In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.
Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%
Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.
Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
"Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition."
Absolute banger from @mona-ali.bsky.social
@boursebazaar.bsky.social on the staggering scale of destruction of Iran's civilian and economic infrastructure by the US and Israel
Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime
www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...
🔴 Great to write this for @writesbright.bsky.social, on all things Ben Delo, foreign donations, Rycroft and Reform UK's wealthy backers:
Class politics is back, and (many) voters like it
NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them.
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www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...
Libertarians dreamed of the zone as a way to escape the state but it became the favored tool of state capitalism; now the same has happened with crypto.
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Drilling in the North Sea will do nothing for UK energy bills. It's really good to see Miliband refusing to cave to pressure over North Sea oil.
The only sustainable way forward, for this crisis and all other fossil fuel-linked disruptions to come, is a transition to renewable energy, ASAP
remarkable how every investor in this FT piece basically says:
a state that heavily controls capital, with a central bank subordinated to government priorities, is a safer heaven in the new geopolitical reality of petrowars
www.ft.com/content/7221...
New: Authorities in the Netherlands have significantly expanded their investigation into suspected systemic anti-money laundering violations at Rabobank
www.acams.org/en/news/dutc... (€)
BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.
Rycroft review looks sensible, but I don't understand why a moratorium on crypto donations to political parties is preferable to a straight ban, not least because a future government could (it looks like) scrap the moratorium whenever it wanted.
Going to be a big summer for middle aged men with heat pumps and solar panels.
Belatedly reading this excellent piece from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. A near perfect distillation of the climate theory of everything.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has opened an investigation into Market Financial Solutions, a mortgage provider that collapsed last month amid allegations of fraud. MFS lent millions to a UK property empire owned by Bangladeshi politician accused of corruption www.acams.org/en/news/lond...
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.
Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
from Fraser Nelson:
Search Party just published a video on Bellingcat and the Irish Times's investigation into the biggest drug cartel you've never heard of, and it's ties to everything from MMA to Hezbollah.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0G...
I wrote 3,500 words on the escalating attempts to portray the Green party as antisemitic, and why it's proving a struggle. Please enjoy them: novaramedia.com/2026/03/17/r...
Just a reminder that the Washington Treaty defines the geography of NATO’s mutual defense pledge — at U.S. insistence in 1949 — to prevent allies from committing us to their wars outside of Europe.
Cost of net zero in the UK? £100bn
Cost of the invasion of Ukraine ALONE to the UK economy? £183bn
We rely on fossil fuels, which get stupidly expensive when there's international disruption. Getting to net zero is how to stop your bills, your shopping, your mortgage, your rent, from going up.
1. Iran had en heeft geen kernwapens maar heeft nu duizend redenen om ze nu wel te hebben.
2. Spanje? Je bedoelt het land dat de genocide in Gaza wilde stoppen? The audacity.
historical oil demand vs secnarios
On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts
First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility
This'll be interesting to watch: Binance has begun recruiting a U.K.-based money laundering reporting officer, signaling that the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is preparing a renewed push into Britain, where it remains under a regulatory warning
Full story: www.acams.org/en/news/bina...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
