Lee Irving

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

This is excellent - the best thing I've seen on the supposed "sectarianism" of the Gorton & Denton by-election. (Unfortunately not posted until after I wrote my own blog touching briefly on a few of the issues, or I would have referred to it there.)

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

#BBCQT Fiona Bruce yet again promoting a false narrative about Green Party policy with regards to NATO.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Whatever happened to the Labour Party that called for safe routes?

There are good kings and bad kings, the difference between the two matters, and you’d much rather live under a good king than a bad king. But ultimately the risk of the bad kings far outweighs the potential upside of a good one. Exact same principle applies here. Too much tail risk.

So Trump now says they are going to cease all trading with Spain and then started talking about the UK

My experience at a local level with the Greens is seeing all parts of a community coming together to try and improve their collective situation. Not separatism at all

I would disagree, she’s a perfect fit for this Labour Party

He changes with the wind though, can it really be said he made a conscious decision?

Keir Starmer: “We’ve got to address the fact that millions of people vote in safe seats and they feel their vote doesn’t count” Keir Starmer’s backing of electoral reform puts democracy at the heart of Labour’s leadership contestFrom one Keir to another, support for electoral re

Unfortunately I can’t see this PM who is ignoring the Labour Party conference vote on PR being in favour of it any time soon.

It’s almost as if his entire career has been a sham

electoral-reform.org.uk/keir-starmer...

Netanyahu played Trump like a boss, but then Trump is an easy mark

Is it normal for Typhoon fighters to be patrolling east coast? Just had one overhead in Newcastle and flight radar showing another 4 up and flying around the coast.

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Huge news!!

Anyone who wants to help push us onwards, it's easy: join.greenparty.org.uk

Hannah Spencer MP

"we are working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry. And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think that hard work should get you a nice life. We have shown we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all."
Hannah Spencer MP

How can you interview Pritti Patel about the current situation and not ask about her obvious links with Israel, she was sacked for going off piste

This is exceptionally thoughtful and well said.

If he keeps up this line I wonder how long it will be before the Greens become a prescribed organisation

Sunday School: One thing after another Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 1 March · 1h 1m

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💥 Iran ... is there a plan for after the chaos?
🗳️ Labour ... is there a strategy beyond denial?

With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social.

#Gorton&Denton

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She also said that the result doesn’t show that a majority of the UK would vote for Polanski as PM or for that matter Farage. Not once has it been pointed out that the current government only got 35%

Yet again Starmer is picking up Reforms ball and is running with it

BREAKING:
absolutely huge update.. Vital to know: for, if we don't know what's coming, how can we prepare for it?: >.>Watch.. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
...ITV have only gone and bloody stepped forward and revealed what is in the FULL officially-suppressed national security assessment!... ;)

"The former British home secretary and Buddhist daughter of a Kenyan descendant of Goan Catholics, and a Mauritian Hindu descendent of Tamil, born in Harrow, studied in New York, married to a Jewish South African who lived In Israel says multiculturalism has failed."
via Daily Scar

Hannah and Zack with cameras taking a selfie

I don't know if I'll ever stop smiling.

We've all done something very special. 💚

Trump saying that their allies in Europe were under threat, forgetting that it was him that was threatening us and calling us the enemy.

"The Greens are offering a new kind of politics – one that provides people with a sense of solidarity, camaraderie, and agency."

British economic commentator @graceblakeley.substack.com explains how the UK Green Party won a historic by-election and how it could reshape UK politics.

But what you say it says is not what it says. But we are not getting anywhere so I wish you well but this is where we part.

Because I can read that paragraph in the context of the whole policy.