CoL police neatly demonstrated it a while back by doing bike theft stings and finding a massive warehouse full of nicked bikes. It's volume crime by relatively few people and finding the right choke points (the sellers of stolen goods typically) would have an outsized positive impact on society.

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But what happens next? Both Labour & the Newham Independents promise free parking. The costs of this are not just financial but to health. forestgate.net/2026/03/11/f...

Another victory for the @greenparty.org.uk

I'm aware the Rejoin lobby is becoming more vocal. I'd just suggest that the British – the English in particular – first need to truly and *culturally* value rules that stretch across international borders and to see them as 'in the national interest', not as something we grudgingly suffer.

I hear there’s an opening coming up for PM and I have a suggestion

Every time anyone does it, we all contribute, in ways small and large, to the judgement and framing that means that this story is only covered as a “well, what does it mean for the election? Not much” afterthought. It is really bad. It is recallable behaviour. We should say so.

I cannot recommend this week's cover story by @christopherjm.ft.com highly enough. It's the frankly astonishing story of the fortitude of one Ukrainian drone commander on the eastern front... don't miss it... as.ft.com/r/ddae74ad-4...

west London, east London, south London

@robhawkes.bsky.social is 282MW a record for Dogger Bank A??

Im reading the FT article by @pickardje.bsky.social and it’s clear lots of people are very angry at Starmer, but all the vox pops are “he didn’t do what he said” - what are the actual policy disagreements people have? (This is not a defence of Starmer, it’s genuinely not clear to me…!)

youtube.com/shorts/vZiBr... It’s kind of ironic (?) that the FBI basically got Trump elected in 2016 and now they’re big mad about the entirely foreseeable consequences of their actions.

I beg non-disabled people to stop using the "but what about people with disabilities" argument when mobility lanes or traffic calming are proposed in their neighborhood.

Im looking forward to Starmer sacking the UK ambassador to the US for entirely anodyne comments he made that I think probably 95% of British people would think were entirely unremarkable

Ukraine is putting relentless pressure on Israel now. The Netanyahu government has made a catastrophic error by siding with Putin's dictatorial government.

Greens subsidising the fossil fuel industry whilst trying to prevent solar farms, battery farms & grid expansion to wind farms is it?

I am running for council for the @libdems.org.uk in Newham. Below is my politics (sent in response to a question about people cycling on pavements).

Irony is that this is probably broadly true for Green voters, the Greens being probably the most nimby party

Britain's interconnectors, totalling 10.3 GW (with 1.4 GW to Germany under construction) Relevant today as continental Europe is experiencing extreme negative pricing this afternoon, under strong sunshine with weaker weekend demand and moderate temperatures. GB will be importing a lot of power.

I honestly have nothing but withering contempt for people like this. They are consumed by No Bedtime Socialism. It's atomised hyper-individualism masquerading as something collectivist. The people who suffer the most here are staff and consumers due to the impact it has on inflation.

It’s never a good day for wind when Rampion is the highest generating wind farm by 2x 😳

How many people would Reform UK deport? Short, rough answer: At least two million are at risk but the plans are ambiguous and their effect hinges on Labour’s own decisions www.ft.com/content/a762...

NEW: The Green Party is STILL bad at being green (FREE TO READ) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...

arlington voters when governor spook does a ballot initiative:

The performative stupidity of the SNP transmission charging grievance. Yes 5.5 GW of ScotWind projects have been paused or cancelled (those lease options were *not* sold off on the cheap). But that’s because there is a massive grid bottleneck between Scotland and England.

I mean, she really shouldn’t joke about these things?

Wonderful news on East Anglia 3, a 1.4 GW project. As far as I know it’s due to start commissioning this year (but let me know if you’ve heard otherwise).

Cheems mentality

3.5GW…. Holy crap

New rule: if you’re weirdly obsessed with how a particular piece of land is used, you have to buy the land and use it in this way.

The Green Party (and other NIMBYs) talk a lot about how things have to benefit ‘local communities’. What about the national interest? Why is it okay to oppose something that costs you a little but massively benefits the whole country. We don’t take this approach (rightly) to taxes.

The overwhelming consensus in the replies to poor James is that someone else should pay for the solar farms and then immediately cede all of the profit to “local people”. These people are so f***ing tiresome.

This is … extraordinary

This, by the way, is why I think all of the “stop Nimbyism by sharing the growth”/“Nimbys just want to protect their house prices” stuff is wrongheaded. People will object to a hospital or a high speed rail terminal!

JUSTIN plz sir

"We all need to ditch fossil fuels but also gas prices and prices of petroleum-based products being high is untenable" man I uh think you kinda need to resolve this cognitive dissonance

I’m sorry but if you end up on the same policy platform as Vladimir Putin, you either are an idiot or a fellow traveller. Breaking up the UK now when Russian subs are prowling our waters and Russian troops are walking eastwards is the pro-Kremlin position.

The National Trust looking at an estate of new homes: 😡 The National Trust looking at a cow grazing field (equally ecologically dead): 🥰

I feel like in the last few months I’ve seen more police, more enforcement at my local station, and less litter on the streets. Are we back?

He’s such a f***ing idiot. Where are these empty flats? What is he even talking about? This whole “empty properties” thing has been studied again and again and again and is total bollocks.

Broke: Turkey is joining the EU (and that’s bad) Woke: Turkey obviously isn’t joining the EU Bespoke: Turkey should join the EU ( @hasturkeyjoined.bsky.social )

Great Britain threw away 5GW of wind power during Storm Dave & replaced it using gas 🔥 That's one and a half Sizewell C-sized nuclear power stations, or four Dogger Bank A-sized wind farms. Or to put it another way, it's a shit load of power. Why throw it away? Because our straw isn't big enough…

Conservatives: Fossil Fuels are the future of our grid The UK Grid:

Uk planning is honestly a cartoon villain.

I’m spending the day sitting in front of a laptop with your ex-husband, where we’re taking turns to refresh the live national grid energy stats until it shows 0% fossil fuels for the first time in history. When it happens we’ll nod and smile at each other then celebrate with a can of 0% Guinness.

Sickos etc

Or maybe the idea we got a promise is just a crock of shit made up to excuse our imperialism and repeated uncritically by idiots. Looking at you Yanis and Corbyn.