Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃

alanallport.bsky.social

17 October 2026 22:19

A reminder that to have been a young adult in the Second World War you’d now be hitting 100.

Giles Wilkes

gilesyb.bsky.social

17 October 2026 08:37

Fascinating book reviews from @pilitaclark.bsky.social that - gloriously -do not hold back from skewering those that deserve it. Power failure — what went wrong with the UK’s energy system? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

James Murray

james-bg.bsky.social

17 October 2026 08:00

When Healey was appointed as Chancellor a veteran campaigner got in touch to say how they’d lobbied him as a Minister in the Blair/Brown governments and found him to be remarkably dismissive/borderline hostile to environmental arguments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Otto English

ottoenglish.bsky.social

17 October 2026 07:23

Marshall was born in Wandsworth and went to a public school in Barnes. His knowledge of the Red Wall could be written on the back of a postage stamp

Doug Parr

dougparr.bsky.social

17 October 2026 07:20

Well, he’s right in the sense there’d be economic growth - 0.05% according to UK govt’s impact assessment. Not much Same assessment also said the cost-benefit analysis, accounting for pollution, health impacts of noise etc would be negative by tens of billions of ££ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...