Alex Briggs
@tickyw.bsky.social
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Retired but still curious. Numbers, not waffle
https://cityboykan.blogspot.com/
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Dog Desk Animal Action
about 16 hours ago
Final stretch of this month’s clinic fundraiser 🐾 Just £281 left to reach target, that’s only 28 people giving £10 each. Every donation helps keep treatment & veterinary care moving for dogs who need it most 💚
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Chris Dillow
about 22 hours ago
It's not a failure because the function of the media is propaganda not information. POSIWID.
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Dog Desk Animal Action
about 18 hours ago
We’re now 218 votes away from 32nd place 🐾 You can vote once every 24 hours Daily voting closes Friday 22 May Donate to extend your daily voting to 14 days while also helping support our clinic fundraiser Vote here ⬇️
mygivingcircle.org/dog-desk-ani...
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Justin Mikulka
about 22 hours ago
"Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas." More evidence: low cost wins in power generation. Gas is expensive and getting more expensive.
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Global wind and solar power outpace gas for first time in April, report shows
Wind and solar combined generated more electricity than gas globally in April for the first month ever, data analysed by UK-based think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/global-wind-solar-power-outpace-gas-first-time-april-report-shows-2026-05-20/
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Christopher Ramsay 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻🇬🇱
1 day ago
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?
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Doug Bamford
about 18 hours ago
We are at the start of a clean energy revolution.
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David Toke
about 18 hours ago
The unbeatable combination of renewables and batteries
policybrief.org/briefs/the-u...
See also: How renewables are curbing gas power costs - and how more renewables are being installed without government incentives or contracts
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Geoff Petty
2 days ago
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/20/e...
A project has demonstrated that building solar panels into vehicle roofs, hoods and side panels – a concept known as vehicle-integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) – could significantly reduce pressure on power grids.
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EVs equipped with vehicle-integrated PV could cover up to 80% of their electricity needs
A research project led by Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has demonstrated that vehicle-integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) can significantly reduce strain on power grids. The concept is...
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/20/evs-equipped-with-vehicle-integrated-pv-could-cover-up-to-80-of-their-electricity-needs/
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Duncan Weldon
2 days ago
Fuel duty moves, Russian sanction tweaking and talk of voluntary supermarket price caps are just a total mess of a response to an energy price surge.
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Giles Wilkes
2 days ago
The era of supply shocks cries out for a politician willing to be straight with people: these shocks make us poorer, we have to divide out the pain while sticking up our values. None of these measures pass that test
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It wasn't so long ago that Denis Healy subsidised supermarket food!
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Ian Dunt
2 days ago
Utterly the wrong call. Weak.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy42x3g7r89o
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Rick
4 days ago
As I've said before...
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James O’Brien
4 days ago
Unbelievable!
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Restore full employment as a policy goal. Make jobs plentiful and easy to get (ie remove the ridiculous hurdles erected by HR departments) and the benefit bill should fall naturally and without the coercion so beloved of IDS and other benefit cutters
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It couldn't have happened to nicer people
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Sam Freedman
5 days ago
New post from
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
The narrative on the Ukraine war has shifted. There's still, though, an assumption that Putin can keep going because there won't be a decisive moment of defeat. But wars don't always work like that. (£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...
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Putin and the Cliff-Edge Fallacy
Over the past few weeks there has been a definite shift in the narrative surrounding the Russo-Ukraine War.
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/putin-and-the-cliff-edge-fallacy?r=72szy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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General Boles
6 days ago
Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march
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Populism dear boy. Populism. Intellectuals and clever people have been expunged from parliament. All that is left is the mediocre following mediocre leaders.
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Dog Desk Animal Action
5 days ago
We’re falling behind on this month’s clinic fundraiser 😢 If just 46 people donate £10 before May 21st, we’ll stay on target and keep treatment moving for animals who need us most 🐾 Please help if you can ⬇️
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Led By Donkeys
5 days ago
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Antonia Bance MP
5 days ago
An easy slur that prioritising manufacturing is “nostalgia” Advanced manufacturing is a massive share of our exports and almost half our R&D spend. It’s 2.6m jobs and over 70k vacancies. In a world of reshoring supply chains, green energy, EVs and aerospace, manufacturing should grow
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Steve Peers
7 days ago
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Jonathan Portes
8 days ago
Excellent very well-judged piece by Harry. Reflects very badly on politicians that very few (Khan excepted) have said anything as good/clear as this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Harry warns of 'deeply troubling' rise in antisemitism in UK
The Duke of Sussex says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xw55q0elvo
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Zarah Sultana MP
9 days ago
Please retweet.
