This checks out

It might have been a mistake to put the dumbest motherfucker alive in charge of the most powerful government on earth.

It never ceases to shock that governments across the world have to pander to this moron.

Wow

2a/ Attribution of costs/savings to different energy generation sources is fiendishly hard due to system pricing & other rules, and rate of electrification. But - very importantly - Spain has decoupled its elec prices from gas as marginal price setter! ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

A big moment. As @rebeccamckee.bsky.social outlines the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk and others have long argued for stronger fiscal devo. The Chancellor's proposals for a roadmap for fiscal devo creates real opportunities for improved economic outcomes.

Looking forward to listening to this

I was interviewed by @coldwarpod.bsky.social on Friday regarding my new book. That episode will be released nearer publication but, in the meantime, do follow them and delve into their archive. Ian is a tremendous host - knowledgable, thoughtful and generous.

Your heart may well not bleed for a neutral civil service, but I guarantee you’ll miss it when it’s gone.

The edited proofs are in. It’s starting to look like a book!

🎞️ Champions League last-16 Memories... The Reds come from behind thanks to Craig Bellamy and John Arne Riise, earning Liverpool a 2-1 away win, in a famous night at The Nou Camp back in 2007 ✊

Maybe there’s a big find waiting out there, nobody knows for sure, but all the evidence suggests it’s pretty unlikely and what’s left will be increasingly expensive to get at.

It’s not just that little can be done by this autumn. Little can be done this side of 2030 and it’s highly probably little can be done, full stop, given the maturity of the N Sea basin. This much shared Carbon Brief graph says it all.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

A reminder that destroying historic/heritage sites is a war crime. It is, to put it bluntly, a terrorist tactic, deployed by deplorable groups such as the Taliban (Bamiyan Buddhas) and ISIS (Palmyra).

Boys and Girls in America! My new book will be getting a hardback US release on the 14th July. Pre- orders are available now via the link below. shorturl.at/qCLMd Thanks to @gauthamrao.bsky.social for the nice words

Like almost everything in this subject, Toni’s quote can be interpreted multiple ways. Regardless, the book is available to pre-order below, from your bookseller of choice linktr.ee/4hundredblows

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC. Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators. Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit

"Was Markwayne *really* a name?" one will ask. "Why was Kemi Badenoch?" will ask another. "What did Hegseth put in his hair?" will ask a third.

In decades to come, hundreds of historians will pore over documents from March 2026 desperately searching for, yet consistently failing to find, the tiniest clue as to what in the living fuck was going on.

Safe to say that 2028 growth forecasts are meaningless at this point.

Board of Peace - Season 1

“Hi, it’s me, the guy who blew up the last group of guys I was negotiating with. Would you all be willing to get together, ideally in a compact room above ground under good cloud conditions at daytime to talk this over?”

Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK. Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

This the actual final cover👌 an as I’m helping review edits I’m being freshly reminded how brilliant this book is. Do yourself and @4hundredblows.bsky.social a solid and preorder a copy.

i'm going to pick the following hill to die on: i do not think it is the government's business how grown adults fuck or do not fuck

Important thread

If you’ve not read anything by @4hundredblows.bsky.social before like his brilliant Ruth&Martin’s Album Club blog/book, he’s SUCH good writer.This book is fascinating, fun & about much more than *just* the most studied 6 seconds in history. You won’t regret preordering now especially with discount!

The original War is Hell poster from the Texas Theatre still hangs inside. It’s signed by Tony Russell, one of the actors from War is Hell - “my first movie, Oswald’s last”

Spectacular on-brand birthday present from @pforpapa.bsky.social - an original 1963 lobby card set for War is Hell. Lee Harvey Oswald was watching War is Hell at the Texas Theatre when the Dallas Police arrested him. It’s a terrible film.

The potential of lab grown meat to reduce the harmful environment, labor, and animal welfare impacts of the meat industry are incredible to think about. Much better than AI which is already polluting the air people breathe and eliminating jobs for no good reason

Even better, the right’s rationale against this technology is literally “God doesn’t want us to make it,” but if we started saying that about AI we’d be treated with the utmost contempt

A technology I’m really excited about is lab grown meat, and the right is actually using its state power to prevent this technology from coming to fruition, but there has been far less hand-wringing about that than the organic consumer rejection of AI

Top notch work from @johnrain.co.uk here

Pre-orders help authors massively for loads of reasons, so do Martin a solid & get your order in for his forthcoming book. I haven’t read it yet, but I already know it will be brilliant. Get your order in quickly & you can even get a discount.

I’ve read many books on this subject and often been left with the feeling that I’d been cornered in a pub by a lunatic. I wanted to write something that made the reader feel they were in the company of a friend. I think I’ve done that. I hope you buy it; and enjoy it.

EXTREMELY proud of @4hundredblows for this. Do order a copy - whether you already know anything about the subject or not, it’s a fascintaing and hugely fun read

Exciting news from my man. Sadly though - for all involved - he’s not letting me be the warm up act

This is bollocks of the highest order. Vibe coding doing operating system stuff (computing about computing) is showing promise (but buggy). Vibe coding of anything that has to work with real world data is no less prone to error and hallucination. see garymarcus.substack.com/p/about-that...

“BYD overtakes Ford in global vehicle sales.” Just 5 years ago, Ford sold 5 times as many vehicles as BYD. Chart: bloomberg.com/news/article... -- @kyleichan.bsky.social

I regret the need to use such strong language but every individual who goes to that 'swish party' will know exactly what Palantir does. And they should not be accepting its hospitality - not without being called out.

Word @4hundredblows.bsky.social

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively. All due online by 2029.

Recent @copernicusland.bsky.social Sentinel-2 imagery in False Colour now showing the degraged agricultural land in #Syria near Quneitra where Israel has been spraying herbicide. Images via @obretix.bsky.social

Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.

Ageing societies that don't like leaning in to their areas of comparative advantage or immigrants and feel their first duty is protection whether of individuals or companies are probably not going to be high growth (or as it appears) happy ones.