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Reeves vows to cut link between gas and electricity prices in UK Chancellor says she will look at ways of ensuring the wholesale price of electricity is set more often by renewables

Big deal, this. And arguably long overdue.

www.ft.com/content/2adc...

This thread …

“We have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.”
— E O Wilson

Royal College of Physicians' Christmas do

@rcphysicians.bsky.social

Hungarians singing 🎵 We are the champions 🎵 after finally finding out their vote is their power. 🤍 🗳

If evangelicals think Pope Leo is too”woke” just wait until
they hear about this fellow called Jesus.

So then let’s get this thread started!

Matthew Goodwin is speaking in Budapest at 17:00 CEST this evening, at this event hosted by MCC:
mcc.hu/en/event/202...

And I’m signed up to go. Updates in this thread

The tag is: #BadLossBudapest

“America is an oil company with an army.”
— George Carlin

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

Never tear up a deal before you have some idea of what you’re replacing it with. And make sure that idea isn’t based on a staggering sense of entitlement, combined with profound ignorance and a double shot of delusion.
(Advice from a country that is still learning the hard way…)

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.

The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate.

Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices?

In this BBC interview I push back.

This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

North Korean arch to triumph

Fun fact: the last country to build a monumental arch was North Korea.

Kim Il Sung opened the truly ugly monstrosity in Pyongyang in 1982.

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda:

The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

Spare a thought … this was the MP for my constituency.

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

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Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit America's republican structure to be legally turned into a dictatorship.

This is an interesting read about a tiny village that has made itself into a renewable energy provider.

screenshot of the article heading at https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/03/the-world-energy-shock-is-coming

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

Superb thread …

This is completely mad and completely accurate

“Three weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop. What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and …”

a-grade satire from @hugorifkind.bsky.social as always

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office?

—60,000 new social housing units
—15 express bus routes
—Completion of city's full bike network
—Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard
—1000 new pedestrian streets
—300 new hectares of parks