I’ve been using a aCalendar for many years, it just present the calendar in a better way https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.withouthat.acalendar

Or cars: technically, everything they do now are trucks. A legal distinction, but one that matters, as trucks are allowed to be less safe and pollute a lot more.

The Pinto is their top priority.

Running a series of elections for short-lived zombie councils will be costly, time-consuming and will take scarce resources away from front-line services like fixing potholes and social care.

Good thing then we are still spending 1.8billion in a Digital ID scheme no one wants.

Despite this U-turn the plan is still there, neither the scheme nor the giant price tag (1.8 billions pounds!) have gone away entirely. The government wants to introduce Digital IDs, and while they might not be mandatory at first, they could create a digital surveillance infrastructure that could fundamentally change how we live.

Once this system is in place, ‘mission creep’ is inevitable. We will be forced to use digital ID more and more in our daily lives. It will be used for profiling and surveillance, tracking our interactions with the State and more.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/

As the Germans say " the police is blind on the right eye"

Tesla’s sales meanwhile dropped 48.5% from a year ago as BYD’s sales jumped by 206.8%

And taking away or placing a cap on the cycle scheme, which would mean electric bikes that can be used to move the kids to school are no longer covered.

Bikes are less polluting and require a lot less resources to build. They also damage the roads 100,000 or so times less than an electric car. Any subsidy on bikes will go longer than on cars, and provide more value.

Salsa!

dire and this country’s majority supports the far right

I agree with most of your points, but I wanted to point out that reform is not the majority of voters, only the largest block. In previous elections the majority of votes were cast for left leaning candidates, but First Past the Post meant they were under represented on Parliament.

Not to mention that road degradation grows exponentially with the weight.

For instance, the damage caused by a 1 tom car is the equivalent of 160,000 cycle trips! And a 2 ton car will damage the road 16 times more than a 1 ton car.

Just past 2 million now

Ah! Nice one… But no, it will be Oracle. They have paid Tony Blair about £250 in the last few to spew their nonsense, and Larry Ellison has spoken loudly about well behaved everyone will be once they can monitor everything we do.

Sounds like a police state paradise.

I haven’t seen the video, but I’m gonna go on a limb here and wonder if it has to do with Republican policies?

The one they dropped years ago?

The problem with my nuclear when mixed with renewables is that they take too long to turn on and off (think 12-24h), so they are not great complement solar and wind.

They are also very expensive, and take years to build, and decades to recoup the investment. Renewables are a lot cheaper, and can be built straight away, making their investments a lot less risky. They are also evolving faster than nuclear, snd becoming cheaper.

They are, S of today the cheaper power source in most of planet. It is expected that in a couple of years they won’t just be the cheapest, but they will be so cheap it will make economic sense to dismantle other powers plants and build solar/wind+ battery than to keep gas running.

According to this report by Cray Murray, the judge and courts were not impartial, and are likely responsible for the Palestine Action being outlawed https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/arch ives/2025/07/we-accept-of-course-that-it-is-draconian-and-deliberately-so/

That’s probably one of the best endorsement you can get

No. And especially not from him

Get a larger battery.

By far the lion share if the savings come from internal usage. Export payments are 20% of so of electricity costs, so you want to be using what you generated.

I have a 5.4kW array, and a 8.8kWh battery. 15% of the battery has to be reserved, so actual capacity is lower.

We basically live off grid for 6-7 months, but winter production is so low (aprox 20% of summer ) that it’s hard to even fill up the battery.

But a larger battery would help for those spring and autumn months when some days are good, some are bad.

For reference, comercial installation have a 4:1 ratio of battery capacity to production. In my case that would be 20kWh! Or 5 days of average consumption.

One final thing to say is that our battery system is capped to 3kW. So even when full, if we ask more electricity than that at any point we would be importing.

What this means is that going gas free is harder, as some appliances (hob, kettle) consume a lot.