Rob Glover

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

@skudsister.bsky.social hopefully things are a little calmer with your book group!

I have a new essay in the newly relaunched IPPR Progressive Journal. It’s intended as a sober assessment of the political economy of Britain’s energy challenge, as we move from the old, dying fossil fuel system to the new world of electrification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Trump, the climate president

Potentially significant breakthrough as lithium extracted and processed in Cornwall is used to produce batteries for the first time. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535619...

Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.

Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."

Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”

A pioneering scheme to reuse turbines from one of Britain’s first wind power projects has sent less than 0.1 per cent to landfill

Energy chat on Twitter (or X, of Nazi hell site of doom, whatever your preferred name) is going to very funny places. Note: this is in reaction to Octopus Energy running a marketing campaign to push the residential flexibility services it can call on as part of a high profile event. Totally normal.

Not sure how the woke leftists managed to do this but what a disgusting start to the day.

Thanks "Sunny Jim" from Private Eve, I'm going to remember this analogy for geoengineering next time I hear someone bring it up.

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

At Berlin Pride they were celebrating love, freedom, and the right to be themselves. That is why they were attacked and it is why attackers like this will fail in their ultimate aim. Hatred of human freedom has never yet extinguished it completely and it never will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

Game on, Nige.

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is quitting X -- significantly her department is too, she says.

I honestly can't see what Kiet Starmer did that was so unforgivably wrong that his own party has pushed him out. Yes, he was a weak communicator. Was that it? Really?

Absolutely disgusting. So many, many people have just lost all sense of decency.

We all need to resist attempts like this to politicise Henry Nowak’s death and divide our country - whether they come from MAGA politicians like Vance or their cronies here in the UK.

This is another great article in a long line from Michael Liebreich. Packed with facts and statistics, it repays careful reading.

A third of the children in the UK are non-white. Shakespeare and Homer are not going to remain cultural pillars if you tell a third of the class they can never play Hamlet, or Odysseus, or Helen, or Juliet. open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US. Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share. Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...

Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...

I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.

All the land for miles around, bathed in nuclear radiation! The fear!

The government should approve more drilling, but on the condition that if it fails to lead to a fall in energy costs everyone who implied that it would should be made to go and get the oil and gas they insist is out there using a black and decker and a lifeboat.

"Tiger, tiger, driving shite On the freeways of the night"

Quantum Tunnelling

Can we at least all agree that Trump’s strategy of insulting as many allies as possible before starting his war against Iran is not going well at all?

Spot on correct. And if sharing this bars me from entry to the USA, so be it.

One of so many reasons I could not cut it in politics: I would not be able to bring myself to go “sorry, you needed…how many years notice to know when you needed to retire?”

This looks like the cover of John Christopher's World In Winter.

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...

This made my day

Here is the full text of the charter of the Trump “Board of Peace” It is a Trump grift for World Domination. For him, and his heir’s. Extortion. Greed. Not a single person should have anything to do with it. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

What the fuck is going on

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

Here's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...

Paradise.

Remember the 1990s, when we all worried about how rich and powerful Bill Gates was, and his goal was he wanted to eradicate polio?

The Lords agreed to allocate extra time to debate the amendments to the Assisted Dying Bill. But with more than 1,000 to work through, progress remains glacially slow. Time is running out — both for the Bill itself, and for the terminally ill people. #AssistedDyingBill humanists.uk/2026/01/09/o...

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

I'm so delighted that I complied with the Online Safety Act, blocking an accessibility feature on my site from UK users to 'protect the children' while Elon Musk's site can just generate CSAM with total impunity.

Bradford Literature Festival and Waterstones celebrate over a decade of collaboration and success.📚 🎊 Read all about it: https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/news/blf-and-waterstones-celebrating-over-a-decade-of-collaboration/ #BradfordLitFest #Waterstones