Wow, good job I'm going to a pub with no TV.

Your party have voted with the Tories to block this bill in the Lords you massive hypocrite. That's why it's being watered down. Will you vote for it now?

Pretty sure this will make the UK the first major producer of oil and gas to do this. A few other countries have already but they produce negligible amounts.

Spurs have registered three of the lowest five xG across all matches in the PL this season. What a stat.

Good use case for hydrogen fuel cells:

Lots of university people on my timeline implicitly assuming very high elasticity of demand for university courses from foreign students and I'm not sure the evidence for that is great.

Feel like Frank could be out by end of Jan looking at our fixtures between now and then.

Sure glad we got rid of Ange for this.

This one is about a bus lane:

Have people never watched Trump before? Half my timeline is like "Mamdani is so good with Trump". HE DOES THIS WITH EVERYONE! Oh he sawed a journalist into pieces or bombed his neighbour's capital for 3 years - "He's a great guy, I think we can do some great things together"

Try to imagine what has happened here. The front page of the Telegraph in November. England doing well in the Ashes. Christmas gift and recipes special. Front page Boodles advert. Tories could win 14 seats at the next election.

So, you know, there’s the means of production. And I said well, you should seize it. And he said, sir, we’re going to seize it right now. He was very nice, very kind, and you know the bourgeoisie are not good people. Very bad people.

This is a really important article. The most interesting part is pt 2 where the natural experiment of a bridge closing to motor traffic resulting in a reduction in congestion and an increase in economic activity is quantified. But for anyone interested in very British dysfunction pt 1 is also good.

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Worth remembering that amid all the doom and gloom amazing advances in medical science saving millions of lives are still being made all the time.

This thread is substantially more positive than the Guardian write-up of this report. Stabilised failing services, sustained increases in funding, focus on capital investment all listed as positives. Plus points out there are still over 3 years for improvements from increased funding to be seen.

Study engineering at uni kids:

Good to see Odobert on this ahead of some big names.

Worth noting that lots of these things have been illegal since legislation brought in by the last Labour government in 2008 but have somehow required a new Labour government 17 years later to stop them.

Expanding this to air-to-air heat pumps - which can also provide air conditioning in summer - is a great move. Summer electricity is getting extremely cheap due to the rise in solar so this will give people a great cheap improvement in living standards as well as decarbonising winter heating.

Good thread on the history of climate science demonstrating well how long we've known about the potential for burning fossil fuels to cause climate change (over 150 years).

Oh good, we're talking about immigration again <logs off, throws phone onto bonfire>

Lmao, absolutely pathetic drama queens. Love the ridiculously clichéd "we're not against bus lanes but". If anyone wants to say how much they love bus lanes and improved pedestrian crossings (which they sadly didn't have space to mention on this leaflet) the consultation is here:

Just realised, as if my timeline wasn't miserable enough, the Ashes starts next week! They could at least wait until everyone has stopped dooming about the budget.

Guy just got into the lift with music on speaker and luckily he was only going up one floor which is not long enough to murder someone.

Excellent thread on the progress of the clean energy transition detailed in the IEA report (despite fossil fuel interests and Trump putting in spurious scenarios to confuse matters). Worth reading down to the bottom because there are some important graphs, particularly:

Three incredibly stupid things on the timeline today: -Trump BBC story -Oh no we've accidentally killed James Bond -American getting a flight from Dublin to Paris via London and thinking this says something about the UK Glad to see we've alighted on the last one.

Extremely bullish from Ember. This is probably the most important thing going on in the world right now, not that you'd know it from the news.

Man, I love Squeeze. Definitely up there with the group of bands that define a certain kind of Englishness - the Kinks, Blur, some of the Beatles.

This is always important to remember:

Ed Miliband is entirely right about this. There are legitimate critiques of specific climate policies, but much of the criticism is either scientifically illiterate denialism or ‘it’s just too hard’ defeatism - and often it’s both. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Feels like this could be an interesting story. I don't think Saudi would be undercutting Russian oil because they're big friends of Zelensky.

Good write up (in The Sun of all places!) of various government-backed schemes to train people into the low carbon energy sector. Focuses on ex-military in this article but some of the schemes mentioned are broader than that.

Proud of the wide support the Curriculum and Assessment Review has attracted from across the educational spectrum. Labour wants to set up our children for tomorrow. The work of @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and colleagues is an essential step forward in securing standards and opportunity.

How today's #science is going:

The intellectual rationale for the Conservative and Reform attacks on net zero are based on the objectively false assumption that the world's largest and most influential economies aren't investing billions and billions of dollars in the clean energy transition.

This was a couple of days ago but seeing as there's been some grumbling on here about Labour's commitment to green issues, they are still strongly behind the clean energy mission and progressing well with it.

Growing up were any moments in movies that traumatised you? When I was 6 or 7 the half term holiday club took us to the cinema. They were supposed to take us to a Disney film (I forget which one). Instead they took us to:

Have these guys ever actually achieved anything except wasting taxpayers' money on their various legal challenges? Even if they "win" here what on earth does anyone think is going to happen?

Easy to forget with all the doom and gloom around but we are among the luckiest, most peaceful humans ever to have lived in this country right now.

Oh wow! When I shared the clip of the PM taking time out from answering climate question from young people to tell us about COP30, I had no idea the young people didn't know the PM was going to be part of the session. Here is a clip from the wider discussion - look at the surprise on their faces!

The Employment Rights Bill is back in the Commons this afternoon. It follows the Lords making amendements to the bill AGAIN, many of which water it down. Labour have been working to see compromises on more minor amendments (eg hertitage railways) but are standing firm on key measures. 1/2

open.substack.com/pub/geoffmul... A lot of very important points in a short post

It makes me laugh that the area where I now live - Alexandra Palace - in the mid 90s when I was about 15 I got attacked by a group of kids in the street in broad daylight. The concept of that occurring now just seems completely inconceivable. Obviously the area has changed but it's not just that.

Don't know if I have many foodie followers but we're having a little discussion about whether halloumi and falafel wraps are a London innovation or whether they exist in the countries where halloumi and falafels come from. Any ideas?

My driving opinion is there should be straight on indicators so that you can tell who's actually going straight on and who's just a lazy selfish bastard who can't be bothered to literally lift a finger to let everyone else know where they're going.

Chiefs - Bills live on free TV in the UK! I need to buy whoever does the programming for Channel 5 a beer! #NFL

First record bought by myself with my own money - Head by the Jesus Lizard on tape, £4.59 from Tower Records in Picadilly Circus, London, in 1994.

Maybe baseball this time?

"So Paul, what did you do with your rare Saturday evening with no responsibilities or commitments?" "Very productive, I drank a bottle of wine and added about 20 techno songs to my "good songs" playlist"