The UK’s unions coming together to try and stop Ed M becoming Chancellor solely due to his pro-environment policies (during a f***ing heatwave) is so on brand for them. The most successful and competent left wing politician in this country.

Ten years after Brexit, the economic consequences are plain to see. Rejoining the EU is the best way to repair the damage and deliver renewed opportunity for Londoners.

Anecdotal, but I have been very surprised by the number of climate-conscious acquaintances who have replaced their boiler without even considering a heat pump www.ft.com/content/691a...

I don't have anything profound to say about the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Brexit was always going to be shit, was shit, and now continues to be shit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@jim.londoncentric.media so Newham Council built a gym on Atherton Road now run by Better, and there’s a big hole in the roof that’s letting in water when it rains and has led them to basically cordon off half the gym … and nobody is fixing it (it has been months)

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

What is this camera angle?!?!

This ideology is specifically responsible for strangling productivity, impoverishing a generation and putting hundreds of thousands of people into the streets

The head of the CBI is in the FT today saying that business doesn’t want any further alignment with Europe. No real substantive arguments raised though. Is this just business that’s forever gunshy about actually engaging with this issue?

The case for Ed Miliband as Chancellor.

Some Very Smart people are saying that the UK doesn’t have enough governmental bandwidth to start EU accession talks. Which would be funny to a Ukrainian, who are doing accession talks whilst fighting a literal war of survival.

I'm deeply shocked by the distressing news coming out of Green Street this afternoon. My thoughts are with those injured and I hope they make a full recovery. But this incident proves as another reminder why road safety matters so much to the residents of Newham.

England flag on traffic lights usually: a bit sus England flag on traffic lights rn: DO IT FOR ENGLAND AND ST GEORGE

Time for the quintuple lock

It is the largest oil refinery in Moscow. Or rather, it was. 🔥

My pitch is that the FT should have a sports section but only dedicated to golf and only to covering cool golf courses in the UK and Europe and/or reviewing golf tech

London is scarred by Brexit but resilient. Industrial Britain, the manufacturing heartlands, the red wall, have been absolutely poleaxed. You think the politics align with that? Not a jot.

Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...

Every month at our CLP, someone even older than me says the same tosh regarding 'true Labour'. It's always one of the retired teachers or civil servants on full pension, who live in a million pound house

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

thank god the vote failed but yet another example of lib cities bailing out far-right rurals extra funny bc you’d think that “overpopulation” would be a bigger concern in the expensive cities when in reality it’s just the paranoid NIMBY schizophrenia of rural fascists

I am going to continue to push back on "high skill migration" even if I am the last dead ender. The UK has a much more pressing shortage of low-skill labour than high-skill labour. We have people giving up jobs as magic circle lawyers to take care of their parents.

Just found out our brand new Green councillors here in Newham want to abolish our LTN, so that’s fucking great

DESNZ publishes new reports showing how, yes, pylons are much cheaper than burying transmission lines, and yes, we absolutely need new transmission lines. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531103...

Some news: 🇺🇦 Next month I'm driving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I'll be delivering an evacuation vehicle, specially modified for saving lives in areas of the highest danger. But that's only possible if I can fundraise enough - £3,500. I'd be so grateful for any support you can give. donorbox.org/johnoxleydu

oh FUCK OFF

It’s kind of wild that Burnham looks at the current Labour government and thinks really hard about how he can do even worse

Oh no we’re in the Bad Place

Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

I’m currently being dogpiled by Green Party supporters furiously arguing we need higher subsidies for farmers

I swear there was something we used to do with far-right agitators who supported enemy nations. Old British tradition.

Any Brit lauding it up in Russia should be considered to have defected and as a national security risk.

Okay so rail electrification pays for itself relatively quickly. Do these treasury officials not expect us to still be a country by that point? Or do they all expect to die young (all secret base jumping enthusiasts??)?

What is the pathology of Republicans who endlessly mock / deride / chastise foreign leaders, who then can’t attribute agency to those leaders when the tables turn in the slightest

Ilhan Omar is very concerned that 'ordinary' russians like Vyacheslav here will earn less for producing killing machines that his pals use to murder Ukrainian civilians, whom he regards as subhuman.

“I support Ukraine but vote against Ukrainian aid” the far left just aren’t really our allies

Picked up the keys yesterday for a two bedroom market-rate apartment I’m moving into with my girlfriend that is renting at 60% AMI (and was built within the last 5 years). Something tenant advocates, legal advocacy orgs, and community groups have categorically said cannot happen.

If only there were alternatives that *hadn't* risen in price by 66%! Alternatives whose price had gone steadily down for decades now & were projected to continue declining for decades to come! Ah well.

My parents both joined the police in the late 1970s. The stories they tell about how policing worked then are nuts. From the 1980s through to 2010 British policing was transformed massively for the better, and turned into a true professional career. We have undone far too much of that

"In practice, proceduralism raises the cost of action but not of inaction." - Great substack on this published last week: stephnakhleh.substack.com/p/the-proced...

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Only nine more turbines to be installed on the Sofia wind farm. 1.4gw that is due to be commissioned this year!

@robhawkes.bsky.social only nine turbines to go on Sofia!!

People wonder why productivity is low in this country, meanwhile I’ve been on hold with HMRC because they’re chasing a payment: 1. I already made 2. I made through their own portal 3. I already discussed with them at length once already when they chased me the first time

Russia’s war machine wipes out lives, families, and the innocence of childhood.