'Baroness Campbell, a crossbench peer and leading opponent, previously said: “My task as a member of the House of Lords … will be to ‘amend, amend, amend, amend, amend’ so it becomes so tight that anyone would find it difficult to get [assisted dying].' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The headlines have this wrong. We should be celebrating the investment, enabling green energy to be better distributed! Doing nothing would make the bills even higher (£80 increase vs the proposed £30). #renewableenergy #cleanenergy #nationalgrid #electrotech www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...

This Budget was undoubtedly a progressive one. The combination of tax rises and giveaways since last year’s Budget means that incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution rise by 1.0 per cent while incomes for the richer half fall by 0.7 per cent. But beneath the surface...

Another fantastic episode from Armando & co, and the delightful Natalie Haynes. Highly recommended listening 👍

This Government has hugely increased public spending, which will have large in-kind benefits for households. Families across the income distribution will benefit, but poorer households will benefit more as they use public services more, and these represent a larger proportion of their income.

Oddly enough despite the ‘toxicity’ alleged in Downing Street, Labour continue to deliver time and again every single day. These 11 are all announcements from this week. Impressive no?

There is a quiet revolution happening across the vast content of #Africa – imports of solar PV panels jumped 60% in the 12 months to June 2025 🌍☀️ Just Have a Think's Dave Borlace dives into more detail using Ember's Africa solar piece ⬇️

What’s more expensive: investing in renewables, or dealing with the £38 trillion annual cost of unchecked climate damage? The numbers in this piece are… sobering ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Lord Farmer said the #AssistedDyingBill is 'an atheist bill that assumes there is nothing after death.' If you hold a religious belief that means you do not want an assisted death, you have every right to live – and die – by that conviction. What you don’t have is the right to impose it on others.

John Major on Brexit.

Vince Gilligan, the showrunner behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is back, this time using sci-fi to explore a deceptively rich premise about the pursuit of happiness and the notion of utopia, finds Bethan Ackerley

Emerging markets are gearing up to leapfrog to a better energy system using electrotech. 👉 63% of emerging markets leapfrogged the US in solar share 👉 ASEAN and Bangladesh surpassed the US in electrification of final energy demand #COP30 #ElectrotechRevolution https://loom.ly/3w1t6MY#COP30

An obvious attempt to undemocratically derail a bill which has already faced more scrutiny than any other private member’s bill in recent history. This is a compassionate, popular reform that the public overwhelmingly supports. Lords should be careful not to undermine the will of the Parliament.

Loved this, back in the day. Taught plot, great acting (and fitness!), and a thumping soundtrack... Will have to dig out the DVD and give it another go. Five stars indeed 👍

New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-erosio...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Excellent practical guidance and advice from Tim & Kat. The misinformed will probably look elsewhere anyway 😃 #Solar #ElectroTech #GreenTech #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition

"There's been a long running campaign by Boris Johnson and many on the right to either neuter the BBC, or completely destroy it altogether." @goldbergradio.bsky.social is joined by @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny Reform UK Ltd rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy By Brian McHugh @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @brianmchugh.bsky.social

Happy #WorldKindnessDay! A great quote from one of my heroes👍

Sky at Night always used to have an early repeat - and we're back, with our collaboration with the Curious Cases team on at 7pm tomorrow on BBC4. Please watch if you possibly can - support your local science program! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Global Energy Review 2025 – Analysis - IEA share.google/kjLIaqQU7BCg...

"Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels “inevitable”..." #RenewableEnergy #ElectroTech #EnergyTransition #EverythingElectric #CleanPower www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Reagan’s words about tariffs are going viral after Trump’s insistence that they are “fake” created a “Streisand Effect”

Albania PM visiting the UK "You left the EU because you wanted less boats (immigration), you have more boats (immigration)." And worse economy, higher food prices, higher energy prices, dirtier water... Are there any benefits? No not for you.

