Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears. UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990. Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure. Yet record high prices and profiteering. Does anyone call companies to account?

Maurice Garin, winner of the inaugural Tour de France, 1903 🚲🏅👏🏼 This bike weigh the same as a current electric bike...

80% of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed. 1.9 million people have been displaced.

If heaven isn't a lot like Camera Obscura playing 'Lloyd...' live, then I'm not going. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_bF...

Under the M8.

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives." "But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD. RT if you want them both out of the UK.

Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat through a door you thought was closed.

Financial pandemic: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity £24.4bn of public spending on contractors went to PE PE profiteering destroyed town centres; devoured water, vets, energy, dentistry, social care, rewarded by govt PE exec income taxed at capital gains rates

I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.

The final show of my (accidental) HEATWAVE tour is tonight in Toulouse at Le Bikini, one of my favourite venues in the whole world. Hervé and his team are the most lovely, welcoming people. Family are asking for more Le Bikini hoodies! I'm SOLO ELECTRIC, details, as always at www.lloydcole.com/live/

📚 📝 I'd love it if you were to review my book on Goodreads; reviews there get picked up globally, so it would really help spread the word! Thank you! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

If you are worried about Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn. Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn. Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn. You‘re buying their lies.

It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This book hits me right in the childhood. I found this at a local bookstore. I was on my way out the door and just happened to catch a glimpse of it in the corner of my eye. Everyone should read this book immediately.

Andy Burnham’s rich advisers back scrapping pension triple lock. Full state pension, received by 35% of pensioners, is less than 50% of the minimum wage. 2m pensioners live in poverty. 100,000 died in fuel poverty. Due to low wages millions can't save enough for future pensions. archive.ph/MF37e

"If he’s not willing to nationalise the water companies, then that’s already giving us an indication that Andy Burnham and the Labour Government will be siding with profit rather than people.” www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

This is ALL Donald Trump. That Fat Fucking DITCH PIG PEDOPHILE in the white house is running a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. He has to go. - Doesn't matter how. The ends justify the means.

Civil Disobedience in Stenness Text by Fiona Grahame.   Images By Martin Laird. Caithness man, Captain John Mackay was haughty and overbearing....

Almost 5,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you? The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. greens.scot/datacentres

Please sign if you have a postcode in Scotland, and are - against soaring energy & water bills - against far-right funding billionaires getting richer by plagiarism and unemployment creation - against Scotland missing every climate target, endangering the human species greens.scot/datacentres?...

You never know where you might end up as part of our guided walks programme. Today's was a guided wade thay took in West Bowling Green St to Redbraes with stories along the way. The next one is on the 19th of July. More details at our website.

The UK is increasing the Pension age to 68. Poland has lowered theirs to 60. Their pension is higher as well.

Well 'plaid' by The Boston Globe, the Boston Red Sox, and the Tartan Army.

Private equity has devoured UK town centres. It controls airports, seaports, hospitals, care homes, football teams, housing, GP surgeries, vets, dentistry, pubs, restaurants, motorway service stations, energy, water and more. Everything financialised. What future for the UK?

5 Muslim's injured after being attacked by a man armed with an axe in Edinburgh. I hope this will get the coverage it deserves. This is where all the anti-Muslim hatred leads, they want violence on our streets to win votes for them. They are a disgrace.

A quick reminder that I've got a stall at the Mugdock Market tomorrow in the Mugdock Country Park Visitors Centre between 11am and 3pm. Amongst other things, I'll be selling these new and rather beautiful tenement tile fridge magnets, which only arrived today. Cont./ #glasgow #mugdockmarket

Sarah Pochin is one of those terrifying people who has no idea how stupid she is or what words mean. But at least she’s unwittingly confirmed that the biggest threat to “our women” is wrapped in an England flag. Awkward for Reform.

Police blue vinyl

Pangolins are vital to ecosystem health, but they’re being pushed to near extinction by the illegal wildlife trade. buff.ly/KTfV6Au Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity

Hunters and collectors 1982

I can understand getting embarrassed by Iran but how did he let himself get humiliated by a reflecting pool?

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it’s only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too.

Thames Water moves closer to nationalisation after govt objects to rescue deal. Govt concerned about public backlash to a deal that injects £3.35bn equity, more debt, exemption from fines and bigger customer bills. Let TW collapse, buy at knockdown price. Must end profit motive. Nationalise water

“In ecological terms, the human species is of no use to Earth. Species operating this way normally vanish fairly quickly as the ecosystem’s economy always eliminates freeloaders. We have made ourselves unwanted by this ecosystem, and this makes us far more vulnerable to extinction than we realise”

Farage is far right. Farage is racist. Farage is a misogynist. Farage is corrupt. Beyond time to call him what he is in order to deal with the threat he poses.

Why hasn't Nigel Farage - whose 'pure cold rage' speech was designed to spread race hate and incite riots - also been detained ... "Awe didums, wonder what time the begging post will go up..." via Mandy Shering

PFI for Defence so the borrowing isn't on the books and ultimately all Defence spending ends up being spent on debt in the future despite ever increasing budgets. That's what they were pushing for their billionaire donors profits.

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

Another NME freebie 1986

The British gov is set to unveil a new Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy with £4.5 billion toward active transportation over the next 5 years. The plan includes the construction of 5,000 new walking, cycling and wheeling routes and 10k safer crossings by 2030.” momentummag.com/uk-commits-8...

In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark. Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱 On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum. Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago! #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 🎨 Cornelia Parker Parker had the British Army School of Ammunition blow up her garden shed, which contained bicycles and other items, and suspended the resulting debris from the gallery ceiling using transparent wires.