This is mostly wrong. Wholesale costs are around 1/3rd of our bills. Non wholesale costs will be rising rapidly until 2030 and beyond. If the gas price fell to zero our energy bills would fall by just 11% by 2030. They would remain significantly higher than Switzerland.

This week's YIMBY Pod is a fun listening – and super relevant if you want to understand the Burnham era!

New YIMBY Pod! - Ft @michaeljahill.bsky.social from @britainremade.bsky.social on 'Manchesterism' and Manchester's theory of growth. - And @mjrobbins.com and I talk about three cool new energy storage projects that use gravity and compressed air! www.abundancepod.com/p/the-manche...

Air con isn’t banned” is true in a narrow legal sense. But the rules make proper fixed cooling impossible in many homes, while letting anyone buy inefficient portable units online. People do not need smug word games. They need homes they can actually keep cool. open.substack.com/pub/catching...

☀️ 36°C incoming. Time for an air con thread. ☀️ Cool Britannia! No… not like that. Unless you’re talking about degrees Fahrenheit, it’s not the 90s any more. In 2026 it’s time to cool Britannia with home air con. Here’s why.

New study: Britain spends a third more on transport infrastructure than its peers, but because of high construction costs ends up with a fifth less. The UK spends £1.65 to get what £1 buys in France, Germany and Spain. (1/N) www.britainremade.co.uk/moreforless

1/7 Britain will likely waste over £41 billion of our infrastructure investment during this parliament. Just like we did in the last parliament. And will in the next if we don’t get a grip. 🧵

Listen to me talking all things infrastructure with the great @freewheeling.info! www.freewheeling.info/the-freewhee...

1/6 There have been some great articles from @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social @tejparikh.ft.com and @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social on the causes of Manchester's economic success in recent years. But these articles all take Manchester's economic success as read. But how successful is Manchester really?

Hinkley Point C might be delayed again. Why? Because Natural England say the £700 million spent on fish protection at Britain's next nuclear power station is not enough. We can't go on like this. youtu.be/NeuUdwD0_-g

Great to see @britainremade.bsky.social venturing into YouTube with this cracking short film on Natural England’s ongoing war against clean energy youtu.be/NeuUdwD0_-g?...

Labour's vote share in Camden fell by 24 percentage points. Higher than the UNS swing against Labour in London (-16) and exactly what you'd expect from the proportional swing.

I'm very into the new Labour Growth report from @markmcvitie.bsky.social and @chriscurtis94.bsky.social. 🔥🔥🔥 www.labourgrowth.co.uk

Yesterday, the Government announced they were scrapping an £18 per tonne carbon on electricity. In a new post, @michaeljahill.bsky.social explains the green case for cutting carbon taxes on electricity. www.samdumitriu.com/p/why-the-ca...

Remember the Preston Model? The council was meant to have saved their area by shifting spend to local SMEs. But the sums don't add up: council spend is just too small to explain it. @michaeljahill.bsky.social on the real Preston Model: build homes and roads. www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-truth-...

Picked up my bike from the otherwise completely empty bike storage in my building. Dropped it off at the half empty bike storage at work. Lovely sunny day. Are we subsidising a not particularly popular form of transport too much?

The Shoreditch Works application has taken 4 years and 9,000 pages of documents. Hackney Council has concluded what this project needs is… more documents.

The council decision on this was last night. After 9,000 pages and 4 years the decision was to......defer. More documents, more delay.

Would you say a 9,054-page planning application for an office block and some flats is: A) Too long B) About right C) Not long enough If you answered C, congratulations! You could work at Hackney Council.

Are supermarkets, industrial estates, and railway sidings 'brownfield land'? The answer is no. At least that's what the Government's definition for a new tax on housebuilding says. Our campaign director Sam Richards explains.

The UK’s Net Zero transition is very dependent on China. Over 80% of our solar panels come from China because China makes almost all the world's solar panels.

Labour spent ages arguing that the railways should be nationalised. They appear not to have spent much time figuring out what we can learn from the best nationalised systems. catchingmice.substack.com/cp/180687006

Britain can't reach Net Zero without Chinese supply chains. What are the risks and what should we do about them? This, from my colleague Michael Hill, is the best thing I've read on Britain's reliance on China to reach Net Zero. www.samdumitriu.com/p/china-the-...

NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years. My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed. www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...

"Scotland faces a choice: embrace nuclear and share in the investment, jobs, and clean power, or stick with an outdated ban and watch opportunity flow elsewhere" @michaeljahill.bsky.social writes for the blog on the opportunities for Scotland from nuclear power www.enlighten.scot/time-to-ditc...