John Carr

I love this. I honestly love it so much. But has Heathrow really reduced emissions by 50% over the past ten years?

The largest arms companies are mostly American, and Lockheed Martin is by far the largest. Following the Starlink debacle, the US is finished as a defence exporter. ⸻ Ref: SIPRI www.sipri.org/visualizatio... ⸻ The revenues of the largest arms-producing companies in the world, in 2024. 👇

1/ Phase 1 of Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm (302 MW, Target Commissioning Date 1st September, 2023) has missed its CfD long stop date of 30th November 2026, which has been extended to 31st July 2027. It's running almost four years behind schedule. ⸻ Ref: ReNews www.renews.biz/offshore-win... ⸻

 ❝ The Finnish Governmen gtranted today, 22 October 2026, to Posiva the operating licence for the encapsulation and final disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel located in Olkiluoto. This is the first operating licence anywhere in the world granted for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. ❞

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge between 1485-1487. This is how it works. Original post

8/ The main bottlenecks in electricity transmission from Scotland to England arise at two transmission network boundaries:  • the B4 boundary, between SSEN Transmission and SP Transmission;  • the B6 boundary, between SP Transmission and NGET. ⸻ Ref: UKERC ukerc.ac.uk/news/transmi... ⸻

1/ Curtailment costs are hitting the headlines. £47.9m spent on Wednesday on turn-down and turn-up costs combined. ⸻

Slovakia's newest nuclear power unit, Mochovce 4, has been connected and started supplying its first electricity to the grid. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/moc...

Labour, as a mid-term government, can be pretty satisfied with losing just four points, although the Greens moving up 22 points after the week they've had should help Burnham and co. avoid complacency.

"The Green Party conference is set to be dominated by Corbyn-era motions around Gaza, Zionism, Palestine. "These are dividing this party and risks, on some level, tearing it apart." Have the Greens got lost in 'fractious' politics? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/has-...

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

UN votes 164-1 to adopt Equal Earth map projection, replacing centuries-old Mercator distortion

9/ A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction after her husband and daughter sued, calling the sanctions a threat to family life. An appeals court then stayed that ruling, putting the sanctions back on. Keep watching, keep talking,

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

I hope you're enjoying the weather this summer. I expect it will be one of the coolest summers in the next two decades!

Water companies panic as drought worsens in UK From the new Private Eye, out now.

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

🔍 Trump prévoit discrètement d’autoriser l’Arabie saoudite à enrichir de l’uranium L’administration Trump a donné son accord de principe pour permettre à l’Arabie saoudite d’enrichir de l’uranium sans les garanties internationales destinées à empêcher le développement 🧵1

Lots of hypocrisy from those calling for Burnham to call an early election. From Churchill in 1940 to Burnham tomorrow = 19 PMs: - 12 came to office mid-term - 7 after a parliamentary election The team winning a majority in the Commons is free to change its captain

Fertility rates across many countries have converged, despite starting from very different levels. (This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social.) In the thirty years since I was born, fertility rates in my country, the United Kingdom, have not changed much.

At the, 'Coalition of the Willing' in Paris in support of Ukraine and now on Bastille Day, world leaders pay tribute to Sir Keir Starmer for his leadership and diplomacy. A great loss for the UK and our allies.

Vive l'entente cordiale www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Good decision on #ClactonCircus metro.co.uk/2026/07/14/m...

These are hadrons number 84 and 85 observed at the LHC, of which 75 were observed by LHCb. The full list is maintained by @koppenburg.ch, see www.koppenburg.ch/particles.html .

The construction of a new nuclear power plant in Switzerland would be economically viable, according to a study carried out by the BAK Economics research institute on behalf of the Swiss business federation Economiesuisse. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bui...

TV 🇺🇦 Pour la 1ère fois, des militaires 🇺🇦 ont participé au défilé du 14 juillet à Paris, célébrant la prise de la Bastille sur les Champs-Élysées aux côtés des unités de l'armée 🇫🇷 et de ses alliés, en l'honneur de la fête nationale 🇫🇷 2 pilotes 🇺🇦 ont survolé Paris à bord de Mirage 🇫🇷

Reflecting Pool drained again, revealing tire tracks from Trump's convoy..

The right response to shifting orders of geography, trade and commerce “is not to mourn the world that was; it is to build for the world as it is”, argue the leaders of Canada and Finland in a guest essay

Taking back control of our borders part 2,648 UK citizens arriving in Gibraltar will have to show passports to Spanish border officials... ...Spaniards to have freedom of movement to Gibraltar #SunnyUplands #Brexit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.

"Drax power station produced more carbon emissions than any other UK site in 2025 while receiving a record £999 million in public subsidies, according to new analysis from Ember."

I'm not sure "he's not even a real bin" is the winning electoral argument some of Count Binface's opponents imagine. I think the voters of Clacton had pretty much already realised that on their own.

The Binface campaign is a triumph.. there’s nothing people like Farage hate more than to be laughed at.

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

He's still much better at sports than he is at presidenting. #FIFA-Fiasco

Les neutrinos ont la propriété de traverser la matière sans quasiment aucun effet physique. Les dispositifs expérimentaux les plus ambitieux essayent de les détecter en Antarctique, dans une mine canadienne ou au fond de la mer Méditerranée : www.quantamagazine.org/how-physicis...

In just 2 years Labour has achieved far more for the country and ordinary people than the Tories did during their 14 long years in power.

So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?

4/4 Looking at the overall loss of French nuclear generation, here's the daily average nuclear power output for the EU and France for the six weeks around the heat wave. The heat wave resulted in a 1% drop in French nuclear generation. ⸻ Ref: Fraunhofer ISE www.energy-charts.info/charts/energ...

The embarrassment of celebrating Trump’s corruption and cheating at the World Cup. Jeffries telling the world the Democratic Party also supports corruption at the world stage. Pathetic.

The only just outcome now is Belgium to win 4-0, and Balogun to be sent off (again) after conceding a penalty.