If this war shows *anything* it’s how badly needed the transition to renewables is That that conversation has been largely absent from UK media while nonsense like this is published shows just how much the media ownership tail is now waging the dog

Very sensible moves from government to bring forward next renewables auction and permit plug in solar tech. As plenty of people have pointed out bizarre of government to lead on tackling price gouging when measures like this will have much more impact. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Is the most disturbing part of this Hieronymus Bosch / @coldwarsteve.bsky.social mashup Netanyahu somehow having feet for hands? Nope, it’s the whole landscape!

Plug-in solar to become available in UK supermarkets? Given the expense of installing rooftop solar, that’s great news!

I was thinking about that statement "we are going meter intelligence just like water and energy"....and that's why nothing should be a commodity. We shouldn't be metering water, we should be celebrating, sharing, and stewarding it.

A different way of looking at forests. Fascinating interview with Suzanne Simard, one of the ‘hands on deck’ trying to help us collectively deal with the climate crisis (which really needs all of us).

Fascinating histories of historical responses to previous energy shocks. Really does bring home the impact of political choices during times of crisis.

'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3

This is amazing research. I recommend reading the paper. “Coffee waste can be turned into a high-quality insulation material that performs as well as common plastic foam.” “This new material is completely biodegradable, meaning it can break down naturally without harming the environment.”

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about here on Earth, how about adding space monopolies to the list?

Good piece. Whatever criticisms can rightfully be levelled at Starmer as PM, he’s made the right call on not taking Britain into the madness of America & Israel’s war on Iran.

END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security "rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots" Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...

‘Malignant nationalism’ Do they not say that pride comes before a fall, that hubris begets nemesis? Batten down the hatches, if you can, folks. Heck of a crash comin’ round the corner.

I'm out of words here

"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."

These temperature rises are a five alarm fire for our species (and many others). Slowing and ultimately stopping them has to be the work of the rest of our lives. The more people get on board with that work and responsibility, the sooner we can bend the curve and change the trajectory.

Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history. THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.

This’s, I think, what troubles me most about this moment. It’s that we’ve probably never had a single historical figure capable of so much damage. There have been plenty of maniacal narcissists before, but this feels off the scale. Hitler didn’t have nuclear weapons, the Internet & dementia on side.

this is like the thesis statement of our times

The "once we hurt them they'll make a deal with us to not get hurt again" hand doesn't seem to know what the "we'll break every deal we make because lol they can't stop us" hand is doing

This is how most high-level politicians see the climate problem. Sufficiency and regulation come up when you ask random citizens, if they are briefed by experts.

Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks get on a journey down river as the African Diner takes in music from around the River Congo. This time for 2 hours, join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on March 5, from 22:00 (UK time) for samples of Congo music. ttns.uk

"Journalists cannot fully and fairly cover a war this carbon-intensive, destabilizing, and consequential if its climate dimensions are treated as optional add-ons rather than as core fact. " newrepublic.com/article/2073...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” - Margaret Atwood -

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis. It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

Have just #QuitGPT off my phone…

Updated for 2026

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”. They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth. UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.

The main reason UK energy prices are so high is not net zero but the fact the price of gas still sets the price of electricity. Breaking that link should be the priority.

If anyone’s ever read Bulgakov’s ‘The Master & Margarita’, Trump on the world stage reminds me of the Devil in Moscow in that book - an agent of absolute chaos.

This is a really good point about authenticity by Sadiq Khan

This looks like it would be a fascinating event to be involved in. Can’t imagine how on Earth I’d find time + space to fit it in, but interesting looking stuff all the same.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"this machine kills fascists"

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

Since winning the FIFA Peace Prize, Trump has kidnapped the President of Venezuela, threatened war against Denmark, and launched a war against Iran.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

‘Human species at risk from one individual’s profound and obvious cognitive decline’ shocker…

CAN THEY JUST RELEASE THE F’ING FILES before he destroys the whole world 🤯🤯🤯

It is so fascinating how much we're conditioned to revere whistleblowers and how much status we give reformed or reforming bad boys, when it's entirely possible to just *not do the morally dubious thing* anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

Matt Badloss?

Any merit in the drivel I write comes from learning painstakingly how to write essays. To assay - to test - exactly what I thought and knew about a matter. Great essayists - Woolf, Orwell, Bacon, Montaigne, Hazlett - are utter intellectual joys as you read how they test themselves on topics too.

The longer these dangerous ghouls continue as they are, the more 2029 ends up the ‘stop Reform’ election. And yes, for many this will mean biting their tongues while voting Labour (it’s been done before). ‘Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say.’

A very fair point. It’s super hard to do the wok of building for the future when you’re trying to avoid being blown over where you’re standing still on. Still need a sense of direction though.

@tante.cc has written a thorough and well argued rebuttal to Doctorow's LLM defence. Just fantastic! It discusses something I've been trying to put into words: how open source by itself isn't automatically ethical, the harms caused by software need to be considered and addressed.

Fascinating and generous piece from @tante.cc on the ethical dilemmas inherent in technologies, particularly focused on GenAI/LLMs and ‘strawman’ arguments against not using them. #transitionism #DigitalEthics

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.