Rob Cheesewright

Rob Cheesewright

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Working to restore our planet. Chief Impact Officer at Pinwheel. Climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, football and metal + Eurovision🤘Thoughts my own.

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Rob Cheesewright
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I wonder if sections of the US press are looking at this stuff and reflecting at all.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

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Stephen Bush
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TBH, with a literal handful of exceptions, you can have the old high street back if you are willing to knock down and densify the actual buildings on, in and around the high street.

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Rob Ford
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People will mock this as small beer politics but predatory behaviour by parking companies has been a major source of frustration and financial cost for millions, and for many years.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced changes to car parking fines - Drivers will have a 5-minute grace period to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after a parking session ends - A £20 maximum charge on appeal for minor mistakes, such as entering the wrong number plate

Rob Cheesewright
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So it appears Claire Coutinho, leading the Tories concerted campaign to talk down Net Zero, spent the summer repeatedly claiming a massive cover up at the National Energy System Operator, only for the independent probe to find no such thing took place. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

standard.co.ukStaff at Britain’s grid operator did not cover up blackout risks, probe findsThe National Energy System Operator was being investigated over allegations raised by whistleblowers.
Rob Cheesewright
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Latest in "net zero is too expensive"

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social

Explosive stuff from the team at Inside Track revealing how insurance industry insiders are not a little terrified by the sector's failure to get a proper grip on soaring climate risks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537374...

businessgreen.com'Sounding the alarm': Insurers' retreat from climate risk coverage 'has already begun', insiders claimInsurance and reinsurance sectors have prepared neither themselves, nor their customers, for a 'far from predictable' world, non-profit warns
Rob Cheesewright
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This criticism of heat pump subsidies also misunderstands how energy (probably all capital intensive transitions) happen. First those that can afford to do so become early adopters. The people who bought the first $1,000 dollar Iphone paved the way for the rest to follow.

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In a low interest category, like energy, that early adoption needs state support, or it wont happen. Energy/fuel poverty activists get so focused on only supporting those who can't pay that they don't think about how to create the wider conditions for the energy transition.

Rob Cheesewright
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Mass adoption of heat pumps runs through middle classes moving first, with state support, creating the market, expertise, workforce and leading to learning rates so that adoption becomes possible for most households. The state must then additionally support those left behind.

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James Murray
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It would be lovely to think that on discovering an error of this magnitude it would prompt the Tories to stop and ask themselves if maybe we can afford net zero after all. Sadly, there is zero chance of that happening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
Rob Cheesewright
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7 months ago was about peak Polanski, wasn’t it?

Rob Cheesewright@robcheesewright.bsky.social

Prediction: today will mark the high point of Zach Polanski and the Green surge. And we're already past peak Reform. That doesn't mean things are looking great for either Labour or the Tories. The era of two-party politics does feel over, but lots of voters will return between now and the GE.

Rob Cheesewright
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The Right Way and the wrong maths

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social

NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
Rob Cheesewright
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An adopters perspective: Social workers and judges are between a rock and a hard place. Take a child too early, and it severs family relationship, too late and the harm caused is prolonged and much harder to mitigate through trauma-informed parenting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukRise in babies in care proceedings raises fears of unnecessary adoptions, experts tell BBCWith better support, many babies may not have needed to go into care, File on 4 Investigates is told.
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Rob Cheesewright
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Efforts we're made to try and keep them with their birth family, with intense support for months. That was almost certainly the right thing to do but when that failed to work it became a late adoption, likely adding very significant additional harm (its hard to be sure).

Rob Cheesewright
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With perfect hindsight I am fairly confident that earlier adoption would have led to better outcomes for our family. I hope that when the people outside of the system read this story they understand that there aren't easy answers and both choices come with likely negative consequences.

Rob Cheesewright
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An adopters perspective: Social workers and judges are between a rock and a hard place. Take a child too early, and it severs family relationship, too late and the harm caused is prolonged and much harder to mitigate through trauma-informed parenting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukRise in babies in care proceedings raises fears of unnecessary adoptions, experts tell BBCWith better support, many babies may not have needed to go into care, File on 4 Investigates is told.
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Rob Cheesewright
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Yet, adoption is a last resort and their is inherent trauma (for everyone involved) when separating a child from their family, and then often again separated from a foster carer(s) when moved to their forever home. Seeing a child who has gone through all of that so young is heartbreaking.

Rob Cheesewright
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Weighing up, at short notice with limited evidence, which bad outcome is the least bad is an unenviable task. I can't share the details of my child's story, to keep them safe. But as a late adoption we, her school, medical professionals are wrestling with the very significant consequences for them

Rob Cheesewright
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An adopters perspective: Social workers and judges are between a rock and a hard place. Take a child too early, and it severs family relationship, too late and the harm caused is prolonged and much harder to mitigate through trauma-informed parenting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukRise in babies in care proceedings raises fears of unnecessary adoptions, experts tell BBCWith better support, many babies may not have needed to go into care, File on 4 Investigates is told.
Rob Cheesewright
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Late adoption is anything after 6 months. A child adopted after that period will often have suffered trauma in utero and in those crucial first months, impacting brain development and response to stimuli. There are real consequences of that for growing up, accessing education, later-life outcomes.

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Ketan Joshi
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There are so many climate policy conversations in so many places around the world on "pragmatism", "realism", "compromise" etc How many of them include this end of the equation?

David Roberts@volts.wtf

"A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summer, the most heat mortalities ever recorded in the highly developed country."

insideclimatenews.orgMass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate NewsAs preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.

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James O'Flynn
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Lol. Someone at CCHQ coms really does have an absolutely raging boner for Rayner.

General Boles@generalboles.bsky.social

Did you weave Angela Rayner in? Sure did boss, real cool and relatable just like you asked for Great....wait what? #CPC26

Rob Cheesewright
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French teenagers are revolting.

Mujtaba Rahman@mijrahman.bsky.social

The violent school protests which closed 900 (one in four) lycées and led to 2,000 arrests on Thursday have invaded the French presidential campaign. The high-school students say their anger is justified. The government claims manipulation by the Far Left, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s LFI 1/