Farage keeps saying "renewable energy 'won't work', but it already is ... Britain is presently generating 71% of electricity from renewables & is even exporting some to boot" Our bills are so expensive is because "energy prices are set by the expensive rip off fossil fuel gas price" via Tim Longson

Well. this is a nice touch. Well done. #Brighton

THIS makes more sense than the dog-whistle politicing of the Badenoch/Farage/Trump kind.

Same could be happening with ReformUK. Cults are all the same.

Reckless stupidity!! Washington Plans $1 Billion Deal to Kill Wind Power as Energy Prices Rise

Do banks really not make enough money to be able to provide humans one can speak to easily about issues with their systems? Grrrrrr!!! 🤯 I hate chatbots!!

"£100k cap on donations from UK citizens abroad." It should be a cap of £0. Zero zilch nothing.No donations from people who dont live in the UK,. NO cporporate donations at all, zero, zilch , nothing. Individual UK resident citizens donations capped at £1000 per annum. It's not hard..just DO IT. FFS

Badenoch’s energy policy is the same as some in Germany in 1993. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.

Good news indeed. Time to get mean with our modern version of the traitor, Lord Haw Haw. (Younger readers should look him up)

Wind and solar energy generated a record 17% of electricity in the United States in 2025! Up from less than 1% in 2005.

Phil Collins - Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr

Oh look! Renewables are working pretty well really. And will get better. Real‑time electricity generation, demand, and carbon intensity data for Great Britain, updated every 5–30 minutes. www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

Not much hope of this at the moment.

Asked if people should drive more slowly to conserve energy, Michael Shanks (an energy minister) replied: "Look genuinely, people shouldn’t change their behaviour or their habits in the slightest." Quite a bizarre stance - Fuel prices at one garage I saw went up 6p a litre in 2 hours yesterday.

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

Boots on the ground, boots on the ground !! Sick of hearing that euphemism. Unless they’re literally planning to put boots on the ground, it should be made clear it means armed forces invading. You can’t kill boots, you can kill armed forces.

So it seems Trump will pull out and leave the Strait of Hormuz to be sorted out by others.

If Brits pull out of Cyprus expect issues to erupt twixt Greek and Turkish interests once again.

Helen Whately once again proving the Tories have lost all connection with any resemblance of reality. James Orr competes with that criticism very successfully! Thick as planks. #questiontime

I’m pretty sure I’ve still got my fuel ration book from the early ‘70s. Darned if I’ll queue though.

This amused me... #nigelfarage #reformuk #useless

Shock statistic from Skynews. Who knew that the more you hold, the greater the chance you have of winning?

And you can bet that when ‘allies’ arrive the US forces will have sudden and urgent business away from the Strait of Hormuz. Maybe in the Caribbean.

Well worth reading. An excellent piece of electoral analysis

From Bloomberg… “After two weeks of fighting, the one clear winner to emerge from the regional war engulfing parts of the Middle East seems to be Russia.” The American president is responsible for this farrago!!

Exactly this…

It’s strange to have an international war going on in which neither side are the good guys and the main losers are generally the good ones. While the main winner is the very bad guy. 😳

This is so worth reading. Stay Classy www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As fuel prices rise so does government income; vat and fuel duty. So it’s also UK finances which are being assisted by this stupid war.

Cardigan Bay sunset

I'm guessing the level of pollution in the Straits of Hormuz is already beyond disasterous. Mankind, eh! What are we like?

With Starmer and Mandelson, very much from an outsider pov, it seems Sir S thought it was a good idea to match a sleaze bag with a sleaze ball. As a gamble, it worked for a while… until it didn’t. Acting in the best interests of the country isn't always an easy choice.

The PM says: "Let me start, where I must start, which is to accept, as I do, that I made a mistake in appointing Peter Mandelson. "And let me follow that swiftly, as I've done before but I need to do it again, with an apology to the victims of Epstein for appointing Peter Mandelson….” That works.

A long read, but an interesting analysis of Trump and the state of the United States. natowatch.org/default/2026...

the UK right *really* wants Starmer to join the Iran War. have they all gone mad, or?

Travelling round the UK at the moment. Tired of seeing fraying St Georg’s cross flags hanging like vertical fly-tips in the air. Flags off official flagpoles only, is the right thing to do.

This is a good thing to do. The Electoral Commission must be above political interference.

Priti (dumb) Patel should read this before she speaks to media again. Or the media should question her more closely on this information.

I saw Priti Patel sticking her uninformed oar into the “Why didn’t UK support US in Iran?” question. Not bothered that there is no legal basis for doing so. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

@henrymance.ft.com Brilliant explanation of the Chagos Island debacle in the FT Weekend. Finally, it all becomes clear. And who knew it was linked to Brexit? Well done.

Bore da, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus

I wonder just how safe all those billionaires that skipped the UK feel in Dubai right now? There’s a lot to be said for feeling safe but paying a bit more tax.

The Seagull. But which one.

Ah, the lies…

Here’s a blast from the past. Such bilge comes from Faragistas. Mrs Tice, that well-known geo-strategist.

Starmer still has a big majority he can use to pass legislation. No election due for some time. Just get on with the stuff that matters and worry about winning the next election when it’s due.

What? No exit poll ??

Watching Dirty Business on #channel4 will make your blood boil. Corruption beyond belief. Brilliant and appalling at the same time. @channel4news.bsky.social

I wonder why power station cooling towers are destroyed rather than filling them with horizontally placed wind turbines? I would have thought they would maximise their life-cycle, from brick-works to demolition. And still be generating long after ‘coal-fired’ was over.

Very disappointed that Assisted Dying bill will fail in the HoL! The cruelty of denying the right to die with dignity is wrong. #assisteddying