Conversely, 60% of the fuel burnt by passenger flights in Europe is due to flights over 2000km, which account for just 16% of flights and 23% of seats
47% of fuel burnt is due to the 6% flights (12% of seats) over 4000km!
Timeline cleanse: I just got on a bus. An elderly woman was trying to pay but her card didn’t work. She was standing flustered by the driver. A boy, maybe 12 or 13 years old, who was queuing to get on said to the bus driver, “sir can I pay for her?” and then went ahead and paid for her
Further confirmation that gloom over the labour market was considerably overdone.
Employment numbers also look broadly stable, and real wages still rising (slowly).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
Come and soak up our #OrganicGarden & #HeritageSeedLibrary!
🦋Garden open day: 25 Apr
🥕Open days in support of @ngsopengardens.bsky.social: 11 Jul & 12 Sep
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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Year-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China
www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...
With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Banning pavement parking is amongst the biggest things you could do to make my neighbourhood safer, more child-friendly and welcoming for people walking & wheeling.
I signed this👇
I’m another dash user.
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
You can never read too much fiction.✅
But the purest of pleasures lies in writing our story of tomorrow.💯
I invite all #InnoMinds to enter @metagov.bsky.social ’s Protopian Prize Fiction Contest.🙏
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Dream big & let’s #FreeTheFuture — together!🫂
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So sorry to hear that’s happened to you. It sounds like an inhumane system.
Braverman - twice Conservative Home Secretary - in a period that saw record migration figures.
They really do think people are dumb.
The gambling industry, which donates hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Labour Party, “brings joy to a lot of people,” according to the Labour Party.
Worth a quick share over here
✈️ HUGE WIN in the fight to #BanPrivateJets!
Europe’s largest private jet sales fair #EBACE has been officially CANCELLED!
After years of relentless scrutiny from campaigners and climate justice groups, the event has finally been grounded for good! 🚫✈️🚫
Get your schooling on resisting Big Tech empires next Saturday from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social with @doctorow.pluralistic.net and others
This is not one to miss 👇👇
📌 ICYMI — Trojan Horse? Rupert Lowe’s Far-Right Restore Britain Is Standing 13 Candidates as ‘Independents’ in One Council
Anti-racist campaigners accuse the ex-Reform MP of seeking to "disguise" the extreme views and affiliations of his candidates
In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.
I would like to know whether David Lammy, as Foreign Secretary at the time, was told that Mandelson had failed the security vetting.
So this should obviously be the main headline on every news bulletin on every channel, right? Right?
In Wales, a proportional voting system - however flawed - will better represent the diversity of views among voters.
Councils in England, elected under First Past the Post, could bear very little resemblance to the way residents actually voted.
Credit: @willhaycardiff.bsky.social in The Guardian.
Thank you. It’s useful to have all those arguments packaged up in one thread.
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"But we can't use pastureland for anything else" is something I often hear when we talk about food systems, security, and plant-rich dietary change.
Three different ways of thinking about this statement: 🧵
