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Retired, carer, birder, railway buff, ex geochemist, ex environment lecturer, ex IT lecturer, ex MIS Manager. https://www.facebook.com/alanlchambers MyLifeinTrains.com

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Just FWI the Handelsblatt is traditionally a strongly Atlanticist paper.

13.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh this is a much better idea than socialised healthcare 😳

13.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It goes almost without saying that Hesgeth is morally depraved and intellectually inadequate. It's also increasingly clear that he is totally out of his depth and becoming rattled.

13.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills Fossil fuel funded think tanks, petrostate-linked policy institutes and oil market insiders are all being presented as impartial observers by the media, reports Nafeez Ahmed

πŸ”΄The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills

Fossil fuel funded think tanks, petrostate-linked policy institutes and oil market insiders are all being presented as impartial observers by the media, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

13.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

Abandoned the kids!
Burn your pension!
Kick the dog into the canal!

But save yourselves from democratically elected people who want to [checks notes] savagely improve the planet.

13.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Iran War Threatens a Refugee Crisis on a Scale That Dwarfs Syria Brynn Tannehill, a former senior US defence analyst, warns that the assault on Iran risks causing a refugee crisis up to four times larger than what happened during the Syria conflict

BYLINE TIMES
Trump’s Iran War Threatens a Refugee Crisis That Dwarfs Syria

Brynn Tannehill, former US defence analyst, warns the assault on Iran risks causing a refugee crisis up to four times larger than during the Syria conflict.
Byline Times
Mar 13, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

13.03.2026 19:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Undaunted Reporting on Trump need not be wishy-washy

THE CONTRARIAN
Jen Rubin's Columns
Undaunted

Reporting on Trump need not be wishy-washy.
Jennifer Rubin
Mar 13, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

13.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SPOILER ALERT: Just like Musk, Hitler also weaponised the ignorance of indoctrinated young men to do his dirty work for him.
#DOGE

13.03.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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To avoid tariffs, the UK also promised that the NHS would buy more drugs from US pharma companies.

🚨 This deal could cost the NHS millions - but the government hasn't published its own impact assessment.

✍️ Write to your MP to demand the risk assessment: https://hey-mp.uk/?c=USphar

13.03.2026 11:40 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050Β lessΒ than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCCΒ  - Climate Change Committee The independent, statutory bodyΒ tested its cost and energy security conclusionsΒ againstΒ differentΒ scenarios.Β It found thatΒ the totalΒ additionalΒ cost ofΒ a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022Β magnitu...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

13.03.2026 11:42 πŸ‘ 927 πŸ” 457 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 17
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Why China could emerge a winner from Trump’s global energy shock Spiking oil prices may reveal how China has been more successful in electrifying its economy and reducing dependence on fossil fuels than the United States.

Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

13.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 1280 πŸ” 334 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 21
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Briefing: Concerns Regarding Palantir Technologies and NHS Data Systems - Medact This briefing document outlines the key concerns regarding the involvement of Palantir Technologies in NHS data infrastructure and operations, including via their delivery of the FDP.

Today, a group of health charities, human rights organisations and unions have written to every hospital in the country. We’re asking hospital leaders to stand up to NHS England and say no to Palantir.

Here’s the briefing:
https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/briefings/briefing-palantir-fdp/#data

13.03.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

The idea that the US administration did not plan for Hormuz is slightly more comforting than the idea that they foresaw all of this and selling previously sanctioned Russian oil is part of the plan.

13.03.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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MP Estate Planning: selling defective trusts to the elderly MP Estate Planning sells Β£4,000 trust schemes promising to avoid inheritance tax, care fees and divorce. Our investigation finds the claims don’t stand up.

MP Estate Planning: the unregulated firm selling defective trusts to the elderly taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/03/13/m...

13.03.2026 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean who could've predicted that putting an ego driven narcissist who then appointed ill-educated people to positions of power based on their wealth or ratings at Fox News in charge of a large war machine would cause this totally avoidable problem?
Precisely why it hasn't happened before

13.03.2026 09:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

13.03.2026 09:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I expect Isobel Oakeshott to be all over this….ooops…unless she’s paid to spout the UAE party line…

12.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

With everything else going on I missed Badenoch committing the Tories to a policy of β€œenforced” assimilation into officially approved culture.

12.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 8

And there I was thinking that Stephen Miller was emphatically against foreign politicians interfering with national sovereignty.

12.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 193 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s safe to say Trump is unlikely to successfully defend his FIFA Peace Prize championship this year

12.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 3458 πŸ” 364 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 15
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🎢 Near, far, wherever you are...

We know the coverup goes on & on & on...

THE KINK OF THE WORLD

12.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 15801 πŸ” 3813 πŸ’¬ 395 πŸ“Œ 162

Not as blisteringly low as we hold Americans under Trump.

12.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Though slightly annoying, also really quite funny that I'm reading about the efficiency of global supply chains and all was fine until the driver of the last leg delivered the package to the wrong address.

Never believe the national self-sufficiency myths.

12.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You think I want to β€œbuy intelligence” from someone who is this weird?

12.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

This is how morally bankrupt is Farage chasing gun nut votes πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

March 1996 a gunman shot to death 16 children and a teacher in under 4 minutes

Another 12 children & 3 adults were injured, all bar 2 were under 6, all left with life changing trauma

This isn’t the position any PM should take End of❗️

12.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

It is disgraceful that UK government and ministers are still using X. It is skewing their view of what ordinary citizens think. Decent people have left X.

12.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Going Deeper: When Armageddon Enters the Chain of Command The Rise of Christian Nationalists

Adam Kinzinger
Going Deeper: When Armageddon Enters the Chain of Command

The Rise of Christian Nationalists.

Mar 12, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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