Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Word of advice folks, avoiding being a couple minutes late to a tag rugby match (thanks Piccadilly line) is not worth impaling your calf over. In case anyone was on the fence about it (ironically, like my calf) 010
Reposted by Simon NorrisMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/08/2026Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.theguardian.comThis burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq KhanLook at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan 702188790
Reposted by Simon NorrisProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out. 9840201933
Reposted by Simon NorrisSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...climatecoloredgoggles.comResearchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health. 16175142807
Reposted by Simon NorrisDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This, in particular. Increasingly of the view that government policy towards universities is the test case of whether it really has a wider economic policy. 720895
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Climate is THE test I use for assessing whether a party is serious about governing. Anti-NZ stances tell me that 1) you are willing to ignore warnings from scientists 2) you do not understand public sentiment 3) you lack vision and ambition in a field where the UK can genuinely excel 001
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Catching a cold so bad that I'm shivering in bed is certainly a novel approach for my body to make me feel cool in this heatwave 020
Reposted by Simon NorrisDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A shocking number of journalists now see climate change as a political and economic issue rather than a scientific reality. It’s all those things but it starts with the third 614926
Reposted by Simon NorrisRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern. 802509604
Reposted by Simon NorrisThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I fear as soon as we start talking the feasibility of "ah but they could never actually do this" kind of misses the point that this sort of policy should not even be entertained at all. It should be shamed, shunned, pushed to the fringes and called out for what it is. 092
Reposted by Simon NorrisMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026possibly the most rotten failing of Keir Starmer is that this is true: he did come in and genuinely turn around the Labour Party on the issue of antisemitism - but leaves it more morally compromised than he found it, with trans rights being rolled back and the racist far right emboldened 39827
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Can't wait for @tldrjack.bsky.social to rename the Starmergeddon podcast to Burnhamania 010
Reposted by Simon NorrisSimon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I need you to know I spent 20mins post-midnight on this because of you 036267
Reposted by Simon NorrisJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition. 761162297
Reposted by Simon NorrisTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My against the grain of Bluesky opinion is that we should be campaigning for the - say - Belfast knife attack to have the same amount of coverage as the Edinburgh knife attacks, and not vice versa. 1854471
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Not 100% sure on this 2024: Right block: 17k votes, 42% Labour: 18k, 45% Green/lib: 4k, 11% 2026 B-E: 59% turnout Right block: 19k, 43% Labour: 25k, 55% Green/lib: 500, 1% Change: Right block: +2k, +1pp Labour: +7k, +10pp Green/lib: - 3.5k, -10pp That looks pretty squeezy to me 110
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If Burnham goes on to claim the top spot, he would become the UK's first Cooperative party Prime Minister, surpassing their previous-highest achievement of *checks notes* Ed Balls 100
Reposted by Simon NorrisJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/06/2026Some news: 🇺🇦 Next month I'm driving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I'll be delivering an evacuation vehicle, specially modified for saving lives in areas of the highest danger. But that's only possible if I can fundraise enough - £3,500. I'd be so grateful for any support you can give. donorbox.org/johnoxleydudonorbox.orgSupport John's Mission: Buy and Drive an Evacuation Vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦 | Driving Ukraine (Powered by Donorbox)Help John to Drive and Deliver a Life-Saving Evacuation Vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦In July 2026 John Oxley will drive 1,318 miles across Europe in 3 days to deliver an evacuation vehicle to Ukraine, where i... 33333168
Reposted by Simon NorrisThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There has been one leading politician the last ten years who has consistently, categorically and calmly called out the far-right for what it is and taken them on. 2232
Reposted by Simon NorrisTomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Sure but are you actually doing anything about it? 75513
Reposted by Simon NorrisMichael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...about.bnef.comLiebreich: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 | BloombergNEFIn September 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine and with oil and gas prices around the world soaring, I wrote a piece entitled After Ukraine - the Great Clean Energy Acceleration, predictin... 722490
Reposted by Simon NorrisJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/05/2026It's absolutely defeatist and wrong to think these are the views of all but a fringe of people, and this stuff presents a great way to drive a wedge between the Ref base and wider voters. 412117
