Misha Voikhansky

The Forties Pipeline System (FPS) This is the pipeline system that carries most of the oil from the North Sea to the UK. It collects the oil from 85 different North Sea oilfields, and flows around 550,000 barrels of oil per day back to the UK mainland. For context, in total the North Sea has around 400 offshore platforms between the UK and Norway, producing and exporting both oil and gas. FPS is a British oil pipeline system. Exploration drilling for North Sea oil is currently banned on the UK Continental Shelf. It has been since the current government came to power. As a result of the drilling ban, the Forties Pipeline System is currently uninvestable according to its owner INEOS. They haven’t invested in its upkeep for 2 years. INEOS have said the pipeline will close by 2035, but without investment maybe as early as 2030, which is now just 3.5 years away. 550,000 barrels / day is equivalent to 38.96 GW of primary energy. This is 10x more energy than the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, which is projected to cost £48 billion for 3.2GW of electrical power. Electrical energy is joule for joule more valuable than chemical energy, but the comparison of scale is real. 38.9 GW is more energy than the entire National Grid carries. The largest energy system in the UK is not the grid it is this underwater pipeline system. With drilling banned, and the North Sea entering a period of forced closure, the Forties Pipeline System is going to close in the not too distant future. Once the pipeline is no longer economical, the entire Central North Sea oil production will collapse with it. This isn’t something that closes down gracefully, the entire Central North Sea basin reaches market through a single pipe. BP recently announced they are selling up their remaining assets and getting out, Exxon, Chevron, etc are all already long gone. Nobody wants their brand near this collapse. The tax rate is 78%, the government wants this national infrastructure to shut down. It will. The German Chancellor recently called their nuclear fleet closure a “Strategic Blunder”, interesting choice of words. But I think it was obviously a blunder to anyone outside their propaganda bubble. Likewise the UK’s North Sea. The German nuclear fleet averaged 10.3 GW of primary energy output over its operational life, which is around 1/4 the primary energy of the Forties Pipeline System. The UK has a few other pipeline systems but this one is by far the largest and the most critical. Now this infrastructure, isn’t supposed to last forever. But when it goes you should have a plan. In the UK nobody talks about this. It’s taboo. A lot of people think “yeah but they won’t let that happen”… well it happened in Germany, and it happened in Japan. A lot of people want it to happen, and a lot of those people are in politics. So what replaces this? Nothing? Is the UK just going to go silently into the night?

40-year-old Hesam Alaedin, father of young twin girls, has been beaten to death in an Iranian jail. He was behind bars after accusations of having a Starlink at home. 🦁☀️

Hi @ZackPolanski Another antisemitic Green candidate of yours. Tina Ion, who is standing in Newcastle. Instead of complaining about a cartoon by The Times, you should be asking yourself why are people like this attracted to the Greens under your “leadership”?

New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people: Since 2000 in the UK • 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories • 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans

The treatment of human rights lawyer Narges Mohammadi by the Iranian regime is nothing short of barbaric. The Nobel Prize winner’s life is at risk because of the brutal authoritarianism of this regime. All other civilised countries, both Muslims and other religions should protest vigorously. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The conversation in Jewish families is, as Trevor Phillips said this morning, “who among our friends would save us?” We are in an undeniable crisis of antisemitism, and many are asking whether they need to leave Britain. Many have already done so. This is heartbreaking, but the time for weak words is over. We need to be unsparingly honest about what is happening, and what we can do about it. Antisemitism is an ancient disease, and there is no point pretending it does not come from several sources. We saw the surge in antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn. It has been partly purged, but there are some - like Naz Shah - on the Labour benches who have made antisemitic statements in the past. We saw in the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal that Labour are up to their necks in corruption and communalism in places like the West Midlands. Starmer and Mahmood got away with this - but they knew the police and council had worked together to ban the Israeli fans. They didn’t intervene to stop it because they didn’t see the problem. But the scandal happened because the authorities took the side of Islamists over Jews. Now we see the surge of the Greens - a party absolutely riven with sectarianism and antisemitic candidates and activists. And on the online right, we’re starting to see some of the antisemitic language we’ve seen emerge in the recent years in America. It’s not at all of the same scale - but that could change and it would be wrong to ignore it. Above all though - and this is where too many find it difficult to tell the truth - we have an undoubted antisemitism problem among the Muslim population. Polls show among British Muslims: - Around half say “Jews have too much power over UK government policy.” - Four in ten say the same for the media and the financial industry. - Only one in four believe Hamas committed rape and murder on 7 October. - Only one in four believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland. - Around half feel more sympathy with Hamas than Israel. When people ask why Britain - for so long previously a welcoming place for Jews - suddenly has such a problem, this is obviously the most significant change. The official Muslim population here has doubled from 1.6 million in 2001 to over four million today. Some studies suggest seventeen per cent of our population will be Muslim by 2050. Only around half of Muslims in Britain today were born here. And the countries from which Muslim immigrants are coming often have entrenched antisemitic cultures. Pakistan, Somalia, the Middle East. We are importing hatred that should never be welcome here. We are faced with a choice between keeping our Jewish citizens and receiving more and more people from these places. The choice we should make ought to be obvious. We should deport any foreigner who espouses this hatred. We should show zero tolerance to any British nationals who incites hatred and violence. We have to clamp down on the hate marches, and lock up those who are guilty of public order offences and incitement - including anybody who calls to “globalise the intifada” and chants “death to the IDF.” Above all, we have to stop importing hatred and extremism and antisemitism from countries where we know these things are rife. I waited a few days after the Golders Green attack before commenting because I wanted to see what the reaction would be. Unfortunately it was exactly as anticipated: weak words, no action, promises to build higher walls around our Jewish citizens. But I am not willing to sit here and watch as my friends discuss with their loved ones whether they should give up on Britain and emigrate. As a country, we have a choice to make - and my choice is to stand unequivocally with Britain’s Jews.

