Winter02
@winter02.bsky.social
Politics, education, music, art and books.
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Clean energy is the further. One solar array cut my household bill from £180 a month to £20. Payback in three years.
Imagine that for a whole country?
Imagine that for a whole country?
You hear loads of nonsense about clean energy jobs.
But ignore the naysayers, the gloomsters and the doomsters.
Clean energy is the future.
Clean energy jobs offer hope, security and a future for our young people.
Ed gets it.
Labour gets it.
I get it.
Do you?
But ignore the naysayers, the gloomsters and the doomsters.
Clean energy is the future.
Clean energy jobs offer hope, security and a future for our young people.
Ed gets it.
Labour gets it.
I get it.
Do you?
December 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Clean energy is the further. One solar array cut my household bill from £180 a month to £20. Payback in three years.
Imagine that for a whole country?
Imagine that for a whole country?
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giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told
The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told
A huge pessimistic bias in our national accounts leads us to doom and gloom which turns out to be nonsense
giftarticle.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told
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Other crimes are also continuing to fall. Compared to the same time period in 2024/25, in the first quarter of the financial year 2025/26, residential burglary in London fell by 10 per cent, theft from person by 13 per cent and personal robbery by 13 per cent9
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Other crimes are also continuing to fall. Compared to the same time period in 2024/25, in the first quarter of the financial year 2025/26, residential burglary in London fell by 10 per cent, theft from person by 13 per cent and personal robbery by 13 per cent9
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The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...
www.london.gov.uk
December 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
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Fantastic news! We need to be shouting this from the rooftops! #NetZero #LoveNetZero
NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️
Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.
https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.
https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fantastic news! We need to be shouting this from the rooftops! #NetZero #LoveNetZero
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This is what we voted Labour for!
Today, a new National Plan to End Homelessness is published!
Minister @allymcgovern.bsky.social is here making a statement in the Commons with:
+ the plans aims
+ what the government is already doing
+ how success will be measures
+ & extra funding
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Today, a new National Plan to End Homelessness is published!
Minister @allymcgovern.bsky.social is here making a statement in the Commons with:
+ the plans aims
+ what the government is already doing
+ how success will be measures
+ & extra funding
1/4
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is what we voted Labour for!
Today, a new National Plan to End Homelessness is published!
Minister @allymcgovern.bsky.social is here making a statement in the Commons with:
+ the plans aims
+ what the government is already doing
+ how success will be measures
+ & extra funding
1/4
Today, a new National Plan to End Homelessness is published!
Minister @allymcgovern.bsky.social is here making a statement in the Commons with:
+ the plans aims
+ what the government is already doing
+ how success will be measures
+ & extra funding
1/4
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12 announcements in just one day. No stopping our Labour government.
Billions for homelessness and for helping SEND kids stay locally. Improving lives across the country. A government focused on us and not the wealthy 👏👏👏
Billions for homelessness and for helping SEND kids stay locally. Improving lives across the country. A government focused on us and not the wealthy 👏👏👏
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
12 announcements in just one day. No stopping our Labour government.
Billions for homelessness and for helping SEND kids stay locally. Improving lives across the country. A government focused on us and not the wealthy 👏👏👏
Billions for homelessness and for helping SEND kids stay locally. Improving lives across the country. A government focused on us and not the wealthy 👏👏👏
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We're firmly stuck on 197 ratings on Apple Podcasts, with an average of 4.9. Could you help us reach the magic number of 200? Quietly please?!
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Mental Health Podcast · Updated weekly · Surround yourself with somewhere else. Captured quiet from natural places. Put the ”outside on” with headphones. Find us on Bluesky @RadioLento. Support the po...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We're firmly stuck on 197 ratings on Apple Podcasts, with an average of 4.9. Could you help us reach the magic number of 200? Quietly please?!
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Corrupt Tory scum.
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Corrupt Tory scum.
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“What we have witnessed, ever since Nato began in 1948, is a duality in American attitudes: they like the idea of Europe adding numbers to Nato, and being a lucrative market for their weapons. They’re less keen on us acquiring autonomy, or even independence”
markurban.substack.com/p/trumps-par...?
markurban.substack.com/p/trumps-par...?
Trump's Paradigm Shift
How the post-Cold war era ends...
markurban.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“What we have witnessed, ever since Nato began in 1948, is a duality in American attitudes: they like the idea of Europe adding numbers to Nato, and being a lucrative market for their weapons. They’re less keen on us acquiring autonomy, or even independence”
markurban.substack.com/p/trumps-par...?
markurban.substack.com/p/trumps-par...?
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It does seem like that.
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It does seem like that.
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For the record:
📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers
📈 Trainee teachers up 11%
📈 Physics up 36%
📈 Computing up 44%
📈 Maths up 16%
📈 Attendance improving
📈 Behaviour improving
Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them.
