Keep Britain Kind

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Powerful Mirror front page today….

Fri May 8 @ 2pm - "Why Climate Science is Not Enough", Dept. of Social & Historical Sciences, University College London. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.

Labour has already delivered more manifesto pledges than Reform UK has total policies www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

New oil & gas drilling has become a culture war point in UK politics New analysis from ECIU says new N Sea fields would deliver 1.1% more gas, 1.7% more oil to what's already been extracted Even that assumes the abolition of windfall taxes - during a cost-of-living crisis eciu.net/media/press-...

🚨 It’s official!!! 🚨 The U.K’s National Energy System Operator has just confirmed that on 22 April 2026 Britain set a new record of 98.8% zero carbon electricity…🇬🇧♻️⚡️🔋💡💪🥳

Good piece on the consequences of the world being run by the petro oligarchs

I think it’s good politics to speak loudly and clearly about the climate crisis. Time to end the climate hushing billmckibben.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

If you read one thing today ... An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

More than 19,800 heat records were broken in the US in March alone. Yet the country remains in denial, as do far too many of the rest of us. When are we going to wake up to the climate emergency? www.earth.com/news/march-h...

When you aggregate the comments of various Reform UK candidates, you find they: Hate the NHS Hate immigrants Hate Black people Hate Brown people Hate Muslims Hate Jews Hate women Hate students Hate LGTBQ people Hate the unemployed Hate disabled people Hate everyone ... But claim to love the country.

This is stunning.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

BRITAIN'S HOT ELECTRIC SUMMER We're all going to get paid to turn on our air conditioning this summer, as NESO announces its intent to use its Demand Flexibility Service to pay people when generation exceeds demand. /1 www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The only lasting way out of the fossil dependency is shifting electricity generation to renewables and nuclear. And electrifying the economy as rapidly as possible. We will present our electrification strategy before the summer. Electrifying Europe means making Europe more independent.

Really hope Vance turns up to campaign for Reform

The Iran war is driving a solar boom in the UK. @octopus.energy reports solar sales up 54% in March alone. EDF says residential sales are running at double last spring's rate. Every rooftop solar installation is a vote against fossil fuel price volatility.

I'm in a chat with a bunch of wind and solar industry insiders and they're telling me they expect the price of sun and wind to climb to at least $0 per babbrel in the coming weeks

Your frequent reminder that Farage wants to frack the UK - in multiple ways - and that doing so won’t make a blind bit of difference to energy bills It would, however, make us more dependent on volatile fossil fuels, make the climate crisis worse & industrialise the countryside Don’t vote Reform

Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱

At noon yesterday and on Monday, more than a third of UK electricity was from #solar The future could be bright... HT @solarenergyuk.bsky.social www.neso.energy/data-portal/...

Britain’s electricity is currently 91% zero carbon! Every unit of domestic renewable and ultra low carbon energy we generate means a safer and more secure today and a better 🇬🇧 tomorrow.

20% of British electricity coming from solar power at six in the evening in early April is absolutely remarkable. And we’re just getting started…🇬🇧♻️⚡️💡🔋😎

65 leading UK scientists warn against new oil & gas drilling in North Sea; * 90% of North Sea reserves have already been extracted- further production will have little effect on global prices * further drilling will add to GHG emissions and undermine efforts to limit global warming buff.ly/xDc9YUs

The oil price hike *ought* to be a chance for European railways In 🇩🇪 for example 99% of long distance and 80% of regional rail passenger-km are on ⚡️ railways No transport mode is better sheltered from price hikes Can the rail sector seize the opportunity? jonworth.eu/rising-fuel-...

Fossil fuels suffer from this little thing known as intermittency. You have to build a whole back-up energy system for when the little boats get stuck. Not many people know this.

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

"The International Energy Agency is urging people to "avoid air travel where alternative options exist."" ✅️🚆 ❌️🛩 www.politico.eu/article/ever...

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

It’s never too late to start supporting independent bookstores instead of, you know, other places. 😌

Retired R Admiral Neil Morisetti said attempting to eke out last oil & gas from North Sea was “not the answer” to UK's challenges Lt Gen Richard Nugee: “Going for renewables gives greater independence, greater sovereignty, less vulnerability & more opportunity” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our interactive screening map is starting to fill up. Is there a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you yet? www.nebriefing.org/screening-map If not, why not be part of the change we need, and consider hosting one? Please repost and help spread the word. #PEBuk #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

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Well played @privateeyenews.bsky.social 😂😂😂

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

But calling for it anyway, however ignorantly, will make a direct difference to what climate change denying donors pay politicians. So there’s that.

100k turned up to Tommy Ten Names’ hate march last year. 500k showed up to today’s protest against fascism and the far right. Love wins.

"Government data reveals 2.5 GW of new solar added in 12-months period, the fastest pace for a decade." This is huge. And it's only going to grow. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/26/u....