Claire Coutinho was senior fellow at Policy Exchange, which drafted law to crack down on XR and other climate activists

Claire Coutinho, appointed minister for energy security and net zero this week, was a senior fellow to the opaquely funded right-wing Policy Exchange, a think tank that helped write the UK’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act after explicitly stating the government should pass legislation to target Extinction Rebellion (XR).

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLifeEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    My favorite Oliver Cromwell fact is that when Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty during the run-up to WWI, one of his jobs was to propose names for new capital ships (i.e. battleships and battlecruisers) although the king made the final naming decision. Presumably to take the piss out of the king, Churchill twice proposed Oliver Cromwell as the name of one of the Queen Elizabeth-class ships, on the quite legitimate grounds that the institution that became the Royal Navy was founded during his rule. The king declined naming a ship after the man who had beheaded his ancestor and went with Valiant instead.