100% this. FWIW I think a single earner on minimum wage should be able to buy a cheap terraced house in Chatham, as was the case when I was a kid, growing up there, in that sort of family. Build more f***ing houses! More power to @stephenkb.bsky.social

Priorities.

Here's a chart of the marginal tax rate for someone with two kids. They pay 53% tax on every £ they earn between £60k and £80k. 62% on every £ they earn between £100k and £125k.

9% more if they've a student loan

This is from our tax calculator: buff.ly/CFoExUX

Europe is falling short in its quest for global economic clout [FREE TO READ] Brussels is struggling to adapt to a conflict-ridden world trading system

My Trade Secrets column today. How’s the EU’s big push for geoeconomic clout going? Not well. It’s used to dictating terms through its global role in consumer demand, but these are days when the control of supply (chips, rare earths) often matters more. 1/2

Supporters of the change say that the subsidies, which can be as high as £7,500, were largely going to middle-class households that could have afforded them anyway. Energy industry experts, however, warn that by taking the

What I find so depressing about this idea is that if there was ever an obvious argument for coherent, consistent industrial policy it's heating transition.

And whoever is briefing "middle class people can afford them anyway" doesn't understand behavioral economics or the nature of systemic change.

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and Farage is egging him on.

To all those who love the BBC, now is the time to speak up.

Solar keeps blowing past expectations, but expectations are catching up. The latest IEA WEO now has PV topping 600 GW per year, though this year's scenarios are actually lower than last year's.

Greenpeace calls on Toyota to stop greenwashing biofuel vehicles - Greenpeace East Asia As the world converges at COP30 to confront the climate crisis, Greenpeace has condemned Toyota’s misleading promotion of biofuel-powered prototype vehicles as a decarbonisation solution.

Toyota is using #COP30 to promote biofuel cars, but the science is clear: crop-based biofuels are a false solution that threaten forests, food security and the 1.5°C limit.

The world needs real zero-emission vehicles, not greenwashed detours.

The Prime Minister must pick up the phone now to Donald Trump. We have 24 hours to stop Trump’s billion-dollar raid on British licence fee payers.

We’ve written to the PM, calling on him to demand that Trump drop his ludicrous $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

"...the faithful have, on the whole, come to see the [US Conference of Catholic Bishops] as an apologist for Trump"

This is a misleading subtitle. If a technique made a model more capable *and* more interpretable, that would be a really big deal. But that’s not the case here.

No better summary of our planning system and many of the problems we face as a country

Bath padel courts plan is withdrawn after council complaints One city councillor describes the sound of the racquet sport as

"There are no padel courts anywhere in Bath because the council has refused to grant planning permission for any - even when it is the council itself proposing the plans."

Perfection.

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Epstein survivor: “It strikes me as odd that this was a campaign promise of Trump, and he has backpedaled on that...

This is an issue that has been highly politicized when it's not a political issue whatsoever.”

I think we all know why the White House has politicized this.

COP30 STATUS UPDATE: We're tracking 117 substantive agenda items in Belém – and there's clear progress

7 – agreed
27 – draft text
12 – informal text
57 – not agreed/ no text
14 – postponed

Check our text tracker for more

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Paramount Skydance Is Being Bold (Which I Love!)...And They Made a Huge Mistake The Most Important Story of the Week for 5-Nov-2025

It’s not often that a major streamers follows my advice to a “t”, but Paramount Skydance did! I didn’t think they should sell off assets (they haven’t yet) and I wanted them to be aggresive...and they are!

So I ranked their strategy moves...

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I genuinely don’t think people realize that datacenters and what they accomplish (hyperscalers) are genuinely a far more efficient way to do the computation required for modern life. Limiting datacenters is not more efficient and does not consume less power for the same amount of compute.

Microsoft: an Xbox is now really just a pc in every way! Well, except without your Steam library

Valve: interesting

Nice try Democrats, but not even releasing a bunch of the Epstein documents is going to trick Americans into reading.

BREAKING: Trump reportedly met with Epstein in 2019 in London, per House Oversight Committee.

Trump previously said he stopped talking to Epstein in 2004.

In 2019, Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.

The Global Carbon Budget provides estimates of both emissions and sinks (where the CO2 we emit goes). The sum of emissions should equal the sum of sinks, but because they are measured separately using different approaches they don't always completely add up:

A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions.

If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage? The radical right is also the enemy of journalism

"If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?"

Nick Cohen with an excellent critique of what's been wrong with BBC journalism for a long time, in pandering to right-wing parties.

Research that shows why people like Robbie Gibb and his backers were so desperate to grab the reins at the BBC and harness it to their interests... and why we must protect it and restore it to health

A former Plaid Cymru Chief Executive is now being paid £190k a year as the BBC's Nations Director. This is living proof that the BBC is infected with left-wing bias right to the top-

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.

So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.