Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Feel like we should be paying a bit more attention to this - it’s good news www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.

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Trump doing more for the global green agenda than any other president

And a reminder that normal people have the power to bring about change #hungary

Hungary, you absolute legends

A chart from Our World In Data, showing the shift away from coal power in the UK - nearly 70% of electricity production in the late 1980s, to less than 0.1% in 2025.

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so.

But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging.

It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening.

(Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I love my Kobo - you get exactly the same books for the same price as you can on kindle whilst knowing you’re not feeding the Bezos Behemoth

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

Good news for many reasons www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Via Politico: "Britain’s sunny spell powered the grid to new solar energy records on two consecutive days this week, the Guardian reports. The new high was confirmed just as the government approved plans for Springwell, the U.K.’s biggest solar farm."

My gynae is raving about Sathnam Sanghera at my internal scan At 51, the doctor tells me my ovaries are comatose and my womb lining is very thin. Yes! A slinky size 8 womb!

One of the best descriptions of menopause thus far...
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Treat yourself #theotherbennetsister

Part of why I’m excited for what’s happening with Solar is how it benefits poorer countries specifically. Clean energy independence without relying on gas imports often from rich countries. One less cartel to worry about, that’s actually liberating.

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative?

It’s bizarre, frankly

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

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The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced – convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump | Marina Hyde The Reform UK leader has belatedly clocked that most British people really don’t like the US president on whose coat-tails he has spent the past decade riding, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

As an established author told me, 20 plus years ago, 'Arguing with a critic is like starting an arse kicking contest with a porcupine. Even if you win, the cost to yourself will not be worth it.' As I have seen demonstrated time and again since then.

It is worth a watch - just because you start to see how tragic some of these individuals are - sad little men trapped in a dodgy pyramid scheme where they’ll do anything for clicks just to feed the algorithm and make money for the tech bros at the top. Theroux is his usual, affable magnificent self

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

"When a lazy aristocrat from a dying dynasty uses a helicopter to travel seventeen miles, the edifice shakes. But when that same man rapes a 17-year-old and calls her a liar, it is the end of days"
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Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.

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Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would

A death scholar on why we need to stop being naive about dying: ‘I always hear, “Can’t you just put me into a nice meadow?”’ Dr Hannah Gould on eco-funerals, being ‘the death person’ and the one thing everyone should know before they die

The topic we all need to talk about but never do www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

On #internationalwomensday why not pick up a copy of Hot Mother or The Mother of All Problems for the bargain price of 99p?!