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@BethRigby Hope he had enough crayons

NEW: Am told Keir Starmer wrote handwritten notes for every single member of No 10 staff - in the hundreds - thanking them for their public service

@vonderleyen @andyburnham Make the most of it. He will be gone at the next election or possibly before

A very good first discussion with @andyburnham. We are both committed to bringing the EU and the UK closer and closer. Together, we will work towards a successful Summit that delivers for our businesses, our young people and our shared security. And we will continue our excellent cooperation in support of Ukraine. Europe is stronger when the EU and the UK work side by side.

@johnredwood Why should person A have to fund their own care when persons B,C and D get it for free?

People who own their own home sell it to help pay the costs of living in a care home as my parents did.I helped them find a high quality private sector home. I do not see why taxpayers should have to pay when many elderly can afford the care home. The NHS is still free for all.

@DavidDavisMP @MarkatLangstone Why not stay with gas power stations and replace them with nuclear power stations as they come online?

An interesting discussion in the Guardian on installing solar panels on car parks. With the Government and NESO pushing for the installation of tens of gigawatts of solar generation capacity to achieve net zero, solar carparks are frequently overlooked in favour of massive solar farms, which devastate rural communities and ride roughshod over residents' wishes. It is estimated that building solar panels on car parks could offer an additional 12-24 GW of capacity, representing between a quarter and a half of the Government's targets for 2030. Countries like France already require solar panels to be installed in car parks over a certain size, and it is past time we do the same. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

@MarkMgc11 @stuey_beef Enhanced state pension?

@stuey_beef Don’t forget they’re allowed to take their enhanced state pension (which is what it is as paid for from taxation) early as well, between 55-60

More than 70,000 retired public sector workers are on pensions above £50,000 a year, and almost 4,000 enjoy more than £100,000 annually – guaranteed, inflation‑linked, backed by the full power of the state. These aren’t one‑off anomalies; they are a structural feature of a system designed to shower the top of the public sector with lifetime security, regardless of economic reality for everyone else. Try telling a delivery driver, a care worker, or a small‑business owner who’s never had a pension that they must subsidise five‑figure and six‑figure state‑sector pensions forever because “the rules say so”. Try telling a generation locked out of home ownership that they must accept higher taxes and worse services so a political and bureaucratic class can retire early on packages the private sector stopped offering years ago. Yes, many ordinary public‑sector workers retire on modest pensions. That truth is routinely weaponised by defenders of the system to obscure the existence of this pension aristocracy at the top – the people whose lavish deals drive the biggest costs, whose interests Labour is most keen to protect, and whose comfort is quietly prioritised over the needs of struggling families staring at rising tax bills and decaying public services.

@avertcollapse When did the record begin?

UK climate changes are 'unprecedented'. Last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record. Heatwaves the norm and it will get hotter. Time to actually do something? Anyone still denying is an enemy of humanity. theguardian.com/environment/20…

@Artemisfornow Always apply ABC. Assume Nothing Believe Nothing Confirm Everything

Right then … as Ross Clark points out, the claim that 2,700 people were killed by the heat is bollocks. (Technical term) It was presented as an actual death toll. It wasn’t. It was a modelling exercise and er.… not actual mortality UKHSA found NO excess mortality during the May heatwave. And in the 2 published ONS weeks covering most of June’s heatwave, death registrations were actually 918 BELOW expected. But the hysterical headlines pushed the narrative as if it was fact. As always, question everything.

@neso_energy Can you explain why we needed imports?

On Sunday #wind generated 31.4% of British electricity, more than solar 17.4%, imports 17.4%, gas 13.4%, nuclear 11.0%, biomass 6.1%, other 2.0%, hydro 1.3%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

@MrSugden2 @SBarrettBar Can you imagine them making Crime Watch under this philosophy? Police want your help to catch this bank robber but we won't show you the CCTV coz reasons.

@SBarrettBar I think the public have come to realise that no description is the biggest description of all.

This is complete bollocks. Releasing CCTV helps capture criminals, as you all know @DC_Police have completely failed.

@PolitlcsUK I used to watch crime watch back in the day. It was all pictures and film of suspects that the police wanted to have a chat with about criminal behaviour

🚨 NEW: Police have made the "active decision" not to release CCTV of the Ann Widdecombe murder suspect "Releasing such prematurely could compromise ongoing enquiries and may prejudice future investigative opportunities"

@JeremyCordite I take it he failed the detonation exam?

Attention shoppers. The Telegraph is now The Guardian.

@FlashForFreedom Back in c1977 when I was in senior school, one of the lads in my year collected up hedge porn and rented issues out from his school desk. Very popular chap.

@latimeralder The Roman and Medieval warm periods were just local events not climate change but this year's heat may be local but it is definitely climate change.

Learn to speak Climo with Lat! 1. Translations: 'I love the climate' = 'I hate the people' 'People must reduce their emissions' = 'Except me. I have to fly to the climate conference' 'Cold is good, warm is bad' = 'My role model is a penguin' Any others?

@PositivFuturist I believe Affinity Water may be stating that the hosepipe ban in my area (Hertfordshire) is with immediate effect. However,the statutory notice they have published says that the ban comes in on Friday 17th. Hope they are not telling porkies.

The correct way to respond to a hosepipe ban is to fill your paddling pool, run your sprinkler and a bath. They can fuck off. It's important we run out to highlight the fact that infrastructure is overstretched and needs to be built out.

@AffinityWater Your statutory notice for the hosepipe ban in Hertfordshire states that the ban comes into effect at oo.o1 on Friday 17 July. Can you confirm that this is when the ban comes into effect?

@adamboultonTABB You really are a piece of shit

And another one. Police say not terror or politically motivated. Stop trying to exploit a horrific killing.

@Iromg Mike. I will not put into words the rage I am feeling over this atrocity as said words would not be fitting in a thread about this lady. At an appropriate moment, would you be able to identify a charity or cause that Ann supported so that a donation could be made in her memory?

I can’t stop thinking about how my friend Ann must have felt and how I wish I could have been there to protect her in those awful last minutes… I feel disgusted that this could have happened in my country open.substack.com/pub/themikegra…

@latimeralder Air conditioning. It will save me having to drive around in my diesel 4x4 while using the aircon

POLL In the era of Global Warming, which would you most like to install in your house? Please vote, comment and retweet

@LozzaFox I have the same only I put a vent through the wall so that I don't have to have the tube out the window. A game changer as you rightly say

I have acquired an air conditioner with a tube thing that goes out of the window. Our bedroom more closely resembles the temperature of a rainforest at dawn than that of Satans ball bag. I want you to be as happy about that as I am. Its delightful.

@SteveInmanClips @Suffragent_ Sometimes they make such a nice job of the paving that you want to give it a kiss

When a game of footsies backfires.