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Villagers hunt for fly-tipper with a taste for sauvignon blanc #EastYorkshire #NewZealand telegraph.co.uk/gift/c28e49edc…

@SandyofCthulhu The Royal Navy operated anti slavery patrols in the Red Sea using vessels such as HMS Gannet which you went aboard @DockyardChatham when you visited us.

The former Slave Coast needs reparations to make up for the revenue lost when Britain blocked transatlantic slave trading.

@LoftusSteve Wouldn't that increase CfD payments though?

A lot of people seem to get really mad about gas setting the marginal price. Decoupling it (which will never happen) would save £4-5bn per year. But scrapping carbon taxes would save far more, likely around £8bn per year now, and £11bn by 2030.

The North Sea WOULD cut bills!! We have marginal pricing for wholesale gas... The most expensive gas on the grid sets the price each day North Sea production is cheaper than imports. It will displace them starting with the most expensive cargo ie immediate drop in price In the summer we could potentially remove the need for LNG altogether... Bigger drop in price NBP already trades at a discount to TTF. Why? Because this is a PHYSICAL market. To equalise prices you need a way to move the gas from the UK to Europe We have 2 pipelines linking us which isn't enough to move all the gas you'd need to move to trade away the price difference THAT is why more North Sea production WOULD cut bills Plus it earns lots of tax revenues from the gas producers and the huge UK based supply chains that support them. That extra tax can be used to fund renewables subsidies instead of paying for them through bills which would create even bigger reductions in bills The @spectator needs to get writers who understand their subject. Someone working in renewables maybe isn't the best person to write about the gas market

@KathrynPorter26 @DaleVince I have an Ancient History degree but totally agree with Kathryn Porter's energy ideas.

@DaleVince The CCC is run by somebody with a classics degree. Given the nonsense that comes out of her mouth she has not developed any science literacy in the meantime

I actually disagree. I’m a fan of net zero of course and it’s good to hear the Climate Change Committee (of deep subject matter experts) say we are more or less on target…though I think there are questionable assumptions around the bigger later years cuts forecast , reliance on dodgy tech like carbon capture and storage.. but that aside. Where I disagree is with the idea we need to re make the case for net zero. I think we should shut up about it. It’s been toxified, like the EU before it - just say its name and you’re in an uphill battle. Better to talk about energy bills, cost of living, jobs and economic growth - the green economy. Let’s talk about the benefits of getting there, rather than the destination. Next zero is too abstract for too many people who struggle day to day - let’s talk about the benefits of the green economy, which is how we get to net zero. independent.co.uk/climate-change…

@bangkokfrog @KathrynPorter26 @carla_denyer I presume Advanced Gas cooled Reactor.

@KathrynPorter26 @carla_denyer What is AGR?

As we stare down these energy price shocks, we need to ask: why is the price of *all* electricity largely set by gas-fired power stations? This rigged system needs to change. Today, I wrote to Ed Miliband MP asking that we break the link between gas and electricity prices.

@SandyofCthulhu Gemma's late Grandads unit (47 Royal Marine Commando) took part in the battle for Walcheren

It looks here like Britain's gonig slow, but it's because they pulled almost all the German panzers to them early on. (Later on they went west to hit the USA in the Avranches assault.) The big failing of the British under Montgomery was when they headed towards Antwerp he didn't ensure clearing the islands in the estuary leading to the sea when they were almost completely ungarrisoned. Instead he waited and then Antwerp couldn't get supplies in very easily and lots of Canadians got killed clearing those islands.

@peterrhague @amigo_phd Mine were a cobbler and coke dealer (coal not cocaine).

@amigo_phd My ancestors were steelworkers, clock makers, and civil servants. I have nothing to be ashamed of.

We can understand that you have to twist the history a little bit to cleanse your atrocious and inhumane ancestors. I would do same to make myself feel better if I was in your shoes. We know it's a very uncomfortable feeling.

