At what point will there be more editorials calling for more oil and gas extraction in the north sea than there are barrels of oil remaining in the north sea?

"UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea... "Experts say trying to extract the last barrels of domestic oil and gas would have no impact on people’s energy bills and very little effect on energy security"

Fiscal rules are for sensible fools.

A must-read thread for every UK politician, economist and political/economic commentator.

Shows the absurdity of ‘going for growth’ and using GDP as the measure.

The ideological shift (via the Powell Memo) toward deregulation and supply-side economics ultimately favored austerity, privatization, and tax cuts for higher-income brackets over social safety net expansions.

Do we think he realises what he’s saying?

What’s that you say, FT - tough choices? Let me guess who will be on the receiving end…

Well worth reading 👍🏻

12 recommendations for the next UK Prime Minister ➡️ marianamazzucato.substack.com/p/what-labou...

It also needs a better football team.

There is no normal with climate change. That’s the point. It will simply keep getting worse until we stop burning fossil fuels.

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Immense 🙏🏻

Why are debt scares repeatedly promoted in the MSM? Why are claims of national bankruptcy used to dominate political debate? And who benefits when people are persuaded that government cannot afford to support public services, invest in the economy, or help those most in need?

UK media fails to disclose defence industry ties of most military commentators - New research shows former top British military officers are weighing in on wars and defence spending without public awareness of their commercial interests www.declassifieduk.org/uk-media-fai... @declassifieduk.org

Brexit: “Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves”

You might think that Antarctica losing a chunk of ice as large as France as temperatures rise to 20 degs C above average, might be worthy of news coverage or might catch people’s attention! Apparently not. Don’t Look Up 🙄 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Plus Congress keeps injecting enormous amounts of new money into the US economy. It ain’t rocket science. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

here’s a link to the full brilliant piece www.ft.com/content/77af...

The world's first trillionaire is backing the far right mobs and their politician backers. Don't think for a second that these men have ordinary people's interests at heart.

They have been advised to plead guilty by their legal representatives in order to secure shorter prison sentences for the violence. The right-wing narrative is that these people are merely "patriotic citizens" with "legitimate concerns" about issues like policing and immigration. Utter Bollocks

Farage's men Daniel Frost Frost pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years and four months in jail for his part in the riots, Frost has 25 previous convictions for 55 offences, including a six year sentence for robbery and GBH after fracturing an 80 year old woman’s hip during a mugging

Farage's men Darren Medhurst Medhurst pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years and three months in jail. He was caught on film committing multiple offences, most famously the lamentable flaming wheelie bin attack on police lines

Farage's men Medhurst has 51 previous convictions for 96 offences, including handling stolen goods, burglary and shoplifting. A "patriot" according to the right, but a career criminal with a litany of previous offences to anyone with a grain of common sense

Farage's men Dillion Crawford has 19 previous convictions for 33 offences, the most disturbing one being an attack on his girlfriend in which he broke her front teeth, punched her unconscious, then told her he’d put bleach in her hair once she regained consciousness

Farage's men Callum Darch Darch pleaded guilty and was jailed for two and a half years. He has has 10 previous convictions for 24 offences including theft, criminal damage, and another 24 months for a hit-and-run involving a 61-year-old grandmother,

Beyond chilling. While the proscription of Palestine Action has been struck down and the verdict in the Government appeal against this has not yet been given, escalating these sentences today clearly risks a serious injustice. novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/p...

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them. This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

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The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport. But the USA still refuses to let him in. The USA need to be disqualified

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"Recklessness with the futures of 70m people remains unforgivable – and the guilt belongs to Cameron and Osborne almost as much as to Gove and Johnson." Excellent by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social, though Corbyn & other Lexiteers also among the guilty men. #Brexit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Higher participation in education – including combined with work – is how low-NEET countries achieve lower NEET rates than the UK. Read more on how we can help more you people in the UK to learn and earn in our latest Substack: buff.ly/pceWB6X

Big accounting firms deliver dud audits, involved in numerous scandals. UK regulator will conduct fewer probes, will let firms self-report failures. Just like water companies they claim to have robust monitoring systems. Deregulation means failures will be covered up. archive.ph/IF35v

The idea English identity is confined to ethnicity & ancestry is more niche than abolishing monarchy/joining Euro But media elites skew & overcompensate to an imaginary caricature of public = weird assymetry: venerate niches on right as 'authentic' but would lecture progressives about median voter

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A TALE OF TWO BANKS Food banks and commercial banks seem to have nothing in common, except they’re both booming – and surprisingly connected. frapacioli.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

While Westminster obsesses over by-elections and leadership contests, an official report warns that within years our food and water systems could fail. I’ve forced Govt to acknowledge a suppressed report on ecosystem collapse. But Ministers still aren’t facing the scale of the crisis.