Lovely day out on @WorthValley. Had to make sure Frank the giraffe saw the engine too!

Spotted and reported a bug in the @GivEnergy API this morning. Huzzah!

How we started it. How it's going.

Business is haunted by Brexit – and this safety mark fiasco is its latest nightmare | Polly Toynbee theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Taking a van to the EU as a @scouts volunteer- a thread. Buckle up! In my volunteer role in Scouting I use my D1E to support teams of younger leaders who don’t have D1 on their license as that was removed on 1st Jan 1997. I was asked to drive a 3.5tonne van to Switzerland /1

Don’t interpret a close by-election result and one poorly designed policy as Britons cooling on net zero: the British public — including Conservative voters — is fully behind ambitious green growth. Confident parties and leaders would channel those sentiments, not undermine them.

Famously, David Cameron moved in 2013 to "cut the green crap" in a short-sighted bid to cut energy bills. It had the opposite effect, with the resulting poorly insulated homes and over-reliance on gas adding £9.8bn to UK energy bills over the past year x.com/DrSimEvans/status/1638…

Of the 30 hottest days ever recorded, no fewer than 21 have occurred THIS MONTH. Temperatures in July 2023 could well be the highest for 120,000 years. This story is the lead on the BBC website, 7th on The Times, 69th on The Daily Mail, & hasn’t yet been mentioned by The Sun.

So heart warming to see British Gas's hard work, innovation and entrepreneurial spirits finally rewarded with such bumper profits!

Over 100 trans men enter Miss Italy pageant after organiser says only “women from birth” allowed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😆😆😆 uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/ov…

If corporate infosec is texting a personal number, they've stepped squarely into the line of fire...

Braverman broke the law by withholding £3 per week support for pregnant asylum seekers & their children under 3. The court also found a woman in her 80s had been unlawfully denied this support. This is our monstrous refugee “deterrence” policy in action theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…

For those wondering, if the distribution was normal (hint. it isn't) and the climate was not changing (hint. it is.), then 6.4 standard deviations would correspond to odds of about 1-in-13,000,000,000 (1-in-13 billion).

Hey Government Minister, Want to support the engineering supply chain in the UK? I’ve got an idea for you - invest in rail infrastructure in the North. Yours, Exasperated of West Yorkshire. gov.uk/government/news/uk-an…

A political culture war on climate change will be a disaster for Britain. We must all hope for better

Uxbridge & ULEZ 1. ULEZ was initiated by Boris Johnson long before Sadiq Khan. 2. The Conservative government under Grant Shapps made expanding ULEZ a condition of providing financial support to TFL during covid. 3. The Conservative government have provided funds to cities such as Birmingham (with a Conservative mayor), but not to London (with a Labour mayor). Clean air is good, we need more of it. Underfunding from the Conservative government which has caused the ULEZ charge is the problem. - Billions given to bankers in tax cuts, billions wasted in PPE/covid fraud, billions wasted on refugee bargees. We need a different and better government. A pity the people of Uxbridge voted for more of the same.

A Labour Party that was interested in *leading* the country into the future would not run away from ULEZ, it would talk about how they'll complement strategically as a competent government. "Kick the can down the road" is not the policy position of a credible opposition.

Johnny Mercer is right, we don't want Parliament to become like the Inbetweeners. Can you imagine if the government was made up of unlikeable, incompetent, idiot boys with problematic attitudes towards women who all went to school together?

The most important statistics in these by-elections: 2.6%, 3.3% & 1.7%. Vote share for Labour and Lib Dems in seats they didn’t win. Appreciate it’s a by-election but tactical voting on even a fraction of that scale would be very bad news for Tories.