Chris Keene
@chriskeene.bsky.social
Brighton, UK. Sometimes Higher Education, Research policy, tech and environmental stats
Today would have been a UK record breaker for UK wind passing 23GW for the first time... if it hadn't already been passed 4 days ago on the 5th Dec - exactly 1 year since the first time passing 22GW. grid.iamkate.com
National Grid: Live
Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network
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December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today would have been a UK record breaker for UK wind passing 23GW for the first time... if it hadn't already been passed 4 days ago on the 5th Dec - exactly 1 year since the first time passing 22GW. grid.iamkate.com
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This week the government announced that it wanted to ensure development next to train stations gets an automatic yes.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This week the government announced that it wanted to ensure development next to train stations gets an automatic yes.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
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Important contribution from Lewis Goodall, who describes in devastating detail his own personal experiences - and suggests Robbie Gibb and David Grossman should be removed from their current posts.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Important contribution from Lewis Goodall, who describes in devastating detail his own personal experiences - and suggests Robbie Gibb and David Grossman should be removed from their current posts.
Ah the reassuring feeling of going in to your local corner shop to buy some wine for the evening and the random number generator that passes off as a till lands on a big number
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ah the reassuring feeling of going in to your local corner shop to buy some wine for the evening and the random number generator that passes off as a till lands on a big number
Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.
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You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold
If that plane in 2001 had made it to the whitehouse it could have destroyed the very fabric of part of the building. Imagine.
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If that plane in 2001 had made it to the whitehouse it could have destroyed the very fabric of part of the building. Imagine.
This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)
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Non-Substack version here davidallengreen.com/2025/10/tryi...
Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions
15th October 2025 How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny * Usually when one reads up about a confusing-looking case the less confusing it becomes. The i…
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October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Non-Substack version here davidallengreen.com/2025/10/tryi...
Just had a really great lunch at an event in London. Even better when I read about the organisation who provided it www.9kitchens.co.uk
9Kitchens Cuisines | Healthy and Sustainable Cooking Classes Online
9Kitchens is a sustainable and mainly plant-based caterer with a social mission. We train women who face barriers to employment and assist them with integration and engagement in the community, and wh...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Just had a really great lunch at an event in London. Even better when I read about the organisation who provided it www.9kitchens.co.uk
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Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears
Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears
Two students who blew up a sheep with fireworks are facing prison for what a judge described as a “sadistic and utterly barbaric” act. Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, invited two other students from Plumpton College to Ditchling Beacon to see what they said was a dead badger. But when they arrived, they […]
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October 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears
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There's a growing desire for a product. It happens to be lower carbon. China is meeting it, regardless of where the demand comes from.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
There's a growing desire for a product. It happens to be lower carbon. China is meeting it, regardless of where the demand comes from.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I’m at a Tory fringe event about young voters which has been shown a massive (5,000+) poll of voters aged 16-40 - and it’s (not unexpectedly) very bad news for the Conservatives.
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I’m at a Tory fringe event about young voters which has been shown a massive (5,000+) poll of voters aged 16-40 - and it’s (not unexpectedly) very bad news for the Conservatives.
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wondering if @scottygb.bsky.social and @mattdeegan.com have noticed that Channel Four have written all their programme descriptions on the EPG in rhymes for #nationalpoetryday
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
wondering if @scottygb.bsky.social and @mattdeegan.com have noticed that Channel Four have written all their programme descriptions on the EPG in rhymes for #nationalpoetryday
This is sending my snobbishness into overdrive (though I will not stand for the blatant Lidl slander)
This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.
The "Waitrose & GAIL’s effect" vs the "ASDA reality" | Area360
How Waitrose, Gail’s and ASDA affect property prices in London. Data analysis reveals which shops signal pricey or affordable postcodes.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This is sending my snobbishness into overdrive (though I will not stand for the blatant Lidl slander)
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Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
Tribunal decisions
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk
September 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
This morning: trying to join Radiohead queue at 9:30. To be randomly allocated a queue space between 10 and and 5pm to hopefully buy tickets.
Also today: checking out of a holiday home at 10am and driving through rural areas with limited connectivity.
Also today: checking out of a holiday home at 10am and driving through rural areas with limited connectivity.
September 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This morning: trying to join Radiohead queue at 9:30. To be randomly allocated a queue space between 10 and and 5pm to hopefully buy tickets.
Also today: checking out of a holiday home at 10am and driving through rural areas with limited connectivity.
Also today: checking out of a holiday home at 10am and driving through rural areas with limited connectivity.
Lots of wind and sun today. The price for energy suppliers to buy electricity is currently minus £28 (ie they get paid for every extra bit of electricity they take out of the grid) grid.iamkate.com (actually in the minute it took me to update this it updated to just zero!)
National Grid: Live
Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network
grid.iamkate.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Lots of wind and sun today. The price for energy suppliers to buy electricity is currently minus £28 (ie they get paid for every extra bit of electricity they take out of the grid) grid.iamkate.com (actually in the minute it took me to update this it updated to just zero!)
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A substantial place and a time capsule of the era, this 1960s modern house in Lower Earley, Reading, Berkshire, is up for auction. bit.ly/4mZHh5O
September 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A substantial place and a time capsule of the era, this 1960s modern house in Lower Earley, Reading, Berkshire, is up for auction. bit.ly/4mZHh5O
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
August 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...