Gas currently just 4.5% of the energy mix... 🌬️ 🌞 bsky.app/profile/mygr...

British Electricity Tracker@mygridgb.bsky.social · 14h ago

British electricity mix at 11am on 5th Aug 2026 🔥Gas 4.5% Biomass 4.9% 🍃Wind 34.5% Solar 26.8% Hydro 0.2% ⚛️Nuclear 11.9% ➡️Imports 17.1% Other 0.0% 🪫Storage 0.0% 🔌Generation 33GW 🌍Carbon intensity 73 gCO2e/kWh Gas use very low

We've lost far too many youth/activity clubs, peripatetic youth workers, playing fields & council run sports/play facilities through austerity. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

This is a very interesting counter to so called solutions. Banning young people from online spaces 'may make things worse'. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech | Candice Odgers | Your Body on Tech

TED Health · Episode

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 6d ago

Many trans staff are now choosing to work from home and, in some cases, opting out of using public and work facilities entirely,  @transactualuk.bsky.social told QueerAF

Missing the total solar eclipse on 12 August? We've got you covered. Join our live broadcast on YouTube 📺 🎤 interviews 📹 explainers 🔭 telescope feeds 🚁 drone shots 🔴 live feeds from different locations We've put together an exciting programme for you. 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

Today over 3500 GPs will have qualified to join the workforce There is a huge problem, there aren’t enough jobs, the DHSC & NHSE are failing to fix GP employment They have cut GP practice funding by 20% in 10yrs @andyburnham.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social your issue to fix now

Read Luciana Berger’s appalling first-hand experience of this man. lucianaberger.substack.com/p/kemi-youve...

Kemi. You’ve made a terrible error of judgement.

I woke up in the States this morning to the news that Joshua Bonehill‑Paine has been selected and approved as a Conservative Party council candidate in Crewkerne.

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Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 17h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

The UK government is scrapping Net Zero and environmental criteria from procurement rules.

UK to strip back procurement rules to focus on job creation, says Louise Haigh

Andy Burnham’s de facto deputy PM says requirements for businesses vying for Whitehall contracts will be streamlined

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Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

A tax on the biggest oil and gas corporations could raise up to $400bn in its first year, enough to cover annual climate adaptation costs across every low and middle income country on earth. (Oxfam International) The money exists. The will doesn't. People's suffering will continue. #r4today

Despite scientists' warnings, EU-based oil and gas firms plan to increase overall production from 2.3bn barrels in 2026 to 2.5bn by 2035 (Global Witness) Not winding down. Ramping up. On a burning planet. With record profits to fund it. #r4todsy

This is an interesting update on the Australian blanket ban... @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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The fact that various people are saying Liddle was nice in private speaks to a columnist disease - people having nasty and ugly views once a week for money, with little care for the social consequences. But enjoy that £1 a word!

'Over one-third (35 per cent) of care providers said better pay outside the sector was the main cause of staff leaving in 2024, while three-in-ten (28 per cent) said it was the main difficulty in finding new staff.'

Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · 2d ago

What does current pay for social care workers in the UK look like? Figures suggest that in 2024, 21,300 care workers were paid less than the minimum wage, likely higher once we account for unpaid travel time. More in our report from December➡️ buff.ly/veEOJFN

Rod Liddle has died. The Sun and Spectator gave him a platform for decades. Here's what that platform actually looked like. 🧵

I guess he's just lucky there's no record of him supporting Net Zero

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Why is the public confused about wealth taxes and climate change? Because for 40+ years, lobby groups and think tanks have been paid to confuse them. And it started with Thatcher pulling off one of the greatest financial cons in modern history. 🧵 @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · 3d ago

We have all been gaslit by the lobbyists, the "merchants of doubt", whose while raisin d'etre is to sow uncertainty in the publicind about things that would otherwise be easy, evidence based arguments to make. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk bsky.app/profile/imin...

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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Will Farage be challenged to explain the operational reality of his desperate 'plan' to use the Navy? @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Ash Oro@ashoro.co.uk · 3d ago

1/14 A brief break from #TheHormuzCrisis. I've never really explained why the phrase "put the Navy in the Channel" to stop #SmallBoat crossings isn't, in itself, a serious maritime strategy. It sounds decisive. From a maritime perspective though, it raises far more questions than it answers.

Finland's education system is highly ranked and employs very little pupil testing under 16. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Finland’s Student Assessment Model Explained — TechClass

Explore how Finland assesses student learning without standardized testing, focusing on formative assessment, teacher autonomy, and student well-being.

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This will be a much needed reprioritisation of creative subjects in the school curriculum. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

‘Huge step in the right direction’: arts leaders hail move to boost creative subjects in England’s schools

Cultural figures hope proposed shake-up of curriculum can reverse years of ‘madness’ in which arts were devalued

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Don’t ask why Ukraine is unwilling to just cede the land that Russia has taken by force. Read how 🇷🇺 coerces 🇺🇦 citizens & children to force them to become the pipeline for military service where they would be fighting their own countrymen. It’s obscene theconversation.com/we-investiga...

We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined

International law forbids the indoctination and militarisation of children in occupied territories.

theconversation.com

Really good thread explaining the operational reality of Farage's 'plan' 🧵

Ash Oro@ashoro.co.uk · 3d ago

1/14 A brief break from #TheHormuzCrisis. I've never really explained why the phrase "put the Navy in the Channel" to stop #SmallBoat crossings isn't, in itself, a serious maritime strategy. It sounds decisive. From a maritime perspective though, it raises far more questions than it answers.

Your regular reminder that this is only the early stages of climate change and if we don't act soon we will trigger changes that no-one can limit or control as feedback loops kick in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert

Some 19 major Italian cities - including Rome, Milan and Naples - are already on red alert, and by Monday all but two will be.

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Sorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.

Politics latest: Reform wants to use Navy to stop small boats after Burnham vows to be 'relentless' in tackling crossings

Reform UK says a Nigel Farage-led government would send the Royal Navy into the Channel to intercept all migrant boats - and is accused by Labour of "reheating" old proposals. Follow the latest.

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