Not much of an advert watcher but the World Cup is on so... Nissan Qashqai - Defy Ordinary. Guys, you've been the number one selling car in the UK for like 10 years, every other car on my road is a Qashqai, literally no one thinks they are "defying ordinary" by buying one.

Good to see a Labour MP speaking up about this. The widespread failure of reporting has important negative consequences for safety because so many of the people riding these do not even realise the thing they are riding is illegal. News media should be helping inform people.

Would definitely advise any Russians in Russia to try this, it's really easy and definitely no risk of poisoning or burning to death. Whatever liquid you end up with, share it out as widely as possible, no worries about sticking it in any car, they'll burn anything without problems.

Wow, England's potential path to the final looks like it's gone from Brazil and Argentina to Norway and Egypt/Switzerland/Colombia within a couple of days.

Sorry, but someone secretly giving you £5M is not "making money".

“I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm.”

Well this is a game.

Walmart Canada is a bit of a harsh nickname to give Norway.

Been watching Haaland and honestly I've seen grazing cows move with more speed and urgency. He almost broke into a jog a couple of minutes ago. I feel sorry for his marker whose main task is not being asleep for the inevitable moment when he gets a chance to bang one in from 20 yards.

Obviously France deserve to win but that was complete rubbish. An xG of 0.6 other than the penalty. I've been thinking that France are massive favourites the entire tournament but there's been a couple of matches which show that against a good defence they might struggle.

Microblogging is Candy Crush for people who like talking too much. If Candy Crush bombarded you with racism and the owners refused to stop it we'd ban it. Acting like X is a vital civilisational bulletin board rather than a petty vice for the terminally online is obscuring that fact.

Good interview with Ferrari's boss for the F1 fans. Seems a bit of a difference between what Ferrari are saying about their chances this weekend and the actual results so far.

Did some digging on Jan Paul van Hecke across every club he's played for. Brighton, Blackburn, Heerenveen, and the Netherlands. Fan forums, Dutch pundit columns, scouting reports. Here's what came back 🧵 1/16

This is the most embarrassing self-destruction since SpaceX tried to launch their last rocket.

Do need to wonder whether European club football is not entirely the colour blind meritocracy it claims to be.

Look how cute this is!

Jane doing such a great job collecting all the receipts from these scumbags:

This is the lowest of low bars. Being the best England squad at penalties is like being the best at snooker at 3am after 10 pints.

Good thread. We should see rollout of AC as an opportunity to boost both heat pump adoption and peak solar demand in a way that should be widely popular (because who doesn't like AC?).

Nothing about renewable energy, electrification, public transport, tackling pollution from farming, rewilding, access to nature and parks... What kind of "green" party is that?

Maybe a small thing this government has done but the kids' secondary school just responded to the government's changing of rules on branded uniforms and it looks like we're going to be saving a fair bit of money from not having to buy half a dozen expensive bits of school uniform.

Happy for Canada but it's just a shame they couldn't get the paint stains off their shirts before such a momentous game.

Good to see that they've decided the world cup kickoff times weren't confusing enough so now in addition to a seemingly completely random number of games and selection of start times every day we are also getting some games kicking off on the half hour.

Double rainbow in suddenly quite grim north London. I of course do not have a jacket and am soaked.

Probably not the oldest thing I use regularly but just because I was thinking the other day that this rucksack I still use a lot is almost 30 years old I think.

This is interesting on Li battery recycling. Still involves dismantling the cell but the electrodes can be directly regenerated while intact and put back together into a new battery rather than having to be dissolved and the elements separated.

Oh wow, you can actually do this. I had the Red Dwarf music automatically play in my head.

Ecuador's manager looks like a German exchange student from 1995.

Germany look extremely beatable.

The necessity to tackle climate change is completely bloody obvious and anyone who says otherwise is a fool. Ed is also making sure we get the economic benefits of transition too, with a booming green economy. Prob more to do for oil and gas worker transition: an important part of the 'how'.

100% this. Anyone arguing against aircon is living in a world which has already disappeared both in terms of climate and energy. The government should be pushing grants for reversible AC for houses as much as possible as well.

Mandarin ducks - big fans of the pumpkin seeds I gave them the other day but not so keen on today's nuts and raisins.

Lots of electrification and cuts in hard to decarbonise sectors like steel and industry for this one. Let's get cracking!

Was thinking about this on the way home. Checked the forecast for tomorrow, saw it was "only" 32 and thought "oh, that's fine, I've cycled to work dozens of times on 32 degree days" (been cycling to work about 12 years). Then realised I probably only experienced 32 about 5 times my entire childhood.

A lot of people are dunking on this, and I would just caution: dunk harder this is a terrible take. If the environmentalist left insists we boil the elderly in their homes like lobsters, we'll lose and we'll deserve it.

Great, the energy efficiency police came round last night and turned the lab aircon off. Slow handclap guys, well done you've single handedly solved global warming. Of course now I can't do any work for the next hour while the lab cools down but it's a small price to pay.

Worst set of circumstances for an exciting game there - Ghana know a point gets them through and England know a point leaves them massive favourites to win the group. 0-0

This is an interesting study. Shows that there is potentially 7 years' worth of storage capacity for hydrogen in depleted oil & gas fields and salt caverns in the UK. The salt cavern storage (currently more mature) would not be enough to fully eliminate gas burning for electricity and (1/4)

"I think the UK needs to change in ways that almost no one wants and the EU was getting in the way of those changes. Now, 10 years on there's still no signs whatsoever of public opinion supporting them, but Brexit means we could do them. I am very smart."

Fed some ducks on the way in to work this morning to hear their cute squeaks and get a photo for you lot:

Over £100bn in new private green investment in the UK since the government came to power. We will probably be hearing about "re-industrialisation" vs net zero but there is NO route to re-industrialisation in the UK that isn't clean. The factories will be electrified and so will their products.

Just saw someone leaving Hyde Park who had obviously forgotten to put suncream on the back of their legs and let's just hope they don't have plans to be sitting on leather sofas any time soon. Or possibly sitting down at all.

I just thought that Starmer and Johnson both ran out of people willing to get yelled at for them, Johnson because he might embarrass you by changing his mind 5 minutes later, and Starmer because you didn't really understand why he was doing what he was doing in the first place.

It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵

Kids are so funny sometimes, the 12yo has been walking round saying "fight the power" so I finally got round to putting it on the smart speaker and he's like "oh daddy this is the song I mean, how strange that the speaker played it now!"

Got the best laugh I've got from anyone in ages when my kids were going a million miles an hour at the self service checkout and finally "have you paid for the bags, mummy normally steals the bags" and I was like "yes I know she does but I don't" and the woman next to me just started cracking up.

According to the commentators Morocco organised a friendly against Norway to help them prepare for Scotland and I'm really wondering how thoroughly their scouts have assessed those two teams and how similarly they play.

Interesting article explaining how China has managed to cut its oil imports by 5M barrels per day in response to the Iran war. This reduction in oil demand is only going to accelerate and spread globally, oil is a bad business to be in right now.

Is group B the weakest group in World Cup history? Scarcely believable that likely three of Canada, Qatar, Switzerland and Bosnia are going to make the knockout stages.

This is an acceptable level of stress for an England group stage world cup game. Possibly might be a bit much if it was a semi final.