My account of the 23 June reports in today's @Telegraph @neso_energy's own preliminary report acknowledges that it had exhausted all available and commercially accessible actions to keep the grid balanced, while frequency remained outside normal range. It also confirmed that five transmission constraints were exceeded despite having strongly implied to the media over the summer they had not. And it admitted to material forecasting errors on electricity demand and wind power supply. This used up reserves that would otherwise protect against unexpected failures. telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

Argentina’s Mining Secretary is in London this week asking British investors to back its lithium and copper sector, including at LME Week. At the same time, Buenos Aires is escalating legal and economic pressure on British-linked companies operating lawfully around the Falkland Islands.  That is remarkably short-sighted. You cannot ask British capital to trust Argentina while threatening companies and executives for doing business connected to British territory. Investors will reasonably ask one question: if political disputes can spill over into sanctions, litigation and commercial pressure, how secure is my investment?

If a couple earns £300,000 between them ... … in the UK, they get to keep £182,000 … in Texas, they get to keep £224,400 That's why talent leaves the UK, and why talent goes to Texas

He is by far the most unserious prime minister I have ever seen God, I hope nothing Global-huge happens on his watch or we're all screwed 😱 #OBINGO @LBC

BREAKING NEWS! Andy Burnham convenes emergency COBRA meeting in response to the European riots. Just kidding. He’s actually back making Tik Tok videos about trivia. Hard to believe this is our Prime Minister.

Amazing how Sarah Helm is proving, one tweet at a time, that her husband, known for his softness on Iran, was never a sound choice as national security adviser and must step down immediately

I know there’s a lot of news right now between the French riots and the U.S. midterms, but still—why isn’t there more coverage when a targeted car attack by an anti-Israel activist leaves a sitting Australian member of parliament fighting for her life after losing a leg? Helen Haines, elected to office in 2019, was deliberately rammed at least twice outside her office yesterday. The driver did a U-turn, hit her as she stood at the trunk of her car, then reversed and drove into her a second time. The police arrested Brendan Nugent at the scene after bystanders restrained him. Nugent is a longtime environmental activist whose social media shifted heavily after October 7 to anti-Israel radicalism. Haines is an independent who has repeatedly condemned civilian deaths in Gaza and pushed her government to pressure Israel harder. Apparently not hard enough for the violent anti-Israel fringe.

Patronising, insufferable, dimwitted arse publicly damages family relationships irreparably, then lectures others, trying to look the bigger person. He’ll never be reconciled with the late Queen and Prince Philip whose later years he spoiled. A scar. For life. Unforgivable. Arse.

'Even when [stonings] are put into practice it is still a blessing from Allah’. That’s a relief. Super that this kind man is treating NHS patients and writing educational books for kids 👍 mol.im/a/16222717

This is incredible. An Algerian Hamas supporter who became an illegal overstayer in Britain, lied to immigration officers about it, and went to prison for it, is now in a senior role at the BBC. Because the Tories and Labour failed to deport him. Hicham Yezza has a long record of supporting Islamist violence. He was arrested in 2008 for possessing an al-Qaeda terrorist training manual. He came to Britain on a visa that expired in 2003. He stayed anyway. When immigration officers caught up with him, he told them his passport with the visa stamp had been stolen. They found it in his flat. A jury convicted him of deception. He was jailed for nine months. Then he won his appeal against deportation, and was later handed British citizenship. Now he’s the Principal Data Scientist in the BBC’s “Responsible AI” division, helping to decide how AI shapes what BBC News tells you. Before that he worked at BBC Monitoring, briefing BBC journalists on the Middle East. Can you guess what kind of briefings he gave them? He should never have been allowed to stay. Under Reform, people like him never will be. Under Operation Restoring Justice, we will detain and deport anyone who broke into our country. Our borders will mean something again.

When it came to distributing the charity funds they wanted to know which parents were closest to their dead children to give them more than others ….can you imagine.😱😱😱

I’m from south Wales (Swansea) and Aberfan still cuts very deep in the communities here. No one convicted and the government and coal board stealing from the fund people across the world donated to. Football and rugby clubs come together for this to this day too.

£50 if you lost a child. £50 if you lost two children How many years did it take for the return of £150k ‘stolen’ by the NCB ‘Did they have a good relationship with their child?’ Robens, arrogance personified, disgusting. The pain never goes away…

Scandalous that a *Labour* gov't, for whom many thousands of miners & their wives voted, stole 100s of thousands of pounds from the appeal fund that was collected to alleviate suffering in Aberfan, and spent it on getting rid of the slag heaps, which the NCB should've paid for!

