Jack Elliott

London is the UK's largest city & hence it's where the largest number of tall buildings are built. Currently they are all built from concrete &/or steel both of which have massive carbon footprints. Building with low carbon timber above 18m is banned = rising C02 ☹️ @metecoban92

It has arrived! Moving Britain, by Design a visual identity proposal for Great British Railways. Read the full proposal here: mbbd.lkbergen.com or bit.ly/mbbd-gd (Google Drive) Let me show you some highlights - 🧵👇

Rail could carry half of UK–Europe short-haul journeys by 2040 if the Channel Tunnel’s potential is fully used. That shift could deliver £1bn a year for the UK economy and cut flights. Read the full article 👉 mag.railtechnologymagazine.com/issue-149-q1/p… #InternationalRail #ChannelTunnel #RailTravel #UKRail @CBTransport

Can a WEALTH TAX do all these things? Be good for growth ✅ Cut bills for ordinary people ✅ Tackle regional inequality ✅ Scrap the hated stamp duty ✅ Command huge public support ✅ Yes. Watch👇

Remember what they took from you

Some thoughts on current housing debate - Attacking social housing due to "unproductive" tenants comes is cruel and will make it harder for YIMBYs to win consensus in the places they want to build. - The discourse on left that says increased supply doesn't matter for prices is empirically wrong, and suggests a commitment to ideology over evidence. - Cities with expanding populations need new housing for every class. If middle class professionals plus international students can't live in new high-rises, they will be competing for - and pushing up the price - of existing housing stock. - Speculative development being the only game in town won't provide enough supply as it is pro-cyclical. Oligopolistic developers will only build on mass when prices are stable or rising. - Public authorities need better funding to contribute to a mix of housing stock, especially in downturns. Status quo creates zero-sum game of chicken where private developers and council wrangle over how much "affordable" or social housing should be included, with the result often being that nothing gets built. - Our needs based social housing system, plus massive waiting lists, means millions of people struggling with housing costs will never be able to acquire social housing. Simply saying "we need more social housing, and nothing else really matters" is not providing them with a solution to their legitimate housing grievances.

@TomWright165389 @Michael_J_Hil Structurally disinsetivised to build housing at the levels needed to improve affordability, so no I don't imagine that a libertarian approach to housing supply is going to cut it.

@ComradeChooChoo @Michael_J_Hil Shame we can’t just allow private developers to build for profit which would require no public money and provide the best housing for the most people

Has anyone written anything good on how we could build hundreds of thousands/millions of new council houses?

Here’s our CEO’s op ed in @thertmnews

@Michael_J_Hil The state intervention in housing that might be able to garner cross party support is rather than building social housing, building a mixture of tenures, addressing need across the whole of society, helps with the paying for it question as it can be internally cross subsidising.

To be good it would need to address most of the following questions: how do you pay for it? How do you deal with the planning system? How do you stop right to buy becoming popular amongst housing tenants? How do you achieve and maintain political support amongst a wide enough coalition of voters that this becomes a cross party project?

To understand why tomorrow's "aren't we great and sensible, we've reduced HS2's speed" story is the work of fools, spoon-fed by charlatans they've paid to tell them what they want to hear with no connection to actual engineering reality, see this thread: x.com/i/status/18345…

@constructingldn So inevitably, 0% will be delivered as a result.

New 🆕 The appeal by Berkeley Homes to reduce affordable housing % from 35 to 12, for the redevelopment of Peckham’s Aylesham Shopping Centre has been REFUSED by the planning inspectorate. constructing-london.com/aylesham-centr…

NHS sees biggest improvement in waiting times in 16 years channel4.com/news/nhs-sees-…

The Channel Tunnel opened 32yrs ago today - the first fixed link between Britain & Europe since the last Ice Age! It's seen passenger numbers quadruple since then, but still operates at under 50% capacity. Find out what's needed to change that👇 ow.ly/bSsE50YVxaV

Happy Renters’ Rights Day, England. This Labour government is delivering for private renters.

@VictorCulpeppe9 @CarbonBrief @DrSimEvans

@CarbonBrief @DrSimEvans Great! Then other countries owe us for increasing their agricultural yield.

Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? | @drsimevans #CBarchive Read: buff.ly/xV9F48k

@Polymarket Quality of life however. But of course yanks are obsessed with numbers that don't benefit them.

Don’t risk Reform running your council from May. You can’t trust a word they say.

Milibased

@ThePrizeForce @AaronBastani @linmeitalks Absolutely fuck all, spinning up more north sea oil drilling will take capital & time, who's going to invest capital in a near depleted basin, in an industry in terminal decline, when oil prices will undoubtedly normalise before they've had time to spin up.

@AaronBastani @linmeitalks Just think of the tax money that would roll in at this price if only Ed would grant drilling licenses like confetti.

If the government does not reduce fuel tax, the cost of living will soar. People will cut back on spending and going out, high streets and small businesses will fail, and the economy will be left in a worse state than it is now.

@sam_d_1995 @dzarrilli @bfurnas @UrbanGreen CO2 lbs per MWh is a bizarre unit to use

@dzarrilli @bfurnas @UrbanGreen now imagine what it would look like if Cuomo didn’t shut down Indian Point

In the next two years, both CHPE and Empire Wind 1 are going to begin the transformation of NYC's grid for a clean energy future. Much more needed, but it's an important start. Nice analysis and graphics by @UrbanGreen: urbangreencouncil.org/nyc-grid-in-tr…