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Eliot Whittington

@whittso.bsky.social
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Lead thought leadership as well as business convening and organising at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Daydreamer, geek, husband, father.

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
Oh man, poor guy. Such a talent
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026
@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...
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Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery
A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse
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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think Grian Chatten probably is the first person since Kiefer Sutherland in Lost Boys to successfully make a mullet look cool
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Instead, you can read @jackstilgoe.bsky.social on drum machines: aeon.co/essays/what-...
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What drum machines can teach us about artificial intelligence | Aeon Essays
As AI drum machines embrace humanising imperfections, what does this mean for ‘real’ drummers and the soul of music?
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 19/08/2026
But we live in a world of toddler politics alas
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The economic debate in Britain needs to be about the best way of addressing the costs of an ageing population, climate change and geopolitical instability which inevitably must include the best ways of increasing taxation.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Amazing results and demonstrates the benefit of leadership for long term
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some thoughts on high streets based, entirely parochially, on where I live (Bristol). 1. Income really matters Ultimately, the nice shops - coffee, gelato, hardware, little restaurants, boutiques etc. - are in places where people can afford them. You need to Baumol money into people’s pockets
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
2. Leisure is an increasingly important use of the high street Bristol’s traditional shopping centre - Broadmead - is a bit run down (post-war redevelopment) and got too much capacity added to it in 2008 (Cabot Circus). It has been struggling for a long time BUT it is beginning to change…
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Chris Littlecott @chrislittlecott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Doug is absolutely correct, and UK climate advocates need to take this seriously. There has been a wave of recent comments criticising CCS that spectacularly miss the central dynamic: fossil fuel interests do not want to do it! Climate folks need to call this bluff, not hand O&G an easy exit.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Love “baroque and slightly greasy”!
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The current debate in the UK on new licences for oil extraction from the North Sea is about the red sliver.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Wait what theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Can't be bothered to search but has anyone ever done the obvious and titled a report on building energy efficiency "implementation is lagging"? If not I may have to write one just to use that title.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well deserved red card
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There have been some amazing moments this #worldcup but this closing ceremony is awful beyond words
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Typically insightful and nuanced thread from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social , this.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Well I’m proud of the England team anyway #wonderwall
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/07/2026
Manchester is currently suffering from massive air quality issues, due to wildfires caused in part due to climate change.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 14/07/2026
Today marks the 10th day in a row where somewhere in the UK has recorded 30°C or higher 🌡️ This is the most since 2006, when we recorded 14 consecutive days 👀
A map of the UK showing 30.2C recorded at Kew Gardens today.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026
I think they're perfectly aware that they are convincing more people to read *Careless People* (you should read it, it's genuinely excellent): us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 35/
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Careless People
#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AN...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026
When she won the British Book Award, she did not speak to accept it, and the cover of her book was blurred out on the overhead screen: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... 27/
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Sarah Wynn-Williams and Virginia Giuffre jointly win freedom to publish prize at British book awards
In a rare public appearance, Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams warned of ‘networks of powerful elites’ using wealth and influence to silence dissenting voices
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026
Nevertheless, when she was to speak - about a subject other than her book - at the Hay Festival with Tim Wu and Carole Cadwalladr, Meta sent a legal threat to the festival and Wynn-Williams, claiming that if by speaking about *anything* in public, she would violate the arbitrator's order. 29/
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Not my most credible feature but I bloody love Total Eclipse of the Heart. RIP
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A single day of extreme heat kills 3,400 people in India; a five-day heatwave kills nearly 30,000. Fossil Fuel burning is making heatwaves more frequent.
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Frontiers | Estimating heatwave-induced excess mortality in India's districts
India is among the world’s most heat-exposed nations, with hundreds of millions of people facing dangerous temperatures each summer and a mortality burden th...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sharing this recipe as a public service for the current moment annajones.co.uk/recipes/too-...
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Too Hot Salad – Recipes – Anna Jones
I wanted to share a recipe for a something I've been eating a lot in recent weeks. I make this when it feels too hot to eat or I am in need of something a bit refreshing. I first made it on a weighty,...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Americans who say they are "very concerned" about climate change are getting something very wrong. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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What Americans Who Worry About Climate Change Are Getting Wrong
New polling suggests people in the US and other wealthy countries underrate others’ anxiety about global warming.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
More people need to understand that this is absolutely a cost of #climate change; one of many new costs because our politicians dawdled and did nothing despite decades of warnings from scientists.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“Renewables and storage continue to be the fastest way to get new electrons on the grid until additional gas-fired generation can be built,” NextEra Energy CEO John Ketchum said during an investor presentation in April. The question seems to be, then why build more gas power at all?
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US solar-storage build spurred by gas plant waits
Deployment of hybrid solar and battery power plants for hyperscalers is surging as developers capitalize on fast construction timelines and ongoing reductions in clean technology costs.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is great. "If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" is spot on.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 01/06/2026
After last week’s sweltering temperatures, Alan Rusbridger explores how climate denialism seeped into mainstream media
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The climate crisis is terrifying. Why is the press ignoring it?
The most urgent subject of our age is still part of the culture wars
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
4) International scientific collaboration is severely restricted. For the better part of a century the greatest strength of US science has been its position as a focal point of international research activity. This policy dooms US science to inevitable irrelevance.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
british fan chat
cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:

[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]

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TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.

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TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.

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TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.

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TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,

and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.

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TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re 
thinking, lads:

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TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?

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TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...

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TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… 

TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate

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TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.

By the time they remember, 
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.

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TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...

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TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.

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[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found. Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister? Our weekend read - by @joshih.bsky.social manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...
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Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
OK Brits, get ready because according to official advisers "aspects of our British way of life are now really under threat from climate change" There'll be a need for air con in schools, hospitals, & over 90% of homes And there'll be shortfalls in water supply www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say
Successive governments have failed to prepare the UK for extreme heat, the climate watchdog says.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It’s an over used phrase but the new @thecccuk.bsky.social report out today on a “Well-Adapted UK” is genuinely required reading. It lays it out so clearly: the future is not going to be like the past, our climate has changed and is changing, but we can adapt: www.theccc.org.uk/2026/05/20/b...
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British way of life under threat from heat, flooding and drought  - Climate Change Committee
The Climate Change Committee today publishes A Well-Adapted UK. This new report sets out a comprehensive package of solutions to address the growing impacts of climate change affecting every aspect of...
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 20th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting is far from being the only politician who is guilty of this, but it is always weird to me how you can write a paragraph on the challenges the world faces and not mention climate change.
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW: Whether you're German, a policy wonk or just a journalist, these think tanks have been hard to miss And now they are merging www.euractiv.com/news/europes...
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Europe’s most influential energy think tanks to merge | Euractiv
Agora and RAP could create Europe's largest green transition policy shop
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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
But sometimes it's simply because they exist in a policy bubble where everyone thinks the same as them. We can't tackle poverty by only telling stories that appeal to people who already want to tackle poverty. Politics doesn't work like that.
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
⚡️🚛 thread- essential reading imo
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Celine H's new substack on energy politics is proving essential reading right now... powerofpower.substack.com/p/how-the-ne...
Screen shot of key line from linked article: "This is not just a supply shock. It is a stress test of the system the energy transition is replacing."
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