Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2026

The Joy of Six 1569

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Matt Gallagher reports that "the UK quietly sent one of its most senior security officials to a Trump administration summit which prop...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Joy of Six 1565

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"In 2008, I met the Ukrainian diplomat and journalist who would go on to bribe Nathan Gill: Oleh Voloshyn. At the time he was working a...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1532

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About 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds are not in employment, education or training – and the obstacles they face are bigger than ever. Sammy G...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1530

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"The big red 'stop nudes' button is appealing because it’s a lot easier than investing in proper services to protect children a...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Lib Dem energy guarantee would cut prices for all households

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BBC News reports today's announcement by Daisy Cooper of new Liberal Democrat proposals for reducing consumer energy prices: Under the ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

The Joy of Six 1521

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"Look at our responses to three of Labour’s flag ship pieces of legislation: the Employment Rights Bill, Great British Energy and takin...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

Russian submarine found in Lake Windermere

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This land sits right next to the Furness railway line - a vital transport link to both BAE Submarines in Barrow and Sellafield nuclear power...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1504

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"To everyone's surprise, Orbán conceded early – before 9.30pm – and cheers erupted from all corners of Budapest’s centre. One small...
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Why the Lib Dem fuel duty cut would not reduce petrol prices

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I don'r recall any debate about it within the party, but it's now Liberal Democrat policy to cut fuel duty by 10p. This, we claim, w...
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Monday, March 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1486

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The Secret Barrister argues that Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty: ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Wera Hobhouse condemns "shocking and irresponsible" scale of drilling for oil in protected maritime areas

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Embed from Getty Images The United Kingdom is the world’s worst offender when it comes to letting fossil fuel companies drill in protected a...
Monday, October 20, 2025

The Joy of Six 1424

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"By learning from Farage, the Greens risk becoming more like him in form, even if utterly different in content. And in politics, form m...
Monday, September 29, 2025

North Yorkshire anti-fracking campaigners welcome new Lib Dem climate and nature policy

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The Liberal Democrats’ new Climate and Nature policy  For People, For Planet , adopted at Bournemouth, has won approval from anti-cracking c...

The Joy of Six 1415

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Schuyler Mitchell argues that the national security state is a wonderful tool for a skilled authoritarian to crush American democracy: ...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Joy of Six 1411

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"I’m more interested in what the stratospheric rise of a person like Charlie Kirk says about the state of political discourse. He was i...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Call for Nottinghamshire cooling towers to be preserved

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In Nottinghamshire, decommissioned cooling towers still stand at West Burton and Ratcliffe-on-Soar. There are no plans to preserve any of th...
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Monday, August 04, 2025

Rupert Matthews, Leicestershire's Tory PCC, joins Reform UK

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I leave Leicestershire for five minutes and look what happens. Our Conservative police and crime commissioner Rupert Matthews has defected t...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Ed Davey's big day: Cheaper energy bills and challenging the BBC over Nigel Farage

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This was Ed Davey on BBC Breakfast this morning. His determination to attack Nigel Farage at every turn, and hang his admiration for Vladimi...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Solar farms could be the saving of insects and birdlife

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Photo by Bango at Morguefile.com     Here’s the thing: to our untrained eye, a corn field looks more "natural" than an array of so...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

How Tony Blair won Runcorn for Reform UK

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People vote all sorts of ways in parliamentary by-elections for all sorts of reasons. But when the candidate has a majority of only six vote...
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