Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Historically they have record profits during times of fuel shortages, right? And when the wholesale price then comes down, most of the savings aren’t passed on to the end consumer. They have the world by the balls, basically.
Go figure.
This is an absolutely huge jump in oil prices.
It's also why Europe needs to get off fossil fuels asap (beyond climate change impact). We can't be beholden to this.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
These bastards love a chance to profiteer...
"Oil companies are among the few risers on the FTSE 100 index this morning, with Shell (+1.7%) and BP (+1.4%) benefitting from the surge in crude prices"
Heaven’s on the back seat of my Cadillac.
Slowed it down a lot
Worth reading by @chriscurtis94.bsky.social. Abundantly clear to anyone that spends a cursory amount of time on public opinion that economic insecurity, exacerbated 10x by cost of living crisis is driving political force of our time, fuelling Labour’s woes chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
She’s the boss
Dispelling an urban myth, @davehaslam.bsky.social determined some years ago that not *every* sale cost Factory Records!
Thanks to @davehaslam.bsky.social for reminding me that this hit the shops 45 years ago today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vSs...
I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:
1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".
NME, forty four years ago today 5th March 1982, front cover star the genius Martin Fry.
'Poison Arrow' had been released four weeks earlier (I still know all the words).
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
NME, forty four years ago today 5th March 1982, front cover star the genius Martin Fry.
'Poison Arrow' had been released four weeks earlier (I still know all the words).
Interviewed one of the Junco Partners ten years or so ago, interesting times they lived through.
I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.
Another fantastic article. A great read!
Thank you
And obviously not the later vocal version!
When film maker Michael Winterbottom took camera crews into a specially built replica of the Haçienda to film the club scenes for '24 Hour Party People'. Friday 2nd March 2001.
The story of what happened 25 years ago today when 800 people went to a film set in a warehouse in Ancoats to film the Haçienda scenes for '24 Hour Party People'. It was freezing but amazing!!! open.substack.com/pub/davehasl...
The story of what happened 25 years ago today when 800 people went to a film set in a warehouse in Ancoats to film the Haçienda scenes for '24 Hour Party People'. It was freezing but amazing!!! open.substack.com/pub/davehasl...
Monday morning. Throw yourself around to this and you'll fly through the week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpSO...
You see, war isn't *all* bad
It really is one of the greatest unforced errors I’ve ever seen in British politics - they have a huge majority and, from day one, have had a laser focus on squandering it though obsessing over people who will never vote for them, and spitting in the faces of those who might.
the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy
Many voters from the Muslim community supporting a blonde woman from a party led by a gay Jewish man.
This bleating about "sectarianism" is desperate nonsense from Reform and Starmer.
Thank you Hannah Spencer and the voters of Gorton, Denton, and Levenshulme. You’ve given us all hope.
