Data centres need joined up planning, to contain the collateral impacts. One thing I would do is require them all to provide for their own annual power needs - through a new build green energy project. And re use cooling water of course - or harness it for local heating. We have options.

My council. Quite irritating

When election after election produces the same distorted outcomes, local elections can start to feel less like a meaningful expression of voters’ choices and more like a lottery shaped by the quirks of the voting system. electoral-reform.org.uk/voters-in-en...

In 'Multiculturalism rocks, OK' news today: Bristol elects its first Somali Lord mayor today - a bloke who came here as a refugee and now serving in city's highest ceremonial role. Something to celebrate

The UK being 2nd in the Climate Change Performance Index should be seen one of this government's long term legacies. One of these things that nobody has shouted much about, but a sign that things have actually got better on one of the most important issues of our day.

Burnham has been successful on buses, health and homelessness, to a varying extents. His performance has helped establish the argument for more devolution. It's fascinating to see MPs focus exclusively on fluff, as if actual politics doesn't exist.

Counter: none of them are useless and Miliband in particular has run one of the most successful departmental operations we've seen since in years, with profound consequences for the planet itself.

I was supposed to be on national radio tomorrow talking about my book, but I’ve been bumped due to the developing situation in Westminster. You’d think some people would want a break from the developing situation in Westminster.

We just won a landmark case to protect one of Europe’s most important marine sanctuaries: the Dogger Bank. 💫 The court ruling sets a precedent for governments across Europe and sends a clear message: protected must mean protected.

Let's get statistically sea-nificant 🧊 6 - the number of Poland-sized areas of Arctic sea ice lost in March 2025 Image: Sea ice in North of Svalbard. Credit GRID-Arendal / Peter Prokosh (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

When you think about it, JFK really died of Addison’s Disease.

This is why climate justice and social justice as the same thing. Energy bills breaking you? What if we gave you insulation so you didn’t need as much fuel to safely heat your home, and/or cleaner cheaper energy too. Saves us money (importing less gas), saves the NHS money, buildings last longer.

True story

Reform are tending to secure larger gains in areas that are older, have lower levels of educational attainment, and voted for Brexit.

NEW | On the media assault against the Greens and one person in particular… POLANSKI IS PAINTED AS A MONSTER WHILE FARAGE ESCAPES PROPER SCRUTINY The same old playbook is in action. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/polanski-i...

Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social speaks to @johnrain.co.uk in a @smershpod.com special about his book "The Umbrella Man"- which sounds like not the sort of book you'd expect about the JF Kennedy assassination shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...

*over the last eight years. Wonder how many people seeing the front page will realise that.

I see so many guys like this. They've been raises in racist patriarchy, trained to be selfish & imperious toward other people, but then they reach a stage of life where they have no power & no one *has to* put up with their shit ... so no one does. And they are utterly at sea.

This is going to kill a lot of trees. If you see a “spring maintenance” or “mulching and weeding” day coming up at a tree planting organisation near you, JUMP ON IT. Everyone wants to plant the tree, but barely anyone wants to help keep them alive. Maintenance is more important than planting.

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Don’t agree. Story-telling is the most powerful force on earth. Educating cultural leaders about security is a good idea. Using the power of story to help defend our freedom and democracy is a good idea. And no writer or film-maker has to accept an invitation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of Lee Harvey Oswald’s wedding. On the morning of 22/11/63 he left his ring, and $170 in cash, on his wife’s dresser and left for work. The ring is now in the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, a few feet away from the so called Sniper’s Nest

Subsidising energy consumption in the face of both a short-term supply shock and the long-term need to decarbonise. Bad for the economy, bad for the planet, bad for the world's poor. And *if* you favour a wealth tax (I am sceptical but there's a case) spending it on *this" is just idiotic.

Endorse all of this

A piece I wrote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social, on the mystery of a missing witness to the JFK assassination www.thenewworld.co.uk/martin-fitzg...

@4hundredblows.bsky.social I've been interested in the Kennedy assassination for years and your book was exactly the book I wanted to read on the subject! Made me feel like I was in Dealey Plaza that day & the stories are all so fascinating!

As it happens - this £1.2 billion value to our economy from carbon credits - is exactly the same size as our fishing industry. Fishing of course is an un sustainable industry in decline - carbon credits are the polar opposite, a new green industry inexorably on the rise..:) buff.ly/EPuD6Yy

Also, just saw that Economist piece on why EU regulation is no good for tech fly past, and I have a controversial different view, which is: seeing as though the US deregulatory model is currently playing merry hell with global democracy and wellbeing *maybe it's not all that* after all?

This was a fun and - as always with @4hundredblows.bsky.social / fascinating watch/listen

"The result was a whole bunch of proposals which sound less like serious science than something out of a film featuring a shadowy organisation called, well, the Human Interference Taskforce...." Of ray cats, atomic priests and nuclear semiotics

I’m in this week’s edition of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. In print or online below - www.thenewworld.co.uk/martin-fitzg...

UK accelerates clean energy to protect against fossil fuel price shocks reut.rs/4sERA1f

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

If he bothered to actually look at Reform properly, he'd know that statement is utter rubbish. It'd get a lot lot worse under them.

Oh yeah, and it’s funny, unique and fascinating - you do not need to know about JFK to enjoy it!

Have touched the book and can confirm it’s feels nice

Anyone who would split over Leo but didn't over Francis is just demonstrating that Trump has taken over their brain. The two Popes aren't saying anything different - it's just who Leo is more obviously saying it *to*.

This Bill isn’t law yet. It now returns to the Lords, and this fight is far from over. (5/5)

Yay😬

I’ve just discovered this Wikipedia page, and it’s like a Rosetta Stone of whatever the fuck young people are on about. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossar...

Open sourcing all the code for their software platforms will be next. And I can’t wait to see what other companies can build from the detailed designs for spaceX hardware, when those are released.

I’m sure they’ll make an immediate start by releasing all employees, contractors and suppliers from IP clauses in their contracts, right?

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Tice should resign if he evaded tax. But all this chicanery would be avoided if all income were taxed at equivalent rates. I can't think why investment in commercial property should get special treatment (or investment income v labour income, for that matter) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

I do think the question of the British Trump misses that Trump is the perfect combination of "(Performatively) Successful, Rich, Evil and Funny" and that is a combination Americans love and British people don't.

Trouble is, for many voters (a majority according to a Lord Ashcroft poll out today), their feelings don't care about your facts.

Also - I think this is really being underplayed - if you are subsidising rich world energy consumption (let alone questions around what you are doing re domestic or business) during a fuel crisis, then you are pushing up developing world energy costs. You are - basically - going to kill poor people

Honestly the idea of just throwing cash at *everyone*, what the fuck do you think that’s going to do to the market when there is a limited supply, what the fuck do you think that will do to inflation, do you have a functioning brain?

The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination with @4hundredblows.bsky.social shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...