Ireland.

Looks like we've denied their use to attack Iran again.

This is rather wild. Maybe he'll do it?!

I'm fully in favour of maxing North Sea drilling for gas and oil, while doing everying we can to stop selling petrol/diesel cars, and accelerate renewables for power. This is one way we can afford to transition to lower carbon faster.

We really aren't titling the market strongly enough in favour of EVs. Tax tax tax petrol and diesel cars...there are loads of cheap second hand EVs available. Be bolder. Britain’s EV boom hits second-hand bump in the road - www.ft.com/content/0c81...

Queen Elizabeth II reigned 70 years and had 15 PMs, a rate of 0.21 PMs/year. King Charles III has reigned for 3.7 years and if he hits 4 it'll be a rate of 1 PM/year. If he can hang in there for another 10 years he has a hope of beating his mum for PMs!

“It’s now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.” Green Party statement to Sam Merriman, Daily Mail

Starmer's problem is that he's been at war with his MPs without a purpose. Destroying careers driving through your ideological agenda is fine, letting them run into the ground for nothing gets what it deserves.

These are basically your candidates: Yvette Cooper Liz Kendall David Lammy Shabana Mahmood Ed Miliband Lisa Nandy Bridget Phillipson Lucy Powell Rachel Reeves Wes Streeting Not a weak non-MP or a scandal hit ex deputy.

On reflection John Major was the greatest politician of his generation. Against all odds he scored a 4th term with the slimmest of majorities (21!). Navigated never ending treachery from the eurosceptic bastards - "put up or shut up", and kept power even while behind in the polls 5/6.5 years. Wow!

It does rather stand as a judgement on the 400 MPs that none are thought good enough to be PM. What's wrong with them?

ha ha ha ha ha

It’s entirely possible, probable even, that Steve Hilton is not an actual person at all, but a long running character devised by @aiannucci.bsky.social during a particularly savage rewrite session in about 2012.

Oil price goes...

It's a long read.... but eventually the reason is apparent...Chris Grayling...

Give or take some catastrophe Anthropic appears to be winning this race by many lengths. OpenAI are done.

I had to use Copilot today. Work constraints. It is the worst. Utterly terrible. Lazy, incompetent, patronizing, worthless. It really is more of a hindrance than support. But, that's not the case with all AI.

For no reason...

The banality of evil.

Jesus: "In one of the documents seen by Index, the school admits that the categorisations of the books were written using AI, writing: “Although the categorisation was generated using AI, I consider this classification to be broadly accurate.”"

He has a great point. If they move from a situation of one where people could sail freely through the straits to one where they can only sail with Iran's acceptance, Iran has gained control of the gulf.

It seems that the Labour Gov is quietly leading the UK into a war in the Middle East, again, this time without even consulting Parliament.

Unthinkable, yet he's thinking about it.

Trump's reintroducing the paper straw!

Ireland has one of the best wind resources in Europe and an Exclusive Economic Zone seven times its landmass. It should be an energy superpower. Instead it imports 80% of its energy and paid the highest wholesale electricity prices in Western Europe in 2025. This is a moral question. A thread.

"balcony solar" is fantastic. Very little effort and investment to fuel homes. These units could provide 25-50% of a small households needs, at the investment cost of a few hundred pounds. Bring it on.

More wind, please.

Read this Byline Times piece on North Sea drilling. It makes some fair points about the lobby overstating things, but it attacks a straw man. The serious case for continued UK production isn't that it'll cut your gas bill. Nobody credible is arguing that. bylinetimes.com/2026/03/13/t...

American Energy, Danish Resolve: “Revolution Wind is adding affordable, reliable American-made energy to New England’s grid, helping to meet growing energy demand and lower consumer costs,” said Amanda Dasch, Chief Development Officer at Ørsted.

The end of the beginning.

If you choose to cruise through the strait of Hormuz, you may light a fuse that puts you in the news.

My Bluesky feed is sometimes a little empty. But then I remember....I've muted the word Trump.

This is, rather, the UK Govs position too.

What does the new crisis in the Middle East mean for UK energy policy, particularly the North Sea? Me in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Oil supply shocks: Worth thinking about this in % terms, duration and the peak price spikes in each of those.

Non ideal.

At current growth rates, every American will have applied for British citizenship by 2052. www.ft.com/content/b2a8...

I assume the indigenous British ancestry bit means everybody has to leave England if they're not Welsh?

A calculating criminal...

The endless "tear down Starmer" cycle is pure self-indulgence. There's no strong alternative, just weak options or borderline corrupt ones. It's collective hysteria from MPs and media who find leadership drama far more fun than actually knuckling down to the hard, thoughtful work of governing.

A scandal hit ex-deputy PM who had to resign causes damage to the government by challenging a PM for returning a scandal hit ex-deputy PM to government, possibly opening their way to return to government.

I'd put a bet on that all PMs have an anonymous email address based on the name of an astronomer royal.

I think that's kind of stretching things.

Blimey. Marjorie Taylor Greene:

This applies to families with teenagers too.

I think I've worked out how to solve the Greenland question, and Climate Change. Instead of Greenland we give Trump sovereignty over the Arctic sea ice. In one simple move, he will be incentivised to preserve the ice and control climate change or risk losing his asset. Done.

"There was a time, in the early 21st Century, when Great Powers would draw lines on maps and carve up the world, on WhatsApp".

The deal: Crimea for Russia. Greenland for US.