British politics in all its diversity on the BBC this morning

Next week is London Climate Action Week…

Yes, it's a real Dutch practice called a 'tropenrooster' (literally 'tropical timetable'). When temperatures become high, schools can choose to alter the school day by starting lessons earlier in the morning or shortening lesson periods. And Dutch children wear their own clothes to school 😀

This site is a real time-saver.

The shocking attempted murder in Belfast was used to stoke "reprisals" against with no connection to crime, bar skin colour. Can socialise or trigger violence (along with other factors) Highly assymetric reporting+attention to one-off incidents can significantly skew elite & public perceptions too

A quite funny scenario is where we tip into crude/product reserve depletion chaos by accident because price signals are telling consumers it's over, and politicians move on as they can vaguely wave in the direction of some nonsense MoU and also say it's over. Narrator: it was in fact, not over.

(A substantial evidence review recently found that the odds of being killed if you're hit by an SUV or pickup truck are 44% higher than if you're hit by a smaller car. For children, the odds of dying go up 82% injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/32/1...) 3/10

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

*sickos meme* HAHA YES HOUSES ON A GOLF COURSE

every time a heat wave approaches I want to put together a spreadsheet of old churches that are regularly open, free, and cold might actually do it this time but I will probably need to crowdsource info

They're wind turbines, not windmills. They don't mill anything.

IEA said Iran War created the worst fossil-fuel disruption in history. Price of oil stayed below $150. Why? Biggest reason: China cut its demand by 5 million barrels a day. Some say it's a mystery. But @davidfickling.bsky.social says public data explains it. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Volé sur le fédivers.

The EC is pouring 540 million euro into fertiliser subsidies. In one go. The EU LIFE budget for all ecologically related projects is under 340m euro this year. Nicely captures everything that is wrong with our policies that promote crisis situations instead of preventing them.

High Noon (1952) Going through a Grace Kelly phase (to balance the Monroe centenary binge) and expected this to be just another Western. Dim memory of seeing it as child. But gosh, it’s so politically subversive about civic moral cowardice. As relevant now as it was during McCarthyism.

What's the latest on the inclusion of air to air heat pumps in the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) grants? Is it actually happening yet, or is there more bureaucracy to overcome first? Paging @renewablewriter.bsky.social @richardlowes.bsky.social @acjsissons.bsky.social

Switzerland🇨🇭 has now launched a consultation on implementing its 'right to plug' for EV owners. This will require landlords to install the necessary electrical infrastructure so that renters can install their own EV charging point.

Jensen Huang thinks AI will reshape America in much the same way that the automobile did. And he thinks that's a good thing.

Andy Burnham on net zero and the green economy. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531472...

NEWS: Next Wednesday 24 June – after what's likely to be a closely-watched PMQs – parliament will debate and then vote on the UK's 7th carbon budget, which will target an 87% cut in emissions by 2040 Background on the target here: www.carbonbrief.org/...

wow. that wasn't even close to being close

🚨 | Makerfield Parliamentary By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) ➡️ RFM: 34.5% (+2.7) ⬛ RES: 6.8% (New) 🌳 CON: 2.2% (-8.7) 🌍 GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) 🔶 LDM: 0.4% (-6.4) 🗑️ CBF: 0.2% (New) 🎩 MRLP: 0.1% (New) ⚫ Others (6): 0.3% Labour HOLD. Changes w/ GE2024.

Solar power covers 0.04% of total US land and 0.07% of prime farmland, so everybody just calm down about the land use stuff.

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

This is quite good, and I would really like everyone to meditate on one of the obvious implications, which is that developing domestic renewable energy resources is in virtually every country's self-interest, except for the relatively small handful of economies reliant on oil exports.

UK solar households are set for their biggest weekend this summer solstice. With nearly 17 hours of daylight, the UK's 1.7 million solar homes will collectively generate £12.6 million worth of electricity on June 21st, according to data from E.ON Next. news.eonenergy.com/news/summer-...

Also all of these!! I don’t particularly love that they require proof, I’ve never loved that, but I do love that they do it bsky.app/profile/vivi...

A good tip! Ox Preservation Trust is in charge of a lot of these for Oxfordshire and coordinates closely with many colleges. bsky.app/profile/tani...

Now as we know, I love visiting historic estates and grounds and I know how expensive they are to run and maintain, so I understand and support the entry fees, but I also know those fees are sometimes steep and not everyone has the budget but everyone should have access. Would you like a pro tip?

Beavers good

we seem to imagine that infrastructure can only ever subtract from natural beauty, despite so many examples to the contrary

honestly think the new T shaped pylons will become recognised as a British design classic. they complement the landscapes they sit in so well compared to the old steel lattice design.

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Being on Bluesky is in itself a form of age verification.

NEW ANALYSIS: Amid reports the govt is poised to water down EV targets, the UK's EV drivers are saving more than £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total Plug-in hybrids, which could be pushed to make up for lower BEV sales, save three times less ££ www.carbonbrief.org/...

"In countries trialing bans, we’re already seeing young people feeling more alone, with LGBTQ+, neurodiverse and disabled young people, as well as those from other marginalised groups who rely on online communities for support and connection feeling especially isolated." plan-uk.org/press/social...

My kids' school will be the third one to get a veloctobus. Not sure if they are more excited or me. They want to expand throughout Benelux. Get in touch if it might work for a local school.

Hello! 👋 I'm hoping to raise money for two Bay Area cat rescues. If you post a screenshot of you donating at least $20, I will answer a style-related question for you. But first, let me tell you about the rescues, why they're worthy of your support, and hopefully get you to adopt a cat. 🧵

absolutely nobody asked but, since we’re on the topic: The Bodleian: a library system encompassing several different buildings and collections The Old Bod/Schools Quad: a historic building where many collections were held The Rad Cam: that round one in tourist photos

Last night I dreamt that my train stopped I’m the middle of the night in a giant meccano ferroviale palace, and I watched as freight containers glided slightly past me…. This morning I checked my phone.

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

A very uncomfortable thing to acknowledge is that policymakers need to either force or entice data centers to connect to the grid, and also that data centers can really fuck up the grid. There are not easy answers here, but there are answers, and I'm proud to be at an org that is working on them.

OMG! They held up the NightJet to wait for me!* And now I’ve ended up with an entire cabin to myself! * Apologies to everyone else on the train whose journeys got delayed… 😳

@jonworth.eu @politicanimal.bsky.social Help! I’m on an evening train in Italy which seems to have got stuck somehow. Look’s like I’m going to miss my night train to Vienna. What do I do in this situation? Who’s gonna pay for a hotel room?

Last night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer. I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem. Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.

Here's a question for those who know things about disclosure: does Anthropic's IPO mean they'll have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and energy, as per the GHG protocol? ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...

I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...