Oh! I'm starting a Nesta newsletter called The Energy Edit. Here's the first edition, looking at the big offshore wind auction and the Warm Homes Plan and asking what they mean for energy bills. In short: more offshore wind is no longer an easy fix to reduce bills www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September

My broad view is there is as big, or bigger, issue with older adults and social media as with young people - and that social media bans are just a sticking plaster that allows us to ignore the wider issue. Ultimately we need proper regulation and enforcement, not bans which allow us to ostrich

for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News

The EHRC's withholding of board minutes is clear; transparency is not its intention. Something that an NHRI should be upholding as part of its duties. We have sent an email to the EHRC asking for clarity on this matter.

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Fascinating that there’s damaging stories on so many casual acquaintances of Jeffrey Epstein from this tranche of documents released by the DoJ, but almost nothing on his best friend for years, Donald Trump. Feels like one hell of a coincidence, doesn’t it?

Interesting new analysis by the UK Energy Research Centre, which suggests that most of the increase in electricity bills since 2021 is still because of gas. Nice wrote up by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...

Watching Elon melt down in real time

Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world... Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Genuinely curious to understand why so many Labour MPs backed the Waspi cause - one with such limited merit - other than that being the kind of thing one does in opposition. I’d love to read a long read on the campaign and how the cause became so widespread…

Can’t believe Labour are briefing such a poor line, when an obvious response is “why is the party who blocked a local candidate from running because he’s midway through his political term calling a London Assembly member ‘chicken’ for not running to be MP of a constituency 160 miles from his home?”

The director of Melania movie

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

Truly amazing chutzpah when Elon Musk posted that “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files” tweet, before he panicked and deleted it, last year. Unparalleled levels of it.

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actually kind of devastating news? 😢 💔 got so used to having her pop up in all my favourite new shows and can’t quite believe it

Transphobia, not even once.

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Botox, fillers, bleph, face lift, contacts, hair dye, buccal fat removal x

nice to occasionally be able to highlight when this government makes the right decision - this is one of those times!

Badenoch: “My Conservative party has moved to the right every day since I became leader.” This is a genuine trailed quote from her speech. Cue another distant cheer from Lib Dem HQ.

Graham Linehan is a genuinely evil person

The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

Finally some good news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

We have friends in the US, have visited several times and almost certainly would have gone again before 2029 but now resolutely won't.

I hate crabominable....but someone on reddit has finally given me a reason to love him

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I’m not convinced the Observer knows what Heated Rivalry is about

Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse in the Veterans Administration Health Care system. “He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said. #AbolishICE #ICEOutOfMinnesota #ProtectNurses #HoldHisKillersAccountable

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Appears this is also true for fascism.

Silly, I know, but hard to overestimate how great #TheTraitors has become for getting us through miserable January. Proper public service broadcasting.

also quite satisfying that the finale really did prove certain miserable commentators quite wrong i think #TheTraitors

Faraaz is so likeable, what a guy #TheTraitors

This is it, isn't it? A show about lying and treachery turned out to be about friendship and staying true to a promise. WHAT a show #TheTraitors

Would have been a farce if they hadn’t won. They’ve proved you can be faithful to each other, regardless of being Traitors #TheTraitors

so genuinely overjoyed for my utterly deserving pair of #TheTraitors queens 🥹 actually quite heartwarming

Stephen and Rachel, don’t doubt each other now, I beg #TheTraitors

Stephen hearing Rachel start laying the groundwork for traitor on traitor #TheTraitors

If any of your relatives were confused and rambling like Trump was at Davos, you’d check them into a home tomorrow. This is not sustainable.

More in-depth response to the government's Warm Homes Plan from @nestauk.bsky.social here - looking at what the pros and cons are and what the changes should mean for decarbonising the UK's housing

We’re aiming to publish a @nestauk.bsky.social analysis of the Warm Homes Plan tomorrow. In fact, I’m off to work on it now. And we have an online event to react to it on Thursday at 12 noon - join us! www.nesta.org.uk/event/deciph...

The government's Warm Homes Plan is finally out and @nestauk.bsky.social has done some speedy analysis on what it means for consumers - finding that a typical household that invests in green home upgrades could save around £1,000 on its energy bill www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...

The press release for the Warm Homes Plan - the long-awaited Warm Homes Plan! - is out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

doesn't this suggest that Trump is therefore, um, right to insist the US needs Greenland?! Not sure you're helping Rachel...