There was an article in the guardian a few months ago with the woman from investment capital/finance world who convinced Reeves to drop green investment. (Basically the private sector is ready and willing, no need to spend public money here), which I imagine was all Reeves needed to drop it.
Although, let’s be real, this will have been McSweeney driving all of this. (Buck still stops with Starmer obvs.)
Just praying Mahmood goes and there’s a U-turn on Home Office policy.
This is very funny. Miliband soft launching his leadership bid.
In some ways it’s actively harmful. Entrenching the notion that bikes are for sport and recreation only. Not for general utility transport accessible to all (commuting visiting friends going to the shops etc.) obviously a good thing in general to get people into sports.
Listening to today’s Daily on this article, I don’t get the sense the reporters understand the absurdity of Roberts’ claim about a regulation to reduce coal to ~25-30% of power generation by 2030.
Imagining every Green party in Europe feeling equal parts satisfaction & exasperation
It’s not 40k on average. I do think there’s a point that averaging the same or lower than petrol does not mean cheap, as petrol cars have gotten more and more expensive. Just buying a brand new car in general is for wealthy people these days.
I think they’re talking purely about sticker price, not total cost of ownership.
You might have seen a post about Nimbys in Chelsea objecting to the expansion of *an NHS cancer hospital*. It's even worse than it sounds.
1. It's not a hoax
2. @jonnelledge.bsky.social got in touch with them. I've got their response.
3. I dug out some objections. One of them…well, just read it:
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good explanation from @stellacreasy.bsky.social of my analysis of the government/MAC's own data on the fiscal impacts of recent immigration, as featured in today's Guardian.
Had the same thought. A human rights lawyer who doesn’t seem to care much about human rights, and can’t make an argument for something if his life depended on it.
Amazing they’ve managed to spin this in a negative way.
“In the midst of the latest energy crisis, free or paid electricity for all thanks to abundance of energy from the sun” is bad actually, says newspaper.
Treasury brain strikes again
Not only will Labour's hostile and inhumane immigration policies not provide the savings they claim, but they are also likely to create such massive external costs, including losses to key sectors and drops in income for the treasury as to crash the economy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The late Tony Benn set out five questions about power. In his final speech to the House of Commons he said that on meeting any powerful person, one should always ask: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
"How can we get rid of you?"
The immense significance of the defeat of Orbán's illiberal political machine and methodology
By me at the Empty City substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-can-we...
Dangerous radical ideas!
Netherlands?
GFS map of temperature anomalies over the contiguous USA for March 21, 2026.
We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA.
This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event.
A thread looking at some of the numbers.
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It really is a stunning achievement. Oh to be a contrarian and formulaic wrong opinion haver.
Not the most credible speaker on any issue frankly. Need I say more?
Also just lazy and unprofessional.
Tony Blair sitting under Trump’s “Board of Peace” organization sign.
Sorry mate the last shred of your credibility was lost when you signed up for this. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
#tonyblair #oilandgas #cleanenergy
Very good explanation of the profound problems with the government’s proposals on permanent residence and why simply tackling retrospectivity isn’t nearly enough
From today, for thousands of couples and families staying together in the UK just got even more expensive.
Visa fees are rising again — quietly wrecking lives.
We know that around 60–70% of many visa fees are profit
This is not cost recovery, it is excessive charging at the expense of families💔
Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…
"The harm to integration, to the social fabric, to children’s futures and to workers’ rights will be immense."
@colinyeo.bsky.social on the government's "earned settlement" proposals.
freemovement.org.uk/earned-settl...
SCOTLAND Labour promises £350m road repair fund to fix potholes By Rachel Keenan Scottish Labour has pledged to fix the "sorry state" of Scotland's roads with a designated pothole fund. The party's leader, Anas Sarwar, has said he would establish a new road repair fund worth £350m over the next five years, enough to fix an estimated 4.8 million potholes. Councils have had to pay out £4.2m in compensation between 2019/20 and 2023/24 for damage caused by potholes, Scottish Labour said. Sarwar said: "Scotland needs change after 20 years of SNP government. "Across Scotland, motorists are paying the price for the SP's failure to get the basics right. "Our roads are in a sorry state, potholes are causing misery every single day, and drivers, families and businesses are left to pick up the bill." 4.8m The estimated number of potholes in Scotland the fund would repair over five years The funding would be repurposed from the "active and sustainable travel" budget, without cutting bus infrastructure investment, Scottish Labour said Scottish Labour has also pledged more preventative maintenance to improve road conditions in the long term. The party has previously revealed that spending on local roads has fallen by 13 per cent since 2010-11 because of SNP cuts to council budgets. Sarwar continued: "This is what 20 years of SNP government looks like. "Crumbling roads, rising repair costs and a government that has turned its back on motorists." SNP candidate for Paisley, George Adam, said: "The only people conducting a war on motorists is the Labour UK Government who are refusing to lift a finger to cut fuel duty!" E The Lon D Mot
Unedifying scenes from Scotland, where desperate Scottish Labour is promising to raid the scant active & sustainable travel funding pot to spend on motorists. Sarwar is the *worst* - but Glasgow Labour are also opposing a congestion charge, mainly because SNP support
HT @paul0campbell.bsky.social
