I'm glad someone in the press is pointing this out! You don't need to be on a special tariff either; even on a standard tariff EVs are half the pence per mile. What amazes me is that neither the car industry nor government promotes this point. EVs are far cheaper to own and drive than fossil cars

I can almost hear the cacophony of "I told you this would happen" when Care in the Community was introduced in the early 1990s. With just 23% of the country covered by assertive outreach teams, it seems society is willing to bear a high cost in order to save a little bit of money in the NHS.

The range of modern EVs is very impressive – 450+ miles at motorway speeds for the new BMW iX3. And before you go "who spends £60k on a new car?!", it'll be the same people who bought Ford Granadas in the 1980s. In real terms, they're the same price!

Israeli forces: –used AI to target apartment blocks because 'on the balance of probabilities' a Hamas member might live in it –used unguided 'dumb' bombs to carpet-bomb residential areas –systematically destroyed schools and hospitals –bulldozed and blew up homes, street by street

It's extraordinary how much green technology investment the UK government has turned down recently – first XLinks, which would have supplied 7% of Britain's electricity with North African solar and wind power at a literal fraction of the price of Sizewell C Then the Ming Yang wind turbine factory

At this point it's basically pathlogical. The site is once again being used to whip up race riots and people with responsibility for national security are on it merrily whistling away.

Sometimes it's good just to read something wonderful

The ECIU's numbers are wrong because they've mixed up proven and contingent reserves for each area, but for better or for worse, there's far more oil and gas is in the Norwegian continental shelf than in the UK continental shelf

Great Britain has two different records for solar generation; 15.2 GW according to NESO or 16.3 GW according to revised figures from Sheffield Solar, which is the data NESO uses. Whatever, we're firmly in the shade compared to Germany!

France follows England in measuring hottest spring on record

Not heard or read a single mention of these critical points 👇 in the media, so excuse me while I use my tiny platform to do what I can #r4today

It's very important to read the judge's remarks for sentencing the murderer of Henry Nowak –Nowak's fatal stab wound was hidden from view and he was bleeding internally, not externally –it's not uncommon for suspects to lie, saying they are injured, to avoid being restrained #BBCWATO 1/2

Heaven forbid we address inequality in this country #r4today

this is going to go on all summer, isn't it

England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

BBC News ran a bizarre article over the weekend comparing the new Ferrari EV to low-cost Chinese electric cars(?!) If you want to know what the (£475k) Luce is really like, read the Top Gear article (spoiler: it's amazing)

PHEV died out in Denmark once people realized BEV were the superior tech.

Reminds me of this chart: British beef and lamb consumption takes up an enormous area of land overseas – some of which will be felled rainforest. We are, however, self-sufficient in cereals such as wheat

As headlines report 4m U.K. households now have air conditioning, I wanted to write about the part we’re not meant to say: it’s disabled, poor, and older people who are at risk in heatwaves but the wealthy and healthy who get to have the cool homes. Today’s col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let me fix the headline for you: “US ready to issue more empty threats and flail about helplessly, blaming its former allies, begging rivals for help, and generally ridiculing itself on the world stage, when Iran peace talks inevitable fail, says Hegseth” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Andy Burnham blocked a Clean Air Zone for Manchester. The Clean Air Zones in Birmingham and London resulted in large reductions in air pollution, but @andyburnham.bsky.social believes that children don't deserve to grow up with healthy lungs.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Just don't forget, only a week ago the British government decided to continue importing diesel and jet fuel made with Russian crude oil. If you drive a diesel or take a flight, Labour has decided you should directly sponsor this.

What if I told you "removing all fossil fuels from UK's energy supply" and "Preventing increases in energy bills" are the same thing?

Andy Burnham blocked a Clean Air Zone for Manchester. The Clean Air Zones in Birmingham and London resulted in large reductions in air pollution, but @andyburnham.bsky.social believes that children don't deserve to grow up with healthy lungs.

"The basic rate of UC falls well short of what’s needed for essentials like food and household bills. A social security system propped up by food banks in every community is not an effective one. We need to move towards a system that ensures everyone can at least afford life’s essentials."

