Chart shows annual heating bills for medium-sized home with an oil boiler (£1,476), an LPG boiler (£1,473) and a heat pump (£784), all at current energy prices. The heat pump is considerably cheaper to run, saving over £650

The UK government has announced £9,000 subsidies for households with oil and LPG boilers to get a heat pump.

This is seriously good deal for rural homes - not only does it lower the upfront cost, a mid-sized home could save over £650 a year by switching from oil to a heat pump at current prices...

Not just the husband of the Foreign Secretary but someone who has his own storied past with Peter Mandelson!

On any given day, you might as well roll a die to predict whether Donald Trump is going to claim total victory; imminent victory; a negotiated ceasefire; an imminent ceasefire; new attacks; crucial negotiations or imminent crucial negotiations. The only certainty is that he’ll be lying.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

your party was a 10 month long sociological experiment conducted by harvard university. the study is now complete, thank you for your time

toasting the end of Orbán - cheers!

Matt Goodwin looking for a new authoritarian regime to simp for

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

never thought I’d see this day for Hungary! 🇭🇺 🙌🏻 🎉 so happy and will look to finally visit Budapest ❤️

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

"The only way to get energy independence is to go even more quickly to renewables because we are not going to get it on the international markets."

Here's the full clip of Keir Starmer's interview with ITV News where he discusses UK energy, including renewables and North Sea

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

love that Melania speech, she really called out the catgagating on social media and made it so clear she had had only a trival encounter with Epstein's pasadise of sweet teats

i’m sorry but this article fails to convey how camp it is that some woman was just standing outside a Soho bar smoking a fag with a fabergé egg in her Givenchy bag before it got nicked by maybe the luckiest bag-snatcher alive (until he got arrested)

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.

48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.

Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:

"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Tweet from Zarah Sultana that reads: Glad Keir Starmer's Labour Government is prioritising stopping musicians from performing. Wouldn't want them distracted from their complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people and an illegal war on Iran. What a pathetic excuse of a Prime Minister

Zarah Sultana, self-appointed paragon of virtue, thinks that banning an antisemite from performing at a music festival is pathetic. It is always: "stand up to racism". Just not that sort of racism, it seems.

we had four years where we didn’t have to wake up and immediately check the news to see what new nightmare the president has threatened to inflict on the world every morning and 77 million people voted that we should have to do that again and I will never get over it

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It's surprising to me how little discussion in the UK there is of the massive progress there has been of making the economy less natural gas dependent.

Gas is just 3% of electricity generation today. Total gas use fell by 26% from 2022 to 2024, after Russia invaded Ukraine

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

The road to forgiveness does not have to make a stop at the headlining stage of a music festival

Opinion The Editorial Board U.S. cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient. The abrupt change was messy, but forced governments to reform fast. Today at 6:00 a.m. ET • 3 min

Extremely evil/cursed take from the WaPo this morning

For the avoidance of doubt, those who are arguing for “drill baby drill” really don’t get the seriousness of the situation. We should not be falling back on technologies that damage us, our economy and our future, but rather be embracing increasingly cheap and reliable home grown renewable energy.

We are in our second fossil energy crisis in less than half a decade.

The political discussion is about how we can extract more fossil fuels, encouraging our consumption of them, and avoiding any discussion about reduced use.

We are just not serious people.