For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

This is a crucial report, shining a spotlight on the funding links between Russia, Hungary and the British mainstream right

Hydrogen heating needs 2 units of electricity to make 1 unit of heat. A heat pump makes 3 units of heat using 1 unit of electricity. Trying to heat homes with hydrogen is just daft. Government needs to put the concept out of its misery.

Huge, impactful, disastrous move by Trump being almost totally ignored or misreported by major news organizations: www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Some actual good news for the long weekend. New official data shows UK renewables smashed records once again last year. If it weren't for wind and solar farms the current energy crisis would be a lot worse. www.businessgreen.com/news/4527939...

Renewables capacity now nearly half of global total. Will be over half by end of 2026 Another signal of change coming “The Middle East ​crisis has confirmed dramatically energy security is not something we can have with fossil fuels” say @irena-official.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Trump 'absolutely' considering withdrawing from NATO Since Dugin laid out the plan in 1998, the main foreign policy aim of the Kremlin has been to sever Britain from Europe (achieved in 2016) and break up the Transatlantic Alliance (2026?) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

On Tuesday, activists from ‘Raise the Colours’ erected flags along Abingdon Road in broad daylight. We ask who is behind it – and why the campaign is so controversial. oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

West Oxfordshire Council unanimously backs Green Cllr Genny Early's call to bring Thames Water back into Public Ownership. Govt minister on Special Administration "..it’s if a company can’t perform its basic duty, so if your water doesn't come out your taps and your sewage isn't being taken away".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Fish killed off in yet another stream in Oxfordshire.

Here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 1800s & was probably a votive offering. Has to be one of my favourite items in the museum. I could stare at it forever following those sinuous lines & curves. 🏛️British Museum 📷 mine #FindsFriday

Democracy depends on accurate and reliable media. The UK's hyper-partisan press is notoriously unreliable – but for a long time the damage was mitigated because TV and radio stations were held to a much higher standard. /1 leftfootforward.org/2026/03/alan...

In #Beirut, #Guterres demands end to #MiddleEast war: Civilians ‘deserve to live without fear’ news.un.org/en/story/202...

This is good news. When it started it was a really reliable service. Still a good line, but not sure it has been quite as reliable in recent times.

Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.

Ukraine: 15,172 civilians killed since Feb 2022 (~10/day) Gaza: 57,000 since Oct 2023 (~64/day) Sudan: 55,000 since Apr 2023 (~52/day) Iran: 1,500 in 10 days Lebanon: 600 in a week Every war and civilian death is a tragedy. Yet global outrage clearly isn’t equal. White > Muslims > black 🫣

Analysis: Clean energy will cut UK gas imports by [much] more than North Sea drilling #energy By @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org et al www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...

📉 New @carbonbrief.org analysis shows UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025, hitting their lowest level in 150+ years. Gas use dropped to a 34-year low and coal fell to levels last seen in 1600...Shakespeare‑era stuff.

Not surprisingly, this advice to government is spot on - from someone who has worked as an engineer in the renewable energy industry.

I'm delighted with my heat pump. But my experience getting it installed taught me what’s been stopping many more people from getting one (so far). I wrote for @politicshome.bsky.social on the hurdles that government needs to think about as it implements the Warm Homes Plan. 👇

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Ash Smith, the campaigner behind Channel 4's Dirty Business docu-drama, tells the government - get a grip! Private profiteers can't be trusted any longer with our water - it needs to be in public hands, starting with Thames Water. Act NOW - sign the petition: vist.ly/4tq48

Thinking of those with Iranian links in the UK, worrying about family and friends. "There is every chance the regime will get tougher on Iranians to cover its vulnerability. I worry that ordinary people in Iran and beyond will be in harm’s way.” www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

So, it turns out that the UK national security report on nature -only published last month thanks to an FOI request - omitted the most serious forecasts. I've updated my earlier piece here with the @itvnews.bsky.social revelations: medium.com/the-new-clim...

China’s latest energy data offers a signal worth paying attention to. In 2025, emissions from energy and industry fell by 0.3%, modest, but notable, even as total energy consumption rose by 3.5%. The key driver? A continued surge in solar power capacity.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... Scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

Truly, truly, truly disgusting. Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.

