Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

A voluntary scheme designed to breed healthier dogs somehow became a story about banning your pets.

And then immediately morphed into a conspiracy about Muslims...

And yes, John Cleese fell for it 🙄

And that says far more about the Right and Far-Right media ecosystem than it does about dogs

Turns out all the Brexiters shilling for Trump really hate British sovereignty.

Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East once again shows that reliance on volatile oil and gas exposes economies to price shocks.

Renewables, electrification and storage offer more stable long term energy costs and stronger energy security.

I have been told even in the Foreign Office some are asking: why should British tax payers’ money be spent on those who have refused to pay British tax?

I know some of these nationals will be tourists, but the wider issue stands.

I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.

Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?

£40,000 Russian Bribe: Reform’s Shame Exposed YouTube video by Ben Goldsborough MP for South Norfolk

£40,000 in Russian bribes.

Reform’s former leader in Wales is now serving ten and a half years in prison.

Foreign interference in UK politics is not theory. It is fact. We must defend our democracy.

youtube.com/shorts/3hd17...

The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP

History lesson.

Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917.

Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.

This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs.

Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage.

Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

Energy insecurity. Higher bills. Exposure to catastrophic economic consequences of Trump's wars.

That's what happens when you fail to shift fast enough to renewables, and cut back on support for clean energy.

Let's cut bills & create jobs through a clean power revolution.

Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran.

Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.

Isn’t there a word for someone who works for those from another country to have political influence in their own country? 🧐

From The Resistance page on FB:

👉Just remember that it took $3.5+ trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with...the Taliban. Let that sink in.

47 years is the *opposite* of imminent (which means "something that will happen soon"). These people are so stupid.

"It's the proudest I've been of our Prime Minister in a long time."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social believes Trump's public criticism of Keir Starmer could actually be a good thing.

A fake story with a stock photo the Telegraph tried to pass off as real

Telegraph is busted making up fake stories about rich people suffering over VAT school fees

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Labour's Ben Goldsborough MP on who's shaping UK politics - he "suspect[s] Russian money is being used to fund think-tank activity in the UK."

LD Lisa Smart adds: "It is entirely possible that very wealthy individuals or state actors abroad put money into think-tanks." (In the Commons last night)

This isn't a daft idea at all...

Spot on from @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👍👏👏👏

It doesn’t have to be, legislation exists (might be the one good thing Liz Truss did) that gives government the power to break this absurd and highly damaging link.

Will they use it?

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

Starmer needs to get on the phone to Trump and ask him to set out a plan to protect civilians and support a democratic transition in Iran.

We've seen before that bombs don't bring about democracy and regime change without a plan just leads to more chaos and suffering.

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