The IEA estimates "that three days of remote work each week, for those whose jobs allow it, could trim national oil consumption by between 2 and 6 percent."
We have the solutions we just need to use them!
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As the mother of sons, I wish we didn’t spend quite so much time knocking young men. TV talking points like Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere have focussed our attention on problematic blokes to such an extent that few pose an important question: What’s up with the femosphere? It seems that for every male who’s found his mentor in Andrew Tate or the late Charlie Kirk, there’s a young woman who’s been radicalised by Greta Thunberg and AOC (Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to you and me). On both sides of the Atlantic, polling shows young women are far more likely to skew Left than their male counterparts. It’s fair to say this emerging female cohort seems to live in ceaseless dread and fury of fossil fuels, Elon Musk, toxic masculinity, TERFs and neo-Nazis.
Creating false equivalence between people like Andrew Tate/Charlie Kirk and Greta Thunberg/AOC 🤯🤦🏻♀️
Always worth thinking deeply about the opportunity cost of urban space. How much time do you spend navigating a) vast rows of parked steel doing nothing 90%+ of time, b) long slow streams of same carrying 1 person. There are places like Tokyo that don’t tolerate thus. Closer, denser, faster, better.
You don't have to become the Netherlands in order to enable more people to leave the car at home. Multi-use paths with some basic separation from roadways is enough to get people rolling. It's something that most cities and suburbs can do now with minimal investment and space.
I am planning on appointing someone who has publicly resigned twice in scandal. They resign a third time in even bigger scandal. The fallout should, however, not include me, the person who made the big call in the first place.
Totally untenable.
I legitimately think that reducing car dependence would improve a lot of social issues stemming from isolation/lack of community, probably more than we know.
Mamdani delivers a master class every time in how to communicate politically.
Yeah, that's bad. Dumb populism.
Think about it this way: If you had a pot of cash to hand out, who would you send it to? I'm guessing you wouldn't say: “Folks who drive a lot are obviously the neediest; that's who deserves my cash.. Also, I would love to subsidize reliance on foreign oil.”
A big ongoing development in UK EU relations is Labour MPs now understanding the importance of freedom of movement. Replacing the cakeist Customs Union calls with this shows a real evolution in thinking to respond to what Brussels is saying.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn the home secretary claimed, according to the government’s own data.
FOI data was obtained by @jdportes.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
New post out:
"The fall of Orbán"
Péter Magyar’s victory in Hungary is a key moment in the global battle against the radical right.
I look at the three big lessons we can take about how they can be defeated.
(£/free trial)
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Watching BBC vox pop interviews in Budapest and literally every opposition voter celebrating has framed it neither for Magyar nor against Orban but as a pro-European vote. “I’m for Europe.” A few anti-Putin / pro-Ukraine but I watched like 12 in a row say “we voted to show we’re part of Europe.”
Hungary
Main opposition alliance
2026: Tisza (new): 3 million (53%)
2022: MMM: 1.95 million (37%)
Orban/Fidesz
2026: about 2.1 million (38%)
2022: 3 million (52%)
2018: 2.6 million (48%)
2014: 2.2 million (45%)
Turnout
2026: 80%
2022: 70%
2018: 70%
2014: 62%
2010: 64%/47% (two rounds)
Experts are saying it: SUVs damage our roads more than ordinary passenger cars.
I’ve asked TfL to look into the effect of supersized SUVs in London as more of these vehicles take up space on London’s roads.
Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.
Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺
interesting question of whether the shambolic Reform leadership of Kent County Council is now hurting them there (as it ought to)
Mark Rutte's time as head of NATO is not dissimilar to his time as PM in that he seems to think it is extremely sensible to keep playing footsy with far right leaders and that this will lead to no negative consequences whatsoever.
Trump has accepted the 2 week proposal from Pakistan and will now negotiate with Iran. It is an improvement on his usual nonsense about unconditional surrender and unlawful genocidal threats
Sky News are going with the nonsense of "did Trump's threat tactic work"
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
Cities always say they can't possibly do it. Paris just went ahead and did it. In ten years. #LiveableCities #ActiveTransportation
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
The 2025 numbers are really striking.
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
OK, let me explain this really simply for those struggling with reading comprehension. Just because MPs do things that you dislike (and maybe I dislike too!), does not automatically make them out-of-touch. Politics is fundamentally about trade-offs, external pressures and wicked problems.
He doesn't understand what's happening. He doesn't have a plan. There's nothing there to analyse.
Spot on.
fine, but what are we going to do about social media for boomers?
The Times on MattGPT.
It seems Goodwin doesn't understand the concept of English as an additional language (EAL).
www.thetimes.com/article/ecc0...
Mere months into 2026, just 50 American billionaires have already pumped a jaw-dropping $433 MILLION into the midterm elections — the overwhelming majority of which has benefitted Republicans.
Citizens United is corrupting our system every day.
Reform UK's poll score is now heading downwards very quickly. Turns out that being really unpleasant, remaining disorganised, having loads of skeletons in their closet, being reliant on a very unpopular leader and hating almost everything the public thinks doesn't work for long. Who knew eh.
