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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 1d

2.43.49 here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The BTP chief constable doesn't do a great job here - he does seem to suggest they'd be watching the whole 10 hours of footage if a bike was left for 10 hours 💀

Today - 07/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 2d

needless to say but, if you were actually talking to students, The Times would be a very strange place to do it

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · Aug 13

State of the nation novel that follows the lives of 12 diverse, seemingly unconnected people living in London, interspersed with vignettes about the dismantling of wet wipe island. At the end of the book it's revealed they all flushed wetwipes that contributed to the island.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 3d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

While the Tory party's energy & climate policy grows increasingly detached from reality, worth reflecting on a remarkable, under-reported event at Labour conference: the launch of Climate Jobs UK, a campaign by GMB, Prospect & other TUs focused on the creation of good jobs in the energy transition
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 3d

The US is pursuing "energy dominance" and forcing allies to buy US oil and gas. And, yet, China is beating the US on energy exports.

Surprised? Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 3d

felt cute might delete later x

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 6d

I know this is a futile exercise, but let’s count the mistakes in that one Payne paragraph…

1. “Renewables are no longer the cheapest form of energy” - don’t think so. Offshore wind has got more expensive recently, but onshore and solar remain cheap. And gas probably still costs more than offshore

Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 6d

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne:

What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of?

The world's energy experts would like to know…

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 5d

Actually, lots of people know. This is just an admission that someone has never bothered asking, despite once being in charge of managing some really chunky transitions for sectors that fall under DBT, like steel, cars and ceramics.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 6d

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 6d

working population or just population?

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 6d

On the day the Conservative party is telling you that natural gas is the cheap choice, this analysis is perfectly timed.

Almost every type of energy generation is currently being smashed by inflationary factors riddled throughout the supply chain.

We would do well to engage with reality.

Stephen Stapczynski @sstapczynski.bsky.social · 6d

GAS TURBINE SHORTAGE 🚨⚡

Orders for turbines for natural gas power plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand

🧵 Thread on how we got here and what it means for power-hungry nations

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 7d

NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️

Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019.

As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 7d

I have a question for the Conservative Party

The goose chase meme with the question “what sources of cheap and reliable energy?” repeated twice

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 14d

In the future, everyone will run a your party membership portal for 5 minutes

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15d

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15d

Farage shows his absolute weakness as a Trump puppet on LBC. Asked about Trump blathering about a completely unproven link between paracetamol and autism, Farage said “I have no idea, I have no idea” and he would “listen” to RFK Jr.

He went on to say “science is never settled”.

Dangerous.

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 15d

feeling wavy bendwise Together in Enterprise

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 15d

Corners of wikipedia

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David Walsh @davidwalsh16.bsky.social · 15d

The tone of this from the BBC. Khan 'Has not announced any plans' could so easily be ready as he has them, they just aren't public yet. The tone of rebuttal really should be so much more decisive.

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

If you're in sunny Bournemouth today, come along to the cracking panel we've organised to discuss how to secure a fair transition for the North Sea.
Speakers include Lib Dem climate spokes @pippaheylings.bsky.social MP, Alastair Carmichael MP, Elliot Chapman-Jones & @dominicmhinde.bsky.social (& me)

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 22d

Talk about low expectations: Kemi hasn't made a public statement on the Tommy Robinson march but, crucially, *nor has anybody noticed*

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22d

Fascinating job opportunity at ARIA. Leading public engagement for the climate innovation programme aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

Communications & Engagement Lead: Future Proofing our Climate & Weather

Job Opening: Communications & Engagement Lead: Future Proofing our Climate & Weather at ARIA in London.

aria.pinpointhq.com

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 22d

I've been wrangling some data on UK All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) recently, and I feel compelled to share my highly scientific ranking of APPG Vibes...

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 23d

A lot of resistance to Net Zero is because people think we can no longer do stuff. Can't build things, like new nuclear and new grid infra. It's important to *show* incremental progress. Really important. Vital.

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 27d

Labour publishes 'expanded' list of 52 PPS appointments - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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