Steve Loftus

💰The Cost of Renewables 2025 Megathread💰 The Government is pushing the narrative that renewables are cheap and gas is the problem. It's been 18 months since my last thread showed this to be a lie. Have things changed? Or is Ed Miliband driving us towards ruin? 🧵

So two Muslim callers to LBC agree with @NJ_Timothy.... There is no Islamic requirement or justification to pray en masse in the open.

Yep…

The cheap green lie You are told that solar and wind are cheap But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems Data for 2024 shows that cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly iea.org/data-and-stati… Threads&refs: x.com/BjornLomborg/s…

🚨🇫🇷 NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck [@lemondefr]

Starmer: "War footing" Healey: "Pre-war era" Budget: *cuts £10bn more*

This is excellent, and an absolute must-watch from @julianHjessop, @cricketwyvern and the team at @NewCultureForum The actual performance of the UK economy since Brexit proves that all the nonsense forecasts are exactly that. Nonsense. youtube.com/watch?v=_7Z9ZG…

Prof Dieter Helm proposes UK gov signs long-term offtake contracts to support the resurrection of North Sea gas (this is likely necessary to reassure producers they won't be taxed/regulated out of existence by a future gov) Hard to see how you argue against this at this point

Why does Nick Clegg's portrait look more like @MelJStride?

I lived in the United Arab Emirates for 12 years and never saw anything like this. Why was it necessary in Trafalgar Square? What was it trying to prove?

Since I raised this in Parliament, the violence has not stopped. Hindu and Sikh businesses in Wembley have been smashed up, men beaten in restaurant toilets, four men stabbed on Ealing Road. The perpetrators of the original Holi attack remain largely at large. #BritishHindus

The Government know we need oil & gas. They just don’t want to use OUR oil & gas. 👉 End the ban on new licences. Now. 👉 Scrap the EPL. Now. 👉 Permit Rosebank & Jackdaw. Now.

@robhawkes Nice work, and genuinely useful. Heatpumps are fine, but as gas in nearly 5x cheaper than electricity they clearly don't offer a saving.

Random Internet person: "But this one unsubstantiated datapoint about a single heat pump that 'someone I know' / my plumber mate / [insert random third-party here] says they're shit" How about real, near-realtime data from every single one of the many thousands of real Cosy heat pumps already installed by Octopus Energy in real homes? That's a really big dose of real. That's what we've done with the Cosy Heat Pump Fleet Performance Dashboard, released today. Let's talk about what the data says right now, not some hypothetical argument about what it might say tomorrow. Why hide behind marketing speak and hypotheticals when we can show you what the real data says about real heat pump installations in real homes? There aren't many energy suppliers out there who will go out of their way to put data like this out for the public to see. And when the request for this transparency comes right from the top, you know you're in the right place. It's a reminder of why I've spent the last 4+ years at Octopus. We did this around direct debit transparency with Balance Forecast, one of the first projects I worked on when I joined Octopus all those years ago. And we're still doing it today with this heat pump dashboard. It's been a pleasure working on this project and helping with the visualisations to help break down the frankly insane amount of raw data into insights around fleet-wide efficiency over time and how performance changes with the temperature. It also tops the list as the dashboard with the longest name that I've ever worked on…

🚨 Fun Fact from Naz Shah MP British Muslims contribute £70bn to the UK economy annually. That’s around 2.6% of GDP. Muslims make up around 7% of the UK population. That means the other 93% of the population generate 97.4% of GDP. Make of that what you will.

They genuinely think we’re all idiots don’t they.

"Thatcher sold off our oil" is the original "What happened to the £350m for the NHS that was on the bus?" Both uttered my people too dim to use Google.

- Put tens of billions in wind and solar costs onto energy bills - Prohibit fracking and drilling for North Sea oil & gas - Impose a carbon tax 50% higher than California’s and 6x higher than China’s - Borrow billions of pounds to pay for a “cost of living bailout”

For a nation basically built of coal, gas and oil, and which pioneered nuclear electricity generation to have the most expensive energy in the world is the result of embracing eco-Marxism. Just like with healthcare.

Exclusive: Britain's civil service ethics chief twice offered to officially question Lord Mandelson over his links to Jeffrey Epstein but was rebuffed by No10. Darren Tierney approached senior No10 staff in late 2024 and offered to conduct formal interviews before the decision.

Starmer told the Commons that Mandelson "lied to me". Turns out not only did he not speak to him, he stopped others looking into him