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REMINDER: The only route to lower bills and secure energy is to free ourselves from oil and gas through homegrown renewable energy and upgrading homes - whether that’s with solar panels or heat pumps.

This is just common sense in today’s world.

12.03.2026 12:55 👍 243 🔁 76 💬 10 📌 3
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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13.03.2026 08:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social punctures the mendacious North Sea nonsense being put about by fossil fuel lobbyists and their lackeys in the right wing media

13.03.2026 08:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Any, but that turns out to be incompatible with ‘more money for “TRUMP” ‘

13.03.2026 08:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cowardy, even

13.03.2026 08:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Via ‘affordability is a woke lefty made-up word’

13.03.2026 00:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why do you need an SUV? Wouldn’t a normal car do? You can get even pretty big dogs in the back of an estate

13.03.2026 00:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

She’s probably more upset that her housemaid or manicurist might be late because of the disruption

13.03.2026 00:41 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In other words: “at our urging, you can attempt without weapons or internet access to overthrow a brutal regime that is still in place, but we’re not going to help you, cos we’re just here for the oil”

13.03.2026 00:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The constant flow of stupidity, avarice and cruelty is wearing, no question

13.03.2026 00:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The asteroid arrived 65 million years too early

13.03.2026 00:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They should be banned outright. No one needs one of these in a city.

13.03.2026 00:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Netanyahu is already wanted in The Hague

13.03.2026 00:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is the kind of demented logic those weapons engender

13.03.2026 00:20 👍 36 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Some have lasted me 50 years

13.03.2026 00:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the ostentatious washing of the cat that’s been soundly asleep on the bed all day, kicking itself in the head and making ‘I might be about to vomit’ noises that keeps me awake

12.03.2026 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have some albums on CD and LP, does that count?

12.03.2026 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The texture is an issue too. If you’re going to eat offal, it needs to be more finely ground. The Scots got it right with haggis.

12.03.2026 19:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t hold your breath

12.03.2026 19:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Humanities graduates who flunked science

12.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or the Colman’s English Mustard ones

12.03.2026 18:53 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The Daily Heil obviously thought it was falling behind its hypocrisy quota. What a barf-o-rama

12.03.2026 18:51 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The only problem is that to raise sea level we’d have to burn all the oil that’s currently blocked there and then some, though Israel is doing its best to. (negative effects on other coastlines may be experienced)

12.03.2026 18:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Think of all the useful things that could have been done with much money. Where’s Musk’s DOGE when you need it?

12.03.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🎵workin’ at the car wash, yeah 🎶

12.03.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The great white whale?

12.03.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, retail prices are tied to gas prices

12.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Too many ‘serious’ media commentators (of all political persuasions) are wasting their time looking for hidden sense or strategy in Trump’s decisions when there just isn’t any. He’s as stupid as he is avaricious.

12.03.2026 15:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Andrew Neill: blinded by bias

12.03.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listening to Nick Cohen’s recent Lowdown podcast with James Hawes, I think there’s considerable likelihood that the UK will split if the right-wing English nationalist nutjobs win in 2029

12.03.2026 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0