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Le Chateliers Principle applies.

@kevverage @paulmasonnews Yep. Energy providers are doing well thanks. Some decent bonuses have just landed…

@paulmasonnews free? do you think those making the massive capital investments required to build and install wind farms somehow don’t need to recover their capital and cover their cost of capital? why do you think CfDs exist?

Wind turbines give you free energy and reduce your dependence on petroleum-states

@timbuk_tru @winner2882 @BRICSinfo UAE is not Iran.

@winner2882 @BRICSinfo This ship was coming from an Iranian port apparently

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Sanctioned Chinese-linked tanker crosses Strait of Hormuz despite US naval blockade.

@BRICSinfo @KimDotcom Sorry but that’s misinformation guys. It is NOT a sanctioned tanker. It was loaded with methanol in the UAE. Nothing to do with Iran.

I calculated that one (1) of these three new small modular reactors will give out the same average annual energy as 40 square miles of solar panels. And they work at night. And in winter. And when it is cloudy.

@AJENews @KimDotcom x.com/danlinnaeus/st…

BREAKING: US-sanctioned tanker, Chinese-owned Rich Starry, transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday despite a US blockade of the vital oil chokepoint, shipping data from LSEG showed.

@readthinkwalk @KeithMansfield @AllisonPearson @Ed_Miliband Without any calculation I suspect this idea is perhaps theoretically possible but highly impractical & unrealistic.

@KeithMansfield @AllisonPearson @Ed_Miliband Covering the entire UK land area with solar panels would produce far more electricity than the country needs, generating roughly 100–150 times the UK’s annual electricity demand (around 48,000+ TWh/year vs. ~322 TWh in 2025).

Many laughed when Starmer said UK would become an AI “superpower”. AI requires huge amounts of cheap power. Mad Ed gave us the world’s most expensive electricity. Just lost us £31 Billion investment. Treason. ⁦@Ed_Miliband⁩ mol.im/a/15718965

@Peterminto1 @Computer_999 Are you sure? I’ve checked a few cetane numbers in my time.

@Computer_999 We don't refine it. We import it.

Is there anybody online or in the Twittersphere? Who can explain to me? Why diesel is 30 pence a litre more expensive than petrol. I am awaiting answers

@afneil Why is it that everything now appears to be about ‘commercial’ success? Of course services need funding. Nostalgic perhaps but I’m pretty sure nobody sitting in deepest Africa (for example) tuning into the World Service in 1970 directly paid for the BBC, did they?

What? All of BBC Radio? Including R1 and R2, which could easily be provided by the market. And R5 already is. So we’re down to R3/4. At most.

@lukejcr Grow up Luke. Anyway, thought you were cheesed off at his colossal appearances? Make your mind up. x.com/lukejcr/status…

I see Question Time is in Clacton on Thursday. Will the local MP turn up to to make an appearance or was the English Tourism Week visit his annual check-in?

@BBCWorld Brilliant. It’s all fine until you are caught with your fingers in the till. Suddenly you become a victim.

Norway's crown princess breaks silence on Epstein links: 'I was manipulated and deceived' bbc.in/4uKHy12

@LukeSnom @LiamHalligan 😆 Or, ‘Submarine glass’

@LiamHalligan She is as thick as a docker’s sandwich.

Check out the ten-year gilt yield this morning - after the UK's likely next Prime Minister tried to lecture international investors about the intricacies of fiscal policy and the UK's national accounts. A subject about which she clearly knows absolutely nothing. Nice one @AngelaRayner !!! Markets now demanding 4.9% per annum to lend money to the British government. In Morocco, it's 3.4%. And get this. In February 2026, the UK government a massive £14.3 billion - according to figures released this morning. No less than £13 billion of that money borrowed last month went on interest payments on existing debt. Think about that for one second - it's utterly insane. The UK's national accounts are now akin to a Ponzi scheme. And yet still, lunatic MPs and potential Prime Ministers call for ever more borrowing and spending - "because it's the right thing to do" Labour's chronic economic illiteracy and internal party-political posturing is driving the UK economy off a cliff ... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

@grange_hillel @jamesbackagain @Keir_Starmer Agree. No fan of mass religious events in public. If we’re not careful groups will soon be building walls & fences, which is hardly the image of a harmonious existence. As if we don’t know already…

@jamesbackagain @Keir_Starmer Nothing wrong with celebrations of faiths in public, but we must secularise our public spaces and keep them free of proselytism and mass religious worship Trafalgar Square Iftar crosses the line Happy Ramadan lights on Oxford Street do not Passion plays are antisemitic

I’m proud of our tolerant and diverse country. I’m proud that in Trafalgar Square we celebrate all faiths. That’s British values. The comments from Nick Timothy are shameful. Kemi Badenoch should do the right thing and sack him.

@Danboats @AlanMadsen7 @BobCrauford @DaleVince You may just have nailed the point Ratcliffe was making. Imagine how cheap energy would be without 78% of imposed tax.

@AlanMadsen7 @BobCrauford @DaleVince Imports are taxed at 0%. Uk production is taxed (currently) at 78%. Saudis fuel is cheap, partly because of production volume and proximity (ie no/little transport), and partly because they don’t have fuel duty or VAT.