Read my long essay introducing key themes from my new book: From trans and Net Zero to BLM and Gaza, progressive politics has crept into the classroom. spiked-online.com/2026/10/20…

The man entrusted with Britain's national security is married to a journalist who publicly questioned the testimony of Israeli rape victims, sneered at solidarity with Israel the day after October 7, and told James O'Brien he could "do better" than calling Hamas a "murderous death cult". You'd have expected Sarah Helm to keep her head down while questions swirl about her husband, Jonathan Powell. You'd have expected wrong. On Monday, she waded in to defend the Palestine poppy, days after the Telegraph revealed that its creator, an NHS doctor, had circulated an image comparing Israel to a cancer. Helm is entitled to her opinions, however grotesque. But when your husband is privy to the nation's deepest secrets, they cease to be a family matter. Powell owes the public answers. The Cabinet Office owes us an explanation of what safeguards exist. And he should step down. My latest column (link in first reply) 👇

🚨 NEWS: The SAS Regimental Association has warned that criminal investigations into Britain's elite soldiers are damaging recruitment, morale and national security. Five SAS soldiers were investigated on suspicion of murder after two teenagers were killed during an operation targeting Islamic State in Syria in 2022. Despite returning to combat within 48 hours of questioning, the soldiers remained under investigation for almost three years before prosecutors decided not to bring charges. All five have since left the military. The association warns that prolonged investigations are driving experienced soldiers out of the regiment and "eroding the will to fight", calling for urgent legal and policy reforms.

To clarify. It’s actually even worse. The horror of what our families face is this: my son’s killer, Valdo Calocane, was given a Section 37/41 hospital order. This is medical care, not a penal sentence. By January 2027—the 3-year mark—he can legally apply to a tribunal to come out if deemed well enough. Worse, until our recent fight to close the loophole, these criminal patients actively pocketed up to £800/month in state benefits from their hospital beds. A hospital order is not prison. We face a life sentence ensuring this monster is never released. #JusticeForBarnaby #NottinghamAttacks 💚💛

Yesterday various reports into grid security and NESO governance around 23 June were published @neso_energy and @mgshanks immediately seized on the statement by Eversheds that its "investigation has not substantiated any of the allegations”. Shanks said there was "no evidence" to support the allegations which is plainly not what Eversheds said nor what the report contains At every turn, Eversheds took the most generous interpretation possible to NESO's benefit. Areas of concern were repeatedly identified and not followed up with rigour. A lack of evidence was taken as evidence to the contrary despite obvious limitations to the investigation process in terms of independence (Eversheds was appointed by NESO) and anonymity (some witnesses eg the Power System Manager would be easily identifiable to NESO staff and senior execs, potentially limiting what they would be willing to say) Eversheds identified that important logs were not kept in the week of 22 June, despite engineers having identified ahead of time that risks would be elevated. Yet they did not explore why, or check that the reports had not been either deleted or simply withheld from them They identified the possibility of mobile phones being used to pass on undue influence from the Corporate Affairs team but only checked the phone records of the PSM, not their line manager or other more senior people - yet elsewhere it mentions a manager coming to the control room when a demand control warning was being considered and when they left it was no longer being considered - a senior manager could speak by phone or in person to Corporate Affairs and pass on the concerns in person to the PSM - there is no evidence Eversheds considered this despite identifying the pieces of the puzzle Eversheds identified significant weaknesses in record-keeping, a culture of reputational sensitivity, concerns that staff were not listened to by senior management, and uncertainty about whether the correct operational escalation procedures had been followed on 23 June It also recorded that five network constraints had been breached with no available pre- or post-action mitigation options, with confusion about whether the largest loss was covered, and even what the impact of a single fault would have been NESO admitted in its interim report to Ofgem that 5 grid constraints were breached despite having strongly suggested to the press that they had not It also said that on 23 June it had taken “all available and commercially accessible” balancing actions while frequency remained significantly below its normal operating range despite automatic frequency response services responding to prevent further falls So what reserve was left, and why was it not deployed? If reserves were not available or commercially accessible then they would be useless – did NESO retain enough usable reserve to cover the largest loss or not? Anyone that thinks these reports exonerate NESO and that concerns over grid security can be dismissed is dreaming. The reports show there is no room for complacency. In my blog I list about 20 risks to grid security which ought to give readers an idea of the range of threats it faces The question is whether anything will be done about it. @ofgem still expects NESO to mark its own homework, something other regulators of safety critical systems do not do If the conclusion when the final reports come in is that the grid wasn't secure then there will be serious questions for both Ofgem and NESO to answer about the self-reporting process because the only reason the issues surrounding 23 June have been investigated at all was because @ClaireCoutinho stood up in Parliament TWICE and sounded the alarm (with due credit to the whistleblower who approached her in the first place) #EnergySecurity @Miatsf @AndrewBowie_MP @HarrietCross_MP @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @afneil @EdConwaySky @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @CitySamuel @energygovuk watt-logic.com/2026/10/20/ne…

Aberfan 60 years on. We remember. X