Hi Twitter! I'm launching something new 🔥🔥

I’ve been writing about climate change for a long time.

I’ve also been painfully aware that trying to make people feel guilty, alarmed or shamed into action doesn’t always work.

I think there is a better way. So here it is 👇🏽
'Energy Disrupt' is about the coming energy revolution.

Politicians and media call it a 'transition' - but clean, renewable energy will be transformative.

It will change everything.

energydisrupt.substack.com/p/we-are-on-th…
My thinking is that clean, renewable energy will get exponentially cheaper - far, far cheaper than coal, oil and gas ever managed.

And we will be able to produce so much more clean energy that it will transform our way of living and working.

Energy Disrupt is about *that* futur
Remember when PCs took off in the 90s? That led to the internet, social media and smartphones. It spawned a thousand of new industries.

I think we are on that cusp again.

Of course, time is not on our side. The energy revolution isn't just transformative but *necessary*.
As the price of energy falls, everything that relies on it will get far cheaper too.

Industries like transportation are already being revolutionised. Other industries that rely heavily on energy (food, agriculture, computing, research etc) will also be transformed.
Here is the first newsletter.

Always happy to hear feedback / tips etc!
I hope you'll all sign up.

energydisrupt.substack.com/p/energy-disru…

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4 Oct
This is big, very big.

If the UK can manage to get all its electricity from clean sources by 2035, it will set a precedent for the world.

The framing - it will make us less vulnerable to gas / oil price shocks - is spot on too Image
Politically, Labour should have been making these kind of targeted, bold promises.

Instead we make vague promises about spending billions and arguing about the 'green new deal' (which the public know FA about). 😞
Yes, but it will have an impact regardless.

It sets targets for solar and wind industry, which helps them. More money will start to flow towards solar + wind.
Also puts coal and gas on notice - which will affect their investment and funding.
Read 4 tweets
9 Jul
I think the England football team are teaching something important.

For the right, they are creating symbols of a new English identity: comfortable in its diversity and tolerance (pro-LGBT, pro-BLM).

For the left, they illustrate what progressive patriotism looks like.
[thread]
Naturally, this is why some on the left and right are uncomfortable.

Some right-wingers fear the #ENG team is mainstreaming cultural values they dislike. Some on the left fear the team are popularising 'jingoism' or nationalism.

Both strands are (deservedly) being left behind
What’s interesting is how sport stars are (again) leading this nation building.

When I was growing up, being British and the Union flag were controversial among minorities.

But Linford Christie, Natasha Danvers, Amir Khan, Kelly Holmes and other British athletes changed that.
Read 7 tweets
10 May
I'm going to be contrarian here, but I think the Labour Party, especially the centre left, need to chill out.

It's extraordinary that @Keir_Starmer is being judged against precedent, as if Britain just had a normal year.
1/n
Britain just faced the biggest crisis since WW2 (and it's not over yet!), Boris Johnson could come out with post-9/11 Bush level ratings.

But.... he didn't.

So why is Starmer being compared to previous leaders when they didn't even come close to facing anything like this?
This election was framed by media from the start through the 'red wall' narrative.

But out there, it wasn't Brexit that dominated people's lives for the last year it was the pandemic.

In Wales, Labour was rewarded for managing the pandemic well. In Scotland, the SNP was.
Read 9 tweets
9 May
Here's my write-up that NO ONE asked for and a topic you all love-hate.

This shouldn't be complicated and doesn't need some detailed policy analysis.

Labour just doesn't know how to talk to people. A bit like me as a teenager!
sunnyhundal.substack.com/p/labours-prob…
TL;DR

Detailed policies are a good goal. But we are putting the horse before the cart. The leader of the Labour party needs to know how to connect with people before he can get their vote. That doesn't come through policy. It comes by earning their trust first.
I’ve not been saying this for ages because, as some may remember, I believed Miliband could win by being a nice guy with nice policies. It didn't work.

Blair's genius wasn't policy. He knew how to connect with people. Corbyn was good at connecting with some, but not enough.
Read 6 tweets
15 Dec 20
Ok, a quick thread on why "calling out" racism doesn't work - when that's exactly what the far-right are looking for.

See these tweets by a prominent White Nationalist YouTuber for a start. They'll give you a clue.
Here we have a White Nationalist explicitly saying:

1) Their strategy is to hijack radio / TV shows and "use your anger to create publicity".

This is literally their aim. We played straight into them

2) Amazed that the Left has fallen into the trap of seeing Nazis everywhere.
This was also always the strategy of people like Katie Ho**ins, Lau***ce Fox, David Van** and a whole range of other grifters:

- to provoke and anger people on social media
- get attention
- be seen as the culture-warrior taking on the left
- make money.
Read 7 tweets
15 Dec 20
Some quick thoughts on Keir Starmer and racism and *that* LBC interview yesterday.

This will apply a lot over the next few years, so consider them ever-green tweets.
There will be times when Starmer won't react to rows on racism to how I would react.

But he has to pull together a broad coalition of voters, not me. Labour needs focus, discipline.

Stay away from culture wars. Labour doesn't need a civil war everytime Owen Jones thinks so.
On racism, I'm not convinced that "calling out" works most of the time. Depends on who is doing it and language they use.

To me it's like howling in the wind.

More specifically, it doesn't work when far-right are explicitly *looking* to get a reaction out of us.
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