𝗖 𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘁 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼? You can dispute the framing of the headline as a binary choice, it is of course possible to act on emission reduction and also look at adaptation measures such as access to air condit...
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Both are city vehicles, but... Only one demands minimal space, doesn't threaten lives, and causes zero wear on our roads. Yet the cargo bike has to beg for every single scrap of safe infrastructure, while the massive SUV is just handed the entire city by default.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures @granthamcsf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"It is not just an environmental crime but also economically illiterate." Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy @richsulley.bsky.social spoke to @theguardian.com about the UK's plan to develop North Sea oil & gas fields despite the resulting damage to our climate & economy. Read here 👇
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
UK transit nerds are next level.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Real men walk right out into traffic to cross the street.
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Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures @granthamcsf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Can we have infinite growth on a finite planet? 🌍 This question sits at the heart of our new event series: Rethinking Prosperity on a Finite Planet. Ben Lowe from our Sustainability Assessment team previews the series and the alternative economic systems we'll be exploring. 👇 tinyurl.com/mr3sxtzt
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Rethinking prosperity on a finite planet: beyond the growth assumption
Dr Ben Lowe from the Sustainability Assessment team explains why we need to look for alternatives to our current growth-obsessed system and discusses the aims of the Grantham Centre's 'Rethinking Pros...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14/08/2026
Whilst there's no firm evidence to connect the Lewes and Wickford derailments, there are a lot of circumstantial factors that mean it wouldn't be unlikely for there to be a common cause. Do please pay close attention to that wording, though.
an aerial view of derailed and overturned vehicles on a set of tracksa view down the tracks towards a derailed train, there is very little ballast built up as a shoulder on both tracks
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Dr Abi Perrin @abiperrin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A short article from me as top climate scientists including warn the new energy secretary about the dire consequences of green-lighting more oil and gas. I almost can't believe we are still having to say this amidst a summer of extreme heat, drought and fire. 😵 www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Climate scientists issue urgent warning to UK government on new oil and gas drilling
Top UK climate scientists have written to the new energy secretary, urging her to protect lives and livelihoods above polluters’ profits.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There's a desire in the press, not only to deny that climate change exists, but also to damn the very things that might help solve it.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is that it? is that the killer comeback? do you think that single sentence is proportionate to the scale of the problem?
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The thing that bothers me most about Farage beating a bin is concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are at the highest level in around 14 million years, it hasn’t rained in months, and two of the parties that could form the next government insist this isn’t much of a problem.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 14/08/2026
BREAKING! Nigel Farage returns to normality by refusing to turn up in Clacton.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Please, my Nazi book shop, it is poorly
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Another solution in search of a problem. They will not improve safety. They will not reduce traffic. They will not reduce costs for users. They will put people out of work. They will make money for tech corporations.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it.
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Infuriating stuff from the Telegraph www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
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#climatechange #netzero #wildfires #telegraph #thesepeoplewilldoanythingtoavoidchange | Richard Sulley
"We've lost the war against global warming - so we should ditch net zero and learn to handle hot weather" There's a new tactic in the fight to prevent defossilisation, and it's illustrated perfectly ...
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We Are Opus @weareopus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Today is the *LAST CHANCE* to have your say on what goes into Sheffield's bid to become UK City of Culture 2029. We want you to share your ideas, experiences and ambitions for culture in #Sheffield. Fill in our short survey – it takes 5 to 10 minutes ⤵️ haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/cityofcultur...
A photo of a man covered in colourful powder paint at some sort of festival. Superimposed on the image are the words "UK CITY OF CULTURE BIDDING CITY"
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not a bike
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Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures @granthamcsf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What can the hole in the ozone teach us about climate denial? Past climate successes are often misrepresented to paint the climate crisis as just another "hoax". So our Green Watch team bravely explored the comment section to help debunk the myth of environmental "Hoaxes". 🔗 tinyurl.com/53wf3ra9
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Debunking the Myth of Environmental "Hoaxes"
Past climate successes are often misrepresented to paint climate change as just another "hoax". Our Green Watch team share their thoughts on what acid rain and the ozone layer can teach us about clima...
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Yes it's hot, but what can Doncaster do about it?" www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...
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#climatechange #netzero #climateemergency #doncaster #southyorkshire #hotinthecity | Richard Sulley
As predicted last night Doncaster Council voted by 32 to 13 to rescind its 2019 Climate Emergency declaration, and “𝘛𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺-𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴...
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