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This is cool. Every kid in a British school should learn one of Welsh, Gaelige, Scottish Gaelic and old English. Even if just for a term (I’d favour longer). Learn about the deep roots of these islands!

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea. 🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion. 🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts. Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes. Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11. That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference. Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad. The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets. That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth. The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal. The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism. North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget. Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime. The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund. Where things stand in 2026? Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone. The UK is a net energy importer. Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas. One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth. The other treated it as income. image source:eia

The quickest way to deliver HS2 to Manchester and beyond is to... build HS2 as designed and consulted on. Nothing else will be built more quickly. Not even a single track line with a hand cart.

Italian people have a genuinely insane superiority complex when it comes to food

I invite you to consider the existence of hills and soil quality

NEW: San Diego woman tanks two shots to the chest and still advances on officers with a ballpoint pen until tased San Diego Police Department released bodycam footage of the April 15, 2026, officer-involved shooting in the East Village near 16th Street and Island Avenue. 32-year-old Denise Guzman was allegedly stabbing a man multiple times with a ballpoint pen when officers arrived on the call. Guzman refused repeated commands to drop the pen and advanced toward officers. Officer Grijalva fired multiple rounds, striking her at least twice in the chest. She was finally subdued after multiple taser hits. Guzman survived and was hospitalized. The victim she stabbed was also treated for his injuries.

Is there a place in England like Portland? On the surface woke af but got an undercurrent of white supremacy under everything

Why is every train station called Parkway in a post industrial hellscape? Who made this decision?