As it turns out they are two different ones!

Great to see the Americans bringing back the glory days of warfare, where disease killed more troops than their opponents ever did.

Decisive action to break influence of gas on electricity prices | Adam Bell The right response to yet another fossil fuel crisis is to make our economy less dependent on fossil fuels. In this context I welcome the Secretary of State's package of announcements today. In partic...

I set out why here, in tones too sorrowful for BlueSky: www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-b...

Decisive action to break influence of gas on electricity prices Families across the country will be better protected from energy crises, as government moves to break link between gas and electricity prices.

While the Government's intent in seeking break the link between gas and electricity price is the right one, the actual implementation of it as laid out here is unlikely to reduce consumer bills.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is the Civil Service! The point is that a document has been produced, and thus the Process has been serviced. To question the actual content of the document is to undermine the Process.

It's on this point that all the supportive media around Robbins will founder, because it makes the decision exclusively his.

It's not even that. These guys have more money than God and don't have the sense to buy advice on public affairs in. This rather implies that they don't have the sense to buy in advice on other domains either, so they're likely cumulating mistakes we can't yet see.

“If you break the link between gas and electricity, you’ll probably save consumers a lot of money.”

Gas sets the electricity price, so wind and nuclear are sold at higher gas-driven rates, cutting that link could lower bills.
@adambell.bsky.social Partner at Stonehaven, on the Today programme.

This is a mad way of undertaking governance. Deciding something with multi-billion economic impacts via a chat between nine people with no public accountability is insane. American friends, your constitution is broken.

However Tony, your posts are nowhere near as much of a slog as Umbrella. Unless you intend to start shifting perspectives halfway through a sentence, that is.

We will see! There are various versions of this proposal...

Somewhere Coase is turning in his grave at the idea that an efficient firm would create contracting costs purely to avoid a policy that limits staff retention.

Alternative interpretation: 65% of Britons have not heard of subcontracting.

Related:
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Sam Altman - Reanimator

Exactly one year ago today:

Oddly when I highlight that our biggest current gas security risk is a mercurial President banning LNG exports in the run-up to the midterms I get very little pushback. Clearly the media are happier to accept the consequences of a lunatic than the reality of a lunatic.

The LOTR model demonstrates that returns to smallholder agriculture are in excess of large-scale industrialisation. In this essay I shall...

Campaign to rename economic models as “stories” and assumptions as “world building”

I am perfectly happy for people to pay for pylons to be undergrounded from their own pocket if they are worried about that loss, but I don't see why it should be put onto the bills of a granny in a flat in Swansea.

I notice them because I am electrical infrastructure obsessive. But what I do note is that no-one is demanding that we take down pylons that are already there; this is purely about avoiding a minor loss of visual amenity.

Today's BlueSky discourse is about why the media aren't arguing for renewables-maxxing BUT ALSO how we should make use of all the parts of a horse.

I am never leaving this website.

Households to be rewarded for weekend laundry this summer.

“Running your washing machine on a sunny weekend, may help keep the grid stable,” with households able to receive credits or discounts for using excess solar power when demand is low. @adambell.bsky.social @listentotimesradio.bsky.social

The main driver of this generational disaffection was the powerful influence exerted on them by Western identity politics and, underpinning it, therapy culture, with its emphasis on victimhood and vulnerability. The influence of therapy culture and the increasing focus on individual psychology and identity have tended to detach young people from the traditional, conservative values of Fidesz. In effect, many young Hungarians hold attitudes closer to those of their Western peers than the older members of their own society.

When I drew attention to the corrosive influence of therapy culture and identity politics on Hungarian society, many in Fidesz assured me that I was exaggerating the problem. They imagined that these phenomena were confined to the West and somehow miraculously stopped at the border of Hungary. Yet a therapeutic, identitarian sensibility increasingly prevails throughout Hungary’s cultural and educational institutions. Invariably, those influenced by it are likely to be drawn to Western anti-traditionalist and anti-nationalist ideals. Supporters of the government appeared to be oblivious to the fact that they not only were facing a culture war – they were losing it, too.

I can't stop laughing at this in Spiked from the head of the MCC think tank (the guys who just hosted Matt Goodwin's speech in Hungary to 17 people and one @jonworth.eu, and whose government funding Magyar just eliminated).

"Orban lost because the kids went to therapy."

Cope and seethe, Boomer.

Starmer accused of ‘corrosive complacency’ on UK defence by former Nato chief Lord George Robertson, author of British military review, says premier is not willing to make the necessary investment

This is a searing attack - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... and not just on Labour, it's on everyone. Needs to be taken seriously

Not sure why we have to see pensions and defence as mutually exclusive.

Pilot programmes of 'just give everyone a battery' have been very successful on this basis.

Our market no longer values the right things at the right times. This is the fundamental challenge of the switch to renewables, much more so than the orthogonal question of location. I would hope that the Government's Review of Electricity Market Arrangements tackles this. /fin

When price discovery gets squeezed into an ever smaller portion of the market, and when stability services start to be the reason you switch generators on, something has gone badly wrong. /7

The reason for this is that we have a wholesale market that was originally designed to enable price discovery from large fossil plants. /6