Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

I didn’t want to eat this evening because it was too hot and now it’s nearly midnight and there’s a nice breeze blowing through the bedroom window and I’m really hungry.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 24% (-3) LAB: 21% (+6) CON: 18% (=) GRN: 15% (-2) LDM: 12% (-1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 24-25 Jun. Changes w/ 17 Jun.

want to see a magic trick

Your regular reminder that not a single new reservoir has been built in England since privatisation. Water companies have increased our bills above the rate of inflation and made 10s of billions in profit.

He has a point. What would you do for your country if you felt you had no stake in society, and your country did very little for you.

🔥 Farage’s £5 million “gift” 🔥 Investigations, irritable interviews, crypto lobbying and new layers of accusations are putting Farage in a very dangerous place. Here’s the story so far.

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Shabana Mahmood's cruel plan to make refugee status temporary - a policy endorsed by far-right extremist Tommy Robinson - is facing a vital legal challenge from @asylumaid.bsky.social. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

We can’t build a new national consensus and we can’t even negotiate a youth mobility scheme let alone contemplate rejoining the EU, an objective of such apparently ludicrous ambition that it would — apparently — be far beyond the capabilities of the British state.

Past political traumas blinded UK governments to how declining birthrates across the world are shrinking the global labour pool of potential skilled and unskilled migrants. Belief that everyone the UK needs will always want to migrate to the UK without encouragement is the next strategic blunder

Now let’s hope America makes it affordable.

We can only hope.

🇪🇺 🇬🇧 The door to the EU will always remain open. The UK remains an important part of the European family, and together we are stronger. Last Saturday‘s National Rejoin March was a clear reminder that the hope for a closer future remains alive. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

I’ve worked out why all the achievements of the Starmer government have not impressed me. It’s because: Aggression towards immigrants Removing rights from trans people Locking up peaceful protestors Being dismissive of Europe make Britain look like Trump’s America. That’s today’s revelation.

This is the most comprehensive polling I’ve seen — and it is pretty compelling. This perspective is extremely important, ‘The side that best shakes off the old thought patterns of 2016, and grapples honestly with today’s lived realities and sentiments, is the one most likely to succeed.’

@simonpease.bluesky.social I would love your thoughts on this. Brexit isn’t working: British voters are ready for a European future: ecfr.eu/publication/...

New Street looking gorgeous today. #Malahideaway Keep the gingers in the shade, please!

57% of Britons now believe leaving the EU was wrong vs 30% who believe it was right (YouGov). A separate Ipsos poll found 52% of Britons think the UK should apply to rejoin the EU. About 2/3rds of 18- to 24-year-olds say they would vote to rejoin, compared with little more than 1/3rd of over 65s

We were fighting then, and we are fighting still. I seem to remember that two of these people were Tories, one a Corbynista, and on the right was our Labour MP. I was behind the camera.

The UAE is storing solar electricity as heat inside molten salt at 565 degrees — generating power through the night without burning a single molecule of gas. Photovoltaic for daytime baseload, concentrated solar thermal for evening and night dispatch, battery storage for rapid response #ActOnClimate

New polling suggests that old Brexit red lines are falling away, with a majority now open to freedom of movement ✏️ Matt Withers

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The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

For me, this is the precise moment Starmer's fortunes started their irrecoverable downward spiral.

There is going to be a lot said about Starmer’s Prime Ministership and I’ve said a lot myself, but it boils down to this: Nobody voted for Starmer at the 2024 election. A coalition of progressive people voted to Get The Tories Out, and to Keep Reform Out. 1/4

Literally everyone I know or read who expressed an opinion about Starmer has been saying this since 2024 and I really don't understand why it didn't sink in. It's not a complex point

Hot Dog, Connolly Station

At yesterday’s National Rejoin March, Edith Berryman was one of many excellent speakers. To paraphrase, she said “People’s 2016 *beliefs* about Brexit cannot continue to take precedence over the overwhelming 2026 *evidence* of the effects of Brexit”. She is 20. She has never had a say. #RejoinEU

Could not agree more! Not only did Hillary beat the Orange Atrocity by 2.8 MILLION votes, but Al Gore got 543,895 MORE votes than Bush! The Electoral College allows candidates who received less votes to win the presidency. ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Lord Kinnock calling Brexit an "unmitigated, unprecedented, continuing disaster" sums it up perfectly. With marchers filling London demanding our star back, the political silence is finally shattering. Turns out a decade of economic drag can’t be hidden forever. 🥾🇪🇺 #RejoinEU #UKPolitics

every time a heat wave approaches I want to put together a spreadsheet of old churches that are regularly open, free, and cold might actually do it this time but I will probably need to crowdsource info

Here are the questions for Labour MPs and members: Will Burnham: 1. Admit that immigrants are needed in the UK and reverse the new barriers to citizenship? 2. Restore rights, dignity and healthcare for trans people? 3. Agree we can choose to raise more tax? 4. Talk about rejoining the EU?

All signs are there that Burnham will not change anything significant. Shabana Mahmood should be sacked, and the earned settlement reform scrapped, on day one by any new Labour PM worth anything.

I’ll feel hope again if something serious changes. If the Red Lines are gone. If Shabana Mahmood’s ‘reforms’ are reversed. If Blue Labour are sidelined. If Glasman loses the whip.

If my interpretation is correct that the protocols would be automatically switched back on, it's *more* likely that the UK would rejoin. For the avoidance of doubt it would be better to spell that out in an accession treaty, although I expect many EU opponents would still lie about it regardless.

This is evil. Trans women will not be safe in male prisons. Not that FWS give a shit: they’re high on their own cruelty.

It seems incredible to me that the original FWS judgement just ripped up equality law and threw it out the window, and every politician was too afraid to admit it and just kept wittering on about "dignity and respect". This is not going to "protect" anyone and will cause actual real harm to people

Because the protocol wordings haven't been amended to remove references to the UK. They could have, but they haven't- that is a choice. I've attached all my Steve Peers screenshots on this topic- you know who he is?

No, they didn't. Reform voters voted for Reform. There just aren't as many of them as you think, and the public are lead to believe.

People banging on about how we should just ‘join the EU single market’: You do know what that consists of, don’t you? It’s basically the Four Freedoms. If you can get that past the British electorate, you might as well just apply to rejoin the entire EU. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

there’s a woman on insta experiencing her sixth miscarriage and this time her body didn’t expel on its own so she’s live-blogging the three (3) ultrasounds over two (2) weeks that Florida is requiring her to have to see that her baby is really dead before she can have a D & C

🇮🇪 The striking exception: Northern Ireland NI is the only constituent country with near-zero or positive GVA gaps Why? The NI Protocol (now Windsor Framework) means NI effectively remains inside much of the EU single market. It's the clearest counterfactual within the UK itself 6/…

Rejoining the Single Market would require the UK to accept Freedom of Movement, but since a large majority of UK voters back Freedom of Movement anyway, it should be seen as the benefit of SM membership that it is. Let's give young people their freedoms back! www.politico.eu/article/poll...

A decade ago, on 23 June 2016, the UK voted to terminate nearly half a century of EU membership. To mark the 10th anniversary of the referendum, we will be publishing a series of comment pieces to reflect on what Brexit has meant for UK government www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

🏳️‍⚧️ Prayer motions against the EHRC code are important, but the fight from here is legislative. Will you join us inside Parliament on 25th June 11-4 to demand better? www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

This is a huge story. www.ft.com/content/dd79...

Well we have our supermajority.