David Joffe

No Kudus is, erm, an interesting call

As a Spurs fan, I can only agree with your characterisation of Angeball as playing “on the edge and yet the benefits of doing so never quite become apparent”

The UK's goal of 95% clean power by 2030 might sound Herculean.

But the UK has made more progress than many people think: it's already on 74%.

New official figures out today
www.gov.uk/government/s...

Chart showing that Great Britain has been fully powered by clean energy for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date. Number of hours per year when clean-electricity generation was sufficient to cover 100% of demand. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of NESO data.

NEW – Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam

Read here: buff.ly/9QmKaqu

Huddlestone was magnificent at it, especially as he was feeding it into the stride of Bale and Lennon 🤩

Got 29. Forgot Chelsea 😂

Defenders don’t know where they’re going to end up?

Lol at the idea that Big Sam is the opposite of Arteta

Understood. Won’t stop me finding the ads annoying though!

If you're doing the Patreon - you definitely should - finding a way to give those folks ad-free access to all the podcasts and newsletters (rather than just the additional pod) would be great... I detest ads, and will happily pay double your per-person ad revenue to avoid them

This is excellent, Alan

Scroll your phone and you’ll see a London of fear and decline.

Walk its streets and you’ll find a city where difference is a strength and communities look out for one another.

The reality will outlast the fiction.

Welcome back - we missed you!

Do we have to keep it secret?

Nice to meet you last night, Jon. Look forward to seeing what you found to talk about this morning!

I bow to @windycoys.bsky.social, but I think these decisions are sound as they prioritise player devt & don’t just keep players for ‘depth’ (esp if TF doesn’t actually trust them enough to select them now).

Prob only Moore and Vusko would’ve got any starts in the PL/CL & still way less than on loan

Here's a link that gets past the paywall: archive.is/PZTO3 @fascinatorfun.bsky.social

COYS

AI-generated picture of the Sonny statue

Nice one Sonny, absolute legend.

You can build the statue now @tottenhamhotspur.com #coys

This slope on this chart is INSANE

I use a key!

Or you could just 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

Agree. Kinda gutted tho

BIG UK RENEWABLE NEWS

⌛Next govt auction will hand out 20y CfDs, not 15y (lower £/MWh)
🔎Govt can change budget after auction to get GW they want
✅Offshore wind without full planning consent can apply
📝Withdrawn GW can't reapply in AR7
🏗️Onshore wind repowering can apply

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Britain’s air has become dramatically cleaner in the past decade as levels of two major pollutants have fallen by about a third, scientists at the University of Reading have found.

(darker purple circles are bigger decreases)

@ben-cooke.bsky.social reports
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

While extremes are the new norm, it's important to realise that this level of warming is not - the world will keep on heating up and becoming more and more extreme, until we hit net zero CO2 emissions.

State of UK Climate Report finds weather extremes now the norm in the UK | The Wildlife Trusts New report released today makes for stark reading. Ambitious action must be taken to tackle the dual nature and climate crisis

State of UK climate from the @metoffice.gov.uk shows that summer temperature extremes are changing twice as fast as average temperatures, winters are getting wetter, sea level rise is accelerating, and wildlife is being impacted across the whole country.
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/state-u...

NEW – OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/OTbsfLG

He's been on the Committee since 2023, he just wasn't chair until now

I remember the first time I encountered that the regulatory mechanism/DNO modelling had to assume that a co-located BESS (with PV) would be exporting at solar peak (i.e. a worst case scenario) - obviously absolutely mad, and maddening.

Good to see the DESNZ policy paper action on this.