Humanists are non-religious people who shape their own lives in the here and now because we believe it's the only life we have. A lot of people share humanist values without even knowing the term. Maybe you're a humanist! Find out by taking our quiz today. humanists.uk/humanism/how...

Another great "good news" story from Dave Borlace on his "Just Have a Think" channel. Who knew that South America was doing so well with the move to a clean energy future? #JustHaveaThink #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #ElectroTech #NetZero #EnergyTransition youtu.be/T-Ycf_myD98?...

Spotted this story on one of my other feeds - good to hear the positivity in Australia about the transformation to a renewable, sustainable energy system. #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #ElectroTech #NetZero www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Clearing the Air answers all your burning questions about the net-zero transition, with optimistic, data-led insights designed to address misinformation about climate change, says Madeleine Cuff

🇪🇺 "With a click of the fingers, we’re in a new reality. After all these years of grinding struggle, the revolution came almost overnight. The Government accepts that Brexit was a terrible idea and is prepared to say so" https://inews.co.uk/opinion/labour-admits-brexit-terrible-now-time-act-3980338

🇪🇺 Lord Hammond: "And here we are, a relatively small country with a medium sized economy, not in any large block, not a member of any large trading structure, trying to work out how to protect our economy in this new world order."

Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press. Back her petition now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

#India recorded its LARGEST ever increase in both #solar and #wind in the first half of 2025 ☀️🌪️🇮🇳 Solar rose 17 TWh (+25%) and wind 11 TWh (+29%) 📈 Solar growth alone was bigger than demand growth, while wind matched it. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

With all the other major news going on at the moment, and with all the negative nonsense spouted about renewables in the USA, Dave Borlace's latest "Just Have a Think" gives another, better perspective. #JustHaveaThink #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition youtu.be/Tix2HMNcy3Q?...

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.” www.ft.com/content/013e...

We are showing the first episode to a special episode of ZapHeap. It is kind of exciting.

A particularly fabulous episode of my current favourite podcast here - as @aiannucci.bsky.social and @nataliehaynes.bsky.social discuss bad rhetoric, the ghost of Goebbels, the persistence of Cicero and chocolate for Britian. Listen, listen, listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

World seeing the first signs of a ‘critical turning point’ in the clean transition ⚡🌏 The Global Solar Council notes solar and wind are no longer marginal, while the Powering Past Coal Alliance points to the strong economic case for replacing coal with renewables. https://loom.ly/cs-EXxY

Another fine article from @hannahritchie.bsky.social and the good folk at @ourworldindata.org "It’s easy to conflate what we see in the news with the reality of our world, and keeping this mismatch in mind can help you avoid falling into this trap." ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Where indeed is the wall-to-wall media coverage of this Reform politician pleading Guilty to Bribery? Angela Rayner was pilloried across TV, radio, print and socials for weeks just for tax avoidance. BBC News - Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is an important report and I think the recommendations need to be implemented now. We cannot let our institutions be victims to the same interference, mismanagement and political pressures facing scientists and scientific organisations in the USA and other authoritarian regimes.

Awesome! We've still got a long way to go, but the momentum is building! #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EverythingElectric #ElectroTech BBC News - Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Reform Party isn’t just pushing hideous policies on migration. Its anti-abortion wing, shaped by the US Christian right, threatens women’s rights here too. This must be called out and resisted. #ReformParty #WomensRights

This is a great feature on how Community Benefit Societies can advance local renewable energy schemes for the immediate benefit of the people in the vicinity (rather than big multinational corporations). #CleanEnergy #Electrotech #EverythingElectric #RenewableEnergy youtu.be/2KWFsIeVpf4?...

Making topical comedy at bleak news times can be so tough but, in my book, it’s thank heavens for the return of Have I Got News For You, where Ian and Paul work magic to conjure laughs when there are none. Tonight with wonderful Miles Jupp and Sheila Hancock - and me trying to host. 9pm on BBC One.

I listened to all ten episodes of this new history podcast in a couple of days. There's no narrator - the story is told with the accounts of those involved. I couldn't stop listening once I'd started. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...