Households on heating oil already grappling with soaring prices
Iranian blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz is hitting global fertiliser supply chain.
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How UK cuts to climate finance could bankrupt ecosystems at home – and abroad
Hardworking taxpayers fund our armed forces.
Meanwhile influencers like Isabel Oakeshott live overseas, contribute nothing, and still benefit from the protection of the UK.
If she's going to pick a fight with @calummillerld.bsky.social, she should at least get her facts right.
A new defence technology company bringing Ukrainian battlefield-tested autonomous systems to allied militaries has launched globally with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Announcing our next speaker for the Accelerating Local Climate Action Conference! 🌍✨
Victoria Marsom, Interim Director of Communities & Networks at @friends-earth.bsky.social , will be speaking on 18 March. 🎤
She played a key role in the successful campaign against the Whitehaven Coal Mine. 💚
The big tech companies need to be paying their fair share of taxes so we can properly fund mental health services.
The next few weeks is going to see an avalanche of calls for the Treasury to do what it should have done long ago and move policy costs off electricity bills and into general taxation. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The United States joined Russia, China, and Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a threat to nuclear safety, - Reuters
🧵 Retired U.S. general Keith Kellogg says the U.S. could target Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf.
The island sits about 18 miles off Iran’s coast and handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports.
South East Water has been warned repeatedly by regulators, over a period of 4 years, that it was at risk of supply failure & needed to act to protect water resources in order to keep the taps on.
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Attend Spring #LDConf in York and interact with our @libdems.org.uk spokespeople during their Q&A sessions on the important issues of International Affairs and Economy & Business!
Exploring the Palace of Westminster 🚶➡️
“The UK’s failure to [pivot to homegrown clean energy] has left people on ordinary incomes paying the price.”
Europe's strategy worsened the last energy shock. Now, European leaders support a war that may cause the next one.
Our briefing in @theguardian.com 👇
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Our Armed Forces must always protect British citizens wherever they are in the world.
But tax exiles and influencers who make a living criticising the UK should contribute to the country they still expect to protect them.
Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.
Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Could well have added while they pursue another war for control of fissile fuel resources all the while denying the existence of climate change and continuing to bring about global climate collapse.
Cumbria police probe £60k damage to Whitehaven wind turbine - BBC News share.google/iSqEm2Ver4RE...
Cumbria Police said bolts were taken off the turbine, located off The Mount in Whitehaven, causing it to break and fall.
A friend of writers in the #HouseOfLords - thanks to our Chair Tim Clement-Jones for highlighting the need for an #AI license to better protect the work of creators 🙏
We're keenly awaiting the government's report and economic analysis of #ArtificialIntelligence and #Coypright, due later this month.
Millions of families are already at breaking point. Now experts warn energy bills could jump by £500 thanks to Donald Trump’s illegal war.
Today I asked the Prime Minister for a cast-iron guarantee that he will not let energy bills skyrocket again.
He didn’t give it.
Earl Russell @earlrussell.bsky.social made an excellent case for a polluter pays levy during Report stage for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
The levy could raise up to £700 million a year, placing the cost on the tobacco industry, not consumers. 💰
The US-Iran conflict shows just how dangerous dependence on oil & gas really is.
Like with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, this crisis reveals how gas prices can soar leaving us vulnerable to price shocks beyond our control.
Developing clean energy can free us from Trump's geopolitical blackmail.
With the cost of fuel and food rising, people are worried about making ends meet.
The chancellor must take action, starting by cancelling the fuel duty hike due this year.
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Head of Police Federation of England and Wales arrested on suspicion of corruption
Claire Coutinho v @ClaireCoutinho X.com As the conflict in Iran and Qatar shows, our energy resilience is our national resilience. Labour's plans to shut down the North Sea have left us more reliant on Qatari LNG. We need to get real. That means maximising the North Sea, adopting the Fingleton Review to make nuclear cheaper to build, and axing the Carbon Tax to protect British industry.
The Conservative’s know full well this is the stuff of nonsense. Some 80% of NS oil and gas is sold to int markets & subject to price fluctuations. NS is a declining basin by 7-12% per year. Investment would bring no guarantee of any returns. No energy security, no reductions in energy bills.
Environmental Audit Committee publishes its report on the 7th carbon budget today saying "Ministers must also defend the net zero agenda explicitly and proactively, making clear how the Government as a whole is pushing towards a common goal"
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Thank you!
The counter argument might run that ever great extremes in our political discourse and the ever further erosion of the sadly former cross party consensus actually makes climate progress less likely and any that is made more liable to abrupt political reversal.
The Guardian fails to mention that Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats called for a Parliamentary vote.
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