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Factcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050 Tory leader provides no evidence to support position that flies in face of expert reports and her own words.

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Well knock me down with a feather. bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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One of the great myths of 19th century British moral superiority, post-abolition of slavery. We exploited the Africans the Navy 'saved'. None of them went home. Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.

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I may just re-read The Sentinel later this evening.

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"Roll up that map of the United States, it will not be wanted these ten years."

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Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Janet's Foss, Yorkshire Dales, England. My photo from 2014.

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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

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More good news for today. Backed by peer reviewed study in nature magazine.

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God damn it. One of these people should try doing that in public, at a cenotaph or a war cemetery. I fucking dare them to come and do it.

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I never get the question: "Merien, how do I know if I'm at a Nazi rally?". Mainly because people know. People do not find themselves at Nazi rallies by accident. But in case you're wondering, here are some clues.

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At last, some positive news!

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It says something that I'm pleased and surprised she cleared this bar.

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Second Amendment supporters can never again argue that they need firearms to defend against a tyrannical power that might overtake the US.

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Beautifully done by Private Eye...

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Go Julia! (this may be the only time I ever get to say this).

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Yet again, if these were climate protestors, there'd have been multiple arrests, with some facing years in jail for "public nuisance". But farmers can block the road and drown out the Prime Minister and the police won't touch them. The real #TwoTierPolicing

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Think Reform’s net-zero announcements may well be their first big mistake since their rise in the polls. There would definitely be scope to criticise specific climate measures, but trying to actively reverse shift to renewables lands well on wrong side of British public opinion.

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🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.

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As happened in the 1920s and 1950s, the UK is once again heading into a period of public debate about pylons being built through rural areas. The Science Museum has a great archive of those earlier public information campaigns collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa...

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I would be extremely happy for connections going through Lincolnshire to be undergrounded as long as residents of Lincolnshire pay the additional cost of doing so. The Council seem confident that is cheaper, so they should jump at the chance.

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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

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I actually quite like spiders but increasingly think Natural England should be driven to extinction

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Hide all those facts. Hide 'em. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Oh so NOW the AI guys are worried about intellectual property theft

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It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...

submitted 63 days ago • 54 comments

This blithering idiot reached the very top of the civil service system. Basically proof that something has gone terribly wrong.

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The beauty of Europe’s increasingly connected power grids and electricity market. “Financial Times: Britain boosts electricity exports to France because of high winds” on.ft.com/3PPdHkJ

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Since Trump’s victory there’s been near daily attacks in the UK media aimed at the government’s energy and net zero policies (there have been three in the last 24 hours). And yet there’s been barely a peep in defence from the government or its outriders.

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Storm Éowyn doing wonders for UK wind power - each circle shows a wind farm, with the filled fraction indicating the power output relative to the farm's capacity. Renewables are currently providing 16GW to the grid, 45% of demand. The map is interactive: renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

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When terrible things happen it can be easy to believe the world is terrible; it's important to remember that there is far more good than evil. While there are a small number of people who commit horrific acts, there are literally millions of people who will save people from them.

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Just remember, the world, not just America, has four years of this. Pace yourself and keep hydrated.

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This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Tiktok has been banned in the US on the grounds that China could use it "to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation." In other words, China might do exactly what Elon Musk has done with X. It's a blatant double standard.

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🚨 Spotted: dodgy numbers CORRECTED in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social🚨 The paper published a correction notice online last week, referring to a false claim that the UK would need "up to a billion solar panels" to reach DESNZ targets. How many solar panels will we actually need? 10x less! 🧵

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On the one hand, the UK govt’s AI Opportunities Action Plan sounds somewhat utopian; on the other hand, the hand has six fingers and there are three of them per person.

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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

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Remember the 1990s, when we all worried about how rich and powerful Bill Gates was, and his goal was he wanted to eradicate polio?

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