Andrea Leadsom: “In the short term I would love to see us doing more to insulate homes. It’s low hanging fruit in the energy sector” Yeah, a group was campaigning for more of this. Your government obtained court orders to prevent them from bringing more attention to it #C4News

The plan is to burn 15,000 pallets of PPE (that we bought, much of it from associates of Ministers, for five times the normal price) a month.

Johnson has descended to citing the Kremlin to claim he’s doing a good job. Irony is dead.

Right now there’s no shortage of oil or gas in the world. It’s still flowing out of Russia. And right now the cost of producing oil and gas hasn’t increased. Most electricity has no reason to go up in price. So the price increases that are happening are all down to profit taking.

Now that Covid is over (🤦‍♂️) let's look at how the High Income Countries have performed. ▪️Covid deaths ▪️Excess deaths ▪️Mortality rates ▪️Vaccination Rates ▪️Loss of freedoms ▪️Economy. How did your country do? 🧵

We are now in the perverse situation where those who are on renewable energy tariffs in the UK are subsidising those on carbon fuel-based tariffs. Talk about getting all the incentives wrong.....this is absurd.

There’s something really perverse in the fact that the likes of Nigel Farage and Steve Barker kept arguing that it was green energy pushing up energy prices when, as is now obvious, green energy is by far the cheapest to produce and it’s gas that’s pushing up our energy bills.

Here it is. This is the clip from yesterday's CNN interview where I'm asked - for first time ever - about Brexit-Trump-Russia. "These vital questions of national security have been interpreted as about politics. And it's not about politics. It's about power. And about Putin."

That £2.6m Downing Street briefing room refit? A firm called Megahertz carried out the crucial work, installing computers, cameras, microphones and control desk. Megahertz is owned by Okno-TV. Based in Moscow. At the time, No10 said they had ‘absolutely’ no security concerns.

NEW: Johnson's relationship with Lebedev snr, isn't a scandal. It's a profound national security failure. We need to understand Skripal poisoning was a mass murder narrowly averted. And Johnson's illicit meeting with Kremlin proxy begs urgent questions theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…

Note to BBC : Please do a full-length interview with Carole Cadwalladr. Peak-time viewing would be best. This is what public service broadcasting is for.

I’m pleased Boris Johnson now accepts, as some of us argued back in 2014, that our feeble response to the annexation of Crimea by Russia was a dangerous mistake, but back then he was part of the problem, claiming it was the EU’s fault not Putin’s. Liars can’t rewrite history.

During WW2, countries switched to a wartime footing, producing 100,000s of tanks and planes. Why couldn't they do a similar thing now, but for solar panels, wind turbines and other renewable energy components? Make it a patriotic duty to eliminate the need for Russian oil.

I see we are talking about wind not always blowing. Again. So, I want to let you in on a little secret of the wind industry: we know. We've always known. And no one is pretending either a) it always blows, or b) we will only use 100% wind power.

We need urgent investigation into both evidence in Russia Report of Russian interference in UK elections & about PM's decision to ignore security advice and cosy up to Russian oligarchs When brave people of #Ukraine are dodging bullets & bombs, we should not be dodging the truth

Pippa Crerar Let's be clear, this is NOT a Gov. triumph, this is the Gov. being dragged kicking and screaming into doing the right thing because they now need to lay their hands on a lot of oil quickly to plug the Russian shortfall. They could have done this 6 years ago!

According to the latest ONS figures, Somerset West & Taunton area has now the highest Covid infection rate in England and Wales, at 1140 cases per 100,000 population! No time to ditch precautions!

🚨"I'm interested in one thing and one thing only and that's bent prime ministers."🚨

The pandemic has exposed some libertarians’ ideology for what it actually is: freedom to exploit the vulnerable without any accountability.