🚄🇪🇺 Europe is picking up speed. #HighSpeedRail

An inspired, and meritocratic, choice

This is a very worrying and serious (albeit foreseeable) development. Anyone or any country who/ which says they care about climate science needs to step up and support Jim Skea and the wider IPCC process.

A quarter of Britain’s native plants now at risk of extinction The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species, but there are some reasons for hope. Adam Vaughan thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Analysis: The lack of diversity in climate-science research | @ayeshatandon Joe Goodman w/comment from Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @kasukuwapwani 🌎 ✊@lisaschipper.bsky.social Minal Pathak @prof_fsultana Hoang Vuong Marton Demeter Fernanda Adame #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/lTwRwvc

Getting electricity prices down means facing up to some tough realities about non-commodity costs and reforming the market to enable a more efficient use of our fixed-cost infrastructure so that we don’t have to endlessly keep building more to cover up for bad market design.

"Choose a lane and celebrate it! Say 'this is what I genuinely believe, it might go wrong, but I'm going to go for it.'" emily m and Jon Sopel call for more courage in UK politics - the kind shown across the pond by Mamdani.

UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming | Ayesha Tandon Cecilia Keating UN Environment Programme Read here: buff.ly/U0XaME9

Historic moment for the House of Lords as it appoints the first female Clerk of the Parliaments since the role began 700 years ago. Chloe Mawson was already the first female Clerk Assistant since that role was created in 1640 but from next year she will step up into the top job.

When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them. Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment. snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is-a…

Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC in London is preposterous. He remains in breach of English High Court orders in a case he brought and lost against Orbis 18 months ago. So any further abuse of the UK courts by him for such legal tourism and intimidation should be prohibited.

Yes, spot on. ⁦⁦UK Prime Minister⁩ note please. Whilst mainly about Ukraine, she also talks of Trump. IMP his suing of the BBC News (UK) is another watershed which cannot be met with caution and dithering. theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/1…

Everything you need to know about Southern Water treating the environment and the south coast of England as their own private cesspit. 👇

More than a quarter of households (27%) that are home to a child with a health condition are unable to keep their home warm, according to new analysis of Government data from the ECIU. eciu.net/media/press-re…

All our regulated industries need to be examined given that most of their regulation is failing. One aspect of importance is how Regulators and their Boards are chosen.

Vogtle was the most expensive #nuclear plant ever. Hinkley is not complete yet but I suspect it is already beating Vogtle even on a  per kW basis. Latest estimate for Hinkley was £35bn in 2015 money which is £48.6bn now - $64.15 billion.

He should never have been there in the first place. Johnson damaged public life in so many ways and this was one of them. We are now reaping what they have sowed. Labour government should back the BBC, support it against Trump and fight back harder against the right wing forces

“Fearless journalism is what terrifies politicians, and it must not be cowed." The BBC must stand up to Trump's $1 billion lawsuit - or risk legitimising the president's false narrative of what really happened on January 6 thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-the…

Very good news Alan Whitehead

Very good news Alan Whitehead