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@mikebayley52.bsky.social
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UK-based, interested in decarbonisation, nature, and sports.

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 14h
Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.
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Mike @mikebayley52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The idea would charge consumers less for a set amount of “essential” use and more once their consumption crossed that level" Love this idea in principle, what are the downsides? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The EV market really is absolutely flying. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536682...
businessgreen.com
'Major achievement': Almost five new EVs sold in the UK every minute in September
UK car industry hails record electric vehicle sales in September, with almost 100,000 fully-electric vehicles registered
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Enjoyed writing this for @iandunt.bsky.social excellent substack. Labour does have a genuinely inspiring vision and impressive track record. It's called net zero and if the government talked about it more it might start to improve its fortunes. iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
iandunt.substack.com
Guest Post: Labour's Net Zero triumph
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. It's time to give credit where it's due.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Scientists create world's smallest violin
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 17/04/2026
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.
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Mike @mikebayley52.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Good policy, brilliantly communicated
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Mike @mikebayley52.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I know this isn't the point of the whole article but the opening really wound me up. There's no way a house with solar and battery is more expensive to heat with a heat pump than a gas boiler IF you're on the right tariff and maximising your use of the off-peak rate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Why cheap power could matter more than clean power in the push for net zero
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/03/2026
Lol, just heard from a German friend who is calling the backup in the Straight of Hormuz right now the "fossil fuel dunkelflaute." Niche humor.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Despite significant federal headwinds, US renewables just had a record year. Notably, 93% of new generation capacity expected to be added to the US grid this year is projected to come from wind, solar and batteries.
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Mike @mikebayley52.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Angry and disgusted by what I've just watched on C4 #dirtybusiness I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
you.38degrees.org.uk
End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 22/01/2026
As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Conventional aviation fuel watch out, SAF is coming for you!
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't. This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
businessgreen.com
Poll: Majority of Brits support renewables, but think their neighbours disagree with them
Major poll reveals 70 per cent of Brits would back a new solar farm in their local area, but only 27 per cent think that other people would support such a development
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/12/2025
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
A flow chart shows 17.4 million leave voters in 2016, vs 16.1m remain. In 2025, 5 million of those people have died, and 3 million new voters have come of age.

The result (plus some people changing their mind) is 19.8 million voters now back rejoin, versus just 11.7 million wanting to stay out.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/11/2025
They think they can appease their enemies and they cannot. This is an era in which fights must be picked. This one has been foisted on the BBC. They should contest it with the all the might they can, all the same.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
There's nothing inherently wrong with climate change. It's just that the ecosystems and built environments that we depend on as life support systems aren't equipped to handle the rapid changes. So if we want to live, we should deal with climate change ASAP.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
There must be a replacement for road tax at some point, great, but…making EVs more expensive/less attractive *right now* is nuts. www.ft.com/content/9f90...
ft.com
Reeves poised to unveil Budget plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges
Chancellor looks to offset a forecast sharp drop in government revenue from fuel duty
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Amazon deploys latest wave of electric trucks. Worth remembering that it was not that long ago plenty of serious people were arguing this technology could never work. It is now being deployed at scale by one of the world's largest companies. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521328...
businessgreen.com
'Largest ever': Amazon's latest electric truck order hits the roads
Arrival of new trucks hailed as 'major milestone' for Amazon’s efforts to decarbonise its UK transportation network
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
***ALL-TIME RECORD*** #Melissa is now the Strongest landfall ever on record in the Atlantic (and it seems to be getting stronger!) 892mb, winds 185 mph. (Tied with the FL Keys Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in wind and pressure) #jamaica 1/
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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Climate Change Act has led to a regime in which Government finds itself compelled to make short-run technological choices that may or may not pay off, and to do so via policies that are chock full of unintended consequences. I have written about this before. /1
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com
What's wrong with the Climate Change Act?
Or, how the real Deep State holds back decarbonisation and growth by accident.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 17/09/2025
It's time to tell the racists to fuck off (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
It's time to tell the racists to fuck off
Anti-racism norms are good and should be socially enforced
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk’s murder was utterly abhorrent and corrosive to our politics. So was much of the reaction to it- including from his allies. My piece. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com
No Boris Johnson, Charlie Kirk did not represent "common sense"
His murder was a tragedy. Yet it was politicised by his own side instantly. The reaction revealed much.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Eight in 10 Brits support the development of more clean energy infrastructure (including large majorities of Reform and Tory supporters). www.businessgreen.com/news/4517538...
businessgreen.com
Poll: Eight in 10 Brits back more clean energy, including nearly two thirds of Reform supporters
New YouGov survey confirms there is still overwhelming support for expanding the UK's clean energy infrastructure and a raft of other climate policies
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Obvious point this, but people need to stop believing what they are told by Farage, GB News, and the general declinist and alarmist media narrative and start paying attention to what is really going on regarding crime in this country. The BBC and mainstream media have a duty to get the truth out.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Chris Stark: 'We should be looking at the electrostates... The UK should want to be one of those electrostates. The global clean energy transition is not stalling, it is accelerating.'
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime 👇
Trump post on Truth Social:
THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
no idea who made this but it’s genius
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
OK, time to pull out some of the key seventh carbon budget charts, with a focus on heat... www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.
latimes.com
Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service
The call to dismantle the United States' vital weather department has raised the hackles of experts who say NOAA provides not only important free data but also life-saving information.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is what I was writing about 20 years ago as a terrifying but far off prospect, a key tipping point in the climate crisis. Now it’s here. Report by my colleague @patrickgreenfield A third of Arctic’s vast carbon sink now source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10/01/2025
World hits 1.5C warming Or to put it another way: The people who questioned climate science and emissions cuts were wrong then, are wrong now, and we will all pay a huge price if we listen to them. www.ft.com/content/fd91...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
class A trolling
Home Office requests review of ketamine classification
The government will seek expert advice on reclassifying ketamine to become a Class A substance.
From:
Home Office and The Rt Hon Dame Diana
Johnson DBE MP
Published
8 January 2025
The government will seek expert advice on reclassifying ketamine to become a Class A substance, after illegal use of the drug
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Don't make a drama out of a bond market crisis: me in @theguardian.com on why Reeves should stick to her plan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve | Jonathan Portes
There is no need to panic: the government’s overall fiscal strategy is the right one. Spending cuts would be a mistake, says Jonathan Portes, a professor at King’s College London
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Second test (more important, arguably): is the UK an outlier? That's what happened in 2022. The sharp increases in UK yields couldn't be explained by moves happening in other countries. But this time, save for a few days after the Budget, the UK is moving in lockstep with the US
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Nick Robinson is doing a great job actually, just pointing out to Robert Jenrick how sudden his interest in the sex abuse scandal is on the Today Programme. It's crazy watching these GB News blowhards and Tory also-rans suddenly so interested in this scandal. There was absolutely no sign >>
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Jealous of how good this is.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb + act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚗What's happening to Europe's car industry is one of the biggest stories in the world right now, & prob the biggest story of next year too. A slow motion implosion driven by multiple factors (esp Chinese competition). Watch my primer on what's going on👇 youtu.be/oW_SXIVQT5I?...
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What's behind Europe's car industry crisis? | Ed Conway analysis
YouTube video by Sky News
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The headline: “Whitehall reverts to working from home” The reality: “The average attendance rate across departments from the period last year was 57 per cent, while this year it is 69 per cent.”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
it’s not “retreating into a bubble” to want to see posts by people you like and want them to see yours
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