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The day before the Iberian blackout there was something very funky going on in GB The frequency data show strange behaviours c3am and 6pm on Sunday. The 3am stuff tripped off the Keadby 2 power station and Viking interconnector. Viking cited control and protection as the reason

The real divide was never fascism vs socialism. It’s control vs liberty. Central Planning vs Individual Planning. The state vs the individual. Two flags. Same playbook.

Strange. There were no Trump tariffs in Q1.

Spot on. I urge friends and colleagues to sell any Drax shares as highly immoral investments.

Below is the BBC claiming a new Wind Farm will power more than 1.3 million homes. The very next day the UK Wind Farm fleet is working at 5% of claimed capacity so maybe 65,000 homes. One for BBC Verify.... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We have a politicised judiciary, politicised civil service and politicised public services. It is no longer possible to credibly deny these facts. People can see how the upper echelons of public life have been captured by ideologues, and they don't like it. It will not end well.

Great thread

Thoughtful, as ever, from Juliet Samuels: thetimes.com/comment/column…

Short & simple illustration of government failure:

Defined benefit public sector pensions cost £60 billion a year to the taxpayer and rising. They were devised when people had 5 years of retirement. At 20+ years of retirement, they undermine national finances.

🤨It seems far fetched to think energy companies misunderstand energy markets. 🤦🏻‍♂️But I’m old enough to remember the Global Financial Crisis, when we learned banks didn’t understand their business…

Despite Brexit....one day someone will say "because of Brexit'

No, every council needs relief from the specific statutory duties that force them to spend their entire budget on a specific set of people.

Net Zero was undoubtedly a significant contributor to the electoral collapse of Labour and Conservatives yesterday. By 2029, its effect will only have grown larger still.

The Labour Party should not be pushing disinformation; this is so dishonest and lowers our belief in our institutions.

I'm no fan of Reform, but at least this crap from Labour isn't working... 🙄 (The costings are silly and the whole point of insurance is that insurance pays the bills) #RuncornByElection

I sometimes feel AEP is over-optimistic; in this case I do hope he is right: telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

Just wow!

Excellent thread by Archie Hall on factual evidence for our collective feeling we are in decline:

Another great thread (some really informative threads recently); someone has to make sure this gets considered by the new council in Durham: