"China’s 30-day moving average for LNG imports on April 15 was 112k tons, 33% lower than a year ago, according to ship-tracking data"
33% is a big number for the country that until recently was the top LNG importer. Also, last year's imports were lower than forecast. Seems to be a trend.
The russian war of aggression and the growing global threat of dictatorships alliance have launched tectonic geopolitical changes for decades to come.
"Japan loosens arms export rules in break from post-WW2 pacifism"
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According to Robbins, Mandelson's vetting issues didn't relate to Epstein. But the PM said in Sept 26 that Mandelson hadn't told the truth about his rels with Epstein, which was why he sacked him. So that suggests the vetters didn't know the full details of Mandelson's Epstein relationship.
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The projects will support nature, gastronomy, wellness and cultural tourism within Portugal’s inland, and attract visitors away from major tourist hotspots like Lisbon and Porto.
Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
A hundred years after her birth, we still over-revere Queen Elizabeth II. The monarchy? Not so much | Jonathan Liew
Mahmood is simply unable to defend her policies or ideas on their merits. Because they have no merits.
The logic of Mahmood’s position is that every time a government is being attacked from the left for illiberal policies, it should ensure it has a non-white Home Secretary so that white liberal critics will be shamed into silence for fear of being accused of racism.
🚨 Experts warn Select Committee that First Past risks an election that is "simply indefensible".
Speaking to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee, Professors Toby James, Maria Sobolewska and Alan Renwick say government should now be looking seriously at electoral reform.
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Kiev annonce avoir fini la réparation d’un oléoduc fournissant du pétrole russe à la Hongrie, espérant le déblocage du prêt européen de 90 milliards d’euros
Al Gore:
“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has. It’s shocking to me.”
A Welsh election like no other: Labour’s dominance under threat
Labour looks vulnerable in Wales like never before, trailing Plaid Cymru and Reform UK in the polls. So much for the old certainties of a Senedd election, writes Andy Davies.
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New open-access historical sociolinguistics of Persian from the Achæmenid period onward.
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Alternet: Trump wanted to use US nuclear codes during an emergency meeting, a move blocked by General Dan Caine. Johnson criticized Trump’s mental state, claiming his Iran statements were aimed at manipulating stock prices rather than reflecting reality.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg today for the first time since Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat said the prospect of new leadership in Budapest had injected fresh hope into talks that for years had been weighed down by Hungarian obstruction.
⚠️Sir John Curtice says Labour and the Conservatives can no longer rely on First Past the Post
Asked by @danbloom1.bsky.social of @politico.com if Westminster's electoral system was tenable, Britain's leading polling expert said “Those who live by the sword can die by the sword”
#ElectoralReform
A new Survation poll has shown a “miserable” level of support for nuclear power in Scotland. The polling makes grim reading for Scottish Labour and the LibDems who are both promoting new nuclear bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/20/n...
The Foreign Office's top civil servant has been fired over the Mandelson affair.
Civil servants and ministers complicit in genocide remain safe in their jobs.
The governance of UK foreign policy needs a transformation.
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I also want to be subjugated & denied my right to democracy. I wish to be indoctrinated with fascist right wing views & Nazi tendencies. I dream of Britain from the 1940s where our country had no one from an ethnic background & if we did, They all worked manual jobs & were the butt of all our jokes.
BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history.
The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.
Something is in the way.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trump uses “negotiation” as a weapon to lawlessly and dishonourably create the element of surprise.
“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”
The most corrupt regime ever.
Thank you Spain for doing the right thing!
Gracias a España por hacer lo correcto!
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600 migrants crossed Channel in a single day BBC screams
Yet not a word on the £600,000 Reforms Richard Tice avoided paying or nearly £100,000 he underpaid from a company that donates money to Reform
Which is corrupt as hell and as an MP far more newsworthy than migrants but its Reform 🤷🏼♂️😡
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
The percentage of Scottish voters who want to rejoin the EU has been consistently more than 70% ever since we were dragged out of the EU against our will!
