Allowing mayors to keep a share of local income tax is unashamedly pro-growth and will remove anchors that have held back the UK’s cities for decades. It will be the most significant and welcome transfer of fiscal powers since the foundation of the modern welfare state.

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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FFS - The Times used to be a vaguely serious paper. (Chart shows 5 days of movement on ten year gilts).

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2w ago

Borrowing costs rise after Andy Burnham speech

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Great 🧵 from the legend that is @janrosenow.bsky.social 👇. Another point to add: solar PV and A/C are natural bedfellows. I currently have an air-to-air A/C feeding two outlets in my loft using c.10% of the electricity I'm generating...

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 4w ago

Air conditioning has become the latest front in the energy culture war. Depending on who you ask, it is either wasteful excess we must resist or the only sensible response and anyone urging caution is a zealot. A few thoughts in this 🧵

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Fascinating dig into an issue that's puzzled me for months by @elanhead.com - great read too! Opinions split at FAA over prospect of early commercial eVTOL ops - theaircurrent.com/regulation/f...

Opinions split at FAA over prospect of early commercial eVTOL ops

Mixed messages from FAA officials signal lack of agreement on revenue operations under eVTOL Integration Pilot Program

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🇺🇸2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ and a 🗺️ An impressive flight path so far by this Cessna Skylane. 4.5 hours and counting. www.flightradar24.com/N4936T/407bf...

Tottenham hasn't bought a player for hours. Has Levy seized back control? #COYS

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Walthamstow a reminder we have our regular monthly open meeting to raise any issue in person with me on Thursday 25 June at 7pm in a central Walthamstow venue - only Walthamstow residents can attend and for security purposes you must register so please rsvp to my office by tomorrow morning.

Also, how incredibly unprepared relatively new infrastructure is. Took my 7yo daughter to @Westfield Stratford yesterday for her birthday/to avoid the heat. Absolute furnace 🤯🫠

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last mo.

I've been profoundly aware of urban design the last couple of days: how parks and trees on streets make the city tolerable in these temperatures.

Solar PV and A/C can and should go hand in hand...

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · last mo.

To cool or not to cool: French politicians draw battle lines over aircon - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... It's surely a gigantic own goal for greens and the left to become the anti AC bloc. The moment you hear of children or the elderly suffering for this dogma, that's the politics done

Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

For as long as I live and have breath in my body I will have zero tolerance for those who dismiss the damage sexism does to our society. Don’t sit this out and let farage’s nonsense become the norm. Fight for a better future for all.

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:

John Champion: "she'd need to give a ticket to everyone in Mexico to become popular". Reality: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte.... Shoddy commentary. #worldcup26

How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?

The long read: Claudia Sheinbaum started as an activist. Now she is Mexico’s president. Has she stayed true to her ideals?

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Paul Cochrane@mrdissent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Struggling with John Champion and Ally McCoists casual sexism slagging the female President of Mexico. “She gave away her ticket to become popular but it didn’t work” Said by a very confident pair of Brits Yet www.as-coa.org/articles/app...

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

The difference between Russia/Qatar and the USA is Russia/Qatar used the World Cup to hide their human rights abuses, and the USA are using it to flaunt them

Andrew Edwards@redordeadedd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to the USA on managing to be worse hosts that Qatar and Russia. Quite the achievement.

Hang on. Where are the endless posts and videos of Nigel Farage fighting someone on Question Time? What is this place? #newbie #byebyeX

Tottenham Hotspur have sacked head coach Thomas Frank. More from @david-ornstein.bsky.social

Thomas Frank sacked by Tottenham

Spurs are winless in their last eight league games and have won just two of their last 17.

nytimes.com

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