The Climate Change Act did not give the UK the world's highest power prices, it was policy mistakes by successive governments. Tomorrow @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social will say she wants to repeal it. I will support any #Turquoise candidate that challenges her for @conservatives.bsky.social leadership.

Good morning with good news: India's solar & wind additions skyrocketed 123% to 20.1 GW in April to August 2025, compared to 9 GW in same period in 2024. India added 17.5 GW of solar & 2.6 GW of wind. India starts its fiscal year on April 1. www.pv-magazine-india.com/2025/09/30/i... #energysky

Fossil fuel dependency = energy inflation. The solution = renewables.

We are in the foothills of a solar-wind-battery civilisation. This is our best chance of avoiding catastrophe. But it threatens the profits of fossil fuel companies & nations - so these are pouring money into right-wing populism to stop the transition. This seems to me the biggest story in politics.

Yeah - a depressing truth about this parliament is that the 2024 Labour intake is really strong - it just coincides with a deeply vapid moment in our politics, including from Labour's own leadership.

New post: "Identity Crisis" Labour keeps trying to appeal to a lost white working class vote + alienating middle-class grads / ethnic minority voters that are a much bigger part of their coalition. Why? And how can they rebuild their coalition more effectively? open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...

We are in the foothills of a solar-wind-battery civilisation. This is our best chance of avoiding catastrophe. But it threatens the profits of fossil fuel companies & nations - so these are pouring money into right-wing populism to stop the transition. This seems to me the biggest story in politics.

There are a lot of gas-fired power projects in the world that should have been solar+storage projects. This shortage should and could prompt a rethink. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The anti-renewable lobby (Reform & Tories) is condemning the UK consumer to higher bills, our industry being less internationally competitive & the NHS, schools & the social sector to less money spent in meeting need. Climate chaos means every choice to remove carbon benefits everyone.

Business has paid a lot to support decarbonisation and sustainability. Invested tens of billions. Most of it under Tory-led governments. And now the party is saying it was all a waste, and pointless? Just not serious people.

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Margaret Thatcher knew that climate change was real, that it would mean far reaching changes to our way of life decades ago. And now we are living with those changes, her successor has turned against science and reason. As much as anything it's a betrayal of modern conservatism.

Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be an act of national self-harm🚨 It inspired laws across the globe, billions in green investment, and a promise to protect future generations🌱 That promise must not be broken⛓️‍💥 Read more👇 www.wcl.org.uk/ripping-up-c... #ClimateChangeAct

And if no @Conservatives MP challenges her by Xmas, I will resign from the party after 28 years as a member. I know what it means to be a conservative, even if others do not. We have a responsibility to people, planet, the vulnerable and future generations.

Do not listen to populists with magical realism solutions to high energy prices. Do not copy the US, which is about to see huge energy inflation. It is possible to get power prices down and to make rapid, affordable progress towards Net Zero(ish). about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

Morally vacuous, economically illiterate, performatively ignorant. And this is being polite about Kemi Badenoch and her Scorched Earthism.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

The first of what I expect to be many non-partisan confirmations of US democratic backsliding and our new status as a competitive authoritarian hybrid regime.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

Dr. Jane Goodall, who will be remembered as an advocate for animals and a renowned chimpanzee researcher, died due to natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute announced. nbcnews.to/48bAFgj

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved." "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall was the best of us.

Problem faced. Policy applied. Policy worked. Politics can work.

*Crosses off ‘Fellowship of the Royal Society’ as a life goal*.

Elite cowardice in the face of fascist oligarchs, Royal Society version. They should have expelled Elon Musk. Instead, the weakest of mild criticisms.

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal. This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

apparently you can't say he flirted with Hitler Youth when he was a schoolboy and reportedly sung Nazi songs, so what about when Nigel Farage was 53 years old and addressed a far-right rally at the invitation of a Nazi minister's granddaughter?

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”

MW correctly reading the room

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

London #EFW heat project designated as 'nationally significant' www.circularonline.co.uk/news/london-...#EFW#Cory

Jürgen is correct. Any historian of Germany in the 30s recognizes this language and approach instantly: the "enemy within" consisted of Social Democrats, Jews, Poles, Gyspies and Gays. Their eradication was sought and to a horrendous extent accomplished.

Fills ya with patriotic pride, dunnit.

Doubtless this is ethically sound and totally sustainable.

It’s just possible that the Labour voices who urged Khan to ditch Ulez expansion after the Uxbridge by-election were not, after all, strategic geniuses.

Climate tech is moving from “nice to have” to “smart capital allocation.” BCG found: 55% of low‑carbon tech is already cost‑competitive (or soon), + another 10% is only marginally pricier. Companies pursuing green growth (2016–2024) earned higher revenue valuations. www.bcg.com/publications...

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There are faces you want to slap and then there are faces you want to blast into deep space and Mike Johnson belongs somewhere in Alpha Centauri.

If only there was some way to know if Farage is a Moscow stooge?

How can you negotiate with Republicans in Congress to fund the government when as soon as you reach an agreement you know that Trump’s OMB director will just withhold the funds?

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.” Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

It's amazing: Chat GPT has 100% nailed the mind of a Fox News anchor.

"What Trump and Hegseth want, in a way, is to turn the US military into an institution more like ICE: an internal police force, unconstrained by many laws or norms, bullying and intimidating people here at home on behalf of the current administration in Washington." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

US taxpayers face billions in new fossil fuel subsidies from recent legislation, granting $40B to oil and gas. #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Environment

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further. They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...