Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion

All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence. 1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget. 2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.

People who get their news from the front pages and on the hour bulletins think I'm being daringly contrarian when I tell them I think Badenoch will lose her job before Reeves loses hers

Today’s Russian papers on chances of a peace deal: “Don't count on Russia making noticeable concessions.” But: “If proposals are acceptable to Russia, one could talk of a summit in Budapest.” Meanwhile, Russia’s “economic malaise betrayed by rise in wage arrears." #ReadingRussia

Anyway as I'm not on X anymore I don't get Dan Hodges' insight as often so I did a Google and I'm seriously still laughing. God love him. I've not read past the going to jail bit because I don't want to spoil it 😆

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable" (Etty Hillesum diary) 30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.

“For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war … to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only country that is fighting this war, and we are still discussing should we include them or not.” - Garry Kasparov

Could you narrow it down a bit please?

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Maybe reconsider dressing slightly like a magician while doing the imaginary tits.

Beyond parody

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

BBC News - Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u

Handy graph illustrating why twitter’s white flight narrative is not wholly accurate

It's time to be nice about the Budget. The council tax surcharge is a good policy. Very compromised/imperfect, but still good policy. This is why:

Have written for years that this Labour government would be more left wing than most expected, so I’m pleased it’s become the consensus. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is

I look at this chart and I think maybe the late twentieth century was just unusual.

It's disgraceful that Rachel Reeves didn't take any questions from GB News! The fact that they claim to not be a news channel every time Ofcom find they have breached impartiality rules shouldn't stop them from pretending they are a news channel whenever it suits them.

Farage says of his Welsh AM being suspended for writing "no chinky spies for me" in August 2023 that the word ['chinky'] "was probably used in a nice way twenty years ago".

Ex-Dulwich College pupils claim Farge used taunts such as 'gas them' and 'Hitler was right' but he insists he 'never directly racially abused anybody'

this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.

The two-child cap pushed half of children in larger families into poverty. Today, Labour abolishes it. I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record. Know what that is? Hope.

🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨 "From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."

Reeves: "We are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets. But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the honourable mention for Clacton."

🚨 BREXIT BUDGET 🚨 "The OBR are clear that this is not about the last 14 months. It is about the previous 14 years" "The legacy of Brexit and the pandemic and the damaging decisions by the party opposite cutting public spending, leaving communities and entire regions behind."

Don’t say you weren’t warned. New poll suggests Jordan Bardella would win second round of 🇫🇷 presidential election against any other of four tested candidates ⬇️

2.7m workers will benefit when the national minimum wage goes up to £12.71 in April 😍

And Zack Polanski was only 30 when the breast hypnosis thing happened. Shame on all of you for judging an effective teenager.

Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate. Former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the price of populism

Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university. The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Bravo The Times, bravo.

London is becoming a cycling city. As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...

She said the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report on Wednesday would conclude that a downgrade of productivity was down to Brexit and to the Conservative’s austerity measures – and would say explicitly that it was not due to the policies of the current government.

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”. He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.

Politico: "Former Farage press chief Gawain Towler [today] reveals “Chinese operatives” once approached him offering cash to “consult” for them, using his Westminster/Whitehall contacts. “I turned them down flat, without a second thought." Did he report it to the security services? If not, why not?

I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?

"I told him [President Trump] that we are fully in line with Ukraine, that the sovereignty of this country must not be jeopardized." Chancellor Merz, in an interview with DW, said that Russia's war against Ukraine is a "deep threat for the entire political order of the European continent."

A regular criticism I get from that kind of person is to say that 'we have tried this for the last 30 years and look where we are now', which even before 'I mean, 2025 is not so bad in the sweep of human history'...why do you think globalisation is a 30 year thing??

Amazing that after Trump's 1st term and 10 months of a 2nd, people still expect him to have any interest in or understanding of the details of any aspect of foreign policy. People still think of Trump as within the normal range of presidential capacities and behaviours. He's not.

Felix Klein, who has held his position since 2018, says 7 October changed everything

ICYMI: Reform’s UK only member of the Welsh parliament has been suspended for using a racial slur in a WhatsApp group. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-laura-jones-suspended-racial-slur-senedd-b2869040.html

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?