Phil Allen

[Phil Allen @philallen]

Porter has also described the problems of growing lead times for adding adding (dispatchable) capacity, which are already greater than the "not my problem" threshold for our elected representatives.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

From @Dieter_Helm...

*Another day and another bit of sticky plaster is applied. With the highest industrial energy prices in the developed world, the government is increasing the number of companies that will get a bit off their bills in 2027. This follows other moves, like the £150 off customer bills. It will not be enough, given the sheer scale of the problems. The industrial crisis will go on; domestic bills are scheduled to go up and stay up for the next decade; new energy-intensive inward investment (e.g. for data centres) is being deterred; and where there are projects, own generation from gas is the route to firm power.

The facts are not changing, and it is getting ever more painful to ignore them. Climate realism means facing up to the relentless increase in the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, the continuing 85% of the world’s energy supplies coming from fossil fuels, and the lack of any transition away from this, with the oil, gas and coal burn going ever up as the world energy demand looks set to double by 2050. Renewables on a system basis are not cheap. It takes 120GW now to meet the same peak 45GW demand, which 60GW once comfortably met, as well as doubling the transmission grid and adding all the extra batteries and storage. The renewables are not “home-grown” – the supply chains are foreign.

Britain is not on a path to home-grown energy. It is not cheap, and other countries are not looking to Britain as a “clean-energy superpower”. They look to Britain to find out how not to do it – no one else wants the highest energy prices. It’s not difficult to sort all this out, but more sticky plasters will make the situation worse and harder to fix the longer the government ducks the need for a fundamental re-set of British energy policy."

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[Phil Allen @philallen]

Strong evidence that Coutts closed Farage’s account because of his views and statements. I disagree with many of his views. But faced with this, I don’t care. This melding of politics and corporate power is Fascism. https://t.co/69p2b3V4L4 via @YouTube #Coutts #farage

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Translation: Government pays Ford £30 million to save 500 jobs.

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@TryTastily - what is in the freezer packs? I would like to check before emptying them.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"every signaling innovation is at first considered unfair and disreputable by those who excelled at the previous signaling game...From the viewpoint of social competitors...alternative ways of displaying one's personal traits seems like cheating" https://t.co/TTyScFn7LF

[Zetetic Advocate @ZeteticAdvocate]

It’s amazing watching the attacks on standardized blind testing, which literally are the only way to judge fairly & without bias the capabilities of the person being tested. These attacks are a true example of elitist privilege & yet are sold under the umbrella of anti-racism.

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@BBCRadio4 By all means feature tendentious work, but try asking some questions about the agitprop rather than just prompting it #FrontRow
Most offensive: the lack of any challenge to holocaust comparisons.

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@KonfyCare Thank you, Oli. #DataLove

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@KonstantinKisin You mean dictators have a base they try to appeal to, and are not trying to be hated by everybody all the time? How can we possibly tell who they are? I know, how about the willingness to declare enemies, and use arbitrary imprisonment and murder?

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

The UK police have been investigating and recording “non-crime hate incidents” for many years now.

Looks as though this sinister practice might catch on in the US...

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Getting vaccinated isn’t just about the individual. By having the vaccine, you’re helping to protect the whole community. You’re helping to protect the vulnerable.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This is Orwellian - an ad in today’s Sunday papers. It will take at least five years for additional sales of food and drink to Japan to compensate for food and drink sales lost to the EU in January alone. Taxpayers should not be paying for such rank disinformation. Its propaganda

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Exactly one month ago I posted to Speaker Hoyle a list of falsehoods uttered by Boris Johnson and ministers on floor of Commons in defiance of ministerial code and Erskine May. No reply. Not even an acknowledgement.

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@archer_rs So nobody will throw a bucket of water because .... ?

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@mikebroberts @brunns No. I will not shut up, because I care about understanding all the factors that make a difference. Don't you?

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@BBCPM Scotland: you spent much time on psychodrama (soap opera) and very little on legal advice, or information that parliament has asked for but not been given. The soap opera was entirely predictable and therefore not news.

[Phil Allen @philallen]

@DavidGHFrost @michaelgove Where to start? We can agree it was extraordinary.

[Neil Hallworth @HallworthNeil]

@RupertMyers His conscience?
His intelligence?
His integrity?
His honesty?
His credibility?
His map of where Dover is?