And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...

I don't think anyone needs to engage with the claim that China doesn't have any windfarms

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds

There is such huge opportunity cost to each Trump tantrum. So many people with critical jobs have lost another week when they could have been doing something useful.

A US military action against Denmark’s arctic territory would be a violation of US law, with potentially massive political consequences. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/74bx

Bei seinem Besuch der Weltwirtschaftskonferenz in Davos will US-Präsident mit Europa über Grönland sprechen. ein Treffen der »beteiligten Parteien«. ein Treffen, aber ohne Dänemark, ohne Grönland. www.spiegel.de/ausland/davo...

Bei seinem Besuch der Weltwirtschaftskonferenz in Davos will US-Präsident mit Europa über Grönland sprechen. ein Treffen der »beteiligten Parteien«. ein Treffen, aber ohne Dänemark, ohne Grönland. www.spiegel.de/ausland/davo...

Donald Trump ist ein Mad King, berauscht von der eigenen Macht. Doch jeder verrückte König hat eine entscheidende Schwäche – und bei der können seine Gegner ansetzen.

Absurde Pressekonferenz von Trump vor der Abreise nach Davos. Hält lustlos Fotos von "Mördern" vor die Presse, alle angeblich aus Minnesota. Er selbst sei der Größte, schmerzlos usw. Wirkt müde und von seiner eigenen Propaganda-Show gelangweilt. Ein Angeber, der sich selbst nicht glaubt.

I found it very helpful to watch + listen to Mark Carney, not just read. here: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

“As America prepares to commemorate its 250th anniversary, the republic is flirting with its own funeral.” My column. www.ft.com/content/dede...

I’ll admit “gradually diversify away from America” is a touch less dramatic than “sell America”.

Trump’s bullying should make us re-balance trade, investment, technology, media and culture - whether this aggression includes Greenland annexation or not. image: #BBC (still camped on X)

Top three stories on the BBC website. Brits have got to wake up, or be shaken out of their torpor, pretty damn quick. They seem to have no idea how bad this could go.

John Bew on the 'age of invasion'. "the acid test for seriousness [in Europe] cannot be the extent to which our leaders are expected to express unyielding fidelity to the old religion, for a world which we are right to mourn, but is not coming back" www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Gordon Brown is right, we need a new global framework that rejects coercion and restates values in a 21st century setting (probably therefore also has to say something about company responsibilities too). Hard to see it happening though. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not just the view from Denmark. The view from anywhere in the universe where logic works.

“.. for all its military and economic strength, the US has one key weakness: it relies on others to pay its bills ... Europe, on the other hand, is America’s largest lender ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/beea...

‘The anti-coercion instrument (ACI), which French President Emmanuel Macron wants the EU to activate, is the correct supporting tool to be thinking about. It gives the bloc wide leeway to use trade, investment and regulatory tools to achieve foreign policy objectives.’ @alanbeattie.bsky.social

I think this is exactly right. www.ft.com/content/2642... Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

Europe has to stand up to Trump. Use the Anti-Coercion instrument. There's no other way Weakness will only invite more

realistically and relatively quickly available tools: 1) non implementation of Trump trade deal 2) retaliation for steel 3) ACI

There is literally zero time to waste right now, but I have to say that there is a part of me which is not only appalled and worried, but genuinely sad tonight. I have always thought of myself as an Atlanticist, it gives me no pleasure to say this. The world we relied on no longer exists.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Katya Adler wholly wrong and parrots the defeatism of Europe's centrists...by repeating, without evidence, that Europe had no winning cards vs USA... Europe is a powerful creditor, funding the US deficit. That is power. @BBC

"In the face of Trump’s storm, if Britain and its European allies cannot now bend, they will break". Good piece by @patporter76.bsky.social and @blagdendavid.bsky.social on the choices for Britain and Europe in the face of Trump's "imperial rampage". www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

surely, Europe now understands the US is no longer its ally. @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...

USA celebrates 250 years of independence in July 2026. but it's now a rogue state. should King Charles (British head of state) be joining the celebrations as our representative? that's legitimising Trump and his actions, isn't it? please sign the petition. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

as a public broadcaster, the BBC is trapped in an institutionalised bodge, a 'never-ending cycle of having to make a case for its own existence'. instead of this agonising 10-year cycle, like some kind of Sisyphus ... give the BBC a 'forever charter'. @arusbridger.bsky.social

These are bad times for the BBC: Trump is suing, its leaders have resigned, GB News snaps at its heels. In our winter issue, @aiannucci.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, @sophiasgaler.bsky.social and others suggest how it could change.

How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

It feels inevitable that government departments and ministers will soon have to leave X. But as with so many other things, they will leave the decision too late to be given any credit for it.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

This is what it looks like to live in a world, to quote Stephen Miller, "that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power". The rule of law & constitutional govt exist to stop the strong doing what they want & killing who they want. That ideal is under open attack

Yes, you read that right – and all within less than 29 hours of work. FTSE 100 CEOs rake in an average salary of £4.4 MILLION. That’s 113 times higher than the typical Brit's yearly pay.

it’s time to tackle extreme pay gaps. FTSE 100 bosses have already earned a year’s pay (for normal working people) in just 3 working days of 2026. please sign the petition now and support a new tax to tackle extreme pay. @38degrees.bsky.social you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fa...

With Trump, we see American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain. American imperialism is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous. I wrote this essay in March 2025 when Vance visited Greenland, and it is unfortunately still too relevant. snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

Even worse, different members of the Trump administration have different things in mind. To the extent Rubio, Hegseth, and Trump have put any strategic thought into Venezuela, it's with different goals and different understandings of what matters in the situation. So the whole is even less coherent.

"We have looked at the US as an ally that upholds international order. If US behaviour is going to change, we have to understand that and react to it... We have to think about the sort of world that will lead to." A sober (and sobering) take from the UK's former top diplomat, Sir Simon Fraser. ~AA

abduction. it's contrary to international law - though there are no easy answers - measured commentary from Emily Thornberry. youtu.be/G6hbLFc4tW4?...

you don't have to be an apologist for Maduro (led authoritarian government characterised by electoral fraud, human rights abuses, corruption + severe economic hardship) to condemn the US President's blatant violation of international law. @ukstoptrump.bsky.social stoptrump.org.uk/sign-venezue...

Looks like Trump, Rubio’s so-called “peace president,” has just started bombing Venezuela. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5... Like Putin, Trump needs a war to distract from problems at home. Disgraceful and illegal.

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