Cutting heat pump subsidies is incredibly short termist. We need to build up a supply chain of people who can install heatpumps - and all the associated work (e.g. better insulation) - yet the government is cutting this spending just to get a short term cut in energy bills.

Spain’s rapid deployment of wind and solar energy has slashed the influence of expensive gas and coal plants on electricity prices by 75% since 2019..... As a result, the country is now one of the cheapest electricity markets in Europe. theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...

The courts are being weaponised to silence survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Our new report sets out the urgent changes needed to protect them, including universal anti-SLAPP legislation to ensure no voice goes unheard. Read the report ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...

The Prime Minister's position is that either: A. The Guardian lied about being briefed by Downing Street, OR B. Starmer's own staff are lying to him about whether they did that briefing. How on earth can he think this is a sensible position?

Britain is long term getting more liberal. And most people dislike Farage. So it's baffling how many politicians are cowering in fear about Reform. Less baffling that they are too gutless to stand up for what they believe in.

The good news is that we are around peak carbon emissions - because increasing energy demand is being matched by wind & solar. The bad news is that we aren't rolling out these great technologies fast enough.

Ireland's media regulator has launched an investigation into X It has good reasons to suspect X is not meeting its legal obligations to run a legally compliant complaints system in Ireland. It is not giving users who report unlawful content the chance to appeal www.cnam.ie/coimisiun-na...

Energy abundance.... Electricity is almost free at 3am if you have a battery. cc @jamesomalley.co.uk @mjrobbins.com

Liberal Democrat MPs have today tabled a motion in Parliament to remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. Robbie Gibb was appointed by Boris Johnson, he was an editorial adviser to GB News and a director of communications for Theresa May. He is not neutral or impartial.

Newly-elected Lib Dem president @joshbabarinde.bsky.social tells me he'll be "the last line of defence against Reform". The Eastbourne MP plans to "campaign hard" to offer "solutions of hope and optimism that bring our communities together rather than tear them apart".

I'm slightly upset to discover that the new blues singer I have just discovered is generated by AI. open.spotify.com/track/3Zx7E8...

The fundamental problem: you can't have an anti globalisation/migration, pro tech/innovation/growth policy. You can have investment in UK citizens/industrial policy alongside those approaches but UK can't do anti-globalisation growth. We've proven this. And "contribution" isn't some magic wand.

The Prime Minister talks the talk on supporting an independent BBC, but he refuses to walk the walk. Robbie Gibbs must go.

London's enormously delayed new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains have been immediately withdrawn because of issues one of them had with stopping in the rain.

The biggest news this week that hasn't been reported: We now have the technology to cut carbon emissions by 75%. We can spend the next 10 years just deploying this technology - which usually saves money now - while we find solutions for the remaining 25%.

British government buying Twitter is an interesting idea. The BBC buying Twitter would be a hilarious and brilliant idea.

Despite governments retreating there is very good news on climate change: Technologies now mean that we are seeing a switch away from carbon. Not fast enough - but we now have most of the tools that we need.

To stop Britain going the way of America, we need to protect the BBC. The BBC, with other public service broadcasters like ITV, is critical to making sure our society doesn't fragment into polarised groups.

"The BBC belongs to Britain." "We cant allow the Trumpification of our politics and our media landscape." @munirawilson.bsky.social

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

1/ Pretty amazing new results showing an unexpected benefit of mRNA vaccines. Patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy survived almost twice as long. jenndowd.substack.com/p/can-mrna-v... #episky #medsky #cancer

This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it? The answer is annoying. Thread:

Britain isn't polarised like America. More than anything that's because of the BBC. So when we see people attacking it, that's often because they want us to be more like America.

Two fascinating nuggets from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com that have largely been missed: 1. Young people *less likely* to say 'don't know' in political polls - does this indicate better knowledge from social media compared to previous generations? 2. Young women are more confident in their opinions...

So New York billionaires are going to flock to UK to escape wealth tax, says The Times despite The Times saying repeatedly that billionaires are fleeing Britain to escape wealth tax. It’s almost like they’re just making this shite up! 🤡 www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Former Labour Mayor of Lambeth joins Liberal Democrats

Brexit has been an economic disaster. If the government is too scared to say that and to take action, it will make it much harder for us to recover. That means lower wages, worse public services and higher prices.

Labour knew that they were making impossible promises to keep last year. Or if they didn't, it was incredible delusion.

The Greens think that they could persuade Putin to give up his nuclear weapons. How exactly? By hypnotising him?

Welcome to our latest London Lib Dem councillor - the former Labour Mayor of Lambeth and councillor for Stockwell East, Tina Valcarcel! She joins former Labour voters who are disappointed with the government and joining us across London everyday

“One longtime Westminster veteran suggested that given the number of scandals around sexual harassment, assault and bullying around government and parliament, it would be better “if everyone brought less of their whole selves” to work, stressing the importance of boundaries instead.”

Exclusive: Officials are urgently trying to establish whether a £36m purchase of Russian aircraft breached the UK's sanctions regime The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Eight child abusers were jailed today. 8 child sexual predators who had been operating in areas such as Gravesend, Gillingham, Swanley, & Margate jailed for a combined 100 years. This managed not to be the top story on repeat for BBC, itv or sky News. I wonder why. #bbcbias #itvbias #skybias

Thought-provoking segment on ITV News this eve re immigration and social cohesion. My takeaway is @sathnam.bsky.social's comment: "What we've got in Britain is the most successful multicultural living in the world" (That, and chicken tikka kebab)

Think there's something particularly dispiriting about the Greek governments various moves against climate change initiatives because if your country routinely bursting into flames each summer doesn't drive it home, what will?

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

Cities are the crowning achievement of mankind. A clean, safe city is the best possible place to live.

While Tesla is betting the farm on robots, it turns out that one of the biggest robotics companies (iRobot - who make the roomba) is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. www.therobotreport.com/irobot-reven...

18% of people in Britain identify as "woke" 18% of people identify as "anti-woke" 43% as neither 19% don't know what the terms mean [that was half in 2020] Kings Policy Institute latest study shows that the polarised tribes remain vocal minority segments, but perceptions of division are rising

Which one is more English?

An interesting question I'd like to see answered: Is China starting to run out of things to invest in that have a decent return? On @jessedjenkins.com podcast it was suggested that Chinese infrastructure spending (and therefore global steel & concrete demand) is slowing/ falling because they...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

“More people could have died in the past week in El Fasher, and this is without hyperbole, than died in the past two years in Gaza,” says Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, who joins Mehdi remotely.” zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Raising income tax by 2p and cutting basic rate national insurance by 2p is a perfectly decent policy. But it’s almost all the political pain of just raising income tax 2p, but for *considerably* less revenue. It risks being too clever by half.

#BBCNews - #Sudan's life-saving community kitchens on verge of collapse www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

North Cornwall Lib Dem MP Ben Maguire tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social: “Racism has absolutely no place in our country, or in Cornish politics. Giles should resign immediately. If the Conservatives want to prove they are serious about tackling racism, they must remove the whip from her if she doesn’t"

‘Best way to describe the market is bonkers’ on.ft.com/4qK7lV3

Whenever Reform are in control, their first instinct is to go after the most vulnerable. If this is what happens when they run a council, just imagine them running the country.

Killer anti Bill Gates quote from ex UN Climate Chair Christiana Figueres "It's not surprising that people from the computing industry think in binary".