It will be the law of the jungle.
Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South.
Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...
but that's the point, they need to make it easy, convenient, and much cheaper to compete with flights. It's not an option. If Europe finds this pathetic little thing hard, we're seriously screwed.
Uninspiring & uninspired Starmer couldn't sell anything to anyone. The media are also still in fantasy land. We need a leader/leaders who grasp the gravity of the geopolitical realignment that has actually been going on for over 20 years but nobody has noticed. I include the climate crisis.
never heard of skyscanner (and many other apps/websites)? You can book flights from different operators very easily.
Here's @channel4news.bsky.social Party Leaders' Debate ahead of the Senedd elections. They're all quite clumsy but Leaders' Debates are always off-putting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOW...
From Australia:
"New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport."
"Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."
we're back to 'I'm not a racist but...' No facts, just naked prejudice. The fault lies squarely with politicians and the media.
Europe needs to wake up fast. Trains are better than planes, make them cheap and convenient. From @greenpeace.eu research: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Has Iran got access to the unredacted Epstein files? 😉 I just want both bully regimes (US and Iran) to let fertiliser through. Enough people have died.
trams are great and much more accessible in so many ways (especially for people with lower mobility, bags etc.), they make sense in cities that are around 250000. It's crazy we have so few in the UK. Yes, bus service is bad but doesn't need to be so. Privatisation, car dominance... It should be free
or just incompetence, bottle-necks in decision-making... bureaucracies never cease to amaze me!
the main problem are urban areas but the government and local authorities have cut bus services dramatically. When you look at the stats, it's a cull!
Yes but there could be more ‘flexible’ buses (booked?) and a lot more cycling. It’s also between 17% (England) and 30% (wales) of the population. As I wrote, cars need to be the minority transport means not the main one.
We must move away from private cars. Cars need to be the minority means of transport, not a necessity. That requires real investment and training people as train/trams conductors, bus drivers etc. = growth!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A real shift is underway. Witness Meloni's speech to Italy's parliament. She criticised past PMs for for being "satisfied with a pat on the back or an endorsement tweet" by US presidents, adding: "history is knocking at the door, and Europe must not fail this test.”
www.ilfoglio.it/politica/202...
The government should ensure landlords install solar panels etc.
That’s awful. I’m so sorry.
I blame Oxford's PPE 😉😁 the problem is not the subject, of course...
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:
Trump has bombed Iran and threatened genocide, are US citizens being attacked in Europe?
Universities went corporate and went bust. The sector needs radical reform but so does our economy. Time to ditch neoliberalism.
Labour is likely to get hammered in the May elections everywhere, so it'll be a good time for Starmer to go. My money is still on Red Ed! 😁
Seeing Mandelson for what he's always been required one not to be in the same club. 😁
Anyone who thought Mandelson was ever honest and trustworthy is either a mug or as bad as Mandelson. It’s people who reduce principles and ethics to some clever advertising to look good. Hollow people.
I've been to two hustings for the Senedd elections on cycling & sustainable mobility. All participants made very good points, none mentioned the current oil crisis and how it's going to hit Wales even more than England precisely because of lack of public transport and high car dependency.
looks great! Can crossborder rail travel be boosted fast? What are the real resource obstacles (number of trains? staff? tech?) and what are the cultural and organisational obstacles? Planes ain't gonna fly this summer and tourists will wanna tour 😉 😊 it's a great opportunity/crisis to act.
I wish they did an investigation on the creative accounting of very rich people but that would require journalism.
Unless they tell the truth about the climate and Hormuz and switch to crisis mode: work from home, boost public transport (and cycling and walking). It’s the perfect ‘opportunity/crisis’ to do the right thing. It’s costly at first but saves money to the NHS in particular.
I remember a mostly empty building because open space really doesn’t work, especially for research students, and hourly-paid academics. The problem is that once the focus is on marketing, learning and research are over. They became badly run corporations that don’t know their business.
yes, though I would venture to say that many politicians seem to believe in 'creative destruction'. They think the best universities & courses will survive. They do not understand the market at all, let alone infrastructure.