Après Sunak (parfois lent), le déluge.

Fossil fuel-backed US pols aren't waiting for Trump 2.0. They're trying to defeat climate attribution science in the Supreme Court right now.

Whatever criticisms one has of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, “slow learner” didn’t seem the most apropos. Until this week.

Last summer, a margin of just 495 voters in Uxbridge (in their wisdom) elected Conservative Steve Tuckwell over his Labour opponent in the by-election to replace Boris Johnson. Tory strategists interpreted this as something close to divine intervention, and credited a revolt against the extension of ULEZ, the air quality measure in London, to include Uxbridge. And in their minds this grew (like the moral and international law abomination of the Rwanda deportation policy) to a clever way to escape from the sweet meteor of electoral death headed for the wannabe velociraptors left in his party.

But instead of considering it a local issue, Sunak decided to buy a massive over-reading of the result and spent big in political capital …