ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵

It's a thoughtless, mean-spirited and counter-productive idea. They shouldn't have proposed it in the first place. But now they have, they should think again.

The men’s solo gold medal winner was a real WTF. Technically flawless but creatively questionable. The hair the outfit some of those moves and the music. I was trying not to laugh at the end.

And yeah, Earth Song is unforgivable.

(Which is all of them)

Got messy in Iran and Iraq. Sometimes the population don’t do as they’re told either. May have to do a little bit of an invasion. A little bit of war crimes in a limited and specific way (so it’s okay).

As nuclear isn’t happening at anything like the speed or price required then yes the answer is *mostly* renewables.

The problem is they tend to go off leash after a little while (as well this as being morally reprehensible of course).

Because Europe as a whole is import dependent. If that weren’t the case the energy price in Norway wouldn’t have been impacted. Even as an exporter it is tied to European market prices. The answer of course is renewable energy.

Net zero is an enormous opportunity for Europe. It would massively strengthen economy and security. Just switching which mad authoritarian leader we are dependent on for our survival every few years is a bad strategy.

The EU is one of the world’s most fossil-import-dependent economies. In 2023, imports met 58% of its energy demand -near pre-crisis levels - leaving consumers exposed to price shocks. That’s far above China (24%) & India (37%); only Japan (84%) & South Korea (80%) rely more.

Graph @ember-energy.org

We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.

we dealt with home office from 2016 until this year, waded through the rules across 10 home secretaries, and these new rules are needless and horrendous. what are we even trying to accomplish here

Every car along you street is pavement parked.

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Delighted someone is writing about the shambles that is the BSR—well done @jburnmurdoch.ft.com 👏

“Tens of thousands of provisionally approved homes in the capital are waiting on supplementary review by the BSR, which green-lights only a third of cases and takes an average of eight months to do so”

Well who could’ve seen this coming

Terrific piece this. Something that Yvette Cooper said the government would do that seems to have fallen by the wayside is to release this data *themselves*, but instead they've seemingly quit the field leaving it only to bad actors (and now, thankfully, Anoosh)

Reminds me of the film Embrace of the Serpent - about a biologist who meets an indigenous shaman in the Amazon.

The scientist: i study plants.

The Shaman: this is the least stupid thing a white man has ever said to me.

For life to feel natural, our cities need to be human-scale. The morning rush in a sealed, 2-ton metal box is sterilizing. But when we move at a human pace in an environment that nurtures the senses, we all thrive. Speed is not the only metric that matters.

Good for him

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

I’m sure I remember Miyazaki saying that he imagined her as a character with a traumatic past.

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

From the WSJ piece: "Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around."

I mean it has given that in terms of shows being on-demand rather being stuck with whatever is on the TV at the time.

Non-working partners risk limbo with UK migration reforms, analysis finds Research comes as ministers signal rethink of policy that could carry big fiscal cost

The government's earned settlement proposals manage to be politically and morally bankrupt at the same time as being economically and fiscally counterproductive.

Quite remarkable really.

www.ft.com/content/ca14...

To be fair, the infrastructure binge is a legacy of Tory underinvestment, where investment can’t be put off any longer. The other side of the coin is “Cameron/Osborne should have invested when it was basically free”.

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

I’ve been waiting for this moment. Cable TV package reborn as on-demand streaming has been on my bingo-card for a while.

Delaying this and making it harder will absolutely weaken integration of migrants.

After all, why would you bother to put down roots, buy property, set up a business, learn the culture, language and develop deep ties to families and communities if the Home Office might kick you out of the country?

Not only does the UK gov conflate asylum with settled status for regular migrants, but also asserts they’re prioritising “integration”, when all the research very strongly shows that the single most important thing for integration is settled status such as permanent residence (ILR) or citizenship.