Very interesting, and confirmation that the Tories and Reform are irresponsible parties with only corporate interests in mind. They are the reason your gran is cold and much more likely to die in winter/vote against her own interests. Labour are better on this but not by much. Vote Green. #heating #InsulateBritain #HeatPump #ClimateChange #Green

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"Two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – explore the very different histories of home heating in their countries."

https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

#InsulateBritain #EnergyEfficiency #DistrictHeating #HeatPumps #UnitedKingdom

“How To Start a Revolution in 2026”

by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack

[Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hallam_(activist)]

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty

“Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/how-to-start-a-revolution-in-2026

#Press #UK #Revolution #Rupture

"This is one aspect of what campaigners call “process as punishment”, an approach that now dominates the treatment of protest groups. Even if you are never convicted of a crime, your life is made hell if you dare, visibly and publicly, to dissent." -- @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I can verify from the experience of close personal friends that this is true.

#UKPol
#ExtinctionRebellion
#InsulateBritain
#PalestineAction

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government?CMP=share_btn_url

"Oligarchs and corporations on both sides of the Atlantic want to stamp out any threat to their interests. In the US, this effort has been led by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. In the UK, the commissioner for countering extremism, Robin Simcox, appointed by the Conservative government, but who remains in post until July, previously worked at … the Heritage Foundation" -- George Monbiot

#ExtinctionRebellion
#InsulateBritain
#PolyCrisis
#Protest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/protest-britain-activists-quaker-meeting-house

"Last year [UK police] sent over 1,000 officers from 39 forces, spending £3m, to shut down a climate camp and arrest 24 people, on the grounds that they might have been planning to occupy a road outside a power station. At the same time, they fail even to investigate serious organised crime, citing insufficient resources" -- George Monbiot

#ExtinctionRebellion
#InsulateBritain
#PolyCrisis
#Protest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/protest-britain-activists-quaker-meeting-house