Aaron Marchant 🇺🇦

[⚫️⚪️ Jamie is not drunk enough @IleneMerdinger]

“Hello 9-1-1? I’d like to report a murder!”

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

If the people of Clacton really want to send a message to 'the establishment', the choice is clear.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Five tests for the next Prime Minister.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

“And you don’t like seeing brown faces on TV”

Thangam Debbonaire just spectacularly lost her shit and absolutely battered the living daylights out of Sarah Pochin live on SkyNews (despite England winning their World Cup game against Croatia).

[Covie @covie_93]

trump told Zelensky he didn't have the cards and now Zelensky is turning the tide in the war with Russia while trump just surrendered to Iran.

[Aaron Marchant 🇺🇦 @Aaron_M_1998]

@ElectionMapsUK @mtpennycook The cost of pointlessly rerunning these elections should be borne by the parties who have abjectly failed in their vetting!

[The Opinion Brief @opinionbriefpod]

"If Reform do get a breakthrough in Swindon that says they're not just winning in the left behind areas, they're actually winning in the types of places they need to win to win a majority for the House of Commons."

@samfr on why Swindon is such an important place to watch in these local elections.

Catch the full episode, out now on YouTube: https://t.co/gqZ7bx8L5D

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

History of the USA:
- King of England imposes taxes
- America declares independence
- Things go well for nearly 250 years
- America elects a moron
- Moron imposes taxes
- King of England gets taxes removed

[Jordan - The EV Guy @JordanEVGuy]

This doesn’t look like much, but it changes everything.

What you’re looking at is an evpzee lamppost charger.

It is the smartest solution to one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption.

A standard street lamp, quietly turned into an EV charger.

No digging up roads, it is installed in just 30 minutes.

No huge infrastructure projects, a full street can be electrified in a matter of hours.

Manufactured and assembled in the UK and fully OCPP.

Using what’s already there.

For millions of people across the UK, especially those without driveways, this is the difference between “I can’t have an EV” and “actually…I can.”

It’s easy to overlook innovations like this because they’re not flashy.

No 350kW ultra-rapid chargers.

No massive charging hubs.

Just practical, scalable, everyday infrastructure doing exactly what it needs to do.

And that’s the point.

The EV transition will be be driven by everyone having the ability to charge when they need to.

Simple.

Effective.

[Aaron Marchant 🇺🇦 @Aaron_M_1998]

@spectatorindex

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

A few more days of Israel and the US attack on Iran and expect oil and/ or gas rationing in multiple Asian countries

1 Pakistan: In crisis. 0 to 5 days of reserves. Already considering mandatory WFH and weekly price hikes. With only 25 days of petrol, rationing is imminent
2 Bangladesh: In crisis. With 14 to 15 days of diesel, the government is already prioritizing power plants over transport to avoid a total blackout
3 Thailand: Market stressed. Already banned petroleum exports to protect its 60-day buffer. Voluntary rationing likely within a week
4 Singapore: Market stressed. As a hub, it feels the squeeze early. Bunker fuel is already being restricted to existing contracts only
5 India: Vulnerable. While holding ~74 days total, its physical "strategic" caverns are small. Rationing could start to preserve stocks for the military/farming. Gas cuts to industry of 10 to 30% already implemented
6 Taiwan: Vulnerable.Oil is stable (~120 days of reserves), but Gas (LNG) is critical at 11 days. Power rationing for industry likely to start within days
7 China: Large reserves (~120 days) allow it to "wait and see," but some rationing (eg internal quotas for non-essential travel) could appear within a month. Already halted diesel exports to protect what it has
8 South Korea: Rationing could start if the conflict appears permanent (6+ months)
9 Japan: The most resilient, with a world-leading 254-day oil reserve, but only has 3 weeks of LNG inventories and industry already asking for strategic reserves to be opened

This is on track to be worse than 1973, 53 years ago, and shows, again, how if your energy depends on fossil fuels you aren’t sovereign; you’re a hostage.

Renewables are the only exit strategy. Accelerate their deployment!

(Cartoon by David Simonds)

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

This is utter nonsense. The right took control of the party in 2019. Many of the party's most competent Ministers were purged. We then got the Boriswave, partygate and the Mini Budget. It is very clear where responsibility for what happened at the 2024 election lies

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Here is the full text of 🇨🇦 PM Carney speech in Davos earlier today. It will probably be the best of speeches there this year. https://t.co/1xRKzimHlf

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Jenrick no doubt thinks of himself as a patriot - the only man who can save Britain. No patriot would describe this great country as 'broken'. There are indeed things in our country that are broken, but in most ways we live in a great, world class country. Our politics can certainly be described as broken, in part down to charlatans like Jenrick. Our immigration system is indeed broken, down to political failures like... well, you get my drift. Our housing policy is broken, but let's just remind ourselves who was in charge of that for a time... oh yes, Bobby J! And there are plenty of things in our economy that don't work. But instead of talking down our country, perhaps he should remember that we have universities that are the envy of the world, our school system is successful and we top European league tables in reading and maths. Our arts and culture are pre-eminent, our sporting abilities as a country are superb. Our food scene and restaurants outdo the French nowadays, whose Parisian restaurants now routinely employ Brits as head chefs. We've won more Nobel prizes than any other country except the USA, Our Fintech and AI sectors top the European league tables. Our manufacturing sector is still the 9th biggest in the world. Our exports have been at a record high. We build and sell more cars than at any time in our history. Our media sector is thriving. I could go on. Yes, our country has huge problems, but to say the whole country is broken is unpatriotic and just wrong. All Jenrick does is exaggerate our country's problems and has no solutions apart from uttering simplistic soundbytes. Nigel Farage will soon come to realise he's taken on an empty vessel.

[Rory Bremner 💙🇺🇦 @rorybremner]

Reform: “Britain is broken. And what we need in our party are people who have frontline experience of breaking it”.

[YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance]

NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵

[YouGov @YouGov]

🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?

Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%

Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44

Results link in replies

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch - and all the anti-net zero zealots - getting educated about the basics of energy supply live on national TV

[Jeremy Cliffe @JeremyCliffe]

About once every half-million years, Earth's magnetic poles switch. After day 1 of #MSC2025, I can't think of a better metaphor for the politics of the transatlantic alliance: everything is reversing.