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The reason the Amber Valley by-election isn't declaring until tomorrow afternoon is that the counting hall had already been booked for a wedding. You try telling the bride she's not the most important thing happening there today.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 07/10/2026

Where can future jobs in Aberdeen come from? Further offshore wind projects need to wait for grid upgrades, while reigniting stalled hydrogen or carbon capture projects will take time. In the meantime, decommissioning – making safe the rigs, wells & pipelines – could act as a bridge for workers.

Chart showing number of active and closed oil and gas fields, by North Sea zone.
Thee Central North Sea (CNS), the region
closest to Aberdeen, is the area with most promise for decomissioning work.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This morning in Holborn & St Pancras - explicitly antisemitic literature being distributed alongside Green Party leaflets (I don’t know who by, I suspect not by anyone from the Green Party but just from the racist rabble they’ve mobilised). The leaflet attacked the Labour candidate for meeting Jews.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Abandoned Morris Minor, Glencar, County Sligo, Ireland, 1981, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).

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Ken Penton @kenpenton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very noticeable that the words “climate”and “change” aren’t mentioned once in this piece. Labour energy policy ‘crazy’, union leader says as he urges drilling www.thetimes.com/article/a010...

thetimes.com

Labour energy policy ‘crazy’, union leader says as he urges drilling

Gary Smith, GMB general secretary, argues that blocking oil and gas field projects will ruin investment and trigger a fresh wave of strikes

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Remember this is the counterfactual for European countries that have invested heavily in renewables, not the US.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

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Ken Penton @kenpenton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

USS - like all other shareholders - have written off their investment in Thames. Not sure if they ever invested in SE Water.

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Timelapse of the big @pragmacharge.bsky.social hub we built in Valencia - Europe's biggest with 50 bays. Now operating along with a smaller hub in Felixstowe - 48 more hubs to go by 2030. #NoMoreDiesel #TimeToElectrify #ElectricFreight #EuropeRising #PragmaCharge

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There has been a big increase in electric truck sales in Norway since I did this thread just over a year ago. Around 25% market share so far in 2026. Not so long ago people said trucks were too big to run on batteries.

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Ken Penton @kenpenton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

thetimes.com

Labour energy policy ‘crazy’, union leader says as he urges drilling

Gary Smith, GMB general secretary, argues that blocking oil and gas field projects will ruin investment and trigger a fresh wave of strikes

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026

Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cope from some Man City fans is that the sham sponsorship income meant the club overstated revenue and so overpaid corporation tax. So they are due a refund! Awesome! Um, no. City paid *zero* corporation tax because they lost buckets of money. The receipts:

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After disastrous opening weeks British Museum excels itself by turning away Bayeux Tapestry tickeholders to accommodate a corporate sponsor ….still i suppose it is chaired by George Osborne British Museum turns away Bayeux Tapestry visitors for corporate event www.thetimes.com/article/2c85...

thetimes.com

British Museum turns away Bayeux Tapestry visitors for corporate event

Angry ticket holders accuse the gallery of putting corporate sponsors ahead of the public after they were shut out of the exhibition

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 30/09/2026

Keeping young Londoners safe on our roads is a priority. That’s why TfL is launching Navigators, a new programme helping 16 to 18-year-olds become safer, more confident road users. With over a thousand schools now at Gold level, London is leading the way.

yourharlow.com

Transport for London launches new road safety education programme for teens as record numbers of schools show commitment to safer travel - Your Harlow

WITH the new academic year underway, Transport for London (TfL) is celebrating a record number of schools that have gained or retained Gold accreditation…

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Andy Jolley @andyjolley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a really positive move by Angela Eagle I’d love to see DfE build on the policy and pilot Community eligibility Properly fund schools in areas of high deprivation so they can provide free meals to all their pupils www.gov.uk/government/n...

gov.uk

Government acts on food insecurity and affordability with £10 million to put good food within reach

Almost £10 million will be invested in 45 communities across England to improve access to healthy, affordable food in areas with the highest levels of deprivation

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eleven days before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, Egypt's intelligence chief made a secret mission to Israel to warn officials of a possible assault. He was on the ground just 67 minutes, so intent he had to come in person. Vivian Salama has the receipts. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

theatlantic.com

Egypt’s Warning to Israel

Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026

Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water

The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Molly Lempriere @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

As petrol and diesel prices surge in the wake of the continued attacks on Russian refineries and escalating tensions in the Middle East, it is now nine times cheaper to drive an EV than a diesel car in the UK, This means EV drivers save ~£80 when "filling up" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New oil and gas projects are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. End of story. "governments plan to produce about more than double (120%) the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and 77% more than would be consistent with 2°C"

productiongap.org

2025 Press - Production Gap

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It might be tempting to beleive Donald is blaming Russia for something. He calls it a “war” and says Russia lost control which is as close to critiquing Prez as he is likely to get. In fact he's shifting blame for his failing Iran war onto Ukraine whom he blames for defending themselves.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is both really obvious and seemingly often forgotten that an awful load of pressing economic problems would be an order of magnitude easier if the Strait of Hormuz was open.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*this is a sub-epistle*

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Abolishing inheritance tax would be a mistake. There are better taxes to cut. Evidence that IHT significantly discourages saving is limited; there's stronger evidence of an effect the other way - large inheritances lead heirs to work less. And it's right we tax wealth.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

President Obama, "Imagine if I had pulled Fox News's credentials from the White House Press corp. You're laughing but this is what's happening" "Who are we as a country and what values do we stand for?"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BBC News - "The Smith's Johnny Marr's guitars sell for almost £4m at auction...100% of the hammer price of 31 lots... donated to two charities: The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society" What a top fella. Achieving national treasure status (if he wasn't already)

bbc.co.uk

The Smith's Johnny Marr's guitars sell for almost £4m at auction

One instrument was used on the The Smiths' debut album and also appeared on the cover of Oasis's debut single.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024

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Cllr John Morris @plaistovian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

West Ham Park People Friendly Streets scheme has been named a finalist for Community Engagement Project of the Year at the National Travel Awards 2026. This recognition reflects the extensive, sustained and evidence-led consultation that went into the project – far more than a tick-box exercise.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Australia’s first grid-connected, industrial-scale sodium-sulfur battery has been switched on, demonstrating the novel long-duration storage technology under real-life conditions. reneweconomy.com.au/australian-f...

reneweconomy.com.au

"Australian first" grid-connected sodium-sulfur battery powers up, just as supplier halts production

Australia’s first grid-connected, industrial-scale sodium-sulfur battery will support materials processing plant and demonstrate novel long-duration storage tech.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/impl...

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Ken Penton @kenpenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think the key will be the bleeped out names of those that Jukes claimed had already donated in this way. I assume Verbatim will be able to provide this to both the Electoral Commission and Met Police.

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Ken Penton @kenpenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good fact-checking - glad to see we are both right! Alas it turns out I was wrong about the plastic surgeons: Seoul is the plastic surgery capital - per head - of the world, with Buenos Aires second according to this source www.madisonps.com/blog/global-...

madisonps.com

Global Plastic Surgery Statistics: Country-by-Country Breakdown - Madison Plastic Surgery

Inside the World of Cosmetic Surgery: Global Trends and Country Leaders

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know:

theguardian.com

Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform

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