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@Togetherdec @LeeAndersonMP_ @Ed_Miliband Next time he should include Willis Eschenbach's calculation in his question and challenge Miliband to refute it.

I expected people to keep quiet during the trial. But, now that we have the conviction, why has no minister spoken out? Where are all the celebs who took the knee six years ago? Where is the wall-to-wall BBC coverage? Unlike the Floyd case, this one happened in Britain, ffs.

Burnham brings this together with a critique of "40 years of neoliberalism" and "trickle-down economics". He is living in a fantasy world, raging against imagined enemies and strawmen. If there was ever an era of neoliberalism, it’s almost certainly long since ended in a mountain of red tape. The expansion of law, regulation, and the size of the state over the last 40 years is incomprehensible yet obvious on pretty much any measure (spending, pages of legislation, the number of regulators, and their powers). The point about regulation is that in areas with the most growth in state control, such as electricity, housing, and childcare, consumer costs have risen sharply. If you're unwilling to take a serious look at regulatory burdens, then I'm sorry you're not serious about getting down the cost of living. He makes two entirely untrue claims about the cost of living. Firstly, "the failure to reform right-to-buy and fully restore the public housing stock is the root cause of today’s housing crisis." This is patently untrue, and not even how Burnham has tended to govern in Manchester, which has been boosted by private housing development. The central issue driving the housing crisis is a planning system that does not allow things to be built. Fix that and Britain will, more or less, be able to be a rich country again. Secondly, "acceptance of the deregulation and privatisation of essential services is the same for the cost of living crisis." That's extremely hard to square with the reality of, let's say, the heavily poorly designed electricity market that has significantly driven up consumer costs. It's hard to see anywhere where state ownership could or would reduce consumer costs.

@CrewkerneGaz If a bullshit detecting AI could host Question Time, it would destroy most panelists. Sounds like a good idea to me. Send Fiona off to do more arty programmes and let Grok take over.

BBC Question Time hosts an AI special tonight, though something about the programme, the panel, and possibly even the audience feels suspiciously… generated. {satire}

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@JamesHarvey2503 Props to your girls and shame on Wetherspoons.

We have just been BANNED from the Wetherspoons in Norwich after a bunch of our girls complained about a MALE in the toilets.

@andrewdoyle_com "There is just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.” - Prince Harry Markle, 2023.

Six years apart, but essentially the same. Titania was meant to be satire, not prophecy.

BREAKING: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson ordered the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild to DELETE this post criticizing her, per KOMO News. .@MayorofSeattle really doesn’t want you to see this post! Would be a shame if it went viral!

@clim8resistance Gaslighting us, @itvnews. Shameful. Where's @Ofcom? Claire Coutinho on X: "An absolute must watch. Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP. . " / X

ITV News claims to be able to explain the paradox of the green energy agenda: if renewables are so cheap, why are prices rising? But instead it gets it wrong and misleads the audience. What it fails to explain is that renewables are more expensive than power from gas. And it fails to do so because it's just shamelessly regurgitating green lobby propaganda. There is zero evidence of anything journalism, current affairs or factual broadcasting here. It's like Pravda in the days of the USSR.

This is fun and worth 2 minutes of your time.

@PolitlcsUK Yes, isn't it great. Or perhaps you are fan of the below normal highs of 13C we had just a couple of weeks ago.

🚨 NEW: The UK has again recorded the hottest May day ever at 35.0°C in Kew Gardens and Heathrow

@NetZeroWatch Let's not leave it at Ofgem. How about Ed Miliband. Keir Starmer. the BBC, Sky News. Channel 4 and anyone anywhere who has uttered the words "cheap renewables".

“Ofgem could do us all a favour with clear multi-year forecasts and breakdowns of electricity pricing… Yes, the size of the next bill for consumers obviously matters. For the sake of grown-up debate about political choices, Ofgem ought to publish medium-term projections.” @NilsPratley

20 years ago today, Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was released. So, I decided to watch it to commemorate the occasion. Here is my reaction.

@SenWhitehouse You are such a liar. You are a disgrace.

Wow. The Washington Post op-ed page promotes a notorious climate denier. It has really gone the way of the PolluterPage. (BTW the worst-case emissions scenario fell because despite fossil fuel’s corrupt efforts, clean energy has surged globally, so this takes some nerve.)

If you voted Brexit and are sick of being told you were wrong, consider this.

@GuidoFawkes Oh great. We might be swapping one PM who doesn't answer questions for another PM who doesn't answer questions.

BURNHAM refuses to take a clear position on Net Zero when probed: "I'm not saying I've completely made a view on the North Sea issue. I'm listening to what people are saying about that." Adds it's "not in our interest to talk about time-limited industries."

@RogerPielkeJr Gavin writes "bad faith BS". That's enough to make me entirely uninterested in whatever else Gavin has to say.

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” —Hamlet

@Briviagra I don't know why these French posts have appeared on my feed, but I'm really glad they did. They are really good. Thank you.