⚡️INERTIA⚡️ The magic ingredient at the heart of our power systems. It's also one of the obstacles to replacing fossil fuels with renewables. In short, a REALLY big deal! But most folks have never heard of it. It's widely considered too complex. So. Here's your idiot's guide 🧵

If Rishi Sunak does indeed call an election today, I suspect the first few days of the campaign are going to see a fair few Conservative MPs announce they are standing down. Not an ideal start, but an inevitable consequence of going early

Edinburgh has had its wettest May - and spring - on record, obliterating previous records. Three and a half times the average rain falling here throughout May...pretty incredible stats!

I had forgotten that Aylesbury had such strong Bowie connections. Could this really be the Market Square from “Five Years”?

Always depressing to see when an artist or band has all their gear stolen. Ruby J played at Kendal Calling 🦌 last week, so if you bought a coffee or pizza from Tim Peaks, you’ve just helped with a £500 donation to help Ruby replace what’s been taken gofundme.com/f/help-raise-f…

Absolute genius! RIP Herbie 🙏

Hüsker Dü Eight Miles High Pink Pop Festival (1987)

I can’t vote in the US but I am honored to live here and have always admired it. I don’t much care for Harris or many of her policy positions. But even more after seeing Trump tonight, I look forward to vehemently disagreeing with her for four years as US president.

EXCLUSIVE: Guardian Media Group is in exclusive talks to sell The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media, a news start-up founded five years ago, in a deal which would further reshape the British national newspaper market. Full story on Sky News soon.

Breakfast in the only place The Beatles ever played in Inverness, on the 1960 Johnny Gentle tour (well the building is actually demolished, but this cafe is on the site of the former building, so that counts doesn’t it?). rendezvous-cafe.co.uk

On Saturday, I received a letter from the DWP telling my partner about changes to Winter Fuel Payment. My partner died on Thursday 19th September. I informed the DWP of his death on Friday 27th September using the online "Tell Us Once" service. 1/

Wow! New Beatles info. John, Paul and George made a second trip to Percy Phillips' home studio in Liverpool, in 1960, and made a one-sided record of One After 909!! The disc is presumed lost.😯😯😯😯 #TheBeatles

photos.app.goo.gl/sgFDscWHerrPsv… Peter Perret on great form in Glasgow last night.

My new novel The River has wound its way into Waterstones in Stirling, Perth, Falkirk, Dunfermline, Glasgow (all stores), Dundee, Kirkcaldy, Oban, Livingston, Newton Mearns, and Ayr. Just need Waterstones Edinburgh West End to join in so I can take a photie. 👍