Helen

A small wedge to stick under the door is handy.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

A lot of regional/county identity is mainly to draw a line between you and the neighbouring lot. See also Dundee Vs Fife (Kingdom of) in @bobservant

Woulda been so much cooler if it had been Riding on Sunbeams tho.

Party Total reported Donations accepted (excl. public funds) Public funds accepted Total accepted in this quarter Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland £65,140 £20,538 £44,602 £65,140 Conservative and Unionist Party £4,216,224 £2,401,452 £1,614,729 £4,016,181 Co-operative Party £131,180 £131,180 £0 £131,180 Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. £104,320 £0 £104,320 £104,320 Green Party £294,069 £189,010 £98,764 £287,773 Labour Party £2,043,007 £1,943,824 £31,836 £1,975,660 Liberal Democrats £2,190,101 £1,314,139 £749,173 £2,063,312 Open Party £197,151 £155,067 £0 £155,067 People Before Profit £8,605 £0 £6,453 £6,453 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £63,967 £30,000 £33,967 £63,967 Reform UK £5,473,000 £5,456,000 £0

The funding gap between Reform UK and the Greens is astounding.

New Electoral Commission stats today reveal the reportable donations in Q4 2025:

🟢 Green Party: £189,010
🟣 Reform UK: £5,456,000

Greens are bringing in barely 3.5% of Reform UK's large donations - but still polling around 20%.

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.

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

These were the earliest electric vehicles, with lead acid batteries of approx 4kwh, even before the internal combustion engine became widespread. It was thought women couldn't crank an ICE car.

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

Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% - Carbon Brief China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Elections are there for the taking of whoever can get their vote out now, until we have proportional representation

Those issues are integral to green and just transition

You need Oliver Burkeman, and I'd recommend his substack but 😅

Good thread if you're interested in British by elections.

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes.

Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates.

Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

An advertisement promoting the importance of voting and emphasizes that not voting forfeits the right to complain about government decisions for the next 5 years. It encourages people to vote today or to refrain from complaining tomorrow. DON'T VOTE TODAY IF YOU DON'T, YOU LOSE THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING THAT YOU DON'T LIKE THAT HAPPENS IN THIS COUNTRY IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS VOTE TODAY! or DON'T GRUMBLE TOMORROW issued by The Campaign for the Operation of the Democratic Process

Feb 1974: Voting ad from The Campaign for the Operation of the Democratic Process

«DON'T VOTE TODAY»

Pedestrian Pound The Pedestrian Pound makes the economic case for investing in better streets for walking and wheeling.

We can support the night time economy. @livingstreets.bsky.social report found boosted retail sales in Shrewsbury by 25% compared to non-pedestrianised areas. London-based studies show a 17% drop in vacancy rates compared to unimproved streets. www.livingstreets.org.uk/policy-repor...

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That I read interview after interview, speech after speech on security, energy, migration, or geopolitics, wondering why climate change wasn‘t mentioned in them at all sums up the job we have to do. None of these issues are monocausal, of course. Without climate, though, they can‘t be addressed.

At long last, we’re launching in Leeds! Ever since I started The Mill, people have asked us to create a publication across the Pennines.

If 500 people pledge to become members, we’re going to hire two journalists and do it. Please share with Leeds friends.

leeds.ghost.io

Our governments and politicians have largely lost interest in the climate crisis. Unfortunately it’s still interested in us. This is going to become extremely unmissable over the next few years

Breaking: China’s CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole. This extends a “flat or falling” trend in China’s CO2 emissions that began in March 2024 and has now lasted for nearly two years.

There is a lot to be said for this letter in today's Times

Any evidence the policy actually is "collapsing into backlash"?

A reminder: ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of energy in their fuel.

EVs are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain making it 3-4x more efficient.

Wait till you hear about Teesside!

Big projects aren’t the whole story. Rooftop solar matters too.

👉 A typical household with solar can cut bills by up to £1,092 a year on smart tariffs.

More clean power is coming - now let’s make sure people feel the benefits at home and in their wallets.

For 100+ years North East workers have relied on well-paid jobs in coal, gas & oil

Labour is creating new green energy jobs but business and workers need support to transition

I asked the Minister how she’ll futureproof supply chains to deliver good, well paid, unionised jobs.

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma Forty-odd residents of Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl, south Wales, relieved by council buyout after years in fear of fast flooding

The relieved residents of this terrace in South Wales are some of the first 'climate evacuees' in the UK, but they won't be the last. This piece is right to point to similar communities on the climate frontline in Hemsby in Norfolk & Fairbourne in North Wales:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...