To pick out just one of the fundamental misunderstandings there, fossil fuels are incredibly inefficient. We throw away 2/3rds, almost 400 exajoules, of our energy budget, mostly just extracting, moving & using fossil fuel, >$4.5 trillion, almost 5% of global GDP. Before anything productive is done!

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

It turns out that the tactic of "dithering for as long as you possibly can and finally being forced taking a decision that makes you look weak, pisses off one side immensely and buys you no credit with the other" is not in fact the secret code to being a successful Prime Minister

Exclusive behind the scenes on the first Amazon-era Bond film.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Is there anything to be said for getting Ken Clarke in?

The dawning of a beautiful day here in Avalon. Photo taken today on Glastonbury Tor. The sun is rising almost centrally now through the archway of St Michael's tower. I was lucky enough to have the place to myself this morning too.

A beautiful and heart-breaking thread.

Next up, what’s the great British public’s view on Streptomyces sp. vs Actinomyces sp.?

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

In Seine.

BREAKING: The Miami GP is at threat of cancellation after doubts surface over the ability of US officials to keep a straight open for safe travel for a sustained period.

A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.

A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.

My youngest daughter felt a bit victimised by her big sister at the weekend so quietly slipped upstairs and rearranged her bookshelves for her. Revenge will no doubt be swift. Pleased to be passing on these pass-ag genes to the next generation.

Our European Service Module solar arrays in orbit🌞 With these solar wings extended, Europe is now powering Artemis II ⚡

Anyway, a Canadian crewmember, the European Service Module, a big American rocket. For all the chequered history of the programme, what a bit of international cooperation. #artemis II

#VisitBritain The Bernie Clifton Suspension Bridge

Niiiiiice 👌

All I can see is:

On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

This seems incredibly cynical, at the very least.

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

another favourite scientific headline, following confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity by observations of the 1919 solar eclipse. "Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry" is a beautiful sentiment. i would have that on a t-shirt

"What's Britain like?" "We remain a relentlessly chipper population, prone to mild eccentricity, binge drinking and casual violence" -- Bill Bailey www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOa...

As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds. Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵 1/

With a Canadian crewmember and a major part of the Orion spacecraft built by Europe, by rights Artemis II should be a poster child for international cooperation in space exploration. I am an absolute space geek but right now I’m just feeling hollow.

With a Canadian crewmember and a major part of the Orion spacecraft built by Europe, by rights Artemis II should be a poster child for international cooperation in space exploration. I am an absolute space geek but right now I’m just feeling hollow.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

It's not designed to be repaid, it's designed to extract 9% of salary above the threshold for your entire working life, and considerably more than that if you did anything remotely more spicy than the standard 3 years (*waves in vet med*). A tax the wealthy can buy their way out of is quite a thing.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

I imagine Lt Col ‘Mad Jack´ Churchill - DSO & Bar, MC & Bar - wouldn’t let a little thing like being dead stop him from pulling it off. Almost unfair on an invading force, really. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ch...

My daughter keeps a small penknife in her wash bag which was picked up on X-ray at Disneyland Paris (we stayed on-site) & caused fuss. She's a chip off the old block though & they failed to spot my identical one. In fact their hit rate was 1:4 after repeated scanning.

Bombadil (2025)

"He's not going to win a Nobel Peace Prize doing that"

How I’m turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

One room in the house has been heated to roughly the surface temperature of the sun. More tea?

Foolishly decided to watch England play cricket again.

The engraved panels on the base make it look like a primary school sports day participation trophy. Did they have it done at Timpsons?

Tax on people who go to lane swimming and then swim very slowly two abreast so they're hard to get round without swimming into people coming the other way, having a bit of a chat