Imagine how many hours you would save if you never liked anything ever

1.3GW onshore wind from a standing start is great, a new record. Only 2 of those are in england, after the effective ban was removed you'll expect that pipeline to grow rapidly over the next few rounds - still capable of coming online before 2030 (unlike offshore which takes longer to build)

1.3GW onshore wind from a standing start is great, a new record. Only 2 of those are in england, after the effective ban was removed you'll expect that pipeline to grow rapidly over the next few rounds - still capable of coming online before 2030 (unlike offshore which takes longer to build)

Don’t worry be Scotland you still have curling

One of Labours major challenges has always been that The City doesn’t understand it as an organisation. Takes way more face time to convince them of responsibility - which ends up being an opportunity cost for Labs message to voters.

The amazing @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social has made a pod covering two of my favourite topics and one of my least. Rugby, Climate and Wales. Bottom up home club vibes very like Pat Cummins and Cricket for Climate. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

I'm fortunate to sit on the advisory board of @persuasionuk.bsky.social, the excellent public opinion outfit headed up by @steveakehurst.bsky.social. They're currently recruiting for a new communications lead - a great opportunity: careers.meliorefoundation.org/postings/a92...

The amazing @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social has made a pod covering two of my favourite topics and one of my least. Rugby, Climate and Wales. Bottom up home club vibes very like Pat Cummins and Cricket for Climate. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Lauren Bell should be opening the bowling for England in the men's t20 world cup. Ridiculous WIPL stats

Looking for a chaser to your student loan interest? Why not try 5.19% on £490k and pray to Andrew Bailey. Santander launches 98% mortgage for first-time buyers www.ft.com/content/4210...

Maybe we shouldn’t appoint people to important positions for life?

There is some quite funny and very bad special pleading from scientists in this piece. www.ft.com/content/5732... Sure R&D = growth but a) timelines! and b) direction matters. STFC is enabling but its a circuitous route to outcomes. And come on scientists - science superpower was Boris not Keir!

Quick science policy thread 1 Changes in the governance of UK science since the mid 1980s make it extremely hard to be strategic (that was the point), in terms of both process (dropped) and capability (hollowed out).

Really excited to see the government announcing a cap on ground rents. As recommended in @samalvis.bsky.social and my "war on bills" piece. As we argue, the government should leave no stone on unturned to lower the cost of living in ways that people can feel. www.ippr.org/articles/a-w...

Seems like a good day to reup my dispatch from Labour party conference, where I watched as Andy Burnham squeezed a sort of leadership bid into an address about electoral reform (for @prospectmagazine.co.uk) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Hardened my view. The politically impossible thing to say is western carmakers are mostly dead in the water and blaming the regulation is easier because it’s forcing them to confront how terrible at innovation they are. Is ZEV bigger than trade barriers or energy prices, no.

Unsure what to think about this. Offshoring is an easy threat to make, but hard in practice (its not cheap to build new factories). Changing regs again is not exactly good for 'certainty'. But the UK is a small end market and the regulation is tough. www.ft.com/content/4d1d...

Politically this has always been the best option for prospective Labour voters, even better when you attach left of centre issues to it (climate, cost of living) - but a party of government is never going to do that to the US even if they were a confident one, even post-Trump.

Unsure what to think about this. Offshoring is an easy threat to make, but hard in practice (its not cheap to build new factories). Changing regs again is not exactly good for 'certainty'. But the UK is a small end market and the regulation is tough. www.ft.com/content/4d1d...

There are some very impressive crowding in numbers here www.gov.uk/government/n... Obviously I will continue to wage my war against jobs numbers in PRs especially 'up to' but no wonder HMT were happy to increase the pot

Such nostalgia for the days of opposition policy development when time for a rethink is a sufficient position

Definitely worth a subscribe to Electrify Britain's new substack "Ignore the noise. Electrification is the only thing that matters." open.substack.com/pub/electric...

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I think it’s less their views or that they’re ex tories more that they look and sound like politicians even if you’ve never heard of them. That is bad for Farage’s brand and argument

Decarb Donald continues to make fossil fuels uninvestable. First at home and now abroad. www.ft.com/content/9cbf...

Decarb Donald continues to make fossil fuels uninvestable. First at home and now abroad. www.ft.com/content/9cbf...

AR7 offshore wind results out. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696686... 8.5GW is top of end of what I was expecting and probably right on the line between waiting for costs to (maybe) fall and the supply chain needing certainty. Price of £91mwh is besides what critics will say - good value

Good day for RWE

AR7 offshore wind results out. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696686... 8.5GW is top of end of what I was expecting and probably right on the line between waiting for costs to (maybe) fall and the supply chain needing certainty. Price of £91mwh is besides what critics will say - good value

For all the new arrivals

Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year. One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵

Analysis

Yet more evidence of the mismatch between the research system and societal needs....

Boiler broken and three cancelled trains for the 5 week old’s first train home home. But England didn’t lose 10+ wickets in a day. Is that a trade I’m happy with? No comment.

2025 1) On a Sunbeam 2) Orbital is as good as people say, felt new 3) prophet song awful like truly terrifyingly bleak but incredible. The Need similarly. Wouldn’t advise both close together. Janesville 2nd best non fiction over ever read DNF - didn’t finish NF - non fiction GN - graphic novel

2025 1) On a Sunbeam 2) Orbital is as good as people say, felt new 3) prophet song awful like truly terrifyingly bleak but incredible. The Need similarly. Wouldn’t advise both close together. Janesville 2nd best non fiction over ever read DNF - didn’t finish NF - non fiction GN - graphic novel

Who amongst wouldn’t want the chance to write unchallenged hatchet jobs about our opponents / predecessors

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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

"there's a new serif in town"

Same product. Same store. Same time. But on Instacart, different customers may see different prices. My story on a fascinating new experiment from @groundwork.bsky.social & @consumerreports.org and how the idea of a single price is breaking down in the digital age: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

Totally agree. The these things go through too many layers of comments and sign off to ever sound natural. And despite the great intent people shut off because you can’t engage with the substance.

ENERGY BILLS! Paying for the renewables obligation brings the UK in line with other countries. Early investments in renewables were innovation spending, strange and unfair to get consumers to pay for that.

OR NOT. Good day for the OBR

Really helpful chart in here

Transport in the budget is a bit more of a mixed bag than housing... The headline is likely to be the introduction of pay-per-mile on EVs while also raising thresholds of support to buy them - the messaging is a bit of a muddle! 1/🧵

Details important, but North Sea Jobs Service could be a big win for unions and workers in oil and gas industry, who have been clear they want a path out of the industry One of our @ippr.org key policy asks too Language of 'end-to-end support' particularly welcome www.ippr.org/articles/ski...

Quick skim through the budget - some small tidbits on housing (beyond the tax stuff) 👥Funding for extra capacity in the planning system - should help process planning applications & get decisions made faster 1/2

Some further thoughts. - RO support ends in 29/30. It will be lower then as some expire. An inflection point for levies (perhaps some manifesto promises). - Really underline. Good start have to keep fighting on bills. Levies grow from £14 to £19b by the end of the parl - worse for elec than gas