Ratcliffe is incoherent - all of the oil and gas we produce here in Britain is sold at the global market price. No amount of oil produced here can in that case save us a single penny. Importing fossil fuels does not mean we pay more. Drilling in the north sea will take years to deliver globally priced fossil fuels and Rosebank will cost nearly £3 Bn in tax payer subsidies to it’s Norwegian owners - and….none of the oil will land here in Britain. So what sense is Ratcliffe making here, other than to shareholders in Rosebank and other oil companies. This is another fossil fuel crisis and we can’t solve it or help ourselves at all - by pouring more oil onto it. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@testa_ricc68723 @JChimirie66677 Maybe she has an operating brain. What does the US need anybody else for anyway? What a mess.

@JChimirie66677 Not surprised by England, Canada, France, and Germany… I am surprised by Italy. I thought Meloni had b*lls… guess it’s all BS… disappointing… but really opens eyes on the now worthless NATO alliance.

The Real Reason Why Europe Won't Fight: It's Not About the War When the EU's foreign policy chief declared that the conflict in the Middle East was not Europe's war, she was not making a strategic assessment. She was making a domestic one. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world's energy supplies. Daily Gulf oil exports have collapsed by sixty per cent in a fortnight. Germany is facing an energy price shock. Rachel Reeves is watching her fiscal headroom evaporate in real time. France is warning of inflation. These are not countries for whom Middle Eastern stability is an abstract concern. They are countries whose economies depend on that shipping lane remaining open. The idea that protecting it is not their war is not a foreign policy position. It is a fiction maintained for a domestic audience. The domestic audience in question is not hard to identify. Every government that has refused Trump's request shares the same political constraint. Germany has over five million residents of Muslim background. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Britain has communities whose political representatives spent the past fortnight marching under Khamenei's portrait toward Downing Street. The calculation being made in London, Berlin and Brussels is not about international law or strategic prudence. It is about which communities those governments cannot afford to antagonise and what those communities might do if they felt their governments had taken the wrong side. Not our war means not on our streets. The foreign policy is being written by the demographics. Trump named it with characteristic bluntness. "Britain used to be the Rolls-Royce of allies", he said. Then he described his phone call with Starmer, in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom told the President of the United States that he needed to consult his team before deciding whether to send minesweepers. Minesweepers. Not troops. Not bombers. Not a declaration of war. Minesweepers to keep open a shipping lane that Britain's own economy depends on. Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind. That exchange tells you everything about the state of British leadership that a thousand opinion columns cannot. The humanitarian statement on Lebanon follows the same logic. Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy issued a joint warning to Israel about its ground operations against Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that has spent decades arming itself to destroy the Jewish state and that attacked Israel the moment Khamenei was killed. The statement called for immediate de-escalation. It described the humanitarian situation as deeply alarming. It said a significant ground offensive must be averted. Not one word about the organisation that started the war, built the tunnels, fired the rockets and continues to operate with Iranian funding and Iranian weapons. The language of humanitarianism is being applied selectively, and the selection follows the same demographic logic as everything else. This is the pattern that has defined the Western European response to this entire crisis. Not principle. Not strategy. Not law. A set of Left-wing governments that have spent twenty-five years building electoral coalitions that now constrain their ability to act in their own national interest. They cannot send ships because of who lives in their cities. They cannot back Israel because of who votes in their constituencies. They cannot name Hezbollah as the aggressor because of who marches in their streets. The Strait of Hormuz is closing and the Rolls-Royce of allies needs to consult its team. This is what the long march through the institutions has produced. Not our war. Just our problem. "Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind."

@1ainTro11sBots @JSchanzer Exactly. It’s as if the strategy was defined by Hollywood…. Anyway, the US doesn’t need anybody else, right?

@JSchanzer Remember Afghanistan and Iraq?

The lack of European engagement in the Hormuz crisis is neither new nor specific to Trump. The Euros have basically been bystanders since 10/7. As a herd, they’ve endeavored to stay onside with the Iranian regime and its proxies. Profiles in courage they are not.

@GBNews23653867 @IsabelOakeshott @donmcgowan In which case, there are very few true patriots.

@IsabelOakeshott @donmcgowan A true patriot would pay more than they need to, we don't need to because (as you at Reform UK claim) we're not true patriots.

The sheer brass neck of those on the right who are out here claiming Richard Tice is a financial genius for AVOIDING £600,000 in tax. Especially as they were all the same people that called for the removal of Angela Rayner over a stamp duty faux-pas. Hypocrisy 101.

@BBCSport No. How players are awarded penalty kicks due to any ‘contact’ in the box confounds me. The ‘contact’ you see here would not be sufficient to bother any individual in every day life. That it facilitates a fall to the ground is utterly ridiculous. The game is now pantomime.

@patsynotanumber @paulmasonnews You need to read some books. Data is abused & used for purposes for which it was not intended.

@paulmasonnews I don't know why people object to digital ID. Unless they have something to hide 🤷

Digital ID will be a huge economic asset, secure our country and make things easier for everyone - I'm signing up as soon as it's available - I am a libertarian and socialist - one citizen, one identity✊🚩

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