Michael Warhurst
My work focusses on EU environmental policy, heading up environment/health NGO CHEM Trust, but this is a personal account. Also interested in democracy, regulation, sustainability, science-policy etc
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstNEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstThis is why 21st century racism is a guaranteed way to make yourself stupider, the 'need' to make an ancient prejudice stack up is the reverse of a performance-enhancing drug.
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstThere is no logic to it whatsoever. Someone said on a podcast to justify racism and now they all spout it like it means something.
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- ‘We are currently living through a paradigm shift in the speed, scale and severity of risks driven by the climate-nature crisis. Yet many regulations and government actions are dangerously out of touch with reality.” #Climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstGreenland effect on Eurobarometer? Asked if they would feel more worried if their country were not an EU member, Danes tops the list (76%). Views of the US are bleak too: 91% of Danish respondents say things are going wrong there, versus just 4% who think they’re going right
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstIt’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hyde
- ‘marketing claims on the products, such as being “low fat” or “sugar free”, are “health washing” that can stall regulation, akin to the advertising of cigarette filters in the 1950s as protective innovations that “in practice offered little meaningful benefit”’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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- Reposted by Michael WarhurstNew: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstThe raid is part of an ongoing investigation into X's algorithm for potential algorithmic bias. It expanded to include Grok after reports of deepfakes, explicit content, and data issues. X calls it an attack on free speech. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Michael Warhurst“We will be assessing if in the light of these newly available documents if there might be breaches of the rules with regard to Peter Mandelson,” a European Commission spokesman said
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- "Schemes of so-called reform of the Lords should be distrusted, since they are likely to bolster up that irresponsible assembly. If the government by the people is to be made a reality, the House of Lords must be entirely abolished. Nothing less will suffice." - Labour Party Manifesto, 1910
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- Reposted by Michael Warhurst“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstThe awfulness of Epstein risks overshadowing the fact that what Mandelson did would have been wrong whichever financier he was sending stuff to. thecritic.co.uk/pete...
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- Reposted by Michael WarhurstThere's more. On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary. Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
- Reposted by Michael Warhurst🌀 Events in British politics are moving at a staggering pace 🌀 So what are the prospects for UK politics? And what are the major drivers of the phenomena we’re witnessing? 💻Join our expert panel online as they grapple with all this and more 📆 Tues 10 Feb, 1pm GMT 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
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- Reposted by Michael WarhurstNew Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstIt's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
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- Reposted by Michael WarhurstNew from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
- “volunteers have taken to discreetly delivering bags of groceries to their door… a handful of dissident Germans used to perform the same act of kindness for the hidden Jews of Berlin under the Third Reich” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstEcotricity recently published a report saying heat pumps are expensive to run. But Carbon Brief exposes that is cherry-picks assumptions to reach a predetermined conclusion.
- NEW – Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here:
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- Reposted by Michael WarhurstSadly this hasn’t got less apt since last I posted it.
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstOn almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
- This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Maybe A I means Anodyne & Inaccurate ? #AI
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstWe don’t need AI training sponsored by the tech firms selling it. We need AI education to help people understand what it can’t do, and what dangers lie ahead if you entrust your life to it
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- Reposted by Michael WarhurstAfter being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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- ‘Perhaps the most troubling finding…was ChatGPT's inconsistency. When Fowler asked the same question several times, his score swung wildly between an F and a B. ChatGPT also kept forgetting basic information about him…despite it having full access to his records.’ www.macrumors.com/2026/01/27/c...
- Reposted by Michael WarhurstAuschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
- Reposted by Michael Warhurst2026 is the year Bluesky and the Atmosphere really come alive here's what's next bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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- Reposted by Michael Warhurst“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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