Wondering how many of the reports on the heat wave will reference this week’s Climate Change Committee explaining how badly prepared the UK is for the escalating climate impacts it is already facing.

Solar power is generating 46.3% of the UK's electricity right now. Only 7.2% is from fossil fuels. And so many rooftops don't yet have solar panels on them - this is only going to get better. Balcony solar panels will also soon be available in the UK: no middle man between you & the sun. 🎉☀️😎

After all the fuss over who is or isn't in the England squad, Thomas Tuchel has *mostly* selected the players who have played most for him.

It's not exactly what I'd have picked, but I quite like that England squad. I think Tuchel has thought deeply about the demands of a long tournament and the conditions, both on and off the pitch. Continuity over the cycle, no mavericks unless starters and some good heads in the squad make sense.

Number of universities in the QS Top 100 world ranking by country in 2026 USA = 27 UK = 17 Australia = 8 China = 5 South Korea = 5 A top five UK service sector export (c.£25bn) that we should probably support and champion more if we want to maintain an advantage.

How to break out of the ‘migration doom loop’….Firstly: “Labour should drop, or at least radically narrow, the proposal to extend the standard route to settlement from five to 10, 15 or even 20 years. A country that wants migrants to contribute should not keep them in prolonged insecurity.”

Next time someone explains how ‘net zero’ was too expensive during a (so-called) cost-of-living crisis.

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

Interesting juxtaposition of Wes Streeting putting forward a serious, strategic and really consequential tax reform, and the Government finding some change behind the sofa so the kids can go to Gulliver's Land a bit cheaper for a few weeks.

The removal of Russian sanctions is shameful. Govt knows this and trying to find a scapegoat. But the idea that the North Sea could ever plug a gap in jet fuel and diesel supplies, let alone plug a gap NOW is unhinged and uninformed www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

I see we're incentivising demand during a supply crisis. Cool. Cool.

Energy people looking to the government to communicate about the energy supply crisis.

The government seems to believe it's main problem is Comms, not policy, but we could now be six weeks into a big "This is what is happening, this is what it means" campaign about oil prices... And we just aren't?

Oh mate

Britain, 2335: The budget ceremony begins with the traditional Announcement of the Fuel Duty Rise. Two months later, there will be the traditional Postponement of the Fuel Duty Rise, continuing a ritual begun centuries earlier by Chancellors in the Fossil Fuel era

Europe’s bottom trawling industry brings in an estimated of €180 million annually, but a new study finds its climate impacts cost society up to 90 times more. Scraping the seafloor releases centuries of stored carbon, creating billions in economic damage to human health and agriculture.

Pretty close to what I would have self reported. I thought i’d get social democrat. More economically centrist than that, I guess.

We cant keep having the c20th best song almost win every year, owing to a disproportionate public vote. On pure integrity of the competition grounds alone something has to change. The EBU got bailed out by Bangaranga, a worthy performance in any year, but it damages the whole thing. #Eurovision

Wasnt too far off with the juries, with Australia and France 2nd and 4th with them, but I did not foresee Bulgaria at all. Fair play, its a worthy winner. We came 25th, as expected.

Shakespere’s Sister have aged well. #Eurovision #Romania

Temu Shakira is fun, but wont win (sorry Dectech) #Eurovision

Its deeply unoriginal, but the Swedish song goes off! #Eurovision

Good of the Polish entry to be ready to face archers #Eurovision

Finland is favourite for a reason. Both Jury and popular vote bait. Most songs are one or the other, not both. #Eurovision

I really like this French song and the epic vocal - and think the Juries will. Less so the public. #Eurovision.

Dear Europe, We are so, so sorry. We just don’t know how to do Eurovision. We’re embarrassed. Again, so sorry. Best, The UK #Eurovision

Till Lindovic. A joke for the metalheads there. #Eurovision

Greece song about their debt crisis. Terrible song, terrible vocal. Juries wont like it, but expect the public points to be strong. #Eurovision

Israel’s commitment to sending a song that the juries won’t like to offset their massive public vote advantage is unmatched. How they’ve contrived to not win in recent years is amazing. They’re very bad at this #Eurovision

I think this is mostly still right. Finland will likely win. Australia most likely to run them close. Slightly softened on France, but I think it will pick up lots of jury points. UK to come below 20th, probably 25th-26th. It’s a very bad Eurovision song and performance. #Eurovision

A whole article on cod prices but not a single mention of overfishing. Only the tiniest mention that fishing quotas were down, at the very bottom of the article, but no explanation of why. Surely the BBC can do a better job in explaining the underlying issues? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Google and Amazon data centers in Northwestern Indiana, if they come online as planned, will do so thanks in part to 500 megawatts of capacity from Hallador Energy’s coal-fired Merom generating station" www.latitudemedia.com/news/amazon-...

Starmer ran out of genie wishes many months ago.

No, you’re crying at the Eurovision introductory sequence. Didnt have to have him die, did they?!

Eurovisions predictions (to be revised/reposted on Saturday): The winner will be one of Finland or France, probably Finland. The UK will come around or below 20th. Jury favourites will be France and Australia. Public vote favourite will be Finland (putting aside Israel, for obvious reasons).

It is not the most important point, but nice to see Jess Phillips cite the brilliant civil servants with the ideas here. The caricature of the change-blocking bureaucrat is badly inaccurate

Ahead of this year's Eurovision - below is how you get the winner right. My predictions ahead of the first semi (tonight!) to follow later

As a Watford fan its not much fun watching the UK become the Watford of countries.

Ian is right about these. There are good ministers/SoSs doing important work and making progress. The politics has been bad, the narrative non existent, but there have been pockets of excellent government.

An incomplete list of positions I'd want to see in a Labour leadership candidate: - accepts that the state cannot increase borrowing/break fiscal rules - is prepared to increase a major tax (probably income tax?) to spend quickly on defence and infrastructure, primarily - holds firm on net zero

This line in the BBC England test selection article is deeply unfair: "England rarely go back, and previous Test openers Dom Sibley and Haseeb Hameed have not made a compelling case to be recalled" Sibley has scored 450+ runs in division 1, at an average of 65. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced...

If you're a cabinet minister over the weekend/this morning and thinking "do we push for a leader now?" surely you land on "no, thank you, very much. The next 18 months are going to be brutal, owing the US-Iran war consequences. Starmer can have that"

Why does sending the Year 6 first born to the first day of SATs feel like sending them off to war, even though I know they’ll be fine and it doesn’t matter all that much, really?

Spain’s power prices have flipped. A decade ago, Spain was a solar cautionary tale & high-cost market. Now among Europe’s cheapest. Gas decline is part of the story, but not the whole picture. More tomorrow: janrosenow.substack.com

Comfort taking is a good thing. Net zero not only leads to lower bills and tackles climate change, but it also helps people in poverty to be able to heat their homes to a safe and comfortable level. The Telegraph's record of opposing all good things is unmatched.

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough, a man who has inspired me and millions of others not just to see the beauty in the countless lifeforms that make up our precious natural world, but to acknowledge my own responsibility to preserve and protect it. Thank you, Sir David.

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind and solar That's now flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels 4/5

The incredible drop in homicides in Italy over the past 3 decades (~80%) deserves more attention. And it's happened in parallel with something else. Not implying causation, but Italy hasn't become a much more dangerous country as its immigrant population has grown. Quite the opposite.

look around the table. statistically, at least one person sitting there is a muntjac. if you can't identify the muntjac, it's you.