release the crosstabs by age!!

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This piece is as good as everyone's saying. It's striking how willing this bonehead is to outsource all ethical judgement to the tiktok algorithm. Just a humble participant in the market, responding to the incentives on offer.

if james bond was an urban young professional his gadgets would probably be a lost mary thats actually a gun, invisibilty birkenstocks and a jar of kimchi that irreversibly damages your gut microbiome .....

I know we all focus on geopolitical issues when considering how dependent Europe is on US LNG, but probably wise to acknowledge that when it gets really cold, gas / LNG supply becomes quite insecure on an infrastructure basis. US gas to LNG dropped 30% as soon as things started icing up.

The Gorton and Denton by-election will at least be a chance to test the theory that the left bloc will always vote for Labour if it's to keep Reform out

He's giving new meaning to 'tilting at windmills'

how many swift bricks will you need for that

Am I anti-Semitic? No it's the (((North London Elite))) who are wrong

I will never get over pieces claiming Ed Miliband has 'turned a steady decline into a collapse' and printing this graph alongside.

Our data journalism is great and this was instructive, but note that burning a barrel of oil produces 433kg CO2 equivalent. So this is the difference between adding 22% (Venezuela) or 6% (Brazil) to the CO2 emitted. Significant but not game-changing

bluesky's discover function is like na'vi style tail connecting with stephen bush's inner monolouge

Man, the PM's substack has an unfortunate name

Including the wonderful observation of budget coverage: "Newspapers were filled with the victims of a brutal reverse-mugging by the housing market, which wrestled their wallets open and filled them with housing equity."

The perfect job doesn't exi-

Merz memes at #COP30 are a cracker..

murmurs over Westminster last week

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

It is 6th November and, incredibly, people in London are still enjoying al fresco dining. Ironically, right outside Shell HQ.

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Even in Labour vs Reform contests, where the nature of swing means Labour to Reform defections count double, the electoral strength/cost of losses to LDs and Grns is now ~66% higher than that of losses to Reform.

Magnificent piece

It's a good article about an infuriating market trend but it doesn't mention that it's not just women's pockets that are smaller, it's also our hands.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Massive lol at the honesty from Total Politics and OEUK here "our client felt that it was important to ensure that all messaging at the event aligns very closely with OEUK’s priorities during this particularly sensitive moment for their advocacy efforts”.

needless to say but, if you were actually talking to students, The Times would be a very strange place to do it

State of the nation novel that follows the lives of 12 diverse, seemingly unconnected people living in London, interspersed with vignettes about the dismantling of wet wipe island. At the end of the book it's revealed they all flushed wetwipes that contributed to the island.

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

While the Tory party's energy & climate policy grows increasingly detached from reality, worth reflecting on a remarkable, under-reported event at Labour conference: the launch of Climate Jobs UK, a campaign by GMB, Prospect & other TUs focused on the creation of good jobs in the energy transition 🧵

The US is pursuing "energy dominance" and forcing allies to buy US oil and gas. And, yet, China is beating the US on energy exports. Surprised? Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I know this is a futile exercise, but let’s count the mistakes in that one Payne paragraph… 1. “Renewables are no longer the cheapest form of energy” - don’t think so. Offshore wind has got more expensive recently, but onshore and solar remain cheap. And gas probably still costs more than offshore

Actually, lots of people know. This is just an admission that someone has never bothered asking, despite once being in charge of managing some really chunky transitions for sectors that fall under DBT, like steel, cars and ceramics.

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On the day the Conservative party is telling you that natural gas is the cheap choice, this analysis is perfectly timed. Almost every type of energy generation is currently being smashed by inflationary factors riddled throughout the supply chain. We would do well to engage with reality.

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I have a question for the Conservative Party

In the future, everyone will run a your party membership portal for 5 minutes

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.

Corners of wikipedia

The tone of this from the BBC. Khan 'Has not announced any plans' could so easily be ready as he has them, they just aren't public yet. The tone of rebuttal really should be so much more decisive.

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Talk about low expectations: Kemi hasn't made a public statement on the Tommy Robinson march but, crucially, *nor has anybody noticed*

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I've been wrangling some data on UK All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) recently, and I feel compelled to share my highly scientific ranking of APPG Vibes... 🧵

A lot of resistance to Net Zero is because people think we can no longer do stuff. Can't build things, like new nuclear and new grid infra. It's important to *show* incremental progress. Really important. Vital.

Labour publishes 'expanded' list of 52 PPS appointments - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

After my article on the rise in negative news yesterday, nice to see a good news story!: "the delivery of one of the largest UK infrastructure projects roughly on time and close to budget" on.ft.com/41OFYOS

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

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