Britain has set a new wind generation record. "At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes" "Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"

This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Football at all levels has a dangerously insane relationship with its referees, but in non-league it also comes with a chasm between reality and foaming Twitter activists who've never been to a game. This week's newsletter is on the AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Coventry Sphinx match abandonment.

New post: Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/blue... It worked in 24 so it will work again. Labours marginals are different. Socially liberal voters will vote for us to stop Reform. Used by Labour to justify Reform like policies, but these arguments are just wrong.

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.

It is a very good piece - especially on the importance of a healthy public sphere.

This. While, admittedly, it’s not necessarily the answer to what Starmer/Reeves should do from their own perspective, from a Labour perspective the right thing would absolutely be for them to clear the decks as best they can for whoever replaces them. I’m sorry, but they’re done.

A brilliant withering column that reflects so well the patience many of us had with the government basically running out.

Most Labour members make an informal trade-off: we accept that the party leader is well to the right of the members, in exchange for competent leadership and actually winning. If I wanted weak leadership and no plan I could have done that myself.

Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the Prescott memo, which looks very dodgy: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This is why the right wing newspapers hate the BBC...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.

Very good report on Global Progress and Morgan is spot on about the Spanish approach.

Great summary of a well-deserved and much needed win for @hallamfc1860.bsky.social

A much needed and well-deserved 2-0 win for @hallamfc1860.bsky.social today against Bishop Auckland. Hallam were the best side, but it took a while to get the goals. Ollie Russon capped off an excellent performance with the first goal and Jack Brownell put a great free-kick into the top bin!

A great story showing the vital role of local journalism - the more so in an age where Tim Davie's BBC has abandoned serious inquiry in quest for populist clickbait. And crushing indictment of City shyster described by judge as follows: "I do not consider him [Milne] to be an honest or credible man"

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

Osborne deserves a lot more condemnation, for not just doing austerity but doing it so cackhandedly: 1. Not borrowing to invest when borrowing costs were at essentially zero 2. Cutting spending by salami slicing every part of the public sector with no real analysis of where could take it

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

When will we hear the Home Secretary and Prime Minister banging on about this?

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Back from Brid and another defeat for @hallamfc1860.bsky.social We were not awful today, but overall, we were second best. Didn't lay a glove on the opposition offensively and that was really disappointing. It was never going to be easy at Step 4, and I recognise we have been carrying injuries,

Post is by James Buchan who defected from Reform to the Tories in Dartford Council. Pretty damning stuff...

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

I’m more engaged in US politics these days than every twist and turn of UK politics, but this strikes me as a thoroughly well argued, persuasive piece - advocating keep Starmer, for now, but change operation behind him, esp McSweeney. For sure, govt can’t continue as is. Change definitely needed.

Ultimately, no government can claim to have fixed Britain’s public finances or rebuilt its public services without addressing the question of care. It sits at the junction of fairness, fiscal prudence and political credibility. 👏 @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

I have a suggestion for the @labouruk.bsky.social . The next time one of its representatives is invited on Question Time they should refuse to participate unless there is a LibDem and/or Green spokesperson on the panel. If they want to build an anti-Farage coalition that’s one easy win.

Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

A much better performance from @hallamfc1860.bsky.social tonight. It was unfortunate to lose the game to 2 set pieces and a defensive error. Gave a team from a high division a really good game and came out of a 3-2 defeat with credit. Well done, boys . On to Bridlington on Saturday.

Morning, m'dears, here's something on Sheffield Wednesday, and hope being the oxygen of football supporters. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/theyre-all...

The median voter isn’t a Labour–Reform switcher. And that means Farage isn’t Starmer's biggest threat — appearing toxic to liberal voters is. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-median... My newsletter, out now.

Really poor performance today from @hallamfc1860.bsky.social Not a redeeming feature in it. Made a bang average Brighouse side look like Brazil. A home game we really should be winning if we want to stay up. Very disappointing. Big rethink needed before Tuesday night against Stocksbridge

116,000 people are watching a livestream of the monsters name been removed forever, from the seating. Never again will we allow an owner to brandish his own name on our ground. It’s such a new dawn for the club #SWFC

Caerphilly result, from a progressive rather than partisan point of view, is great. 1. The more people wake up to the power of turning out/voting tactically the better; 2. Given Lab still has four years in gov't with a big majority, the more it is terrorised away from regressive policies the better.

The Chansiri seats being removed from the North Stand...

Tech companies are potentially as dangerous to western economic security as China, and governments are struggling in the same way to balance the potential economic upsides with the threats.

Hats off and solidarity to @danneidle.bsky.social who is facing an enormous libel claim - arguably a SLAPP - for his investigation into a tax avoidance (& potentially criminal evasion) scheme. He's published the court filings, an important move given how much of this usually happens in darkness: