Gas prices doubled in the past month. A marginal extension of UK O&G activity in sharp decline that might come on stream in ten years time, will make not the slightest difference to that. The ess… (View Post)

This is precisely the McSweeney/Starmer playbook that saw Labour lose half its votes in Gorton. I think they would be better implementing policy they think is right, rather than second guess the prio… (View Post)

Trump's intervention where he blamed Israel for the attack on Pars gas field is curious. It implied the US has no control over the war and is operating as a client of Israel with different inter… (View Post)

I just realised. Kemi Badenoch is the Jeremy Corbyn of the Conservative Party. Sympathetic towards actors hostile to our country; give tacit support to sectarianism; never stray outside their partisa… (View Post)

It was obviously a mistake. I realise that now. The lesson is stick to career diplomats and codes of conduct matter. The buck stays with Starmer because he made the appointment - it's how the co… (View Post)