Who knew, mega pub chain boss Tim Martin would back Farage’s 'Deadbeat Dad' plan to take money from child support and spend it on beer ……:) And, shock horror - Farage’s numbers don't add up. It will take nearly twice as much as he claims. Classic. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Farage got it wrong. We don’t trade more outside the EU, we trade less. Farmers are not better off (exports down 40%) fishermen are not better off - our whole country is not better off.  cepr.org/voxeu/column...

On Talk Radio, talking about the thing I think is talked about too much - a leadership change..:)

Fab idea, allow the Tech Bros to proliferate mini nukes all over Britain, pay them for the privilege (revenue support) and lend them the money to do it. Nuclear energy in the private sector is such a bad idea from a risk point of view. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Reform are ‘building a new team to replace our failed political class’ - apparently. But check the photo, half the people in it are part of that failed political class - exTories that presided over the exponential growth of immigration, Reform’s biggest political axe to grind.

Seagrass is amazing, another one of nature’s perfect answers to the man made problems we face - just like Beavers. Seagrass once surrounded our coastline, providing habitat for all kinds of wonderful creatures, like sea horses - and also nurseries for fish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage is like some kinda Deadbeat Dad - pints over poverty, never mind the kids, we need more beer. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

The Insurance industry has long been the Canary in the cage. They felt the effects long before other industries and long before the global consensus - they pay for the flood and storm damage that we see on our screens, which climate deniers blame on weather, not climate change. buff.ly/w2NKmqG

Beavers are amazing creatures, in their own right, but when you look at the knock on benefits, the creation of habitats for all kinds of other creatures and the ability of those habitats to hold storm water - they really are a gift. www.itv.com/news/meridia...

I’m not convinced this matters, above and beyond the obvious visual and not walking the walk. The grid is already nearly 50% green and if Ed’s plan works it won't matter in 5 years time whether you choose a green tariff or not, coz green will be the default. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Look past the name calling by Ukrainian officials, FIFA defo have issues - but, Russia and Israel should either both be banned or both allowed to play - both countries have invaded another and occupied it. news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

One head is enough. Appointing Mandelson knowing of his connections to Epstein is arguably a mistake - Morgan McSweeney has taken responsibility but the media in a feeding frenzy press for more. That’s wrong.

If I got this right, the sensitive souls that like to run foxes literally and metaphorically into the ground then watch them torn apart by hounds - find the presence of Chris Packham harassing….bless them. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

Again the headline is not the story. Civil servants also predicted that gas prices could rise, massively. Truth is no one knows. What we can be certain of though is that the price of energy from our wind and sun will not change, won’t suddenly surge upward or crash. buff.ly/fGZq8hK

This headline is unattached to the story, it might as well be in another country. Beavers are amazing, for wildlife and to prevent flooding - something of an increasing issue for 6m homes in Britain. The licensing system for their return is slow and expensive. buff.ly/rhq0jie

Two and a half million tonnes of water to make fake snow for the Winter Olympics - that’s the headline, the story is climate change. www.ft.com/content/0549...

Farage sold farmers (and fishermen) a lie, along with the rest of the country. Proof is in the numbers. Brexit did great harm. So when Farage rails against his latest faux enemy - net zero - and tells us we’re better off without it, let’s remember all the broken Brexit promises. buff.ly/FhuTJkd

Drax knew what it was doing, it knew it was misleading the government and public - adds insult to injury I reckon. The injuries being environmental destruction and enormous profits from subsidies added to our energy bills. buff.ly/3RRwy51

Nice idea and has some merit, but it’s silly to compare Iceland’s 90% of homes heated this way with Britain’s situation (0.3%) - this is not a sign of the scale of the opportunity it’s a sign of the geological differences. www.linkedin.com/pulse/nhs-ho...

Incredible and outrageous. Incredibly this rare, ancient 21 mile long chalk stream is officially a road. Outrageously it’s being used for 4x4 fun - destroying nature in the process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will anti wind energy, energy company Octopus publish this - or will they confine themselves to bleating about the cost of occasionally turning off windmills. www.edie.net/stormy-weath...