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 22/05/2026"The cake! We want the cake!! Why won't you just let us have and eat our lovely tasty cake??" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comUK pitched single market for goods with EU in pursuit of deeper trade tiesExclusive: Top British official presented idea in Brussels but sources say it was rebuffed 000
Reposted by Simon NorrisSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/05/20266/10 potential Labour voters would have a settlement norm below 10 years, with 5 years most popular 32510
Reposted by Simon NorrisGav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Cruel and entirely, entirely impossible to implement. This is going to be an absolute disaster. 315338
Reposted by Simon NorrisElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 20/05/2026To every trans person also feeling sick about this - I love you, fuck the noise and please look after yourselves! 🫶 1477
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Couldn't agree more. Labour's immigration stance was the straw that broke the camel's back for my Party membership. 000
Reposted by Simon NorrisJack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Agree with Emily Thornberry here.. this is a properly shit decision from the govt. How can you just throw them under the bus 29461106
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We've had a couple of years post-hydrogen bubble where the consensus was starting to become "maybe Li-ion batteries will be cheap enough to provide long-term storage". I was always slightly doubtful of that - limiting a large battery to cycling a few times a year doesn't make much commercial sense 100
Reposted by Simon NorrisMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Here's where we stand (via @climateactiontracker.org): climateactiontracker.org No longer headed towards 4C thanks to global decarbonization efforts. But current policies could give >3C-that's truly catastrophic, civilization-threatening levels of warming. That's why we need additional action. 517186
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Yep, as expected. Slightly surprised myself on some of the liberty/privacy questions 000
Reposted by Simon NorrisJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/11/2025At Labour’s conference, Keir Starmer promised his government would “fight with everything we have” against those pushing racism and the idea of two-tier Britishness. Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased. 816747
Reposted by Simon NorrisMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/11/2025VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it 822253542
Reposted by Simon NorrisIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025My greatest disappointment with Starmer is the continuation of this same old game. Half-arsed policy with focus on electoral dynamics over effectiveness. Underlying situation gets worse. Then you complain the border is out of control, when in fact it is your policymaking which has failed. 1148063
Reposted by Simon NorrisSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration. 29989286
Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The Greens' next attack line, probably: "Labour would rather steal jewellry and bikes from refugees fleeing war than tax the rich" God I'm so angry. Incompetent and cruel. 010
Reposted by Simon NorrisThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The idea of the Home Office selling off the confiscated jewellery of those who have fled war and persecution should, in an ideal world, be the death knell for this government. 88519
Reposted by Simon NorrisYouGov @yougov.co.uk · 11/11/2025🧵/ How far does the public support net zero? Support: 60% Oppose: 25% Net support by party Green: +81 Lib Dem: +67 Lab: +64 Con: +11 Reform: -44 yougov.co.uk/politics/art... 14187100
Reposted by Simon NorrisKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/11/2025Generative AI being 'wrong' in the information it produces, and being unethical in how it steals human labor are both overlapping issues and it's important to show a bit of damn solidarity even if you're not a scientist, or information worker, or a writer, or an artist, or a photographer 110023
Reposted by Simon NorrisDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Flow of the vote in the average Lab gain from Con seat, i.e. somewhere like Southend E, Carlisle or Rugby. The largest dynamics here are Con -> Ref and Lab -> DK, tho Lab's wider splintering is costing them and allowing Reform a clear lead in such seats. 1125
Reposted by Simon NorrisDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 26/10/2025This is why these kinds of takes don't really grasp what is happening in what are currently Reform-facing Labour seats. The actual Lab -> Ref movement is small (and the least likely to reverse). Labour's key to remaining competitive is reuniting their losses to don't knows, LDs and Greens. 3217
Reposted by Simon NorrisDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters. 902062678
Reposted by Simon NorrisColm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2025These are particularly critical points that should be much better understood, not just by the government but also by political commentators, journalists, and broadcast bookers. 13218
Reposted by Simon NorrisWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Just a reminder that Starmer's accommodation of the radical right has not paid any electoral dividends to date. It's difficult to imagine circumstances in which it would... 811931
