and so it begins.
The fruits of Trumpism.

TikTok Makes Americans Want Chinese EVs They Can’t Have Chinese brands are winning over American consumers on social media, undermining US efforts to keep them out.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

“The BBC… found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a [market-moving Trump] social media post or media interview was made public.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Energy Shift is Underway Oxford energy expert Jan Rosenow explains why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen and still arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.

Energy disinformation is the new climate denial.

New interview with @wblau.bsky.social of Brunswick Review on why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen & arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.

review.brunswickgroup.com/article/europe-energy-transition/

#Europa unterschätzt die Vorteile einer raschen #Elektrifizierung, überschätzt #Wasserstoff und #Kernenergie und streitet über #Energieknappheit, obwohl Alternativen verfügbar sind.

Interview @wblau.bsky.social mit Jan Rosenow, Professor für Energie- und Klimapolitik an der Universität Oxford

Jan Rosenow:

Europe underestimates the advantages of rapid electrification, overestimates hydrogen & nuclear, and argues over energy scarcity when alternatives are available.
My interview with Jan Rosenow, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at Oxford University:
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/euro...

We are no longer debating whether renewables work. We are debating how fast to deploy them. #goodnews #solar #wind

Europe underestimates the advantages of rapid electrification, overestimates hydrogen & nuclear, and argues over energy scarcity when alternatives are available.
My interview with Jan Rosenow, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at Oxford University:
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/euro...

Miliband to unveil move to delink UK gas and electricity prices Energy secretary’s push comes as Iran war threatens Labour pledge to cut heating bills

Miliband to unveil move to delink UK gas and electricity prices ft.trib.al/zI9c1JF

Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock As fossil fuel prices soar ‘the era of clean energy security must come of age’, energy secretary will say

UK Enery Minister Ed Miliband:

“The lesson for our country is clear; the era of fossil fuel security is over, and the era of clean energy security must come of age.”

“You can’t solve a fossil fuel crisis by doubling down on fossil fuels.”

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

The Remainers didn’t want any engagement with continental
EU members, and failed.
The Rejoiners are about to discuss their vision of membership as if the EU was waiting feverishly, and are repeating that same insular mistake. All that’s missing now is a Gordon Brown op-ed about ‘leading Europe’

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

There are moments in life one cannot quite prepare for. Since my childhood, I have identified deeply with the United Nations and its promise. I am eager to get to work with Simon Stiell and the UN Climate Change team, UNFCCC.

He did not come up with it. There have been pan-European movements before WW1. And look up the works of William Penn. He proposed the term already in 1693. It is one of those - understandable and self-serving - UK myths by which it was Churchill (power move: name it but don’t join it) Not quite.

IEA boss Fatih Birol on why Germany should finally introduce a speed limit on its highways - to save oil.

(S+) Katherina Reiche: Ministerium bat EnBW um Argumente für Gaskraftwerke Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat beim EnBW-Konzern Vorschläge bestellt, die Batteriespeicher gegenüber Gaskraftwerken benachteiligen würden. Im Lobbyregister wurde das erst nach Anfrage des SPIEGEL verm...

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/k...

What year is it?
This feels so strangely Henry VIII.

What year is it?
This feels so strangely Henry VIII.

4/ The UK imports roughly 40 per cent of its food. A quarter comes from the Mediterranean, where extreme weather is devastating yields.

The countries we depend on face far higher climate risk than we do.

“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.”

@heathmayo.bsky.social

📣 State of Climate Journalism webinar 🌡️

Join us this Thursday, April 16, at 12pm ET, for a conversation launching a new CCNow white paper about the state of climate journalism. We're broadcasting from @sejorg.bsky.social's annual conference!

RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

‘A full-on embrace’: how the EU’s largest news publisher fell in love with the US Mathias Döpfner, ‘guru-like’ CEO of Axel Springer, wants to expand – but critics say his stated values sometimes don’t line up with what appears in his titles

for starters:

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

I am afraid the British public has not understood who just bought the Telegraph, and that this isn’t just some centrist or conservative German publishing house.

We need to talk about Donald The increasingly incoherent and volatile president is much easier to understand if we come to terms with one thing

There are those who feel obliged to make excuses for Donald Trump. But for the rest of us, writes Alan Rusbridger , it is time to speak bluntly about what we see: the guy is nuts

UK clears POLITICO owner Axel Springer to buy the Telegraph The German media conglomerate is still waiting for the purchase to be approved in Ireland and Austria.

U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said today she will allow Axel Springer’s purchase of the U.K.’s Telegraph Media Group to proceed, a key step toward the legacy newspaper’s change of ownership.

The golden lettering. Does it get any tackier?

On Dutch radio: what if the US blocked cloud services to Europe? The question should not only be whether America would block cloud services to Europe, but also whether Europe has the institutional capacity to respond if it did.

Ukrainian robots capture enemy position without troops in historic first, Zelenskyy says Ukrainian robots have taken an enemy position alone “for the first time in the history of this war”, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced. Zelenskyy stated on Monday that an enemy position was taken over “without infantry and without losses on our side” through the use of both aerial drones and unmanned ground systems. “The future is […]

Ukrainian robots capture enemy position without troops in historic first, Zelenskyy says