Utterly devastating from @robertshrimsley in FT. This should shame us all.

I don’t think the next pro-Palestine march should be banned. I think it should be policed and scrutinised to within an inch of its life. I think there should be an overwhelming police presence, call in the army if need be. And any fucker or group that chants for the death of Jews or jihad or supports Hamas or any terrorist group, holds up an antisemitic placard or anything that could be considered incitement or breaking the law including holding a flag of the Iranian regime or the Ayatollah if the IRGC are proscribed in time, the police get straight in there and pull them out and detain or at the very least get their details and collect evidence to see if a crime has been committed and they can be prosecuted. And anyone who tries to stop them is immediately arrested for interference. At the end that’ll leave about three people. And let’s see how many people turn up to the next one if they know they’ll now be held accountable for their incitement to violence. It’ll then be very clear that these marches were never about calling for peace for Palestinians, otherwise there would be peace signs and condemnations of Hamas, they were always just an excuse for Jew haters to gather and spread their bigotry.

HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF. In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths. That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower. What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all. Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing. Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession. No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency. During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release. The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy. He hasn't. Sources: The Guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | Protect @WhistleUK | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times. They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

January 2026 Picture of med student Aida Heydary at the exam hall of Tehran University Medical School The regime murdered her The bastards didn't even allow a formal memorial ceremony at the college I haven't forgotten her Free Iran 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇷

Hi @ZackPolanski, why have you deleted the page on your website where you laid out your party’s desire for a “world without borders”? This was a member motion too. At the first sign of pushback, you delete your history and run for the hills? Coward. migration.greenparty.org.uk/policies/

It’s stark when you see it like this, isn’t it?

Do not forget it was REFORM that got the elections reinstated so let’s show our appreciation VOTE REFORM You haters can say what you like but I’m still a REFORM SUPPORTER and proud of our community

We still haven't forgotten about you.

There are Home Office staff facilitating the invasion of Britain. This is the man the Tories allowed to oversee their ‘deportation program’. A man who openly advocates for open borders. He, and others like him, will be escorted from the building the moment Reform wins power.

Jeffrey, the total British Jewish population is approximately 292,000. Of those, only 12 percent identify as Orthodox and four percent as ultra-Orthodox or Haredi. Strictly Orthodox Jews represent a small fraction of an already small community that makes up less than half a percent of the British population. Jewish schools rank among the top in the country for academic achievement. At JFS, a prominent London Jewish school, 55 percent of all A-level grades in 2025 were at A* or A. British Jews were more likely to report a degree level qualification as their highest qualification compared with the general population, 50.7 percent compared with 33.8 percent. And on integration. Orthodox Jews pay income tax, National Insurance, council tax and VAT in exactly the same way as every other British citizen. They work as doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers and business owners. The NHS employs Jewish medical professionals across every specialism. The legal profession, the financial sector, the academic world, all have significant Jewish representation including from Orthodox communities. The idea that Orthodox Jews do not contribute economically or professionally to British life is not supported by any evidence whatsoever. The Orthodox community maintains its own schools and cultural institutions. So do Catholic communities, Muslim communities, Sikh communities and dozens of others across Britain. Cultural and religious cohesion within a community is not a failure to integrate. It is how minority communities preserve identity. The man stabbed in the face at a bus stop outside his synagogue on Tuesday was 76 years old. He was not a threat to Britain. He was a British citizen going about his life in the country his community has called home for four centuries. Whatever your views on Orthodox Jewish cultural practices, that man deserved the protection of the state. He did not receive it.

The moment Eli Sharabi, who was held hostage in Gaza, told the UN the truth. "NO ONE in Gaza helped me. I was treated worse than animal. The civilians saw us suffering and they cheered our kidnappers. They were definitely involved." Share this. The mainstream media won't.

The owners of Premier Inn say they will cut 3,500 jobs due to the huge increase of business rates and national insurance. Another win for Rachel Thieves.

As horrible as it seems and I’m truly sorry if I offend anybody. But individuals that support the Green Party are the most dangerous and blinkered cult I have ever witnessed in politics. I couldn’t involve myself around their crazy way of life. Frightening times for the U.K.