NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

Too young

back in the real world

Having read the government's Local Power Plan, it looks really cool. For the first time, communities will get help to set up their own clean energy projects. This will genuinely improve people's lives and will help national security too.

Bangor's my hometown and it's very weird to see it be the focus of so much debate

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively. All due online by 2029.

I think politics is very hard, harder than most people realise. But at the same time it is also more simple than politicians imply: most people want things to stop getting more expensive at the same time as their quality of life gets shitter, and they want to broadly trust that the system is fair.

I really don't like the fact that journalists keep calling Morgan McSweeney "the Irishman"

The winter Olympics has a stressful amount of events involving blades

I really feel for the British public. All they want is a decent, affordable life with a political sphere that's more stable than having 6 Prime Ministers in the past ten years

One thing the Mandelson affair shows is that it is good for politicians to have a moral compass that exists outside of polls and media cycles. Because the latter changes on a dime and suddenly something that was ok becomes the reason for a major political crisis

The NHS sites alone are expected to make almost £30m a year in savings resulting from the upgrades. Sites include + Lincoln County Hospital + Harbour mental health hospital, Blackpool + RAF Lossiemouth + RAF Waddington + RAF Marham + HMP Channings Wood, Devon 2/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...

I'm going to listen to this to distract myself from the fact that one of my favourite books has just been adapted by one of the worst filmmakers working today www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Strong lemon it's Wednesday energy today

Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years

Catherine O'Hara had so much more to give 💔

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila! www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...

Some reasons to feel positive today. Well done to all those women who push back on legal challenges, and push through resolutions notinourname.org.uk

today I had to read one of my old Guardian articles for reasons, and wow the comments underneath were just viscerally hateful. I can't believe that was a part of my life for so long. This is why I am opposed to politicians running their own accounts - it destroys your judgement and makes you insane!

Yessss!!! 我十二月打算去中国

As soon as I saw this I knew she'd be from my ends

Honestly at this point I consider humidity discrimination against the differently haired

If Sinners doesn't win any Oscars, particularly in the music category, I'll be personally going to Hollywood myself

I cried at the Traitors finale haha

I've just discovered that there is a Mark Carney thirst Instagram account 💀

eep

I don't think anyone needs to engage with the claim that China doesn't have any windfarms

It took a while, but the deep unseriousness that defined so much of the coverage of the slow motion crisis of climate change for decades has now infected basically everything.

if this bothers you, wait til you hear about how they cover climate change

Today we launched our Warm Homes Plan which is the biggest ever investment in home upgrades helping lift 1 million households out of fuel poverty and ensuring everyone can benefit from clean, affordable energy.

Happy Warm Homes Plan day, lads. The UK energy team at E3G will be combing through it today and I will share our analysis later.

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

You're all here talking about geopolitics and meanwhile Brooklyn Beckham is spilling the tea on the family feud

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

I'm currently behind so no spoilers, but this season's Traitors is an abject lesson in the importance of relationship management. It's not enough to have the evidence; you've got to make people want to listen to you. Useful lesson for politics too

Has anyone done any analysis of what it would entail for the EU/UK to extricate itself from the United States (sorry not sure how else to phrase that but hopefully you get what I mean) and what consequences that might throw up? It would be very useful

Oh god what's happening now

This is an absolutely amazing book about people who are forming relationships with AI chatbots. I will tell you one thing to whet your appetite: the author interviews a guy who is trying to adopt children with his AI girlfriend www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Here's how Aurora Energy Research sees the UK offshore wind auction (AR7) cutting bills for consumers "£1bn by 2035" * CfD payments go up * Other costs go up (balancing, capacity mkt) * Wholesale prices go down * Overall costs go down www.linkedin.com/posts/ivan-b...

What Simpsons quote do you always get the urge to say but don't because you think no one will get it? For me, every time something I goes wrong I have to physically stop myself from saying "Bob Dole doesn't need this"

We have no original texts of Shakespeare's plays and what we now understand as Shakespeare is often an amalgamation of the First Folio released shortly after he died and contemporaneous actors' notes. In one set of actors' notes for Hamlet, he says "to be or not to be, ay there's the point"

Richard Tice has indicated this morning that Reform would cancel the contracts that came out of today's renewables auction - last time Reform threatened to do this they backtracked when it became clear that no one will want to do business with a country that can't be trusted to abide by contract law

Good set of results on offshore wind auction contracts – the DESNZ team should be praised for balancing the need to deliver a lot of new capacity with the need to keep prices down www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Credit to government and DESNZ; the results of AR7 (the latest auction process the government used to procure renewable energy) are very promising. A good price, lots of renewables spread across the country. The result of a lot of hard work from advisors, ministers and civil servants no doubt

I just saw Marty Supreme. It brings me no pleasure to report that Timothy Chalamet - who gives me the ick - is going to win the Oscar and he absolutely deserves it

people who say money can't buy you happiness have never owned a dehumidifier

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

It's notable how much you have to twist the facts in order to make the case that climate action is a bad idea