Richard Miller
Richard Miller
@miller-klein.bsky.social
Professional scientist and consultant focusing on innovation strategy and practice, resource efficiency and the circular economy, low-carbon and sustainable innovation in energy, construction and chemicals. Main hobby - astronomy.

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In the last couple of weeks, a lot of new people have followed me. So, it's time to say a little bit more about my expertise and interests.

I have over 40 years of experience in R&D and innovation across the public and private sectors and many different industries.
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”

Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...
This backyard ADU from Type Five is pre-approved by the city
Berkeley's OK means this customizable home — from a local company — can be built quickly and more easily.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The second debunk in the Brexit Benefits autopsy: CBAM. Turns out the big win is checks notes… running two overlapping carbon regimes and charging ourselves for EU top-ups.

Truly inspiring stuff.
Debunking Benefit 2: Why Keeping 100% of Not-Very-Much Isn’t a Benefit
In which a revenue simulation becomes a miracle, context vanishes, and Brexit gets another imaginary dividend.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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⚠️ Even the most ardent Brexiteers now accept the damage done by Brexit...

💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!

❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.

https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK
Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Pssst… Cows *do* contribute to climate change.

But that's not the only reason to cut back on beef consumption as a country. How about our health, our water, our land, etc., etc.
Brooke Rollins on beef prices: "To rebuild the lowest beef herd in 75 years will take a little bit of time. You think about the last administration, they had a war on American agriculture. They thought that cows created climate change."
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Yet another massive UK wind power record confirmed this evening. At 5:30pm on Friday wind met over 47% of the UK's electricity demand. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522947...
'Another record': UK wind power generation hits all-time high
NESO confirms Great Britain generated a new peak of 23,825MW of electricity from its wind farms, providing enough clean power for over 23 million homes
www.businessgreen.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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SCRATCH AN ANTI-VACCINE ACTIVIST AND YOU'LL (usually) FIND A CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIER.

Professors Mann and Hotez explain the lethal links between pandemics and the climate crisis, the forces fanning these flames, and how we may act on behalf of public health and a planet graced by life.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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🧐 NBER study may have overestimated Brexit hit, apparently, because "a good deal of this effect will have been due not so much to Brexit as such, but the long period of uncertainty after the vote". 🤣

But that uncertainty was a predictable product of Brexit. Why should it be discounted? ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Don’t forget, for many years #Uber insisted loudly that it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion.

So much for “making cities better…”

Via @wsj.com
The Ride-Hail Utopia That Got Stuck in Traffic
Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.
www.wsj.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Your periodic reminder that if the global economy doesn’t get to net zero emissions temperatures will keep rising to the point where they trigger the failure of natural carbon sinks, runaway climate breakdown, and the collapse of the only civilisation-supporting biosphere in the known universe.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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After spreading racist disinformation about Sadiq Khan last week, the Conservative party's leader on the London Assembly is now spreading a fake story that an Irish teacher has been sentenced to life in prison for using the wrong pronouns.

The teacher was actually sentenced for contempt of court
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Just found out that one of a kind climate communicator, @katharinehayhoe.com, is launching a new series:

Talking Climate

Katharine is one of the people who inspired me to talk climate in the first place. So always hyped to see her latest work!

linktr.ee/talking_clim...
Talking Climate | Instagram | Linktree
Free weekly newsletter and bonus content from Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon and Substack for a clear-eyed, science based, and hopeful take on climate change
linktr.ee
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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What first attracted a cryptocurrency investor to donate £9,000,000 to a party calling for cryptocurrency deregulation?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-reform-uk-handed-36351307
Nigel Farage's Reform UK handed £9million donation from ex-Brexit party backer
Christopher Harborne, a leading cryptocurrency, defence and aviation-fuel investor based in Thailand handed Nigel Farage's Reform UK £9 million in cash on August 1
www.mirror.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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NEW: Researchers have found a ‘razor-thin’ string of galaxies rotating together inside a giant cosmic filament 140 million light-years away – one of the largest spinning structures ever seen.

The findings could offer valuable new insights into how galaxies formed in the early Universe.

More info ⬇️
Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures ever found in
An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ‘razor-thin’ string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic
www.ox.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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You'll be amazed to discover that a bunch of anonymous people that Nigel Farage says definitely do exist, have confirmed that he didn't say any of the things that lots of other people say on the record that he absolutely did
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Nigel Farage says that Christopher Harborne, whose crypto firm the Reform leader plugged on air, while promising to hand massive tax cuts to, wants "absolutely nothing in return" for the £9 million he gave his party bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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What differentiates a city hall that’s doing bold, innovative city-building from a city hall that’s stuck in a same failed business-as-usual?

It’s a leadership culture of competent, creative risk-taking and energy, OR of risk aversion and excuse.

One of my favourite things to work on with cities.
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype
BP has confirmed that it is calling it quits on both of its Teesside hydrogen projects

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype
BP has confirmed that it is calling it quits on both of its Teesside hydrogen projects
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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WATCH, READ & LISTEN: In a talk for the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Prof Seirian Sumner (@waspwoman.bsky.social) explained the “natural capital” of wasps and why it is important to “love the unlovable parts of nature”.
The Natural Capital of Wasps. Seirian Sumner
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM