Solar energy is proving techno-optimists right.

The British Green party opposing yet another rail project, demonstrating once again that it is completely unserious about decarbonisation. The Greens are far more united by Nimbyism than by any appetite for actually doing the things necessary to make the UK less carbon intensive

Why on earth do players with an injury so serious that the game needs to be stopped (but receive no treatment) not have to go off the pitch before the game is re-started? Relatedly, would anything improve football more than just properly cracking down on diving and simulation?

Very interesting Rachel Reeves remarks on Heathrow expansion standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

🚨 EXIT POLL 🚨 Imagine what it would feel like to see this at 10pm today. Change will only happen if you vote Labour.

Here's a remarkable stat: There are more people in the Commons who were in Gordon Brown's last cabinet (2010) than were in Boris Johnson's cabinet when he resigned (2022). Five vs three.

This is very good news.

“What’s invented by human ingenuity is never disinvented by human anxiety.” The nub of political challenge on tech. AI is transformative.For those of us who take the world as it is not as we wish it to be, harnessing it must be political mission of our time. #futureofbritain

I am a big fan of devolution, but sometimes worry that it can look like a wonky hobby horse with unclear objectives. I think this formulation helps - devolution is about tailoring (knowing communities), efficiency (better decisions), and accountability (skin in the game). 1/2

Voter volatility is a political opportunity for @uklabour. Reconnect people to politics. Show what government can do. Give people something to vote for. There’s no reason that can’t be a second Labour majority in 5 years time. Work on that starts now.

Map of #GE2024 by 2nd Placed Party: CON: 293 LAB: 105 RFM: 98 SNP: 48 GRN: 40 LDM: 27 INDs: 13 DUP: 6 ALL: 5 PLC: 4 WPGB: 3 SF: 3 SDLP: 3 UUP: 1

There can't be many rooms where Pat McFadden gets a bigger reception than will.i.am. But what a brilliant way to round out the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change #FutureofBritain conference.

Labour made a big mistake in 2010 when it disowned its past. Pat McFadden tells #FutureofBritain he corrected that in the campaign - but told the team not to live in it. “We now need to write a new chapter. We’re only on the first page.”

I actually can't believe we're forcing him out and not letting him go on his own terms.

What are politically motivated, state school kids from working class backgrounds meant to do, aged 17, when they’ve got good grades and are staring down university choices? Let’s celebrate social mobility rather than denigrate it.

LOL! Donald Trump donated to Kamala Harris in 2011. Even he thinks she’s a great pick for office!

Great piece of writing by Peter Hessler on freelance China writing. “Brendan O’Kane, another American writer who started out as a teacher in China, has referred to himself and other members of our generation as “feral sinologists.” Foreigners often arrived with minimal training,

Manchester should bid for the Olympics in 2036. It already has a world class stadium and a velodrome in close proximity. Plus a bunch of other pitches that can be used for hockey, and a park for mountain biking/horse stuff. Then we'll have to build HS2.

Back of an envelope cancellation #HS2 has cost taxpayer £2nd we can’t get back As National Audit Office highlighted last week there will be less seats heading from #Manchester via #Midlands to #London Upgrade #WCML is so costly, disruptive & complex it will never happen New line = answer

This is staggering: in 2022, Thames Water discovered it had 312 storm overflows that it hadn’t been monitoring! That’s like Tesco finding out it has almost double the number of supermarkets it thought it had. OFWAT says number of sewage spills was “significantly higher”…