James Connelly

Bamboozled by a charlatan, as Carl Sagan would say

We need a vision for the railways of East Yorkshire

Minsters Rail Campaign: Campaigning to restore the missing link between the minsters! Our Annual General Meeting will be held at Market Weighton Town Hall on April 18th at 11.00-13.00. All welcome! See you there! www.minstersrail.com

​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC  - Climate Change Committee The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

I will say one thing: nothing demonstrates the value of military history, the staff and war colleges, and reading military theory like watching a war conducted by a bunch of guys who skipped all of that in favor of 'manliness' and push-ups.

British tourist among 20 charged in Dubai over videos of Iranian missile strikes UAE cybercrime law means sharing images or footage of war can bring jail, prison time and deportation

No doubt the Free Speech loving Isabel Oakeshott will be all over this and down the nick in Dubai protesting against it...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Animals on money?

Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.

When Robert Jenrick was Housing Minister, he rolled out a “Green Housing Revolution”:

www.gov.uk/government/n...

It includes Heat Pumps, reducing fossil fuels, solar, preventing climate change etc.

He’s now pretending he’s Mr Reform anti-Net Zero.

#BullshitBobby

LBJ, Trump, and the Freedom to Vote The president should use his authority to expand democracy, not restrict it.

President Lyndon B. Johnson used the power of the bully pulpit to demand that every citizen be granted the equal right to vote. Today, we have a president demanding that Congress pull back that very right.

Chinese Turbine Suppliers Seize the Spotlight as Global Wind Power Installations Hit All-Time High, BloombergNEF Report Shows | BloombergNEF Global wind capacity additions hit an all-time high in 2025, marking a third straight year of record installations, according to BloombergNEF's annual Global Wind Turbine Market Shares 2025,

IS WIND STRUGGLING?

Not at all. Global deployment rose by +38% last year💪

- 169 GW installed in 2025
- 95% onshore, 5% off
- Led by China: +47% to 126GW
- Outside China: +17% to 37GW

"This momentum is not fading. We expect similar levels to end of this decade."

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67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti

By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%

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🛢️🛢️

Nominative determinism gone mad: "Frank Harold Tapp ... was a British composer, pianist and conductor associated with the City of Bath, where he was the director of the Pump Room concerts between 1910 and 1917". Tapp, Bath, Pump ...

Why War Is One Of The World’s Biggest Climate Threats The humanitarian impact of war cannot be overstated. Yet every stage of conflict also leaves a carbon footprint on the planet.

Thinking about this today.

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Good. Any politician who argued against renewables in the last 5 years needs to be put on trial for their treasonous behaviour.

😂

It's an odd moment in British politics where we have a group of left-ish wing parties that are looking out for the national interest and a group of right-wing parties that are desperate to serve the US/MAGA interest

For GB News’s funders, £130 million is a small price to pay for vast influence The channel of “reactionary rage bait” has just released its latest accounts, which are yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, argues Sam Bright

My debut piece for @thenerve.news - about how Paul Marshall and the Legatum Group are reshaping the norms of political influence 👇🏻

Dems picked their nominee this week, and Republicans will be infighting for another 3 months. Rick breaks down the political earthquake in Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOc9kik2ljA

A record warm winter could send Lake Powell to a historic low. Flaming Gorge may be its lifeline. Utah just wrapped up its warmest winter on record. The water supply outlook is well below normal, and Lake Powell could hit a dangerous low.

Colorado River in crisis.
A record warm winter could send Lake Powell to a historic low.
#water
#coloradoriver
#climatechange

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The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)

Crybabies Farage doesn’t know how to lose...

Reform are a bunch of crybabies who need to accept that democracy involves losing quite often.

Their petty whinging is surely intensely off-putting to potential voters

How does Nigel Farage know that Green voters in Gorton and Denton don't have jobs...

Oh of course he doesn't

I just heard Hegseth say "no stupid rules of engagement". The descent into barbarism is more or less complete.

Is this the way to fix our broken electoral system? The government is quietly getting on with important legislation to improve how our elections work. So what's the plan, and is it enough?

The new Representation of the People Bill promises a “fair, secure and inclusive democracy.” Some good stuff, adding 1.7 million 16 & 17-year-olds to the electorate. But it still leaves one major issue untouched... ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

Absolute perfection and timely 👏💙😎💙

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

Corruption in England's water industry and its regulation

2,778 serious pollution incidents reported in 2024.

Officials downgraded 2,735 (98%) to minor incidents.

Only 496 attended before downgrading; the rest were deemed minor.

Regulators collude with industry, inflicting harms to people.

Grubby racist whinging from a pathetic loser who can't accept that majority of the public just aren't buying bigotry.
People legally allowed to vote didn't vote for him so Farage talks about stripping that legal right from those who don't support his racism.