In 2012 I pointed out that Dieter Helm was "killing the wrong pig": it was far riskier for the UK to depend on gas than on wind. He was furious! A year later we met on a panel, he brought a print-out and wanted a fight. I was right, but he was knighted.🤷🏻 ft.com/content/108942…

Say what you will about Bill maher but he's spot on about this

When Oasis last toured in the UK (2009) vs today… Average 2009 house price: £162,116 Now: £285,000 Average 2009 salary: £28,759 Now: £35,880 Pint of beer: £2.30 Now: £4.21 Fish & chips: £2.43 Now: £9

If anyone says "It's all still Omicron", "The current variants aren't that different", "SARS-CoV-2 is running out of evolutionary space", or "The current wave is finally over!", show them these. 🧵

Sorry ticketmasteruk but this is at best misleading and at worst pure BS. Your algorithms set the ‘in demand’ prices, you agree to adopt the method. Promoters might tick a check box so prices aren’t specific but between you and them you’ve been rinsing consumers, for years now.

Dan Kaszeta, FRHistS, Legal Juggernaut 🇱🇹 🇺🇦 Google is a search engine, not an encyclopaedia.

Or this x.com/nicholaspegg/s…

This is awful, tragic waste of life chances for so many families.

Parasites do the coolest stuff

Mussie Imnetu: The Metropolitan Police has been criticised for falsely suggesting a fatal attack on a chef in west London took place at Notting Hill Carnival. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

A ‘soccer ball figurine set’, you say? A perfect Valentine’s gift?

This is ironic given how much disinformation Musk shares. He has absolute no “is this true?” filter. It’s probably actually the thing he’s worst at.

So BBC Breakfast find 90 private tutors in the UK have been convicted of sexual offences involving children over the past 20 years. People offering private lessons do not have to be checked before working with young people That has to change immediately

nazir afzal BBC Breakfast There needs to be a register for private tutors, just as for childminders. I don’t understand how this doesn’t already exist. It’s shameful.

First a peerage and now a plum job. Why does Boris Johnson keep promoting [Baroness] Charlotte Owen ? prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/67789…

“Better Earth” is a just a nuclear energy lobbyist, with Boris Johnson’s co-chair having a major interest in Uranium mining. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

This is mad

this is an absolutely bananas complaint to have about the Vice President of the United States