#PMQs
📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers
📈 Trainee teachers up 11%
📈 Physics up 36%
📈 Computing up 44%
📈 Maths up 16%
📈 Attendance improving
📈 Behaviour improving
Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them.
#PMQs
December 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
For the record:
📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers
📈 Trainee teachers up 11%
📈 Physics up 36%
📈 Computing up 44%
📈 Maths up 16%
📈 Attendance improving
📈 Behaviour improving
Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them.
#PMQs
📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers
📈 Trainee teachers up 11%
📈 Physics up 36%
📈 Computing up 44%
📈 Maths up 16%
📈 Attendance improving
📈 Behaviour improving
Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them.
#PMQs
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The only time you'll ever hear me speaking in a Maths Lecture Theatre... Come along to my talk at the #Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday 22 March. Journeys into the #history of #England through 25 remarkable #poems... #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The only time you'll ever hear me speaking in a Maths Lecture Theatre... Come along to my talk at the #Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday 22 March. Journeys into the #history of #England through 25 remarkable #poems... #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
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US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects
US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects
Federal judge declared January executive order unlawful, ruling in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects
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Once more for the haters...
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Once more for the haters...
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#DAY10
This is the first video I ever saw. Not just Bowie but EVER. Xmas 83...I was 11 in Bangladesh, a cousin sent a VHS tape of a medley of Duran Duran, Adam Ant etc (I was the most popular kid in town for having Thriller on tape) but this one I rinsed on repeat. There's brown people in it! 🤯
This is the first video I ever saw. Not just Bowie but EVER. Xmas 83...I was 11 in Bangladesh, a cousin sent a VHS tape of a medley of Duran Duran, Adam Ant etc (I was the most popular kid in town for having Thriller on tape) but this one I rinsed on repeat. There's brown people in it! 🤯
David Bowie - Let's Dance (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Bowie
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
#DAY10
This is the first video I ever saw. Not just Bowie but EVER. Xmas 83...I was 11 in Bangladesh, a cousin sent a VHS tape of a medley of Duran Duran, Adam Ant etc (I was the most popular kid in town for having Thriller on tape) but this one I rinsed on repeat. There's brown people in it! 🤯
This is the first video I ever saw. Not just Bowie but EVER. Xmas 83...I was 11 in Bangladesh, a cousin sent a VHS tape of a medley of Duran Duran, Adam Ant etc (I was the most popular kid in town for having Thriller on tape) but this one I rinsed on repeat. There's brown people in it! 🤯
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DAVID BOWIE advent calendar
(I missed out Day 1 because it's hard to pick a number one favourite) 😁 x
#DAY2
(I missed out Day 1 because it's hard to pick a number one favourite) 😁 x
#DAY2
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Bowie
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
DAVID BOWIE advent calendar
(I missed out Day 1 because it's hard to pick a number one favourite) 😁 x
#DAY2
(I missed out Day 1 because it's hard to pick a number one favourite) 😁 x
#DAY2
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Boost for defence businesses & European cooperation as UK joins defence exports treaty
The UK has joined The Agreement on Defence Export Controls, alongside France, Germany & Spain.
It will make it easier to grant export licenses between nations, helping the UK cooperate with European allies.
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The UK has joined The Agreement on Defence Export Controls, alongside France, Germany & Spain.
It will make it easier to grant export licenses between nations, helping the UK cooperate with European allies.
1/2
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Boost for defence businesses & European cooperation as UK joins defence exports treaty
The UK has joined The Agreement on Defence Export Controls, alongside France, Germany & Spain.
It will make it easier to grant export licenses between nations, helping the UK cooperate with European allies.
1/2
The UK has joined The Agreement on Defence Export Controls, alongside France, Germany & Spain.
It will make it easier to grant export licenses between nations, helping the UK cooperate with European allies.
1/2
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These people are radicalised, best to ignore them and concentrate on getting the facts to people who are intelligent and can't hold k both short and long term!
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
These people are radicalised, best to ignore them and concentrate on getting the facts to people who are intelligent and can't hold k both short and long term!
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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Times Political Editor: ‘Breaking:
Britain and the EU are getting closer to releasing £200billion worth of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction - announcement could come within days’ 1/
Britain and the EU are getting closer to releasing £200billion worth of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction - announcement could come within days’ 1/
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Times Political Editor: ‘Breaking:
Britain and the EU are getting closer to releasing £200billion worth of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction - announcement could come within days’ 1/
Britain and the EU are getting closer to releasing £200billion worth of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction - announcement could come within days’ 1/
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Rowborough. Cookham. https://www.wikiart.org/en/stanley-spencer/rowborough-cookham-1934
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Rowborough. Cookham. https://www.wikiart.org/en/stanley-spencer/rowborough-cookham-1934