Blair may not think he's a "climate denier" but he is essentially reading from a list of climate denier talking points to make his case for abandoning net-zero.

Around a third of global emissions come from countries that individually account for one per cent or less of total emissions. If small countries don’t get to net zero the world doesn’t get to net zero and climate change keeps getting worse.

The Ofgem price cap is always given in the prices of the day it was announced. But if we inflate past price caps to today's prices, we get a different picture of the price of gas and electricity. Steady to slightly falling. While a 13% increase is not welcome, it's not the end of the world either.

Just caught some of Blair on #BBCWATO, singing the praises of artificial intelligence. His biggest funder is the chairman of Oracle Corp., one of the biggest builders of AI data centres. Then he says "5 million working-age people are going to be on incapacity benefits by 2030", which is not true.

"Dirt" on the Green Party candidate / dirt on the Reform Party candidate

Worth looking at this website. And wondering why on earth the British government hasn't done the same for wind and solar power

These countries will become unlivable in the coming decades. And to be clear: that means survival outdoors will be, at times, impossible

What does it mean to be a humanist, anyway?

"Tackling the root causes of economic insecurity, like too few decent jobs, worsening public health, and soaring rents, would ease pressure on our income safety net... Yet the dominant political narrative, which incorrectly states that benefit spend is spiralling, demands blunt cuts to support"

I was really surprised that yesterday BBC News visited a south coast beach and featured a voxpop of people able enough to visit a beach with an onshore breeze. Of course it's lovely there! But if you're elderly, near bed-bound, in a flat with no cross ventilation? Try talking to them, BBC

In Scotland, moorlands used for grouse shooting are licensed. If the birds of prey die on your moods,. you're shut down. In England... Oh no, we couldn't possibly do that

Here's an example of a "planned data centre"; the developer of a nearby business park made the very first step in obtaining planning permission. Do we think the proposed 500 MW, £5bn "hyperscale" data centre will come to fruition? I certainly don't. But if you're property developer it's worth a bet

1/7 The IPCC just flew 200+ Working Group II authors to Nassau, Bahamas for a 5-day meeting to advance the AR7 climate impacts report. Let's do the science on what one week of this costs the #climate 🧵

Found out that if you add "-ai" to the end of Google searches it gets rid of the AI crap ❤️

Using an alternative measure, based instead on ‘Real Time Information’ payroll data from HMRC (which, because they’re derived from administrative PAYE data, are viewed as more trustworthy), productivity has been doing better over the last 18 months. A LOT better.

Gradually building up a new page tracking the electrification of heavy-duty vehicles around the world. 🔖Bookmark: robbieandrew.github.io/trucksales/?...

I don't really buy these stories. Yes, of course everyone and their dog is "developing" a data centre project in the hope that the AI bubble is real and someone will want to buy their paper project. OCGTs are about 30% efficient, you need about 2x capacity for servicing and breakdowns;

"The challenge with 1.5°C is that we are basically at 1.5°C. Perhaps a more relevant question is what temperature level is possible to avoid? The relationship between temperature and cumulative CO₂ emissions says that 200 Gt CO₂ leads to about 0.1°C of warming – five years of current emissions"

Why isn't CMIP7 assessing emissions scenarios that look like the line I've added to the chart? A plateau over the next decade and decline to net zero later in the century? Isn't that the most realistic path? We're not going to make steep cuts now but neither will emissions grow

Nuclear does still influence daily power prices However I suspect that DESNZ's claim that Sizewell C will "save consumers £2B a year" is based on out-dated assumptions of generation and storage costs that are too high, especially for batteries I've FoI'd them to see what numbers they actually used

Great Britain's solar power production record has been revised upwards to 16.3 GW, up from the original 15.2 GW estimated on the day! This peak occurred in the half hour ending 1.30pm on 23 April 2026

Although don't forget that 33% of global electricity production uses coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels

This was my first thought. On the evening of the 5p 'temporary' fuel duty cut my local petrol station cut its prices by 2p.