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In 100 seconds @clim8resistance Co-Founder of @ClimateDebateUK explains why we are in such a mess on energy:
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‘This is the appeal of Burnhamism. It’s a warm bath. A comforting but fleeting indulgence. The commentariat and Labour’s bourgeois base seem desperate to pretend it is still, basically, 1997’
My @spikedonline column
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Her department received $3 million from George Soros
And she talks utter crap!
“What I find very difficult… is the assumption you have to cut your way to be being fiscally responsible”
“There’s not a hope in hell that [Labour] are going to oversee any cuts to public spending”
Economics professor Mariana Mazzucato and Conservative MP Julia Lopez debate Chancellor John Healey’s spending plans.
#Newsnight
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“If my husband takes my phone away from me because he doesn’t want me contacting people, that’s coercive control. If I do that to my child, that maybe responsible parenting”
Well said @HJoyceGender! #BinTheBill
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Paul McCartney lost his mother when he was 14. More than a decade later, she appeared to him in a dream. When he woke up, he went to the piano and wrote “Let It Be.”
His mother, Mary, died in 1956 after a battle with breast cancer. She never got to see the Beatles become the biggest band in the world.
Years later, Paul was exhausted. He says he had been drinking, staying out late and overdoing everything.
Then he had a dream about her.
In the video below, McCartney describes how it felt to see his mother again. In the dream, she seemed to know he was stressed and reassured him: “Don’t worry, it’s gonna be fine. Just let it be.”
He woke up feeling comforted. Then he remembered what she had said and thought it could be the beginning of a song.
That’s where the “Mother Mary” in Let It Be came from: Paul’s own mother.
The Beatles released the song in 1970, shortly before McCartney announced he was leaving the band. It became one of their most enduring recordings.
For years, people have turned to it when they needed comfort. It began with Paul hearing words of comfort from someone he had lost.
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“We could amend this Bill here, there and everywhere, carve out this, tweak that, but at the end of the day the government would still be passing a Bill that says there’s one area, and one area only, of medical practice where you could get prosecuted if you put a foot wrong. That won’t be a chilling effect, that’ll be a deep freeze”
Magnificent from @Jebadoo2 #BinTheBill
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This year's Budget Report promising "no new policy costs" on energy is good news, but what about the old ones? Can we get those under control as well?
And a "cheaper energy mix" sounds good, so long as we know that solar and wind are not cheap sources of electricity.
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It's not looking good for Harley-Davidson spinoff LiveWire, which issued a "going concern" notice after selling only 241 electric motorcycles in the third quarter. Its kids bike unit is bigger than its electric motorcycle division. axios.com/2026/10/29/harley-…
A brief but comprehensive explanation of why yesterday's budget was so awful:
Local piemaker explains how Burnham's first Budget will make things much worse:
"I don’t qualify for the business rates relief because I’m multi-site… I’ve got two shops, so I don’t qualify. The minimum wage has increased. I’m not saying we shouldn’t pay staff. I’m saying we can’t afford to pay them…
All my staff have been with us for years. So I’m going to have approximately a £700 a week increase. My suppliers are having an increase too. My supply bills are around £20,000 to £30,000 a week. That’ll go up 10%, so £2,000 to £3,000 a week. So that’s £4,000 a week I’ve got to find…
That’s about 20,000 to 30,000 pies a week. So my costs have gone up. I’ve got no business rates relief. The National Insurance is crippling me. The energy crisis is crippling me. I’m going to have to put my prices up,
Customers are going to get mad. I’m going to get less profit. As a family, as a director, I’ve got to take a 2% cut. So my family, my one-year-old girl. I’m taking a pay cut. The business is taking a pay cut.
How is that breathing room for me? Where’s my breathing space? John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space? You promised me. You promised the UK breathing space. Where is it?"
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This utterly bleak line from the Resolution Foundation on living standards in their overnight Budget analysis.
"Between now (2026-27) and the end of the Parliament (2028-29), typical incomes are forecast to fall in total by £1,050 (3 per cent)."
In other words: On average we'll be getting poorer in the run-up to the next election.
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One of the more irritating aspects of the Remain campaign was the lazy characterisation of all Brexit supporters as little Englanders who hate Europe.
I've worked in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Romania. I've led teams of IT guys from all over Europe and worked happily with them. I've travelled all over Europe for business and pleasure. My first travel abroad as a teenager was to France and Italy. I can get by speaking French and speak some basic German. I proposed to my wife in Greece. I love Europe in all its diversity, its different languages, cultures, landscapes, history, food. I'm in France right now, for the second time this year.
What I don't love is the attempt to obliterate all of this genuine diversity by merging it into one huge superstate run by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, remote from the people being governed, on the shaky pretext that it was necessary to prevent another war or to allow free movement of citizens.
To me, wanting that for Europe is hating Europe.
(Ironically it's the EU along with NATO that is now cheerleading for yet another war in Europe).
And there are many, many Brexit supporters like me.
The unwillingness of Remain supporters to recognise the difference between 'the EU" and "Europe" was one of the more baffling and infuriating aspects of the referendum campaign.
And it remains true even today. It's as if they've never thought very deeply about any of it.
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There’s no difference between Labour and the Conservatives on this ❌
Just a former Conservative Chancellor calling @RobertJenrick a “climate change denier” for wanting lower energy bills and a more common sense approach.
‘You’re climate change deniers’
‘You were a net zero zealot’
@RobertJenrick and @kwasi_stackbtc clash over net zero and green levies
#Peston
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The Tory on the panel accuses Jenrick of being a ‘climate denier’ here. The ‘changed’ Conservative Party.
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Martin Lewis “is helping to create political incentives to manage the symptoms rather than tackle the underlying causes.”
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What a complete mess. I wish Martin Lewis would butt out of the energy debate. His obsession with the retail side of the market distracts attention from the structural problems caused by domestic energy policy.
Worse, by focusing so much attention on how bills are presented and how costs are distributed between consumers, he is helping to create political incentives to manage the symptoms rather than tackle the underlying causes. Ministers can claim to be helping households while leaving the policies responsible for driving up costs largely untouched.
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Thank you to @_ConnieShaw and the @SpeechUnion for speaking to our Chair about the capture in the @LibDems regarding gender ideology. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=-onCFfpw…
£10bn more for Ukraine but £2bn less for UK defence.
John Healey will cut £2bn from the defence budget despite boasting about filling a funding black hole.
Read more from our defence editors 👇
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There have been two recent news stories about extraordinary acts of courage. In both cases the heroes were men. In both cases, the villains were also men, writes @Louise_m_perry
on.wsj.com/47MyP45
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"It was a great big fat NOTHING BURGER except for the little gimmicky giveaways. But even they weren't what they seemed."
Director of the @CPSThinkTank and economist @LiamHalligan gives his verdict on John Healey's first budget.