Wir sehen den Beginn eines großen Krieges. Die israelisch-amerikanischen Luftschläge sollen zum Zusammenbruch des Mullah-Regimes führen. Mehrere Tage Luftangriffe und Gegenangriffe des Irans und der Proxies auf Israel und US-Militärbasen sind der Anfang. Die Risiken sind hoch.

🎉 MASSIVE congratulations to Hannah Spencer on being elected to represent Gorton & Denton in the House of Commons for @greenparty.org.uk. This is an unprecedented result, enlarging further the biggest representation of Greens in UK history. Hope is stronger than hate.

Matt Goodwin complaining about voter process in his by-election loss has all the vibes of a Poundland Trump. If he’s so invested in electoral probity, perhaps start with questions of overseas funding of Reform UK?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well done Ash, Peter, and the wonderful WASP team!

Apologies to all of Hannah's customers! Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️

#stopreform #votegreen #gortonandxenton

Why should communication involving the royals be exempt from Freedom of Information requests? It really is one rule for the rich and powerful, and one rule for the rest of us. I intend to work with other MPs to close this outrageous royal transparency loophole.

A blast from the past - @windrushwasp.bsky.social s Ash Smith supporting public ownership of water last year. Ash is the hero of the harrowing drama Dirty Business on #channel4 right now in which the water companies behave like criminal organisations putting profit above even children’s lives.

Do the people of Gorton and Denton OWN anything? 💧💡🚌🚄📮🏥 🏊🐎🚽👮‍♂️🚸 By-election candidates should be planning to take/buy back assets and services, reverse 40 years of privatisation and 15 years of austerity www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRu-...

💧💩Fountain of Filth: Today we joined other water campaigners to attend the opening of a fountain depicting river users getting sick from dirty water Our waterways shouldn’t be making us sick. Sewage pollution MUST end✊️ Tune in: Dirty Business (9pm on Channel 4) spotlights Britain's sewage scandal

📡 On Monday night, Channel 4 is airing 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦. It's the long overdue real-life drama of the victims of England’s sewage crisis and the greed of water companies. Together with Surfers Against Sewage, we’ll be bringing actions to channel the anger. Stay tuned.

"Dirty Business" dramatizes the UK's water pollution scandals. Can it wield the same influence as "Adolescence" and "Mr Bates vs The Post Office?"

Excellent piece from Sandra Laville "As Thames Water teeters on the edge of financial collapse, Hammond and Smith are pushing, alongside other campaigners, for the company to be put into special administration" Remove Thames's licence, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The question no one is asking about the monarchy youtu.be/5VQEwiEvfTY?...

Yorkshire Water fined £733,333 for dumping sewage in a Chesterfield country park stream. Events go back to 2018-2019. Why 8 year wait? Company has 125+ criminal convictions. No exec ever fined/prosecuted. Fines announced in 2024 were later waived. The same likely again

UK trade policy remains absurdly vulnerable to threats given successive governments disdain for using Parliament or telling anyone very much. We don't even know what phase 1 of the US-pharma deal says, and now there may be a phase 2. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Please don't condemn old people remember we had decades of right-wing racist brainwashing propaganda from almost every newspaper spewing out day after day after day with no social media and precious few counter voices nailing the lies Prove your truth, your worth by trying to convince them

German flagship news program Tagesschau: "US trade deficit falls only slightly" "Despite extensive tariffs, the gap between imports & exports in the US narrowed only minimally in 2025. Economists are calling it an own goal – US tariffs are primarily affecting the country itself."

Global Counsel, founded and part-owned by Peter Mandelson, calls in administrators. Blames loss of clients after Epstein disclosures. Clients doing ethics wash to reinvent themselves. For years they used Mandelson to gain advantage, and knew his history.

Alexander Dotsenko, a Russian political prisoner jailed for distributing anti-war leaflets in a St. Petersburg supermarket back in 2024, has died after suffering a heart attack at his penal colony and failing to regain consciousness in hospital, his support group reported on Thursday.