Andrew Pendleton

@Mabeytweet Why do I have the feeling the answer is going to involve more gas for longer, and more ‘market’, despite the past and current price shocks both being attributable to gas and the market - designed around funding operating costs - unsuitable for renewables.

Reminder that Dieter Helm’s consistent advice has been for the UK to build out “cheap” gas power while only investing in R&D for zero carbon energy Two gas price shocks later UK has £55bn more govt debt due to gas reliance even with much more renewable power than Dieter advised

@danscapephoto Great thread. Agree with al of it. What a season.

Unofficial end of season award results …. #nffc 🏆 Neco Williams - Player of The Season 🏆 Igor Jesus - Signing of The Season 🏆 Jair Cunha - Surprise of The Season 👀 Dilane Bakwa - One To Watch awards.nffcstats.co.uk/awards/results

@s8mb Hope he doesn’t pay as much attention as current leadership to the builders vs blockers false dichotomy nonsense. People value their places. Growth has to start from there.

If Burnham wins, he’ll treat it as a mandate to do whatever terrible leftist policies he wants (nationwide rent controls, wealth tax, exit tax, ultra-high CGT). This could be quite bad. If he loses, Rayner or Miliband will become PM instead as obvious second-best choices, wounded and weak from day one and with no claim to a mandate. They are also clearly less electorally appealling. Reform winning in Makerfield therefore seems very desireable, and a lot of economic growth may be at stake.

Cc @metpoliceuk

Hello @LondonPortAuth this morning someone climbed up the old wharf by Fulham Reach and taped three of these to the various old mooring gear. Is this legit?

@TimesRadio @FraserNelson That’s not caused by Brexit but values. Politics is increasingly values segmented and polarised by values not socio economic class., though they interact. In the EU referendum the vote was values polarised. See this: threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org/?p=1462 & threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org/?p=1601 @AJPendleton

@MattDavies_FF Villa are a proper outfit, 2-3 seasons ahead of Forest in development. No shame in the defeat at all, and would've been closer without core injuries. Also feel Emery got tactics right. Never thought I'd say these words, but playing Lindelof in CDM was masterstroke.

Just such a shame. Totally outclassed without key players against a team 100 times better than Chelsea. Lack of proper full-back option big tonight. It would have been a much closer game with MGW, Sangare, Murillo and Aina but players have really gone under second half. #nffc

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@danscapephoto Yes. looks very competent and nice touch from Pereira to give him some minutes. Bakwa also looks like a different player under Pereira.

Jimmy Sinclair deserves some decent minutes this season once we get over the line, been impressed with his very short cameos. Didn’t look phased last night #nffc

@danscapephoto Villa are 2 or 3 seasons ahead and unless you have stability and allow a team to build, you won't get there regardless of how talented your players are. But also, I do think Pereira got the tactics wrong and we should have reverted to 3 in the middle and 1 striker.

My personal European away tour…. #nffc Braga 0-1 Villa 0-4 Zero goals celebrated away in Europe. Feel free to remind me these are the good times 😔 Unfinished business I guess.

@Battlemuch4WW Looks like £500 already from anywhere to Istanbul on 20th.

One thing that will unite #NFFC & #AVFC fans is that whoever gets through tonight will take thousands to Istanbul. Think it’s 11,000 official tickets plus many more will travel too in the hope of picking up extras. We can all agree that airlines will totally rip us off. ✈️ 💴 😡

@BromptonBicycle @JohnLewisRetail @waitrose Me neither. It was actually completely folded and I was carrying it. I was categorically told they no longer allow Bromptons in the shop at all. Not even an offer to keep it somewhere safe.

@AJPendleton @JohnLewisRetail @waitrose sorry to hear this. If you're wheeling your bike in shopper mode then we can't see why they would have a problem?

Here’s possibly the most middle class post ever, but @JohnLewisRetail and @waitrose appear to have stopped allowing customers to carry fold-up bikes in their shops. @BromptonBicycle have a word! It won’t deeply affect my life but it’s daft!

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

NEW: The UK govt is scrapping its top-up carbon tax, the "carbon price support" from 2028 Brought in by Osborne to help get rid of coal Now it brings in Treasury revenue (£400m in 2024/25) + raises elec bills, but doesn't help cut CO2 Will cut power prices by ~0.7p/kWh 1/2

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NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices carbonbrief.org/analysis-recor…

the Jose Feliciano version is fabulous, @robert_elms @RobertElms but Stevie wins against anyone on any track. Innervisions is also one of his three flawless albums

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@AnalyticsForest @danscapephoto Chris is right. The legal person here is/should be CFC. It’s perhaps unfortunate for the current owners but the sanctions have to be applied to the club (as well as if possible to the previous owners). And perhaps their due diligence should have identified the liability.

When you become a custodian of a football club you take on all of missteps from previous ownership, just as they’re taking on all that has benefited Chelsea from that time. Look at Sheff Wed, they’re gonna have a wage cap at a minimum and they’ve gained 0 sporting advantage for their previous ownership transgressions. Chelsea are continuing to see a sporting advantage from that time, it’s had a knock on effect. I don’t buy there wasn’t enough time to do due diligence. Even if that’s the case, it’s quite irrelevant. They should have had a transfer ban imo. That’s what they were probably expecting a few years ago. Hence the stock piling.

If you read far enough you get past the reactive stuff to the reality........ "No two cases are identical, and the Chelsea circumstances do carry genuine mitigating weight. The conduct occurred under previous ownership. The new owners voluntarily disclosed the issues and co-operated throughout a lengthy investigation. These are not trivial considerations." Giving the current Chelsea team a points deduction is not a deterrent when dealing with offences from 8-15 years ago, which are entirely beyond the control of the current version of the club. The key punishments should be restricting the previous owners and executives from any future roles at clubs in England due to their actions. The fine should be much more significant and shouldn't have been reduced. If you really want a sporting sanction, then you strike their title-winning seasons from the official record. Even then, it doesn't really punish the people actually responsible for this. A points deduction works as a deterrent for PSR because it's as close to 'real-time' punishment as you can get. It punishes people breaking the rules. A points deduction enforced now for dodgy owners 10+ years ago would be daft, and if anything, it just incentivises new owners hiding any such problems they uncover. Whataboutery comes in lots of forms. Often, for instant clicks and anger. The reality is this is a specific case with a lot of context. It's not comparable to Forest & Everton breaching PSR within the 3-year period it runs for, affecting the current team. Fans, players, and most staff cannot control who owns their clubs and how they behave. Points deductions should be a last resort because the impact mainly hurts those who follow the club for life, not those passing through who can conceal and deal and walk away.