Very good on why Britain can't seem to build or run anything unless a group of seven-figure-bonus suits in Manhattan give their permission

Gas generation falls as wind farms set new quarterly generation record New data shows wind generation reached 29.2TWh during the first quarter, as gas power output fell 16 per cent year-on-year

Gas generation was down 16 per cent in the first quarter due to the UK's latest wind power generation record. If it weren't for renewables this fossil fuel-induced energy crisis would be even worse. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528492...

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Little 🧵 on vetting:

There’s been a certain amount of chest-puffing from former holders of DV clearance about how rigorous and exacting the vetting process is and how rare for it to be overruled. The latter is definitely true. Never heard of it happening, ever.

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Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador

No10’s account is incredible.
I held Developed Vetting for nearly ten years and spent three years at the heart of the Cabinet Office. I have never heard of a Developed Vetting denial being overruled. Here’s why…🧵

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Mittel Man • EQUATOR What was Viktor Orbán’s vision for Europe?

Great analysis of Orban's defeat from Ivan Krastev c.o. @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/the...

You don’t even have to be a socialist and make an argument any more, it’s there on the front page of the New York Times: champagne for the wealthy, austerity and war for the rest.

Who is Péter Magyar, the man who ended the Orbán era? Ally-turned-foe has unseated Hungary’s long-serving leader

I keep thinking about the UK elections in 2034 when the country will be so desperate to kick out Farage after five years of corruption, racial persecution and institutional destruction that it'll vote for an ex-Farage fan called John Briton to do the job

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MAGYAR.

Wonderful news from Budapest but also a horrific marker of where we have got to that Orban’s entirely normal acceptance of the fact of his democratic defeat should seem so strange

Looks like it’s gonna be a very bad night for Matt Goodwin, James Orr and the Spiked crew….

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

Andrew Cockburn on Mossad’s kill list - read it here:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is very good, treating NATO as it is, an alliance of fading convenience, rather than, as too often wrongly characterised, a body with agency apart from that of its constituent governments

Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over Central Park Five (Published 2019)

This should have been the end of it www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/n...

Here on the beach, feeling angry about privatisation all over again

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

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

God-emperors are the worst people to have to get presents for

They gave her £1.2 million but she still insisted on coming

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me.

It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

There is something profoundly unserious about demanding the country spends vast sums on reducing its carbon emissions and then calling for a massive fossil fuel subsidy to consumers the moment gas prices rise.

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Donald Trump is still continuing discussions with an unnamed Iranian leader. #wato

It is given to few to draft their own epitaph

Yep, largest TACO.
The enemy gets a vote.
Iran delivered PAIN to Trump via multiple paths:
(1) Hormuz Chokehold
(2) Gulf Kings
(3) Financial meltdown
Domestic politics of war termination then requires Trump to sell strategic defeat as Iran "crying uncle" & US "winning"
bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Danmark forberedte sig på muligt angreb fra USA: Fløj poser med blod til Grønland og gjorde klar til at sprænge landingsbaner i luften Nøglekilder i Danmark og Europa fortæller nu for første gang, hvad der skete i de mest kritiske dage, hvor Donald Trump truede med at tage Grønland "på den hårde måde".

Danish state broadcaster reporting how, after Venezuela, Denmark sent transfusion blood for combat casualties and explosives for runway demolition to Greenland. (American-made) Danish fighters sent for ‘exercises’ carried war loadouts of weapons www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨

London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.