Capt'n G.
@unwelcomeguest.bsky.social
Labour, European, architecture/design/engineering, sustainability, just stop burning things!
Richmond Yorkshire.
Known to be unpleasant.
Richmond Yorkshire.
Known to be unpleasant.
Haha yes so true.
Just seen this US travel advisory against going to Venezuela:
"risks to Americans, including wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure"
Sounds like a home from home?
"risks to Americans, including wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure"
Sounds like a home from home?
January 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Haha yes so true.
🤞 hopefully this is the beginning of the end for MuskSocial
The Prime Minister has been posting consistently on Facebook and Instagram whilst shunning Elon Musk’s platform.
Keir Starmer personally 'boycotting' X over Grok AI deepfakes
Ofcom has launched an investigation
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
🤞 hopefully this is the beginning of the end for MuskSocial
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Here's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...
'Cherry picking data': Government and analysts hit back at latest Tufton Street attacks on net zero
Right wing think tank accuses Climate Change Committee of overly optimistic clean tech cost estimates, but supporters of climate action counter that latest criticisms fail to recognise risks associate...
www.businessgreen.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Here's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...
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The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
January 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
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Reform is not the future of British politics.
No, no.
It’s the afterlife.
(Borrowed from @bearlypolitics.co.uk of course)
No, no.
It’s the afterlife.
(Borrowed from @bearlypolitics.co.uk of course)
Reform should call itself Retory:
Nadhim Zahawi
Ben Bradley
Malcolm Offord
Jonathan Gullis
Chris Green
Lia Nici
Kruger
Dorries
David Jones
Sir Jake Berry
Graham Simpson
Marco Longhi
Ross Thomson
Andrea Jenkyns
Aidan Burley
Alan Amos
Lee Anderson
Ann Widdecombe
Maria Caulfield
And counting
Nadhim Zahawi
Ben Bradley
Malcolm Offord
Jonathan Gullis
Chris Green
Lia Nici
Kruger
Dorries
David Jones
Sir Jake Berry
Graham Simpson
Marco Longhi
Ross Thomson
Andrea Jenkyns
Aidan Burley
Alan Amos
Lee Anderson
Ann Widdecombe
Maria Caulfield
And counting
January 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Reform is not the future of British politics.
No, no.
It’s the afterlife.
(Borrowed from @bearlypolitics.co.uk of course)
No, no.
It’s the afterlife.
(Borrowed from @bearlypolitics.co.uk of course)
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➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 24% (-2)
CON: 20% (+1)
LAB: 19% (+2)
LDM: 16% (=)
GRN: 14% (-2)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 11-12 Jan.
Changes w/ 4-5 Jan.
RFM: 24% (-2)
CON: 20% (+1)
LAB: 19% (+2)
LDM: 16% (=)
GRN: 14% (-2)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 11-12 Jan.
Changes w/ 4-5 Jan.
January 13, 2026 at 8:51 AM
➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.
Today's good news
January 12, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Today's good news
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NEW: Many people have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a very different story.
Last year saw:
The lowest homicide rate since records began
The fewest homicides of those aged under 25 this century
Last year saw:
The lowest homicide rate since records began
The fewest homicides of those aged under 25 this century
January 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
NEW: Many people have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a very different story.
Last year saw:
The lowest homicide rate since records began
The fewest homicides of those aged under 25 this century
Last year saw:
The lowest homicide rate since records began
The fewest homicides of those aged under 25 this century
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There is always an XKCD
January 12, 2026 at 8:58 AM
There is always an XKCD
We still have much to be proud of.
London is over, etc.
London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
January 12, 2026 at 9:48 AM
We still have much to be proud of.
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Followed swiftly by someone who doesn’t understand idiomatic English, who will also scream at you
Welcome to everyone joining Bluesky from twitter. Someone will be assigned to you to misunderstand one of your jokes and scream at you shortly.
January 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Followed swiftly by someone who doesn’t understand idiomatic English, who will also scream at you
Excommunication incoming!!
Op-Ed in the National Catholic Reporter is not pulling any punches.
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Excommunication incoming!!
Not sure what I'd set the limit at, probably a few grand, what I am sure about is, donation limits were to be introduced that the electoral commission should be given funding and power to track down those flouting the rules and that the recipient parties should be punished and forfeit said funds.
A couple of things I find interesting here:
1. Almost half with an opinion want a limit of £500/yr or less. That's really low
2. Opinion moving against donations but the principal change in the extreme categories (nothing at all: 15% to 26% in 5 yrs / no limit: 21% to 14% across the same surveys).
1. Almost half with an opinion want a limit of £500/yr or less. That's really low
2. Opinion moving against donations but the principal change in the extreme categories (nothing at all: 15% to 26% in 5 yrs / no limit: 21% to 14% across the same surveys).
The public wants big money out of politics.
YouGov’s latest polling shows dwindling support for the status quo - where businesses, trade unions and individuals can donate as much as they like - and strong backing for capping political donations.
YouGov’s latest polling shows dwindling support for the status quo - where businesses, trade unions and individuals can donate as much as they like - and strong backing for capping political donations.
January 9, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Not sure what I'd set the limit at, probably a few grand, what I am sure about is, donation limits were to be introduced that the electoral commission should be given funding and power to track down those flouting the rules and that the recipient parties should be punished and forfeit said funds.
Christabel IMO is usually right.
It's worth remembering that Trump is not omnipotent. He is not a Roman Emperor who can execute people who disagree with him and push on regardless. The saner Republicans do have the power to curb his worst excesses - and I'd have thought with polls like this, they now have an incentive to do so.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Christabel IMO is usually right.
