Hot on the heels of the (very good!) Warm Homes Plan, today the government is launching the Local Power Plan, which from a quick scan looks, if anything, even more exciting! Ed Miliband’s DESNZ, continuing to show how it’s possible, even in this government, to do positive things of consequence 👏💫

Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.

Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Devastating floods have hit Portugal, Spain & Morocco in the past days, causing loss of life & billions of Euros in damages. How does climate change impact the flood risks from rain, rivers & rising seas? Watch my lecture Flooded Futures: What are We Planning For? 🌊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtd8...

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

10. There’s much more, but I’ll leave it there, in the hope that maybe you can begin to understand that Starmer’s detractors aren’t just the bitter, never-satisfied cynics and saboteurs of your imagination, but might actually have a point. Thank you.

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even went so far as to mimic Reform’s branding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.

5. For me, a massive frustration has been the government’s war on nature: falsely pitching wildlife against human welfare, tearing down essential protections for the tiny scraps of ecosystem that remain here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

6. Its misallocation of resources on climate has also been deeply shocking. It is sluicing public money into Carbon Capture and Storage not because it works (it doesn’t) but because it’s a finacial lifeline for the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

7. The failure to change our disastrous electoral system, which might gift the UK to Reform on a small share of the vote, can, I feel, be understood as a matter of putting party over country and faction over party. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants. A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.

9. B. Does it give business lobbyists what they want? To just as great an extent as the Tories, this government has allowed corporate lobbyists to shape its agenda and shut down competing options. When you see the whole picture, it’s breath-taking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Incredible: ~2500mm (78 inches) in 20 days - 1.5X the normal yearly rainfall in Grazalema, Spain and it’s only February. How? A 5000 mile Tropical Atmospheric River lifted by terrain in Southern Spain. H/T Nahel Belgherze #europe #flood #spain #weather

Nearly 5GW of solar contracted in UK govt auction. Biggest ever in capacity and confirms solar as the cheapest power in Britain. More solar = lower bills.

This week Israel has passed sweeping new measures to further annex the occupied West Bank. The UK govt has responded: "Any attempt to alter the geographic or demographic make up of Palestine is wholly unacceptable" Israel is doing it & the UK govt refuses to take any action.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

The Epstein files connect Peter Thiel, Palantir and Peter Mandelson - revealing how tightly extreme wealth, political authority and foreign influence intertwine 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-p...

the anger and disappointment this government attracts skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

The social function of AI:

Whatever Happened to Matt Goodwin? How did Reform’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election go from being a ‘fully-paid up member of the liberal left’ to a Farage disciple, asks David Edgar and Jon Bloomfield

That’s what’s up.

"We cannot ignore that there are political forces right now who seem to present an existential threat to our independence... This puts us in an untenable position where the research community has to defend against their actions to remain independent." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgA4...

That glib statement by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is Trumpesque in its lies and propaganda.

To be more precise: It's a death cult of wealthy white supremacists who think climate change will cull the poor and brown people they don't like for them Sort of a "God-given favour" to the "chosen ones" And who cares when they can afford bunkers

If Packham is not only disrupting the hunt but also the pro hunt press, he's doing a great job. Toffs have been harassing our wildlife and rural neighbourhoods for centuries. bsky.app/profile/prot...

Preferably this one, where you can see a wide range of people across all walks of life and political groups having their reputations rightly hauled over the coals:

I hate that anyone is hurt but I also hate Tesla. Tesla’s are as dangerous as Elon Musk. @teslatakedown.com

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

OK I've been on team "he's always ranted incoherently" (after all I posted the crazy Bananas dictator speech regularly during his first term) but this one seems a fair amount more so.

This is *amazing* (Bad Bunny was six when this happened)

Anthony Joshua, sorry to bug but I got a guy needs to be told again

Woodburners Linked to Highest Air Pollution Exposure in Welsh Children, Study Finds #Woodburners ##AirPollution climatewithbrian.com/2026/02/09/w...

Mark Pritchard says the scale of interference is so serious that no political party alone has the credibility or capacity to investigate it. Only a judge-led statutory public inquiry will suffice - and the government has a responsibility to deliver one.

MPs are about to debate Russian interference in Britain’s democracy. We’ll be live on this thread with what matters 🧵

we should call the oval office the rape room

We are SO FUCKING doomed, ya'll.

This.

Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election

Russ Vought is doing everything he can to target the CFPB and its workers, including illegally cutting critical healthcare and insurance benefits. But he underestimates our resolve and dedication to serving the public. This story about one of our members is case in point.

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

On Radio 4, Angela Rayner said 'remember our values' and back Starmer So will he - reinstate his 10 leadership pledges - stop arming genocidal Israel - stop adopting Reform Ltd hate speech - rescind anti-protest laws - tax the rich, not attack disability income - end NHS privatisation I doubt it

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."