Fun fact - Transylvania is a bastion of pro-EU sentiment.

Forecasters like BloombergNEF keep predicting solar will hit a wall and they keep being wrong. Forecast in January 2022: Global solar PV installation won't hit 300 GW until 2029. Reality: We added 600 GW of solar capacity ***last year***

This project may end up being the biggest thing I ever did in government, and almost no one knows about it. James does though...

Britain’s crying out for more homes — not a NIMBYs' charter Chris Hinchliff MP Time to stop the excuses and start bloody building.

🧵 You may recall a spate of stories a few years ago about appalling working conditions & abysmally low pay in Leicester's clothes factories. The hope was those stories would shame businesses into improving working conditions. But here's what ACTUALLY happened next... 👇

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Roz Foyer, who has condemned impact that multiple properties have on communities, owns family home in Glasgow, holiday cottage on Jura and an apartment in Spain thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Why I still believe in HS2 (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/why-i-still-…

“If I were in government today.” Blair says it a lot thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

My ears stared burning about 28 minutes in; but as always its a cracker of a episode.

Great piece on the facts of the Government's planning reforms from one of their drafters. This is the key point. The nature orgs know a new approach would be better - they have just caved to pressure from Nimbys to oppose new homes + infra even at the cost of hurting nature.

We all know that courts have too much power over our country's immigration policy. But increasingly they're also telling businesses exactly what to pay their workers. Sounds mad? That’s because it is. And it's going to destroy our economy. A 🧵 on the Equality Act:

Sometimes, I wonder how much the simplest way of dealing with problems is to turn up and fix them. And then I wonder why that isn’t what I think all the time.