And I was trying to keep it quiet …

‘In the run-up to COP26 we will bring forward … our overarching Net Zero Strategy, which will set out more detail on how we will meet our net zero target and ambitious carbon budgets.’ (Energy White Paper, Dec 2020) Are we going to get this?

When your friend says: “I don’t agree with all that Covid conspiracy stuff, but …” Sigh.

“I’m off to bed” - Translation: I’m off to lie down and worry about the future and also to worry about every mistake I’ve ever made, no matter how great or small, and to go over all the embarrassing moments from my past that I’ll never ever forget. Night night.

Worth sharing again

The problem with this announcement is that some people continue to test positive after Covid for up to 90 days. It appears I may be one of them … still testing positive on day 8. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

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Where have I heard 52/48% before?

Gerry Lynch My view is that the only reasonable argument about Begum is to point out that she's a UK problem and the UK has responsibility not to expect other countries to clean up its mess for it.

Those BBC negotiations in full: “Delete the tweets” “No” “Okay, well, apologise for them” “No” “We’ll get somebody else in to do your job if you don’t” *Everyone downs tools* “Will you at least promise not to tweet political stuff in the future?” “No” “Okay, we have a deal”

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This is to howl into the void, but I wish those Ministers criticising Just Stop Oil would acknowledge, even in passing, why they are protesting.

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When it comes to lack of action on climate, the issue is not about confused, angry, generally older men, nor weirdo conspiracy peddlers with avatar Twitter names. The real issue is that the vast majority of ordinary, sensible people still don’t *get* that this is the defining

I do expect politicians to do politics, but today’s oil drilling announcement is astonishing … a crude and cynical attempt to drag the future of the planet into an election culture war.

The stink of Tory politics.

Your regular reminder that country is run by extremely strange men with boarding school syndrome

Shameless nonsense from the leaflet of my Tory candidate, the incumbent MP.