Durand D'souza🍃

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

Labour government planning ICE-style depravity

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Looks great! Clean and fast.

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

US submarine sinks Iranian warship as conflict spreads beyond Middle East Frigate goes down off Sri Lanka as Washington and Israel step up their offensive and promise to hit ‘deeper’ targets in Iran

US military openly committing war crimes...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

Labour is still at 26% in the polls and Shabaha Mahmood is trying to make them fall even lower.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Israel launches new attacks on Tehran and Beirut, as US embassy in Riyadh hit by two drones Israel says it is hitting

Israel has used the cover of the Iran War to launch a ground invasion of “strategic parts of Lebanon”.

All part of the plan.

86 organisations call on the Prime Minister to increase – not cut – UK climate finance - Climate Action Network UK 86 UK organisations have written an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on the government to increase – not cut – UK international climate finance and

🚨 86 organisations are calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to increase, not cut, UK climate finance 💷

Cutting climate finance would be a massive betrayal of countries and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and of this government’s manifesto commitments to be a climate leader.

Thanks for this! Absolutely wild!

I am also looking at it from the perspective of decarbonisation. If both new gas and new renewables are too expensive to build, then the transition stalls, which benefits existing FF companies.

That seems rather high. UK govt has them at ~$1000/kW in 2024. There has been some cost inflation but 3x seems surprising to me. This brings the capex/kW on par with wind and higher than solar but as you say capacity factors are quite different. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696616...

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

For the first time in my life, there is a party genuinely worth voting for that can also win. news.sky.com/story/greens...

As conflict in the Middle East escalates, civilians pay the highest price as homes, safety & livelihoods are hit.
Fossil gas markets are exposed to conflict, chokepoints & bidding wars.
Energy security comes from renewables & clean flexibility, not fossil gas.
🎢Time to get off the gas rollercoaster.

Yes, but clean energy is much more capex heavy than FFs. And we don't need to deploy a bunch of new fossil fuel infra but we do need to deploy a bunch of new clean infra. So anything that slows down investment is bad for clean energy deployment and good for fossil fuels.

Spring forecast: UK unemployment expected ‘to peak at 5.3%’ as Reeves says her economic plan is ‘right one’ - live updates Chancellor’s statement comes amid backdrop of economic and geopolitical turmoil, including gas prices at three-year high

What is the purpose of an OBR analysis that is a) out of date at the time of release (re: gas prices) and b) ignorant of the broader changes in society?

Expecting unemployment to peak at 5.3% and decline to 2030 when LLMs are being rolled out is nonsensical.

www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.

The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.

Excellent piece. We should be equally critical of the Trump regime, the Iranian regime and the Netanyahu regime, all of whom have committed war crimes. There is no world in which the Iranian regimes comes out with any moral superiority after it massacred tens of thousands of its own kids.

Once again, we did not invent concepts like international law and rules of engagement because we’re woke pansy wimps

We developed them because we learned the very worst way, that even the strongest are less safe without them

This 👇

Operation To The Moon What Iran means for British energy policy

What does the US attack on Iran mean for British energy policy? Do we finally have chaos with Ed Miliband? What happens if Trump turns off the taps? READ ON...

open.substack.com/pub/unbalanc...

OBR a backseat driver with out-of-date maps, thinktanks tell Rachel Reeves Chancellor urged to reform Office for Budget Responsibility to open way to more public investment

“Rachel Reeves must reform the Office for Budget Responsibility to open the way to more public investment ... our current framework is contributing to instability, short-termist underinvestment and a lack of focus on long-term risks and opportunities.”

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Downscaling daily solar radiation in the Canary Islands with GAM Researcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC

🆕 BLOG POST
There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz

➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...

This is great, thanks for the ideas!

UK government proving just how weak and incapable they have become. Instead of taxing wealth and taking on the tech industry, they would prefer to let the world burn.

Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

Another masterclass in data storytelling by @nadiehbremer.com and Emily Barone! searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

Matt Goodwin has been sent back to Substack. The Conservatives have lost their deposit. Keir Starmer has been told left wing voters are not a guarantee for Labour. Overall, British politics could do worse than follow Gorton and Denton.

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Finally a ray of hope in UK politics. More Green and fewer Reform/Labour MPs can only be a good thing 👏

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

Truly horrifying. A very difficult read.

[& the BBC at its best]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love how Deutsche Bahn's own app has to specifically build a feature in to highlight how likely you are to miss your connection because of delays. 🙈