I have this too.... but my battery seems to mitigate these peaks pretty well.
Unless you have a *lot* of electricity use going on, then a 3 hour evening peak is pretty easy to power from a battery.
I have this too.... but my battery seems to mitigate these peaks pretty well.
Unless you have a *lot* of electricity use going on, then a 3 hour evening peak is pretty easy to power from a battery.
Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.
They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.
Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.
Students from Afghanistan are a powerful way for Britain to make the world a better place. But they are also incredibly valuable for making Britain safer and stronger - because those students return to their home countries better understanding, and liking, us.
Banning Afghan students is idiotic.
Charlotte's voice is the one I was waiting for on this.
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
Former Newham Mayor Robin Wales has joined Reform. I don't know if that means he will now support their mass deportation agenda including of permanent settled Commonwealth migrants (while exempting Europeans) as well as of most recent legal migrants, or if he wants Reform to moderate on that
04.03.2026 10:46 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 13 📌 1Explain?!
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Sir Robin Wales was one of the more senior Labour politicians in London - leading Newham for 16 years.
Now joined Reform.
Quite a sign that you can be *very* conservative in the Labour party.
Editors of a Canadian medical journal just admitted that all 138 case reports it published since 2000 are fictional. It never disclosed this to readers. "Nuts" doesn't even begin to describe it!
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
03.03.2026 17:13 — 👍 2257 🔁 824 💬 3 📌 135Nepo-Ayatollah!
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Not much noticed but the worst lobbying in decades is the international development movement. Got the 0.7% target then failed to give anybody credit for it, and failed to defend against aid cuts.
An incredible failure with horrible consequences.
Nothing Rachel Reeves announced today in her Spring Statement will be felt by people in the real world. Families still feel just as squeezed this year as they did last year.
I asked the Chancellor directly: when will people actually feel things getting more affordable?
Something the Populist Right do that's related to simplism, is that:
1. They learn something entry-level/apparently self-evident.
2. They call it common sense.
3. They assume 'the libs' have missed it.
No, 'the libs' know about it, but also know it's about more than that. They've moved beyond it.
If you need more proof that Reform don’t do even the most basic sense checks when writing their “policies”: How will Reform deport 1000s, by plane, to a country which is a no fly zone?
We need parties & politicians who take policy seriously - not who make it up as they go along
This is a very stupid argument from Rachel Reeves.
If the government could generate an extra £200bn annually from investments by incurring an extra £100bn of interest payments, it would be a good thing!
Just as a mortgage will increase your mortgage payments but reduce your rent.
Picture of a social/supportive housing project in the Yaletown community in downtown Vancouver. Text says “if we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.” Logo of the urban truth collective in the corner.
If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth
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Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:
"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".
Thank you!
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@sundersays.bsky.social Did I see you mention some figures on the number of people with ILR the other day?
I've been searching for this without success and am fascinated what estimates exist.
What's happening in Dubai bolsters the argument taxes should be based on people's nationality, not just their country of residence (ie the US model).
If Brits living abroad can expect to be airlifted out by virtue of being British, they should pay some tax towards that.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...
...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us
At this point Starmer's strategy is to do what Trump wants on the hope that he'll help the UK.
But his track record is constantly breaking his promises.. so why is there any reason to think that he won't this time?
Opponents could
- Challenge call for mass deportation of Commonwealth migrants, long settled + who came in last 5 years
*Put names/faces to comms re this*
- defend existing voting rights from retrospective change
- promote participation of eligible voters
- rethink/challenge govt settlement reforms
Reform's London Mayoral candidate now running on "disenfranchise + deport" policy re Commowealth
Yusuf would strip Commonwealth ILR (but treat European settled status differently)
Farage to strip voting rights from Commonwealth non-citizens (Treat Irish foreign nationals differently to Asians)
Crowds in the Iranian town of Galleh Dar toppled a monument dedicated to the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as flames rose from the roundabout and onlookers cheered.
The death of Khamenei has exposed a deep fault line in a country: reut.rs/4r4GYYK
Clichéd calls from a government minister who likes to repeat the most boring phrase in politics.
"Let Starmer be Starmer" said a minister who can only speak in clichés...
01.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1The incredible chutzpah of Putin accusing anybody of cynical murder!
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Five years ago this week, Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer, sparking protests & promises of change
But now, woman officers abused by colleagues tell me reforms have victimised them more instead of protecting them
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
"Under a Reform UK government, only British citizens will be able to vote".
Nigel Farage has proposed this morning made a call which obvs entails disenfranchising Irish nationals as well as Commonwealth nationals. I have asked him if that is his intention and his policy now.
x.com/Nigel_Farage...
