Our North Sea is all but empty, it has a 10-year future – BP knows this as well as anyone. The 'higher value opportunities elsewhere' is an admission of this. BP think it's game over - having had decades of benefit from the Casino Capitalism of global oil and gas market pricing.

This could be great news, smart and right from Hamas, disarming in return for an Israeli withdrawal and the chance of a Palestinian state. Israel will resist this, its the last thing they want, but with Trump's support this has a chance. Israel has no legal or moral leg to stand on.

We need to be pragmatic about the North Sea, driven by facts and figures not ideology or vote chasing. We also need to be bold, we need to end the Casino Capitalism that enriches Big Oil and impoverishes millions of Brits - and disables our economy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our North Sea is all but empty, it has a ten year future - BP knows this as well as anyone. The ‘higher value opportunities elsewhere’ is an admission of this. news.stv.tv/north/bp-to-...

World’s gone mad, council pulls free food for kids in holidays, local cafe steps in - police called. But not for the child starvation part..:) www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police…

mirror.co.uk

Scary possibility, Nuclear power station taken out by wildfires. Welcome to the climate crisis, where we learn that the energy sources we thought were reliable - fossil and nuclear - are not. Both being highly affected by heat. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

This is Reform in action, foreign, crypto, disguised donations - a drip drip of revelations, are we at the bottom yet? I liked the words of one Clacton resident this week - Farage should come clean or clear off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oil companies make a killing out of war - but at the heart of this is ‘casino capitalism’ - we don't pay for oil and gas on a cost plus basis, a price linked to what it costs to produce - we pay the ‘market price’.

This article overlooks some basic big picture facts - renewable energy is a forever fuel, our transition to it is a great investment. We get forever jobs from it and we also get energy security from it - there is none in fossil fuels - our North Sea will be empty of oil and gas in ten years.

Funny old world - where now is the free market? Heathrow can claw back the costs of its own studies into a new runway, from its captive audience. Flying is too cheap anyway so I’ve no issue with added cost per se - but this new runway is in Heathrow’s interest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scary new world this, truth as a commodity that can be gamed. Where we gonna turn for facts? Our traditional media has been poisoned for decades - by the agendas of their rich foreign (always male) owners.

Just another extreme event we might have to adapt to as a regular feature of life - as the climate crisis bites.

Hot on the heels of the historic ruling last week, now known as Vince - this case against Musk uses the same approach, GDPR rules protect us all against misuse of our data, picture and name. Musk has no prospect of defending this in my view, a new law - or finding in law - has been established.

Great piece of work from Lidl and a great perspective to have - planetary and human health do go hand in hand. What’s bad for us is also bad for the planet - like eating meat and dairy for example, and foods full of fat, salt and sugar (aka processed foods). www.edie.net/britains-die...

Gas prices always rise in a global crisis - the cost of production stay the same, anxiety over supply shortages and speculation drive prices up and create windfall profits - which mirror windfall added costs for consumers.

Interesting polling, people in Clacton see through Farage - "how many houses does he have? He’s part of the establishment. He does the bare minimum as an MP, he’s using us”. And the £5m to "spend on Ferraris if he likes" - makes him look out of touch. lordashcroftpolls.com/2026/07/he-w...

If I had a £1 for every time someone asked me this question...

As ever, the selective focus on the short term costs of ‘grid constraints’ misses the big picture - obviously that’s an accident..:). The big picture is a saving of over £100bn on our energy bills in a 13 year period to 2023 - reported by University College London in a recent report.

What a mess. Reform are the poster child of political sleaze - with their numerous breaches of regulations and criminal investigations and now we learn actual frozen bank accounts - every day seems to bring a new revelation....

Tim Stanley has this right - climate denial should be a crime, the lack of action on the issue ultimately costs lives - 100k expected deaths across Europe this summer. And of course many more people badly affected.

Bin Day in Clacton - 13th Aug

There’s scope to do this and boost the economy, we have a new study out next week that shows, putting people first benefits business and the economy - Peoplenomics.

Andy Burnham puts personal allowance rise on budget agenda

The prime minister said he would look at raising the £12,570 tax-free threshold in the autumn as part of his plans for a ‘cost of living government’

thetimes.com

There are billions in DESNZ allocated for things like heat pump and electric car buying support - these are subsidies for the well off and could easily be taken back and put to use for these ’shortfalls’.

There’s massive fallacy at the very start and heart of this story - no amount of new oil and gas from the North Sea can bring down the cost of living - global markets set the price, even when we make it here - not us. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

We need more equality in our tax system, we need to end the exemptions and loopholes that have bloated our tax code to around 3,000 pages long - a simple one size fits all for income, however generated, would raise a significant extra sum of tax. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why I think net zero has become toxified

Really good conversation with Bloomberg for their podcast last week, they brought the release forwards due to the change of PM and top team shuffling - lot of relevant stuff in here - politics, energy, transport and food, bit of science…electric trains - a deep dive into my world.

Zero: Ditching Net Zero to Win the Climate Argument - Bloomberg

Understand every aspect of the global economy – and know how to make your next move.

bloomberg.com

There’s nothing radical or wrong with that. We have VAT on energy bills and not on flying. Fuel duty on cars to go to work in but not planes for flying. And duty free for flying but not at bus stops. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-ze...

Electrifying Transport is a key aim and vision of Ecotricity, cars, trucks trains and even planes. The opportunity for trains is really exciting, all we need to do is add batteries to the trains, like the old fashioned 'coal box' that sat behind engines. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The team at Ecotricity work really hard to give the best service, I’m pleased for them with this award - this is theirs…:)