Friends! I have one more story about heat pumps to share with you in 2025. It's a biggie! About some real biggies! Behold: the biggest heat pumps in the world www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.

In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy. Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.

UK academia is a pretty gloomy place to be at the moment. So I'm framing this and hanging it on the wall of my office! #mctominay

Scotland already has huge over capacity in electricity generation and a burgeoning number of battery and pumped hydro storage projects. This has all the hallmarks of a malevolent political stunt.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

You'd think that far-right protestors displaying banners with modified quotes from Mein Kampf would be worthy of a main news item in itself. But no. And clearly, we need a reminder that the SNP failed to win a referendum in 2014. BBC The battle for Scotland's flag. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Your countries are going to hell", claims President of country going to hell.

The hijacking of the Saltire by far right protestors in Aberdeen, Falkirk, etc., to imtimidate asylum seekers really needs to be strongly countered by @johnswinney.bsky.social @snp.org, *and* the rest of us. It belongs to all, and must be a symbol of welcome and inclusion.

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

"Easy to forget, but as recently as 2020 even BYD sold more engine-powered cars than EVs. It’s not too late for European rivals to catch up — but first, they have to decide whether they want to accelerate into a battery-powered future, or keep grinding their gears in reverse."

Leaving the ECHR would unravel the Good Friday Agreement, destabilise devolution, and wreck our EU security deal. It would strip Britain of influence and safety. This reckless move must be stopped.

I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.

I support a natural unprocessed or minimally processed food diet, AND vaccines. Broccoli doesn't cure polio. #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries

Motherfucking wind farms…

That #VictoryMonday feeling 👊

"The scale of this heat event is so vast that hundreds of temperature records could fall across Northern Europe in the coming week, from the Nordic countries to the Arctic fringes. Heat alerts are now in effect or imminent across much of the region, & public health officials are urging preparedness"

The cost of Sizewell C nuclear power station is set to almost double from £20bn to £38bn, while Hinkley Point C has gone from £18bn to £46bn. Labour's obsession with nuclear power is a costly distraction from the needed investment in clean, green renewable energy.

'Clown car economics': Reform rows back on threat to 'strike down' clean power contracts’ www.businessgreen.com/news/4516520... See also: ‘Farage and Reform risk ruining Port Talbot and Wales’ davidtoke.substack.com/p/farage-and...

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Current UK generation mix quite an eye opener. Less than 10% from gas. #decarbonisation

Hydrogen and CCUS - chimeras of decarbonisation, which the UK government seems keen to waste loads of money on.

🌞 NEW RECORD.: Solar is on track to break all previous records in the UK in 2025. From a low base solar is now booming in the UK.

We are delighted to announce the signing of highly-rated defender George Stanger. The 24-year-old New Zealand Under-23 international joins having most recently played with Scottish Championship side Ayr United, and he has penned a two-year deal. kilmarnockfc.co.uk/news/george-...

I thought we had moved past the "golden age of clean energy" when talking about nuclear. How about a more realistic "it will generate a lot of rather expensive electricity at some indeterminate point in the future"?

Look at the fantastic results from the London 20mph (30kph) limit. A true model for other cities.

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Hats off to whoever managed to tag the side of the old College of Building and Printing in Glasgow. The only way you could have done that is dangling from the end of a rope!

Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

Air pollution reduction zones were going to divide families and stop people visiting graves. None of it happened.

This seems like a more promising line of attack than "he's absolutely right about immigration"

Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance

Reinstating the winter fuel allowance is vital, but Farage’s plan to pay for it by cutting the Net Zero budget is madness - locking us into *higher* energy bills by increasing reliance on costly gas imports, rather than supporting cheaper green energy to get bills down for all of us 🙄

Coming soon: a website showing exactly how much warmer or cooler than usual the UK is right now. If you live in the north-west of England it is currently a lot warmer than usual for the time of year and time of day.

Phone Box of The Day: Finsbay, Isle of Harris. Pic: Viktória László

#scam I paid @Climeworks £1,650 to remove 2 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Was I a gullible idiot? Yes. Icelandic newspaper @heimildinhas shown that they not only haven’t captured my 2 tons, they don’t even capture their own emissions heimildin.is/FGY3 via @heimildin

'A run of 12 consecutive months above 1.5°C indicates an 80 per cent likelihood that long-term warming of 1.5°C has already been reached.'

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

We are proud of our diverse communities who chose to make Scotland their home. And unlike Labour, the SNP will never imitate Nigel Farage. We will confront him, and we will defeat him.

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Preventing immigrants taking care jobs will lead to lots of unfilled care roles. And the first to complain about this, will be those right-wing outlets who urged you to clap down on immigration in the first place. A no-win strategy. (2/2)

I just don't get the Labour strategy on immigration. You can legislate on the issue without the demonising "island of strangers" rhetoric. All current Starmer/Cooper soundbites are doing is preparing the ground for a crypto fascist Reform government. (1/2)

The Prime Minister’s statement on immigration today will damage our economy, the NHS, social care and our universities. It ignores the need to boost Scotland’s working age population. This sort of divisive language only plays into Nigel Farage’s hands. Not in Scotland’s name.

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

The most important #VictoryMonday of the season 💙