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Séamas Aloysius
10 days ago
Singer-songwriter, legendary vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, mandolin player, producer, Grammy winner and RnR Icon Steve Winwood has 78 candles on his birthday cake today. (May 12, 1948)
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Duncan Weldon
10 days ago
“The question is not simply what the optimal fiscal framework looks like, but how reform can be sequenced in a context of elevated borrowing costs and heightened market sensitivity”. V interesting, lots to agree with.
renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...
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A new fiscal framework to renew Britain
03 Renewal_Special Edition_Haigh (1)03 Renewal_Special Edition_Haigh (1).pdf83 KBdownload-circle For too long, people in our country have felt powerless. Since the Global Financial Crisis, living s...
https://renewal.org.uk/articles/a-new-fiscal-framework-to-renew-britain/
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10 days ago
Renewing Britain's economy: Tribune Group perspectives, in
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renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...
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Volume 34, Special Issue
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
https://renewal.org.uk/journal/volume-34-special-issue/
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"An economy should work first and foremost for those who earn their living through their labour rather than through rent-seeking"
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If only Starmer read more. There is more to running a country than following Mandelson's edicts
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Top tip to Keir Starmer: Forget about your play acting and pretence at being a competent politician. Get back in your lane and continue prosecuting Tweeps for using working class language and figures of speech.
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Maybe, just maybe, Starmer's departure will be the end of Mandelson's malign influence over the Labour party. Assuming West Streeting does not replace Starmer
11 days ago
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Mr Roger Quimbly
11 days ago
By not being a mad fucker?
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How Trump could bring down gas prices
Experts and lawmakers say the Trump administration still has options to help curb rising gas prices across the U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-bring-down-gas-prices-11936225
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Jonn Elledge
11 days ago
It is objectively insane that all the money the average renter earns until mid May every year goes straight into the pocket of their landlord.
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Why oh why did the Party select Starmer in the first place? As Director of Public Prosecutions, he refused to withdraw the prosecution of Paul Chambers. Ruining an individual's life for a swear-word laden, clumsy tweet was a clear clue to Starmer's callous character. Time to walk that plank Starmer
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Giles Wilkes
11 days ago
whenever I hear a Party say the problem is they need to tell more stories I a. despair because it means they think the answer is more power to the comms spads and b. immodestly remember a tweet of mine from 2022
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David Higham
11 days ago
This doesn’t sound good?
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Andrew Fisher
13 days ago
"Unless Labour changes, and does so quickly, it will be consigned to the history books. Thats is about more than changing one face at the top and bringing back former leaders, the party needs a dramatic shift in policy and strategy too" My new column for
@theipaper.com
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Labour is in an existential crisis - and has no idea how to stop it
Vowing to remain and bringing in additional help in the form of Gordon Brown won't be enough to win voters, the public needs to see tangible change - and quickly
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/labour-existential-crisis-no-idea-how-stop-it-4409044
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Jan Rosenow
14 days ago
Gas set Spain's electricity price 55% of the time in 2022. In Jan–Apr 2026: just 9%. Rapid renewable buildout means renewables increasingly set the marginal price instead - delivering structurally lower, more stable wholesale prices. Sign up to my new newsletter for more:
janrosenow.substack.com
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Dear Labour, what is wrong with adopting policies that pursue full employment? The benefits of full employment include: More tax receipts Lower govt borrowing Better mental health Less incentive to commit crime
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Dog Desk Animal Action
14 days ago
Giffgaff voting is now open! 🐾 Please check your inbox (and spam folder just in case) and cast your vote for Dog Desk Animal Action🙏 If your link hasn’t arrived within a week, you can contact a Giffgaff agent here ⬇️
support2.giffgaff.com/app/ask
Voting closes 21/5 💚
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George Monbiot
14 days ago
No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6
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Alexa, what happens when a government wins power on the promise of "change" and then continues with the previous government's policy of laissez-faire and high unemployment? Asking for some MPs
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Well done Crystal Palace!
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Dog Desk Animal Action
15 days ago
We are struggling to clear these urgent medical care costs this month Without funding, dogs will go without treatment. If you can help today, please do 🙏
donorbox.org/medical-fund...
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Top Tip to Arsenal fans: Use your time in Budapest to get dental treatment that is now unavailable or unaffordable in the UK. Then at least your trip to Budapest will not have been completely wasted and will provide some consolation when PSG smashes the Arsenal team. You're welcome
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In memory of Liberace
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈
16 days ago
I suspect the cartoonist gave trump too much credit. What do you think?
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