🇬🇷 Greece's largest coal plant, Agios Dimitrios, is shutting down today. One coal plant remains until Greece exits coal this year. Renewables have been beating coal on cost for a while. The country is expected to hit its 2030 solar target early this year! balkangreenenergynews.com/ag-dimitrios...

I just don’t think there should be a leadership challenge. Keir Starmer has a massive mandate given to him by the British people at the general election. I don’t think anybody in the Cabinet has a right to try to overturn that. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d0332ac...

The worst thing Labour could do right now, there’s no reason to panic over some adverse polling less than two years into a ten year project - and some of what we’re seeing is more opportunism than panic - but if there is to be a leadership contest my first choice for the job would be Keir.

This faux anger about the damned local elections is ridiculous. Labour won 1,063 seats. Many were held, some were new. Reform won 1,349. 15 of those Reform ‘winners’ are now losers & there’ll be more soon. Anyone thinking this is worth blowing up Labour for is frankly mad.

Anyone who says Starmer hasn't brought change is just unaware. The only people who haven't brought any change is the media. -did you have sick pay from day before Starmer? -was your rail fare frozen before Starmer? -was your prescription charge frozen before Starmer? 1/6

Catch up on how our economy is doing under Reeves and Starmer this year.

The anyone but Starmer brigade are in for a massive shock when the Membership mainly backs Starmer. The media, the wet behind the ears MPs and even some seasoned MPs have failed to read the room. Many Labour members and voters think Starmer is doing well. And want him to stay

Look it’s no mystery why the retail figures are up. Labour uplifted pensions, minimum wage and removed the 2 child cap. None of those people has an account in the British Virgin Isles. So they spend it. Who knew???

My take is that Reform have replaced the Tories in Essex. Until 2024 all 18 MPs in Essex were Tory. As were Councils Next GE maybe they’ll all be Reform. But this doesn’t show/demonstrate/prove anything for Reform. The Tories have just moved to Reform. It’s a not a shock

VW’s small cars will be available exclusively with electric engins. “New internal combustion cars in this segment no longer make sense in view of future emissions regulations. They would be too expensive for our customers. The future is electric.” www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/kleinwagen/v...

I believe attempting to influence people’s vote by threat or other form of coercion is a criminal offence. Let’s get a report into the police and urge an investigation.

I'm indebted to Allan Sharpe for this excellent meme that needs to be used under every Reform post on Social Media. Please steal it and use it!!

Just this week boat crossings down 42%. Renters now protected from rogue landlords, hire and rehire illegal, no more zero hours contracts forced on you, more money for school dinners, 8000 more mental health professionals and NHS waiting lists are down. #VoteLabour

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.

Since the Middle East war began Europe's EV market has been accelerating sharply. Q1 2026 registrations hit 547,000 — up 32% on the same period last year. But the real story is March 2026 with almost 50% more than in March 2025. More in next newsletter sign up here janrosenow.substack.com

This is from my local Labour MP today. Quiet in here without me, isn't it 🤭

Less than 1 GW of gas in the middle of a working day. Can’t be bad…

In just over a decade, Chile went from no utility-scale wind or solar at all to having more electricity from these sources than from all fossil fuels combined: In 2000, wind+solar provided 0% of Chile's electricity, fossil fuels 45%.By 2025, wind+solar had risen to 36%, fossil fuels fallen to 28%.

they're saying that all traces of Viktor are being erased so thoroughly that he's now just an orban legend

Farage will get away with his rigged energy lottery. Tice will get away with not paying £120k of tax appropriately. Our country is being ripped off daily by Reform and our media. It is wrong. Why can’t we do anything about this?

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b

Just yesterday 9 important announcements hardly whispered by our news channels news papers. Why? They matter. A lot. From spying ships to reduction of knife crime to ability for disabled to try work without losing benefits #DoingTheMediasJob #LaboursAvhievements #FixingBritain

It is truly remarkable that after the Vietnam War, after the Afghanistan War, after a catalogue of US military failures in the post 1945 world, people claiming to be serious analysts are saying because the US dropped alot of bombs it won this war. It did not.

I'm disappointed. ☹️ So many talented hackers out there, yet NONE to have hacked into - and released the relevant parts of - the Epstein files.

When a sitting president threatens the Pope and the Vatican, it’s way past time to go!

He NEVER went up his own ass, NEVER. And for a global superstar out of Hollywood this is a rare rare thing. From Carpenter to icon. A credit to my profession. Love the guy. A visibly moved HARRISON FORD accepting his AFI Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles this month.

Newspaper famous for lying repeats lies by well known liar, Richard Tice, famous for telling lies about fossil fuels because rich liars pay him to repeat their lies.

Hollywood lied to you. This is what a terrorist looks like!

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

Labour are on the side of ordinary people. Major changes today benefit: 1. Children (2 child cap) 2. Young people (Youth Hubs) 3. Low paid workers (Min Wage/sick pay) 4. Those on welfare (help to work) 5. Workers (security/paternity) 6. Pensioners (uplift) #LabourSuccess

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

⚡️Update: Ukraine denies involvement in alleged Serbia pipeline sabotage. “Ukraine has nothing to do with this,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said, adding that the incident could be a Russian false-flag operation aimed at influencing Hungary’s elections.

I have no idea whether he will or he won’t, but I hope he doesn’t because of the climate emergency and the signals that approval would send. But that said - approval would improve security of gas supply to the Uk, and would generate tax revenues. I don’t see any reason it would make our gas cheaper.

#DoingMediasJob They want you to think businesses are failing. But they really aren’t. And keeping the truth from us just isn’t working. Look at this investment in Britain by huge companies. Britain is seen as safe and secure. It’s great news. Share far and wide 👏👏👏

The Labour Government have achieved, or are on course to achieve, 73 of their 95 manifesto pledges in just 21 months. Thats some kind of impressive achievement. fullfact.org/government-t...

Putin told Trump to destroy this country from within and he was more than willing to accommodate his request. What's the reason for Republican lawmakers going along with this? Are they paid off, hate America and are loyal to a country they don't reside in, or both?

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Useful :-)

UK solar hits 22 gigawatts. 2.5 gigawatts added in past 12 months of the current government, a surge not seen since subsidy era. Even with reduced feed in tariffs, small solar deployments are also on the increase. Government and Ed Miliband are doing all the right things on energy front. #bbcBH

Well done. #NoKings

"[E]conomies need to be weaned off insecure sources of energy .... It is a fantasy to think that this transition can be achieved if governments keep mindlessly absorbing the costs of the present system, while limiting rewards for those offering more robust alternatives." The Economist, 26th March

The United States's most glamorous, government-funded dementia ward:

Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.

We know how you’d protect British citizens and British resources. You wouldn’t

In case you need it, the UK allowing the US to use UK bases to target Iranian missile sites targeting international commercial shipping is based on a joint statement by the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia...

electrek.co/2026/03/11/s... Much like its soupy homograph, MISO will soon contain meaningful amounts of sodium.

British governance has been so debased by the push to vibes-based authoritarianism by the media and right-wing donors that actual collaborative, deliberative governance has become impossible for many to recognise

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

And suddenly everyone forgot about the Epstein files.

I don’t care if the Cabinet changed Keir Starmer’s mind on the UKs position in this war. The government I helped elect is doing its job effectively, exactly how it’s meant to. PS I don’t actually believe that’s what happened though if I’m honest.