Dear @UN, Oldest slave trades: 1. Africans enslaving Africans: Thousands of years to today 2. Arab slave trade: 1000+ years to today British Empire slave trade? 1555 - 1807 Should Europe claim reparations for the Barbary Slave Trade in 1M+ WHITE SLAVES? North Africans enslaved at least 1 Million white Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade, which lasted longer than the British Empire's trans-Atlantic slave trade. If the Caribbean and Africa want reparations, why is Europe also not entitled to reparations? Where does this end? Should Italy pay reparations for slavery in the Roman Empire? Me on @GBNews with Jacob Rees-Mogg:

@SandyofCthulhu We are due some money from the Romans and Barbary pirates too.

My ancestors were forced out of Ireland by the English-induced potato famine, so you can just hand your Danegeld money right over to me.

@peterrhague This seems an absolute bargain compared to the Lower Thames Crossing or Stonehenge. The Heathrow CEO originally claimed that it would cost a £1 Billion to install proper back up power supplies at his airport.

Over the next decade, NASA will spend $20 billion (£15 billion) constructing a permanent outpost on the Moon. This is what the UK spend on foreign aid in 2023 - one single year. We could have had the stars.

@SandyofCthulhu Absolutely. The Stuarts really held a grudge. They tracked down and executed those that signed Charles the First's death warrant living and dead.

The English royal house is like the least legitimate in Europe. You get the Plantagenets who get overthrown by the Tudors. The Tudors die out under Elizabeth. Then England import the Stuarts from Scotland. They futz around with a civil war, kill the Stuart king, then bring him back. THEN they run the new Stuart out of town and bring in some Dutch royalty for a while. They replace the Dutch with the German House of Hanover, who die out because George IV is too retarded to have a kid. Then they bring in the House of Saxe-Coburg but changed its name during WW1 to Windsor because the old name sounded German (because it is). By comparison the Dutch House of Orange dates back to 1568, when they revolted from Spain. The Danish monarchy goes back to the 900s. The Japanese imperial dynasty started in 660 BC. The Royal house of Brunei is 600 years old. The British royals are upstarts by comparison.

Fourth musketeer D’Artagnan discovered in Dutch church telegraph.co.uk/gift/597301e69…

The ignorance expresses by @UKLabour MPs in this article is depressing They should sign up for my free 1 hour of energy training that I'm offering to all MPs and peers Nobody from Labour has taken me up on it so far and it shows... news.sky.com/story/ed-milib…

Surrendering the Chagos is Ecocide on a massive scale. The British Indian Overseas Territory is one the only places in the Indian Ocean not decimated by Chinese and Asian industrial overfishing. If the deal goes through, the Chagos archipelago will be ransacked by trawlers. Unusually, there is almost complete radio silence from British conservation organisations. It’s inexplicable. ecos.org.uk/the-chagos-con…

@jaglancy @AllisonPearson Calling Chris Packham?

@GreatBritishPAC Excellent point. Where are the so called Green celebs and Environmental correspondents at the BBC, other broadcasters and national newspapers?

How have we come so close to allowing destruction of the best coral reef ecosystem on the planet?  Why are most ‘green’ politicians and environmental organisations not opposing the sovereignty transfer of this fragment of paradise to Mauritius?  ecos.org.uk/the-chagos-con…

@latimeralder @greenartdf Or operate our gas cooker?

@greenartdf Remind me. Can I put wind in my petrol tank? Or my gas central heating? No? A bit of a problem, n'est-ce pas?

Wind up 120% in 8 years. Oil flatlined. The learning curve is working exactly as predicted. Seems like good news for renewables fans.

@lembitopik Dale Vince said it at the end of last year.

More snow for Britain at the end of March. But Dr David Viner of the discredited Climatic Research Unit at the “University of East Anglia” said - in 2000 - snow would be so rare “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Poor David.

@SandyofCthulhu A lot of people in the UK now use One Cups rather than an old school kettle.

America is literally the main nation that uses kettles. Anytime a British friend visits they find it so quaint that we put a kettle on the stove and it whistles to alert us to the boil. They use electric kettles almost exclusively. Just plug them in on the counter and wait. That we rely on fire and metal to make tea is so "cute".