If this turns out to be "ban US crude oil exports," things are going to get even more interesting.

The Liberal Democrats have today tabled a Parliamentary motion (EDM), calling on the Prime Minister to advise the King that his upcoming state visit to the United States should be cancelled, "as Donald Trump continues his illegal war in Iran"

UK energy crisis latest: I've accidentally powered everything in my house using solar.

If the UK wants to rejoin the EU's Single Market and Customs Union "with all associated privileges and duties", they will be welcomed with open arms, says @jnbarrot.bsky.social French Foreign Minister #Brexit #EU #UK

You could say.. They're playing the Trump card.

Well now. @theguardian.com on UK’s man at Iran talks, but words of UK FM to parlia are crucial: “We did think that was an important track and we did want it to continue. That is one of the reasons for the position we took on the initial US strikes that took place” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

ok so they're gonna siege kharg and iran responds by flattening abqaiq and wti hits $200/bbl, then what is plan

Trump: “A great war historian told me today, "Nobody would have thought you could do that much damage in that little time."”

Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.

70% oppose the UK joining Trump and Netanyahu’s war in Iran compared to just 17% who support it, according to new YouGov polling for Sky News.

It doesn't help that the government's press release gets the science wrong - the idea that quantum computers try all solutions at once is popular but entirely incorrect www.gov.uk/government/n...

He's utterly insane and needs to be impeached.

Congress can impeach him anytime it wants....

Narcissistic autocrat meets democrat.

Once again I come back to: the Government needs to yell *way more* about what its doing on energy and climate.

UK energy crisis latest:

“At the very least I’d call that a security risk.” Much worse than that. You read that right. PALANTIR PROBABLY HAS “a complete profile on the whole U.K. population” A 🇺🇸 company up to their necks in supporting a corrupt & abusive 🇺🇸 Government

The US embassy in Baghdad has warned Americans to leave Iraq "immediately" and urges anyone who is thinking about staying to "reconsider". "Do not attempt to come to the Embassy in Baghdad or the Consulate General in Erbil due to the ongoing risk of rockets, drones, and mortars in Iraqi airspace.”

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

All this because Congress failed to impeach Trump after threatening to invade Canada.

Trump told G7 leaders in a virtual meeting that Iran is "about to surrender," Axios reports. He also said: “Nobody knows who is the leader, so there is no one that can announce surrender.”

Think this kind of messaging is just self-sabotaging, reinforces the mad meme that “energy costs go up when supplies of energy drop” is about wicked profiteering and not a literal resource constraint, makes government look weak when nothing happens.

UK energy crisis latest:

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

oh yea, look at urea prices [haber-bosch strikes again]

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

US INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY IRAN IS STARTING TO PLACE MINES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, A KEY SHIPPING PATH, ACCORDING TO CBS NEWS.

Summary: Trumps fluffed it. It's still fluffed and he doesn't know how to unfluff it.

UPDATE 010-JMIC ADVISORY NOTE www.ukmto.org/-/media/ukmt...

but.... they are stopping the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz that is what is happening and you are constantly bombarding Iran already that is also what is happening

Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight. He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.

also, if they're moving the THAAD, the war ain't gonna be over any minute now

U.S. FARMERS SEEK HELP AS FERTILIZER PRICES SOAR The Strait of Hormuz disruption is sending fertilizer costs sharply higher, straining U.S. farmers ahead of planting season. Zippy Duvall urged President Donald Trump to: 🔸Use the U.S. Navy to secure maritime fertilizer

What happens if Iran decides it's not over?

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"Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X..."

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

The Brent crude prompt timespread is currently over *$9/bbl*, a new all-time record. Timespreads measure the steepness of the crude futures curve, which at the front (prompt) reflects how tight—loose if neg—the spot market is. The oil market has literally never been this tight.

🛢📈WTI CRUDE SURGES 30% INTRADAY, NOW AT $118.86/BBL #OOTT (

update: fuck

the world is finally fully waking up to the fact that there's no plan, no adults in the room, and no sign of this insanity ending anytime soon

Where in the call for the UK to join in do you think Badenoch and Farage will noticed how catastrophic this is going to become?

There are about 300 people in the UK who think this war is a good idea, and they are all either columnists or MPs.

That’s why I said 60 days here btw. China has around 125 days in storage. It will take about 30-60 days for any Arab oil to be loaded into a tanker, hauled to PRC, refined and delivered. So, with that in mind, this has to be resolved by end-April, or the PRC runs out of oil. bsky.app/profile/sky....

Trump is today telling every member of the US military that it is ok with him if Russia helps Iran kill them--every one. Once again Americans, Trump looks at US military personnel as suckers and losers that he can sacrifice for his own glory and profit. This is who leads

Yeah but guess what; those refugees aren’t going to end up in the US or Israel. A surge of refugees into western Europe is only going to boost support for the kind of political parties that the US National Security Strategy says it is now a US foreign policy objective to support.

⚠️ Iran says the US attacked a desalination facility. If true, this is a war crime.