Big picture facts support what our Nature Minister says - given that the built environment (buildings and roads) is about 10% of our land area, even if we hit 300k new homes a year that’s just 1% of existing housing stock, and houses are a tiny % of the 10% built environment. buff.ly/OYJo79t

Interesting story, should be a warning to the plans of ‘geo engineering’ - Planetary scale interventions to absorb carbon emissions - like seeding the oceans. Our efforts to restore Ozone have created another problem. buff.ly/XwKj7vY

He’s not wrong - our entire economic outlook and outcome - comes from nature. And that’s why we are currently fundamentally unsustainable, nature has finite limits, our planet is only so big. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

This is an extraordinary story. Government’s normally invest to prevent the collapse of vital industries or to enable something risky to go ahead that can't otherwise be funded. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202....

Reform has a new Mayoral candidate - and she’s singing from the same old song sheet. Telling us what Reform wants us to believe, not what’s actually happening. I mean otherwise (other than from Reform) where does she get her news from, not from these sources...

Israel accepts that it killed 70k people in Palestine, the overwhelming number of them were civilians. Does it still maintain that this was an act of self defence? Palestine has the highest rate of child amputees in the world - is this also part of that self defence?

Another real world experience and a shocking one. Heat pumps in new homes leave tenants cold and broke. It’s a fact that when it gets cold heat pumps struggle and if you turn up the water temperature their efficiency goes out the window. These homes were not built properly for heat pumps.

The Times are wrong to claim heat pumps are miracles of science, denying the laws of thermodynamics - they’re just fridges working in reverse.

Churchwarden, clearly not as poor as a church mouse - is the bagman for the Kazakhstan rich man that wants to fund Reform - is this legal?

Despite Trump, despite the Net Zero Ninnies (Reform, the Tories) - the world of business votes with its cash. Green Tech is one of the most popular business opportunities on the planet, for a good reason. www.edie.net/global-energ...

Ecotalk is the most sustainable phone service there is. Everything our customers do on their mobile phones - and every time they do it, nature in Britain gets a boost. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2165...

Hmm, seems like a bun fight over nothing to me. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean nature is not important and especially the species that are threatened by changes in rules - but here’s my perspective... (1/7)

There are over 20k schools in England alone……1,250 getting breakfast clubs to help with child food poverty and parents getting to work - doesn't seem like much to shout about. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Trump lashes out against green energy - because it works. Last year the EU saved £70 Billion in avoided coal and gas imports. How? Green energy.

Bakkafrost’s Portree site is a crime scene. Environmental, biosecurity and consumer safety regulations have all been thrown into the fish shredder. Tesco surely must move to protect its customers and its reputation - and dump Bakkafrost.

The idiocy of Octopus’s position on ‘wasted’ wind energy is in their own numbers - 90% of the cost we incurred today was to buy other energy to replace the wind with, so if we’d not built these wind projects at all - we’d be incurring costs to buy non wind energy - every day. buff.ly/NbV70bc

Suella Braverman is the latest talentless Tory to jump ship to Reform - in her defection speech she described immigration as “out of control” and the country on its knees (must have been a flashback to her time in government)...

5m are about to benefit from the end of a rip off.

Fancy getting patriotic about which country your tortured and murdered animal comes from...:) www.countryside-alliance.org/news-content...

Is it any wonder that millions of people are staying away….? www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

Heart warming and affirming story of an (otherwise) ordinary bloke with enormous privilege and wealth overcoming the cynicism and criticism and general pressure of others - to stick to his guns. buff.ly/0xT7Dxq

It’s Not Ed Wot Did It. Britain’s North Sea Oil and Gas production (and industry) has been in decline since the end of the last century - that’s a fact. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Drax move to become more honest and accountable for its environmental impact (crimes?) is welcome, but ultimately we have to stop this dirty business, burning trees to make electricity is so very last century. www.drax.com/press_releas...

In my view we don’t need him or his USA, we’ll move faster in his absence. His random, reckless interventions and fact free pontifications have served to galvanise the world already - to pursue a world that works without the USA at the centre of it. Hallelujah I say. buff.ly/nZ3sH4n

I’m a donor that says we should not have donors - so that our politics can be clean and be seen to be clean - this from Farage is a classic extreme, what could be worse than an Indian billionaire living in Dubai - funding a political party in our country. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We’re slaves to the Markets, our entire lives are affected by ‘global sentiment’ and commodity speculation. We need to get off the roller coaster ride of Casino Capitalism - it serves us badly. buff.ly/EUVAhsr

Trump is like a vaccine. Now he’s causing Europe to focus on Energy Independence…..we needed it anyway, for economic strength and to fight the climate crisis - Trump just added a big extra dose of reason, by being unreasonable…:) www.ft.com/content/e9c9...