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.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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.

NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️ Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019. As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.

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.

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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.

If you're in sunny Bournemouth today, come along to the cracking panel we've organised to discuss how to secure a fair transition for the North Sea. Speakers include Lib Dem climate spokes @pippaheylings.bsky.social MP, Alastair Carmichael MP, Elliot Chapman-Jones & @dominicmhinde.bsky.social (& me)

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

Fascinating job opportunity at ARIA. Leading public engagement for the climate innovation programme aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

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”.

hackney council let me shrink your deficit

Odds that this is the same anonymous government source that has been briefing all year that Ed Miliband is imminently getting sacked? 🤡 Also ignoring that there was already a DBT/DESNZ joint role, previously occupied by Sarah Jones

From the excellent PoliticsHome piece behind the scenes with Your party

Chaos....and Ed Miliband.

FACTCHECK: No, North Sea gas is not "four times cleaner" than LNG imports After Kemi Badenoch pledged to extract every last drop from the North Sea, we've been engulfed by waves of long-dead zombie factoids. "Four times cleaner" is one of the silliest. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...

How much oil and gas is REALLY left in the North Sea? 🤔 According to a new report by oil and gas lobby group @oeuk.bsky.social, loads!!!! *As long as they get subsidies and deregulation* Is this true? And if so, would it lower bills? Let's investigate...

I’m late to this, but this is a nice analysis on electricity prices by Chris Goodall. It shows that in 2025 GB day-ahead wholesale electricity prices are lower (really quite a bit lower) on days where the grid has more renewable power. www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2025/8/...

Badenoch wants to unleash the O&G regulator (the NSTA) to finally focus on maximising extraction. But the NSTA already has a Principal Objective, enshrined in law no less, that is literally "maximising the economic recovery" of oil & gas. Does she want the NSTA to encourage uneconomic extraction? /2

These Tory MPs are going to be furious when they find out who was in power when employment in offshore oil and gas HALVED between 2014 and 2023. The Conservatives are doubling down on being a cheap Reform tribute act rather than a serious party

This is such a bizarre pitch

This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:

Pakistan was the case study of the knock on effect of the EU writing blank cheques for LNG imports in the dark days of 2022. Completely ripped market access out the hands of less able (economically speaking) market actors. Well, well, well. Look how quickly the substitution effect can rage.

nature-based solutions www.politico.eu/article/russ...

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Excellent piece from @chrismurraymp.bsky.social on why it would be wrong for the UK govt to approve the Rosebank oil field. He’s absolutely right to say the arguments don't stack up — not on bills, on jobs, nor on climate. Let's hope the government takes note. www.lbc.co.uk/article/foss...

"A hard-headed assessment of the impact on bills, jobs, the industry & the climate all lead to the same conclusion: allowing drilling for fossil fuels at Rosebank would be the wrong decision" - Climate APPG supporter @chrismurraymp.bsky.social 👏 www.lbc.co.uk/article/foss...

Two pieces on politics of air con today which I think get wrong that it's left right. It's a schism in different kinds of environmentalism - conservation and climate progress. There are very left arguments for aircon - working conditions, fairness-not just the elite www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...

That's a new cascading risk of climate change www.politico.eu/article/jell...

Kind of mad that in this whole article, air-con is only mentioned once, and by a desperate resident whose home is reaching 35°C www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...