
Mark McClelland
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Mark McClelland
@docmarkmac
Head of Public Affairs @OEUK_ Former Special Adviser @hmtreasury and @cabinetofficeuk. Energy. Politics. Foreign Policy. All views my own.




Microsoft joins tech giant rivals betting on West Texas for AI data center campuses costar.com/article/983358…

If there is compelling evidence to show there is enough supply of new oil and gas in our North Sea basin and it will be economically beneficial, to both Treasury revenue and bill-payers, then Government should issue new licenses for extraction. I think the environmental case is sound: better to produce than import these fossil fuels in the medium-term. Let’s see the evidence on the economics of it.

Do 🫵 YOUR 🫵 civic duty and make sure anyone/everyone you know working in the Defence/Foreign Policy/National Security establishment in Britain is aware of the Mythos news. Ignorance is not an excuse anymore. It’s going to get weird: strap in.

White House pushed Pakistan to broker a temporary Iran ceasefire - FT.

This morning, I asked President Trump if he’s okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls: “We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.” “It’s a beautiful thing”


🚨@ukonward is recruiting! We are seeking a new Head of Energy Task: to lead on designing a detailed plan for UK energy policy for a centre-right government in a post Net Zero world, capable of day one implementation👇 ukonward.com/job-opportunit…

In this blog, @docmarkmac explores why two neighbouring North Sea nations have taken increasingly different paths, and what that divergence means for the UK’s future energy choices. oeuk.org.uk/700-miles-and-…

Claude Mythos. Ten trillion parameters: the first model in this weight class. Estimated training cost: ten billion dollars. On the hardest coding test in the industry (SWE bench) it scores 94%. It found a security flaw in a system that had been running for 27 years, one that every human engineer and every automated check had missed. It found another bug that had survived five million test runs over 16 years. (It did so overnight.) It is so capable in cybersecurity that Anthropic will not release it to the public, instead it is launching Project Glasswing along with 100m in compute credits to help secure software. Only twelve partners currently have access: Amazon, Cisco, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase, Crowdstrike, Palo Alto, AWS, The Linux Foundation, Broadcom. (I'm sure the Pentagon is on the line?) This is not a product launch: it is a controlled deployment of a system too powerful to distribute freely. Tell me this isn't (very expensive) AGI?


Likely a statement drafted in the Kremlin, JD Vance says almighty "Ukrainian intelligence" is rigging elections in both the US and Hungary.

A bit of contrarian thinking here: its a piece on the cognitive biases that many commentators bring to the Iran War. I take just as dark a view of Trump & Co. as anyone - but I'm wary of motivated reasoning too. @theAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

بیش از ۱۴ میلیون ایرانی غیور تا این لحظه اعلام آمادگی کردهاند جان خود را برای دفاع از ایران فدا کنند. من نیز جانفدای ایران بودهام، هستم و خواهم بود. #جان_فدا

“As governments revise their energy strategies, their goal should not be self-sufficiency at any cost,” argue @JasonBordoff and Meghan O’Sullivan. “Rather, it should be to build systems strong enough to absorb shocks without breaking.” foreignaffairs.com/iran/iran-shoc…
