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Colette Austin

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Brexile in Italy 🇮🇹 🇪🇺. Ex-lawyer, serial student of International Relations, Politics (BA; LLB, LLM; MSt Cantab), focus on nuclear strategy, EU Security.

Student of web design, garden design. Foodie.

Increasingly sweary of late.

  1. At this point, I have to assume the only reason we have guns in this country is for mass shootings, because it definitely isn't for fighting tyranny. 🤔

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  2. He could be much braver - big investment in sustainable energy, end subsidies for oil co’s and tax breaks for banks, tax foreign investment in UK housing stock, get private money out of party funding, end exorbitant interest on exorbitant uni fees, tax US big tech, reform land/property tax, etc

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  3. The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland!

    Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage.

    www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...

    Finland has inaugurated the world’s largest sand battery, a 1 MW/100 MWh thermal storage system developed by Polar Night Energy. The unit is already exceeding efficiency targets.

    Finland inaugurates world’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery

    Finland has inaugurated the world’s largest sand battery, a 1 MW/100 MWh thermal storage system developed by Polar Night Energy. The unit is already exceeding efficiency targets.

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