Exactly. And this is why using biofuels for aviation is such dangerous policy. We have limited biofuel capacity. Using it to keep planes flying instead of heating homes is a choice that will look insane when the next energy crisis hits. Fly less. Heat homes. It's not complicated.

Streeting has a full review into diagnosis of ADHD and Autism that shows there is no overdiagnosis. But he’s commissioned another in the hope of getting a result that lets him strip people of healthcare. Please consider signing this petition against it: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Returning home from Sheffield, where I saw ‘The Ladies Football Club’ at the Crucible. Great play: brilliant ensemble acting, imaginative choreography, great script and an important story about women’s football (and other issues) at the end of World War 1. Well worth seeing.

And not before time. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo... Superb piece by Mic Wright in praise of the excellent report on the Iran war which was broadcast on the Today programme, yesterday.

Well played Port Vale #magicofthecup

Robert Jenrick is not a serious politician. Why have him on, spouting about ‘vague notions of international law?’

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Interesting to see that Gove reckons Tim Shipman is ‘bias-free’ in his hysterical account of how Starmer was prevented from joining Trump’s mad adventure by Ed Milliband persuading cabinet to vote against him. Shippers Unbound? Unhinged, morelike.

Monbiot absolutely on the money here.

All the news outlets reporting Trump’s deranged comments about Starmer as if this was a comment from someone whose judgement we should respect. Why normalise this insanity?

Haha. Me too. How could they not know?

@wastefulsavant.bsky.social Alright Ash?

Elections should be about deciding what's best for your community and for the country. They shouldn't be about trying to guess who's best placed to stop the outcome you fear the most. What we're seeing in Gorton and Denton shows very clearly why we need Proportional Representation.

Great away night tonight. Great company before the game, and then a brilliant atmosphere in the away end throughout the game. Battling performance by the team. We may lack attacking threat, but everyone put proper shift in and we finally look like we are being properly coached, defensively at least

Remember: their first scandal was about taking free tickets and designer gear, and their response was to tell everyone to fuck off, because they deserved all the free stuff. It didn’t occur to them to moderate their behaviour, because they’d always had free rein to behave as badly as they wanted.

Most people’s cars are just too damn’ big. Who really needs an SUV, 4x4, urban tank?

Shakespeare, as ever, timeless and totally relevant. McKellen, as ever, magisterial.

What "core British values" has "the left" not defended? Can someone ask this sentient fucking saucepan what he means?

The first commentary on the G&D by-election campaign which analyses the seat, and current fantasy polling with a degree of knowledgeable distance. Long, but worthwhile read.

Compare the fates of Rebecca Long-Bailey & Louise Haigh—sidelined for tweeting & misreporting a stolen phone respectively—& The Lord Mandelson, who remains a peer of the realm despite lobbying the govt to change policy for the paedophile Jeffery Epstein. Is there something a bit two tier, here?

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

The Boss

Board of Peace - Season 1

Until recently, we in the UK used to talk about *standing* for election, didn’t we? Now everyone says running, like the Americans. Disappointing.

Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".

That was as stunningly bad as anything I’ve seen since the early 90s. Clearly something seriously wrong. What has happened since Friday?

Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.

Cracking gag, this. Who said the Germans have no sensayuma?

Fascinating story. I often wondered why there were no African sides here in 1966.

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The hapless Chris Mason trying to convince us that ‘no one saw (Jenrick’s defection) coming,’ claiming Reform is attracting so many Conservatives. Nearly all busted flushes Zahawi, Jenkyns, now Jenrick hardly rising stars. Bradley another one desperate for a chance of power. Brainless twats all.

.@gideonrachman is right. This would be the flex. Europe has cards to play. But will it choose to play them?

This is 1000 percent correct! "Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US" | Alexander Hurst www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Cracking game, this #MACPAL

I had forgotten this, but it is consistent with Trump's efforts to pressure Zelenskyy into dangerous concessions to Putin. It should be (yet another) alarm signal to European leaders - Trump's goals in Ukraine may be the opposite of Europe's.

More evidence at just how dumb this current Labour lot are.

Support our public libraries! They do all sorts of good things.

For those interested in what happened to the Labour Party, this article gives a pretty sound account.

Eh up, ya buggers! Wishing you all a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. 2025 was pretty crap in lots of ways, but, as they sang some 28 years ago, Things can only get Better! All the best to all of you xxx

This flu bug is an utter bastard. Thoughts with everyone who has been laid low by it. Love and peace xx

Why be cruel to animals, when you can be cruel to humans instead?

Feliz Navidad? Yeah, we’d love to bring the boy here, just trying to get the deal sealed before midnight

Bad luck, Palace

So I’m watching Steelers v Lions in the NFL American football thingy. I have noticed some nifty bits of play, but tbh I still don’t really understand what’s going on. But I am persevering.

@rufust.bsky.social I think you might find this interesting.

Absolutely astonishing that Starmer & Nandy are silent on this. Are they really such cowards?

Well, that was a load of bloated bollocks #fifaworldcupdraw