the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house

This is outstanding by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk on the weaponisation of irony and the need for radical sincerity open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

never again want to hear that it’s woke nonsense to want our energy to come from the sun rather than being completely at the mercy of Putin or the IRGC being annoyed

meanwhile a right-winger, somewhere, will today try to blame renewable energy for rising energy bills

Is it strange that this government is unpopular? Only 1/3 of us even voted for it!

Clean air is sharia. Clear lungs are Islamofascism. Congestion charges mean rule by mullahs. It's all very clear.

Hope, apparently, is a strategy

In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My updated gun control policy proposal is that no one gets access to guns EXCEPT the “30-50 feral hogs” guy, who will be permitted to own military-grade armaments for use in his new government job as the Official Feral Hog Murderer

Like you can’t vote for this, it’s complete nonsense. We’re already building a catastrophically small number of houses in London and now Newham wants to basically make private development impossible. FFS.

A lot of the American & Israeli war on Iran has a naval dimension. UK assets, trade, Iranian capability, US operations… As a former Royal Navy lieutenant who was twice deployed to the Gulf, with some minor experience of Iranian naval forces, I have some thoughts that may be useful for Bluesky 1/?

All of the big protests over Israel stopped as soon as Trump got in office and never started again even after he bombed Iran twice in cooperation with them. This is plainly visible to anyone with fucking eyes but you'll still get yelled at for saying it.

Guys, the Italian unemployment rate has just fallen below the UK's.

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

Uh … based? Based

2022: Ukraine asks to close the sky 2026: Ukraine is asked to close the sky

Everyone mad at Ed for trying to get us off gas needs to fill in the appropriate apology form

"shocking defending, just shocking, you don't leave the big man exposed like that"

They preach sovereignty then demand vassalage

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

The Labour party has been outflanked on drug policy by institutions as various and reactionary as the Metropolitan Police and the fucking state of MISSOURI (legal recreational weed since 2022). Gutless, gormless little cowards.

Power to the Politicians! It's time to abolish Natural England (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/its-time-t...

Labour asking people to lend them their votes while also refusing to change the system so people don’t have to vote like this is pretty gross

@robhawkes.bsky.social any idea what’s going on at Triton?

I think the next Labour leader is similar to what the Democrats need in the US: Someone who can perform anger at the system in a non-specific I-hate-politicians way, but then really stick it to the system by, er, providing competent, technocratic economic management.

It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.

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Wikipedia lists four windfarms coming online this year in the UK. RWE expects Sofia (1.4GW) to begin operation 2H 26. DB A (1.2GW) is partially operating already. East Anglia 3 (1.4GW) started offshore work last year. DBB (1.2GW) seems to be coming along also. That’s c5.2GW !

This is very convincing on why British planning is such a mess samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

It’s only a matter of time before they are using the same “quiet, piggy” language that’s being used across the pond.

Probably time for some more shifting of costs to private employers and employment regulations I reckon

But I thought there was no difference between the two parties

What's telling about this reactionary project is the cropping to ensure that no photo includes the staggering collection of skyscrapers which surrounds the site. Which tells us it is aimed solely at people who've never been there, a cousin to the "You get stabbed in London" posting of Reform-ites.

How London unwittingly killed housebuilding ft.trib.al/pxeSS8V | opinion

Well this is utterly depressing How London unwittingly killed housebuilding - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Going to the Investing in Ukraine event today in Canary Wharf. I’m hoping to snag a blue and yellow lanyard.

Gosh the strike price for onshore wind in CFD 7a is only £72.24. Quite a lot lower than the c£90 for offshore. We should probably do a lot more onshore. Also Ed Miliband is getting it done!

Greens are the anti environment party. Pretty much all their voters are much closer to ‘conservationist’ than environmentalist. Which is why they constantly have green leaders campaigning against solar farms and new energy infrastructure like pylons, or insisting we should bury all cables etc.

Starmer could take off the table the possibility of a Reform government by doing electoral reform. He won’t because he believes it’s just Labour can rule us all with 32% of the vote.

@jim.londoncentric.media @jonnelledge.bsky.social reports from watchers say that Newham has made permanent the West Ham Park LTN, the one where the camera poles kept getting knocked down 🫡🫡🫡

@robhawkes.bsky.social I see your Viking curtailment monitoring app is showing Viking curtailment 😪🤣

There’s a certain cadre of left wing persons in this country who look at what’s going on and conclude it’s all Nick Clegg’s fault and everyone else is basically blameless

foundation.kse.ua/en/donation/... These guys seem pretty cool; send them a few squid if you can. We’ll ask ourselves what we did for Ukraine when this is all over…

The authors "estimate that by 2025, the Brexit process had reduced UK GDP per capita by 6 to 8 percent, investment by 12 to 18 percent, employment by 3 to 4 percent, and productivity by 3 to 4 percent. These effects grew gradually over time." www.nber.org/202602/diges... What a total disaster... 🇪🇺🇬🇧

A lot of the questions people are asking about my “I could have been a pedophile but I didn’t” tweet could have been answered by people reading my tweet. (Musk parody)

My Trade Secrets today, in which it's fair to say I go off on one. The Labour party is famously "a moral crusade or it is nothing". On aid, immigration and trade they're going for the latter option, with betrayals of principle both repugnant and pointless. 1/n

Some legitimately good news youtu.be/KX-o1BkYQpA?...

Trump has made the case for rejoining the EU impossible to ignore ✏️ @carolinelucas.bsky.social & Dominic Grieve ▶️ buff.ly/mQjdkAz