Forget about the London banana, the London Green Pepper is where you want to live.

www.ft.com/content/8ee0... Burning the world to hit token usage quotas 😬 Looks like the software world is about to get a refresher on Goodhart's Law.

"Best of times, worst of times" When we titled our paper on the distributional implications of the 2022 fossil energy crisis, we did predict that such crises were likely to occur again -- but didn't think as soon again as 2026! Link to the (free) paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

*Lionel Hutz business card voice* 'No, pressure existed!'

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

While I love this for Russia, the war becoming nothing but swarms of autonomous Hunter-Killer drones fighting each other and blowing up people and infrastructure behind the lines feels terrifying.

Europe should move faster on electrification, renewables, storage and grid integration, because those investments reduce exposure to volatile global fuel markets rather than merely shifting that exposure from one foreign supplier to another.

There is already some evidence that the oil price shock is beginning to affect demand for EVs as petrol prices surged after the start of the Iran war, while fuel crises in parts of Asia-Pacific have similarly boosted EV demand.

In transport, higher renewables use and wider EV adoption can weaken exposure to fossil fuel price shocks by shifting part of household and firm transport spending away from volatile global oil markets and towards electricity.

Europe remains highly exposed outside the power sector. Fossil fuels still dominate transport and still account for a large share of energy use in households and industry.

A cleaner power mix can materially weaken an important transmission channel from fossil fuel markets to inflation, even if it does not eliminate broader exposure altogether.

Renewables are a structural hedge against fossil fuel shocks. In power markets, the more often wind, solar, hydro and nuclear cover demand, the fewer the hours in which gas sets the marginal price, and the weaker the link between global gas markets and domestic electricity costs.

After 2022, European countries cut gas demand, filled storage and diversified supply. But the deeper shift, towards electrification and structurally lower fossil fuel demand progressed more unevenly and the green transition has even lost much of its earlier political momentum.

The 2026 Iran war has reinforced the lesson the lesson we should’ve learned after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As long as Europe remains tied to volatile global oil and gas markets, geopolitical disruption will keep feeding into inflation and weaker growth.

Given the persistent disruptions from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, @cronco.bsky.social and I have written a substack article about how Europe’s fossil fuel dependence is now as much about macroeconomic resilience as climate. A 🧵. #Iran #Inflation #Energy open.substack.com/pub/outsampl...

how do we get JD Vance to start speaking at Reform press conferences

I am standing as a (paper) candidate for the @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social for Hoxton East and Shoreditch ward. Delighted to be part of a great slate of candidates in a borough that I'm proud to call home. Register to vote by April 20 at gov.uk/register-to-vote #getgreenselected

My undying loyalty to any maps/routing company that will allow me to plan cycling routes while avoiding canals in London 💀

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is a huge development

Proud to be part of this change!

A market with no price signals that has created some of the highest fees in the world that hasn’t secured university funding. A policy that achieves literally none of its aims!

I just got on a new carriage on the Central line, it's a lot quieter than the old ones and has AC, it almost feels unreal.

my private memo is raising a lot of questions already answered by my private memo

This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

Delighted to announce I need to share cookies with 178 "partners" to "display and present advertising" in order to watch TV 🤙

For anybody seeking context on this one: this policy on its face would result in the deportation of my wife, who has been living in Scotland for 17 years, is married to a Scot, shares the mortgage on a house, and works in a university. Lots of perfectly comfortable people earn < £38k.

It’s too bad that “the speech” is mostly remembered for Joe Biden plagiarizing it bc Kinnock was really cooking

@newstatesman1913.bsky.social hello, I've been trying to contact support through the form in your help centre but it keeps erroring out. Can I simply email someone please?

Starmer on Tuesday: "We must stand against racism" Starmer on Wednesday: "Human rights laws are stopping us sending people to face torture so we need to rethink them." Labour on Tuesday: "Labour is the party of working people" Labour on Wednesday: "If your boss mistreats you, tough shit"

"Could" is also such a unintentional signal that these are focus grouped talking points whose long term consequences haven't quite been thought through

Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.

Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

Fighting back the far right by giving them what they want 😶 This government is morally bankrupt.

This piece by Táíwò is mandatory reading. it's a rebuke of Ezra Klein's delusional bluster, sure. but it's also a master class in deftly braiding the complexities of this moment (and our recent histories) into a compelling narrative path forward. thinking matters, and this piece shows why

Interesting to see on the other site, that the Centre for Policy Studies have already put out a tweet acknowledging the numbers that Reform have based their horrendous mass remigration policy on were incorrect...

Liquid Glass is giving me motion sickness

I had no clue the Thursday Murder Club is about NIMBYs lmao

Politico: "The Sun has seen evidence to [a US] committee submitted by Nigel Farage in which he suggests the White House should use “diplomacy and trade” in the free speech battle, which sounds like calling for Britain to be bullied into a law change." Is Farage calling for sanctions AGAINST the UK?

Another data point showing that the concern for UK Parliamentary sovereignty by Reform is fake.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... It's incredibly telling that Sir Rowley did not feel the need to raise similar concerns about being stretched thin when arresting pensioners for holding Palestine Action placards.

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

not sure what breunig majored in during undergrad, but as for matt y: i cannot emphasize enough how embarrassing it is for someone who studied philosophy in college to get worked this bad in an argument. yglesias has really gone downhill as a thinker.

Great summation of dynamics in @brettchristophers.bsky.social's book. Imagine a mode of production geared toward 'production for use' that could rationally plan the utilization of such solar resources instead of leaving it to anarchic (and cannibalizing) market forces.

Hard to know what to say anymore. An entire news team of five journalists. Doing their job in a tent for journalists. Killed by the IDF, who refuse to allow international journalists into Gaza. Outrageous and horrific.

I am shocked at Labour's misreading of this moment in time and the mood of the country. You've got far right groups threatening asylum sekers but they're devoting so much energy to Palestine Action and peaceful protesters.

Letter of the day (in the Times)