Today, the geopolitical impact of rising fossil fuel prices is being felt around the world. But Spain is in a better position to meet this challenge.
In this article, I explain why:
www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/spains-energ...
It’s the 10 year anniversary of Prince’s death this week. This concert performance from 86 with the Revolution is on iplayer at the moment and is amazing www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
🔴Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat
The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/m...
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists
Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right
Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
Think about how your queer friends feel when you glowingly, uncritically post about the death of public homophobes.
rightwing media narratives are fuelling a false backlash against climate action
An echo chamber of elite opinion, has led to MPs significantly underestimating public support for climate policies and overestimate public opposition to local clean energy projects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Eid mubarak to all celebrating!🌙✨❤️
Sunshine, blue sky and endless blossoms - a marvel!
I will never understand why we routinely enable rich people to buy political influence www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...
I was interviewed by @aljazeera.com on impacts energy crisis.
We discussed Europe’s structural vulnerability due to fossil fuel imports, broader economic effects of price volatility & why this moment should sharpen focus on clean energy.
youtube.com/watch?v=umHj0vNEsiw&feature=youtu.be
Helpfully Tim Leunig accepts as a premise that more North Sea drilling won’t make oil nor gas more affordable in the UK.
But his arguments about tax and the strategic benefit of allowing more North Sea licensing are flawed in key ways (as well as in ways that James has pointed out). Long 🧵 below:
"The 25‑point swing away from Labour shows voters want people‑centred solutions rather than cautious managerialism"
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US gas companies with close ties to the Trump regime stand to make more than $1 billion a week in windfall profits as a result of the conflict in Iran www.energyflux.news/war-profits-...
Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.
They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.
Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.
Starmer is "catching arrows rather than stopping the archer" according to Badenoch - is that really the best Conservative comms team can come up with?
Cannot over emphasize just how toxic this 'just as bad as each other' style narrative is
Well done whoever came up with "plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian" - the way that this just pops makes you realise just how little of it we have seen in politics.
Just incredible that the BBC 6 Music news bulletin just now on the Gorton and Denton by-election has a Labour voice and a Reform voice and no one from the @greenparty.org.uk
This victory for hope over hate in Gorton and Denton is as much about the thousands of people got off their arses to knock on doors, phone bank, stuff envelopes - as it is about @zackpolanski.bsky.social and Hannah Spencer- massive gratitude to everyone involved.
It's not just about this by-election, it's about there being hope and possibility in politics at a time when despair has been felt by so many, that the failures of Labour doesn't automatcally mean Refrom www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
So grateful for all the folks on the streets in Gorton and Denton today, and over the past weeks, creating so much hope and possibility.
In between all the Heated Rivalry-related thing, I’m seeing so much high quality @greenparty.org.uk-endorsing content from such a wide range of creators ahead of the Gordon and Denton by-election. It’s very impressive
It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity
#OtD 19 Feb 2002 legendary transgender activist of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, Sylvia Rivera died aged 50 in NYC. Born in the Bronx, she was a friend to Marsha P Johnson, active in the Gay Liberation Front and the Young Lords stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/8460/syl...
