🤯 CATL has developed a battery capable of allowing an electric vehicle to drive 1,500km on a single charge, the Chinese group claimed on Tuesday

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Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire confidence.

Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump’s presidential library. The companies—ABC; Paramount; Meta; and X, formerly Twitter—entered into the agreements with Trump to settle legal cases he’d brought against the...

TAT: [Corruption]

Just Dan Hannan quoting Enoch Powell on the subject of immigration [two dark screenshots]....

Hannan has previously said multiple times over multiple years that he *disagreed* with Powell on immigration [white screenshot - example from 2018].

So that's that then.

Ex-CIA Analyst Claims Trump Sought to Invoke Nuclear Codes Against Iran Before General Caine Intervened A retired CIA analyst claims Trump attempted to use nuclear codes against Iran, but the allegation remains unverified. The claim adds tension to ongoing US-Iran negotiations.

A retired CIA analyst has claimed that President Donald Trump attempted to invoke nuclear codes against Iran during an emergency meeting on Saturday, and that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine stepped in to stop him. Larry C Johnson ma...

TAT: [Foreign policy | Undermining democracy]

The problem is, at a time of war or global unrest, someone like Trump could simple tell the US provider to switch the AI off.

Look at Russia and Starlink. Putin switching off the internet in Russia. Manufacturers bricking older products you own!!

Or in the FT. Because it's a deeply stupid point.

UK nominal GDP has overtaken India, probably temporarily, and driven entirely by exchange rate fluctuations (mostly the fall of the rupee, which has indeed been "sensational").

We have not grown faster than India - quite the opposite.

Rabbi who boasts of bulldozing Palestinian homes will light torch for Israel’s national day Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes

War criminal celebrated as a national hero.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A small point from the Mandelson/Robbins saga. Refom and many Tories argue for a civil service than can be more easily bent to the will and whims of their elected political masters.

This is precisely what happened here.

Trump consumer finance watchdog ends key civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection The U.S. federal consumer finance watchdog agency ​on Tuesday formally ended certain civil-rights-era antidiscrimination requirements for ‌the lending industry, according to a notice in the federal register.

Trump consumer finance watchdog ends key civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection reut.rs/48hfpFf

How many patients should we see per hour? Asking how many patients should a doctor see per hour, is like asking why drivers are slow when a road is down to one lane for roadworks. Nobody blames the driver. Everyone understands the conditions ...

Some smart thinking about metrics in emergency care here: www.stemlynsblog.org/clinician-pr...

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center previously paid informants to inf...

TAT: [Suppressing dissent]

This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

New post: Should the government compensate consumers for cost of living shocks?
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Any government subsidy today has to be paid for by raising taxes or borrowing. Why should the government do either to shield consumers who can afford to pay higher prices?

NEW | Clean power met ALL the growth in global electricity demand in 2025

Solar generation alone met THREE QUARTERS of the demand rise and grew by 30%.

Fossil generation stagnated (-0.2%).

🧵 A thread on changes in the global power system in 2025...

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.

Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%

Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

The mythbuster: Policy-based evidence is deadly NHS England has once again made the wrong call on improving emergency care

The latest proposals to fix NHS corridor care are an unfocussed clusterfuck of bad ideas that manage to ignore the biggest cause of the problem:
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In my view fair summary of where the last two days leave us.

And how even to make judgements in the absence of a clear political approach to government.

National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment Even with pivotal elections looming this year, their lingering presence is barely mentioned

More than 2,500 troops remain in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency, in a deployment that has grown increasingly routine with no clear end in sight.

TAT: [Nationalism | Undermining democracy]

The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC

TAT: [Corruption | Suppressing dissent]

Today, we published the @ember_energy Global Electricity Review 2026.

That also means 2025 electricity generation data for over 100 countries and regions is now LIVE on our data explorer, data downloads and API.

Open electricity data for everyone!

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The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

Ed Miliband Says He Will “Double Down, Not Back Down” On Clean Energy Ed Miliband has said he will “double down, not back down” on the government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change ...

Ed Miliband has said he'll “double down, not back down” on government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course

The Energy Sec said "solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not woke, or a left-wing conspiracy, or even a Marxist plot. They're actually common sense"

Crackers.

‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced | Computer Weekly Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end.

Post Office GLO Redress Scheme Closing — But "Platitudes" Hide the Struggle,
The government has announced end of the Group Litigation Order (GLO) redress scheme #PostOfficeScandal www.computerweekly.com/news/3666417...

Resolution has applied my model to data up to 2025. As the chart shows, we can be less confident as time goes on. But firm-level evidence from Bloom et al shows a 6% loss. I think it's time to retire the OBR's 4%, which was a simple average of pre-Brexit forecasts.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

I haven't commented on Palantir specifically but their actions are clearly in line with the rise of corporate giants as significant actors in the world order which is routinely under-discussed by pieces that only focus on what national governments do. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...