In the middle of another energy crisis, our Mayor thinks it is sensible policy to subsidise free car parking. This is about saving High Streets of course not client politics.
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(and no I'm not doing "was it br-egg-xit?" Or "such a poultry amount". Sorry)
Less than one a day on average even after recent surge. You can't run a successful modern country on that basis.
BSW result
Would love to see how a party with that sort of platform would fare in the polls.
Wait, there's one in Germany.
Annual change in co2 emissions by region
What do you notice about the countries above the line with increasing emissions versus those below the line with declining emissions?
To be a fossil fuel producer is to be a fossil fuel consumer.*
So bear that in mind with the drill everything people.
(*Unless you are Norway.)
The irony is that America is becoming more Chinese like in its politics just as not being so was its strongest card.
And this weakens its ability to persuade Europe not to move economically closer to China through electro interests.
It still has NATO. Laughable isn't it?
The politics of being an electro v petrostate will reorder geopolitics in odd ways. It will bring Europe and China closer together. It already is.
The US's strongest card was that it was an internationalist liberal democracy.
Oh well. You messed that one up didn't you fellas?
This is taken from an excellent @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org thread on the latest from IEA.
The US and Canada are wealthy countries that should be massively reducing carbon emissions. They aren't because their politics is dominated by petrostate brain.
Annual change in co2 emissions by region
What do you notice about the countries above the line with increasing emissions versus those below the line with declining emissions?
To be a fossil fuel producer is to be a fossil fuel consumer.*
So bear that in mind with the drill everything people.
(*Unless you are Norway.)
Don't worry. You can download it from Grok.
In fairness it's also massively better than the Merseyside derby I watched earlier.
#lfc 100% record at the Hill Dickinson.
Yes. Labour makes fundamentally bad arguments because of a caricatured and outdated view of working class life. See also failure to challenge flag vandals. Greyhound racing is basically irrelevant in terms of working class life. It simply isn't an argument.
These comments are not verified. So I've taken this down just in case. I haven't got time to check it out- hopefully they were verified before publication.
My bad. Lesson learned.
Fgs I had rather expected that this would have been verified before publication. I'm going to take down with a mea culpa.
Tbh, the best and only line for Starmer is "it's on me. I messed up. I'm sorry. I take responsibility." Which is where it will end up.
It's not a resignation matter for a PM in my view. But all this deflection etc is making it worse.
Others messed up too.
At some point we have to move on.
And for Jenrick to call for others to take responsibility for their actions in the same interview shows a complete absence of ethical consistency. Not serious.
Jenrick told the BBC that he believed Tice had followed advice, and repeated Tice's claim he may have paid too much in tax. He said: "Richard is a very successful businessman, he has had a 40-year business career, he's created thousands of jobs, he's paid millions of pounds in tax.”
This is a pathetic defence of Richard Tice.
Tax is an obligation not a voluntary contribution. You have to pay all of what you owe.
Mistakes do happen but in this case something more systematic and deliberate seems to be emerging.
Social leasing is a great idea. Especially if it comes with efficiency advice and support.
Always the green proposal not on the table....
Same with Greens where I am locally.
Only one of the Labour strategy or the Green strategy will decarbonise electricity by, say, the mid 2030s.
And it's not the Green approach.
Yes, exactly. Ignoring trade-offs seems to be a bit of a Green signature. I wouldn't describe them as a populist party per se but that is a populist strand.
The concluding comment of the conversation was "so now we have a load of Muslims and gays."
It was a sloppy report.
Sat in a rural pub last night. Conversation one side about the BBC story on dodgy migration solicitors ("Muslims just claim they are gay and they get automatic permanent residency"). Interesting *that* story cuts through. The other side about crypto.
I was sitting in the pub with the info-sphere.
So strange that the Pope is the greatest contemporary voice for liberal universalism. Yet here we are.
A new AI model is going to put the global financial system in jeopardy. And much else besides. And we have no adequate means of regulating it. Cool, cool.
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Going full ranch religious cult.
"Should you join an ashram to stop the immigrants?"
Curiosity would need to be in the person spec.....
Yes, also diversity of thought and experience.
Someone once suggested I should go for a civil service role- I looked at the JD and I ticked every box apart from one. Having run civil service programmes.
That one was unusual- it was advertised. Lots of roles that need fresh thinking aren't.
Quite.