One Earth Solar Farm has been approved, and will be the 2nd largest solar farm in the UK The decision comes a week after approving the mega Peartree Hill and Dean Moor solar farms It's the 30th nationally significant clean energy project approved by Govt since July 2024. Enough to power 19m homes.

Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

Well done @stellacreasy.bsky.social 100% support this

It seems very difficult to sustain the defence regarding Farage not being active in politics at the time when he literally *owned* a political party.

Returning home from a 10 day break in Devon/Cornwall. First time we’ve taken the EV on a long trip. Absolutely no issues. Fully charged before leaving & topped up at a rapid charger on the way down while stopping for a break/food. Topped up once during the week, again using a rapid charger.

“For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars…. In the 12 months to May 2026, UK consumers bought 516,490 new BEVs, against only 504,010 new petrol cars.”

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Switzerland has successfully trialed installing solar panel panels in between railways tracks. If rolled out nationally this could produce 2% of Switzerland’s entire energy needs. Great to see innovative ways to roll-out renewables

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

We have the same affliction in the UK

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

This has needed to be said clearly, loudly, and repeatedly for a long time

Again, remember to support alternatives to American companies… especially when it comes to tech. Despite the common narrative, there are some great European alternatives

Remember there are plenty of alternatives to American companies if you want to register your displeasure about the Trump Administration spreading lies about the UK

A long way to go, but have to remember to celebrate what has been done already

Well done @london.gov.uk Thanks for everything you’ve done for London 🫡

A very important and encouraging step… “For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, according to Carbon Brief analysis”

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

"Beginning next week, Australians across a huge swath of the continent will begin getting three free hours of electricity every afternoon—to charge their cars, runs their dishwashers, fill up a storage battery to run the house at night." open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

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At least one person has managed to make a fortune from the chaos of the Brexit deal. £5m for Nigel Farage. A £90bn hit to the rest of us.

Ukrainians hit a power plant in occupied Crimea overnight which left half the peninsula without electricity. #explodey

Predictably, BlueSky now seems awash with: “Labour should [insert pet policy] because [reasoning that ignores reality] so I’ll be really disappointed if they don’t do it, because there’s nothing to stop them” Already building up expectations, to quickly follow with the criticism

Farage calling for a new election. I wonder how he views the ‘mandate’ of all the Tory MPs who have moved to Reform. Total charlaten.

It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years. European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you. Thank you, dear Keir.

More reasons to love East London! ❤️

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

I know it feels like a cliche on the left but it needs repeating as it's true: if this guy was not white, it would be all over the front pages.

“The British government has unveiled three prototype long-range strike missiles designed for use by Ukraine’s military in its war against Russia, a step forward in low-cost weapons that crucially avoid US components.”

⚡️ BREAKING: Zelenskyy gave Lukashenko a 7-day ultimatum to remove border surveillance equipment adjusting Russian fire on Ukrainian civilians.

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Soo much winning

For nearly 18 months, the Trump administration and many analysts have thought of the US, Russia, and China as great powers deciding the fate of the world, unconstrained by lesser states. Today, the US is the losing party in a Versailles peace agreement and Moscow looks like this:

Hegseth manoeuvring a US retreat from NATO just as Putin is in trouble and likely to lash out at Europe. A fool, a coward, or a traitor? Which one is the real Whiskey Pete?

Farage mugging his gullible supporters off (as usual).

🚨🚨 Nigel Farage has been trying to block a Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling his party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What the fuck is this? A foreign country pays for an attack on the PM The Tory Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers thinks it’s a laugh. Deeply unserious

EV’s make sense financially “In total, the more than 2m BEVs, 1m PHEVs and 100,000 electric vans on UK roads are saving drivers around £3bn a year, Carbon Brief’s analysis shows, as illustrated in the figure below.”

What are the flaws with this? - mobile phones only sold to adults - phones setup in adult or child mode. - phone setup in child mode are linked to an adult account. - phone setup in child mode does not have ability to age verify & can only be changed to adult mode from the parental account

Man, didn’t realise that Trump could actually bend over that far 🤷🏻‍♂️

A foreign government attacked our PM. This should be leading everything….

From Luke Pollard, recorded in Hansard on defence spending.

“The rapid expansion of solar power in nations such as China, India and Pakistan has seen its annual output increase nearly fourfold since 2020.” Unfortunately coal still remain the dominant energy source, but solar is ascending

Seeing a lot of sneering that “parents just should monitor their kids online” 18% of adults in the U.K. have a reading age of 5-7. Just because as a well educated, middle class, person you can navigate internet control easily doesn’t mean everyone else can. Some people need help with this

Lots of people making very ill-thought points about banning social media for 16 year olds. We already have age restrictions on alcohol, smoking, gambling, driving, having children, applying for a mortgage, getting a tattoo, donating blood etc. Age restrictions are NOT a new concept

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Great, the combined impact of Ukrainian drones disrupting Russian oil facilities, while others disrupt Russia’s shadow fleet, is increasing the pressure on Putin

Many of the extreme symptoms you see in Europe, the US and the UK are due to Putin’s desperation, who is now cornered like a rat back into mobilisation, autarky and widening the war beyond Ukraine. We must all be prepared for a desperate end game