Hope it actually happens, Trump is so stupid he'll actually think that 'owning' the gong has real meaning, but who cares, it's only a piece of metal.
people will say “he will not literally post on truth social that this lady runs venezuela now after she gives him the physical nobel peace prize” and I am here to tell you that is absolutely in play and is in fact a likely outcome
I thought Trump would never get the Nobel Peace Prize. He's about to prove me wrong!
January 9, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Hope it actually happens, Trump is so stupid he'll actually think that 'owning' the gong has real meaning, but who cares, it's only a piece of metal.
My money is on the shooter never facing justice, well not whilst Trump's fat arse sits in the white house.
"It would be hard, but not impossible, to try the ICE shooter on state charges and obtain a state-law conviction that Trump couldn’t wipe away. It might seem like the longest shot in the world, but honestly, we have to try something, anything, to stop this — not just in Minnesota, but everywhere."
Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted
Doing nothing is not an option.
www.publicnotice.co
January 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
My money is on the shooter never facing justice, well not whilst Trump's fat arse sits in the white house.
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Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
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Our treasurer @mwheelermp.bsky.social has written about the new right to a guaranteed hours contract that's in the Employment Rights Act, and how we get the implementation of this right 👇
“The employment rights bill and the New Deal for Working People are some of the Labour government’s most popular policies”
Labour’s plan to offer guaranteed hours contracts to all workers will be transformational - only if we get it right.
✍️ @mwheelermp.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/zero-toleran...
Labour’s plan to offer guaranteed hours contracts to all workers will be transformational - only if we get it right.
✍️ @mwheelermp.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/zero-toleran...
Zero tolerance | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
fabians.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Our treasurer @mwheelermp.bsky.social has written about the new right to a guaranteed hours contract that's in the Employment Rights Act, and how we get the implementation of this right 👇
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"Believe me, if Donald Trump is president again at some point or another, that ugliness will touch all of our lives."
- Michelle Obama -
The penalty...
• for resisting arrest
• for trafficking drugs
• for civil disobedience
• for disobeying law enforcement
...is not death!
Thread 1/4🧵
- Michelle Obama -
The penalty...
• for resisting arrest
• for trafficking drugs
• for civil disobedience
• for disobeying law enforcement
...is not death!
Thread 1/4🧵
January 8, 2026 at 11:55 AM
"Believe me, if Donald Trump is president again at some point or another, that ugliness will touch all of our lives."
- Michelle Obama -
The penalty...
• for resisting arrest
• for trafficking drugs
• for civil disobedience
• for disobeying law enforcement
...is not death!
Thread 1/4🧵
- Michelle Obama -
The penalty...
• for resisting arrest
• for trafficking drugs
• for civil disobedience
• for disobeying law enforcement
...is not death!
Thread 1/4🧵
Very Interesting
Always look under the bonnet of polls before reaching sweeping conclusions.
Even in this poll, left bloc voters are (a) less likely to say they'll vote(b) more likely to say don't know. Ergo more are taken out the sample and/or re-modelled.
Many left bloc voters aren't switching, they are hiding !
Even in this poll, left bloc voters are (a) less likely to say they'll vote(b) more likely to say don't know. Ergo more are taken out the sample and/or re-modelled.
Many left bloc voters aren't switching, they are hiding !
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Very Interesting
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Grok has put a bikini on one of the dead victims of the recent Swiss fire !
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
January 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Grok has put a bikini on one of the dead victims of the recent Swiss fire !
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
Another great Labour achievement ❤️
The new right to a guaranteed hours contract in the Employment Rights Act could be transformational, finally ending exploitative short and zero-hour contracts.
But we must make sure we get the detail right and ensure all workers benefit.
But we must make sure we get the detail right and ensure all workers benefit.
“The employment rights bill and the New Deal for Working People are some of the Labour government’s most popular policies”
Labour’s plan to offer guaranteed hours contracts to all workers will be transformational - only if we get it right.
✍️ @mwheelermp.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/zero-toleran...
Labour’s plan to offer guaranteed hours contracts to all workers will be transformational - only if we get it right.
✍️ @mwheelermp.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/zero-toleran...
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Another great Labour achievement ❤️
Could this killing be what starts a massive violent protest across America?
An ordinary (white) middle class mother!
Even fox news will struggle to sell the "domestic terrorist" line to their viewers.
An ordinary (white) middle class mother!
Even fox news will struggle to sell the "domestic terrorist" line to their viewers.
This is Renee Good.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
January 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Could this killing be what starts a massive violent protest across America?
An ordinary (white) middle class mother!
Even fox news will struggle to sell the "domestic terrorist" line to their viewers.
An ordinary (white) middle class mother!
Even fox news will struggle to sell the "domestic terrorist" line to their viewers.
🤞 this is just the beginning
January 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🤞 this is just the beginning
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Blue Labour seem to think a little like Tommy Ten names, that religion will solve the big problems we face.
It won't, and they are being disingenuous in saying it could.
Blue Labour seem to think a little like Tommy Ten names, that religion will solve the big problems we face.
It won't, and they are being disingenuous in saying it could.
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January 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM
archive.ph/ZnIbl
Blue Labour seem to think a little like Tommy Ten names, that religion will solve the big problems we face.
It won't, and they are being disingenuous in saying it could.
Blue Labour seem to think a little like Tommy Ten names, that religion will solve the big problems we face.
It won't, and they are being disingenuous in saying it could.