Alistair Linsell

Counterpoint: it was a stupid question, in fact it was a drab insult badly disguised as a question, the kind of smug, asinine, lazy crap you get from BBCQT audience members who are cosplaying Jeremy Paxman, and the responses it got were far better than it deserved.

We've written to @Conservatives to ask them to remove the “Tax Check UK" rebrand of @CCHQPress. This misrepresents posts on the account as an impartial fact checking service. Voters deserve better.

I understand the novelty of Channel 4 hiring Nadine Dorries but we need to stop MPs being rewarded for inadequacy. You were a failure, Nadine Dorries. You're deserving of no one's attention. You were a shitshow without an interval. You’re an irrelevance. Go away. Thank you.

The British Green party opposing yet another rail project, demonstrating once again that it is completely unserious about decarbonisation. The Greens are far more united by Nimbyism than by any appetite for actually doing the things necessary to make the UK less carbon intensive

Obviously the solution is that we need more good toddlers with guns to stop them.

Reform UK plan tax cuts which they say will cost £70bn; however our analysis shows the actual cost will be at least £93bn. And their funding figures are out by £15bn+ All this means Reform UK have a total unfunded cost of at least £38bn - about two Liz Trusses.

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Farage promised leaving the EU would solve all your problems, reduce immigration & save the NHS. He wasn’t telling the truth then - and guess what- he isn’t now.

Delighted to see the government has finally found £2.5bn a yeat to spend entirely on young people. More homes? Reduced tuition fees? Better mental health care? Reopening the youth centres? Investment in skills? Nope, they’re going to be forced to join the army or do some volunteering.

Cost of compulsory national service: £2.5bn a year. Cost of pay rise for junior doctors that ministers insist is “simply unaffordable”: £2bn a year.

Serious people used to say this was impossible, and if it was possible it would be eye-wateringly expensive. Looks like they were wrong. businessgreen.com/news-analysis/… BG+

Opens LinkedIn for the first time in 6 months. Closes it again

Great to see the ioLight Cell Imager doing #livecellimaging of cancer cells from inside an incubator at @BiologyatYork. Thanks to @WJBrackenbury for testing the #microscope. #cellimaging

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@Hattie_writes Well done! Finalists of what?

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Context for today's £28bn kerfuffle: The UK spent a staggering £265bn on energy in 2022 – the most recent data available – including more than £100bn on imported oil and gas alone Insulating homes + expanding domestic green energy supplies wld bring those numbers down…

Question that seems v pertinent and I have put to govt. if we are closing steel blast furnaces - partly in name of greener industrial processes - does argument for Cumbria coal mine (that it would supply UK steel industry) still stack up?