The fixation on north sea oil is insane. Even if it weren’t hard to access, there’s only about 6% left of what there was before extraction started. There is *no* prospect of us ever having enough to meet domestic demand again
Rose 🇭🇰🇺🇦
@rosewasnthere.bsky.social
World’s worst interviewee. I’ve somehow gone from Thatcherite -> Corbynite -> LibDem member in 10 years Can normally be found upside down on a pole
Literally making people second class citizens. This almost certainly has popular support but it absolutely shouldn’t. I could probably swallow prioritising citizens over non citizen residents, but these are people who have made the UK their home just as much as www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Reform says it would put foreign-born UK citizens lower on social housing list
UK-born married couples under 35 with children would get priority under proposals to be outlined by Farage’s party
theguardian.com
If this shit goes on Carney should simply threaten to put a massive export tariff on oil to the American Midwest - which is basically entirely dependant on them. Send the Illinois-an(?) and Montanan(?) refineries into the red basically overnight and drive petrol through the roof
Pretty extraordinary attack on Canadian sovereignty tbh
Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · yesterdayUnbelievably bad item in this
Oh shit we’ve invented that terrible found footage Capaldi episode
The Economist@economist.com · 3d agoDrugs based on GLP-1, a hormone released by the gut after a meal, began as treatments for diabetes before proving remarkably good at helping people shed weight. Drugmakers are now betting that different peptides could stop you feeling sleepy
Idk who needs to hear this but no, israel is not going to bomb turkey lmao
My hot take is actually if we rejoined the EU they’d probably let us retain all the opt outs we had previously
I do not necessarily have issues with working with companies run by people with questionable views. But there are three really big differences, Palantirs views are illiberal themselves (and way outside the norm), their work gives them access to a lot of personal information, and (the biggest issue)
Archie Hall@archiehall.bsky.social · 3d agoBRITAIN WOULD BE BONKERS TO DITCH PALANTIR New @economist.com leader from me on Palantir. I most wanted to highlight its critics' troubling illiberalism—many seem far too blasé letting politics determine which businesses governments buy from. You can read it here: www.economist.com/leaders/202...
Gorl you are 35 years old, not a teenager drafting their first harry styles fanfic
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago“And please, when I fail, will you tell me? You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more.” … “With all my heart, Natalie”
Random policies I would implement if pm: Foods delivered internationally by air freight should be required to be labelled as such.
The Tories approach to Net Zero is just insane, their reasoning seems to boil down to “we’ll miss the target so let’s set the world on fire”
Tbh I’m very sceptical of Irans capacity to actually strike targets in Europe, They have the technology and equipment, sure, but let’s be honest, their stockpiles are also depleted, especially in regards to their long range missiles, and take into account their are systems in Cyprus etc to defend
Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 5d agoOh. Iran eyes military targets in Europe if Donald Trump escalates war, insiders say - www.ft.com/content/9ea0...
Utterly ruinous approach by the conservatives, who seem to have latched onto a policy that’s both unpopular and detached from reality
Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 5d agoThis is shocking. The Conservatives' new energy plan goes way past scrapping net zero – they actually want to put emissions up. After a summer of wildfires, it seems the Conservatives have completely given up on the environment and are just taking orders from Donald Trump.
My brother in Christ we literally just had a report about how farmers in the UK are in crisis because of a drought
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoUK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report
Me: “I’m fine, I’m thriving” Also me: “yeah this towel on my bathroom floor is pretty cosy I reckon I could nap for a while”
Nothing more mildly irritates me than terminally online people having a personal grievance against the UK because they’re “Irish American” and their link is their great great great grandfather moved to the US 50 years after the famine
God that exchange between Trump and the CNN journo, I woulda lost my shit if he talked to me like that. Just, how does anyone like him?? It’s so grossly disrespectful I would called him a cunt to his face if I were in her shoes
Ftr, to adopt Tice’s idiotic idea for mass desalination plants, at current EU averages, excluding the actual cost of the plants, distribution, etc, it would cost 12 million USD a day, or 4.38 billion a year, just to process that water.
Leaving aside everything else, the energy consumption for desalination plants is insane
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d agoRichard Tice adds that the UK shouldn't worry about drought because "we're surrounded by water". "There's not much water on land in the Middle East [either]. They use desalination plants"
I would like people to not talk in such aggressive terms about someone enjoying their interests
Omi Rhodes@omiswatching.bsky.social · last wk.Warner Bros is reaching new levels of desperation to hype up the new wizard boy show. They’re actively seeking out trans influencers to do promo and there is no hell hot enough for these traitors.
The likely reason Is its 6am and he can’t be fucked, the funny reason is they didn’t win by as much as expected
So having claimed the police told them there was a threat against reform, the police have now confirmed they have not told any candidates to stay away from the count So they lied, again