Happily, the government has been listening to Sam.
Ed Miliband will be doubling down on clean energy today (giving a speech at 11) announcing moves to shift more legacy renewables on to Contracts for Difference…

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Discourse!

I have only come close to missing a flight once and it's because Prague airport, unlike every other airport I have ever visited, has security at the gate and not when you arrive.

So I should have clocked that I had not yet gone through security and factored that in. But I didn't.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

So was Angela Rayner.

Richard Tice, you must also resign, by your own standards.

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in personal income and gifts, on top of his £94,00...

With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻

Telling that the people demanding office working because human contact is vital now want to replace their employees with AI.

Also, they dismissed Rayner’s defense that she’d taken advice, so they can’t use that as a shield now.

The man who says we should take back our sovereignty? Surely not.

Many thanks to @rockwils1.bsky.social for sharing the most descriptive and accurate graph ever....

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future

iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

All that winning.

BBC radio DJ Andy Kershaw dies aged 66 DJ spent almost three decades working for corporation, and was best known for Radio 1 show from 1985 to 2000

Very sad news. Andy Kershaw led me to so much great music over the years.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

A long time ago I went for an interview where every question was read impersonally from behind a large book. No follow ups, clearly looking for conformity with prescribed responses. So this poor HR approach isn’t new, just an adaptation.

IMO recruit for attitude, train for skills always best.

Yes. I wasn’t intending to criticise what you said, just to contextualise, FWIW.

Up to a point. But until Trump appropriated the Gulf even Americans called it the Gulf of Mexico, so it’s not quite the same as La Manche.

I think Google changed it if you’re in the US but not for other territories.

🆘 Need some urgent help on this Rejoin EU poll.

Vote and RT ✅

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Private sector pays way more for less responsibility. I’ve known people in the public sector with £250m budgets being paid less than £80k.

Suppresses all the pay grades below them, too

That’s a real problem with the public sector, not excess at the top.

Revealed: How many council workers are paid more than the PM - and who earns the most Some households in England have seen exceptionally high council tax rises come into effect since the new financial year began.

The Tax Dodgers’ Alliance has released a report about council CEOs being on six figure salaries. The council in my area is a £400m organisation. Is there an organisation of a similar size in the UK led by someone on £99k a year?

news.sky.com/story/reveal...

For context, Kent County Council's budget is £2.5 billion.
The ReformUK Head of Economic Development can't manage his own finances admitting that 'numbers have never been my big thing'.
How bad does a councillor have to be before his party does something about it.
#ReformUK are a bad joke.

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Yesterday I was asked a question live on @lbc.co.uk by @mrjamesob.bsky.social :

What happens if the United States intercepts a Chinese cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz?

At the time, I said I didn’t want to think about it.

Since then, I have.

#Hormuz #MaritimeSecurity

Obviously no-one could (or should) think of another leader this might apply to.

Following Orban’s defeat, Farage will try to distance himself from Trump. He recently described him as “someone I happen to know” as if it wasn’t significant.

No Nigel, you’ve flown over multiple times to suck up to & support Trump. You don’t get to pretend it’s nothing.

You’ve made your MAGA bed…

I’m not proud of myself, but I’m taking this opportunity to enjoy the worst people having a bad time. Feel free to send me examples.

Jonn was right. He’s going to regret this!

okay I'm going to regret this but... what do you think Duncan was saying?

A tip I’ll be following up once I’ve finished my six year old bottle of Basil Hayden.

Then I wish the British would get on with it.

Feels weird to be rooting for the slightly less far right candidate.