Peter Jukes

As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?

The US is lifting sanctions on Belarus and planning a visit by Lukashenko to America. Having ruined all relations with its European partners, the administration is now seeking like-minded partners amongst tyrants.

Hegseth announces that Ukraine is cut off. Serving Putin is the core focus of the Trump administration.

Absolute insanity. A CNN panel reveals the ONLY source claiming Iran was building 11 nukes was Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer with zero intelligence background. The actual DNI testified the exact opposite. They started a war based on a developer's lie!

9/ Hitler's wartime strategy was also based on bullshit, including, fatally, self-bullshitting. Here is where the bullshit ran out of road: war has a habit of brutally exposing the gaps between false or exaggerated claims and reality.

This is one of @ChrisO_wiki's best threads/essays yet. It is deeply instructive for understanding both the history of Germany's role in WW2 *and* Trump's ongoing attempt to deconstruct the rules-based world order engendered by that war's atrocities.

A widespread transition to renewable energy could mitigate a major cause of international conflict in a future that moves away from fossil fuels, energy and climate change experts told ABC News. Read more: abcnews.link/Jb4QZLu

France's involvement in Greenland was as serious as could be from Day 1. There's too much at stake + the operational reality of the 🇬🇱 theater makes it so that, with only so much added capacity, one can earn big wins. That's exactly what happened…but the crisis ain't over yet.

Not for the last time. Bondi's coverup will fail. She and Blanche will be disbarred. And like John Mitchell, she will go to prison.

I prosecuted the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, and then Donald Trump himself. One week after he took office again, he fired me. Now I’m running for Congress to defend our democracy and restore the rule of law.

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US Secretary of Defense Hegseth: Munitions being called for shipment to Ukraine would be better used "in our own interests."

More footage of the aftermath of the attack on Odesa. Many buildings and a university dormitory in the city have been damaged.

Come and join us at 2pm over at the @BylineTimes Substack - where we'll be recording a live episode of @BylineTimesPod "Chaos and Confusion - Trump Goes To War". @GoldbergRadio will be joined by @Hardeep_Matharu and @peterjukes

@peterjukes With Brexit there was this underlying sense that politics didn't matter. The EU counter was "Decisions have consequences". It's that same point amplified to a global economic level. I dearly hope the days of Farage's man in pub politics is simple are fully and finally buried.

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It's time to ask more serious questions about the chair of Ofcom - Lord Michael Grade Brexiteer and Tory

"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. cnn.com/2026/03/18/med…

JUST IN: The Strait of Hormuz blocks the fertiliser from shipping. China just blocked it from being replaced. Beijing has instructed exporters to suspend overseas shipments of nitrogen and potassium fertiliser blends. Urea. NPK mixes. The molecules that American, Indian, Bangladeshi, and African farmers need to plant are now gated at two chokepoints simultaneously: a 21-mile waterway controlled by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders, and a government directive issued from Zhongnanhai that requires no radio at all. One third of global seaborne fertiliser trade transits Hormuz. China is the world’s largest fertiliser producer. When the strait closed and China suspended exports in the same month, the global food system lost its primary supply route and its primary alternative supplier at the same time. There is no third source at this scale. There is no backup to the backup. Urea has surged roughly 40 percent since the war began. CBOT March futures settled at 610.50. The peak at New Orleans touched $683. Those prices were set by the Hormuz blockade alone. China’s ban adds a second floor underneath them. Even if the strait reopened tomorrow, Chinese urea would not flow until Beijing lifts the directive. Even if Beijing lifted the directive, the strait would still need to reopen, insurance to normalise, and vessels to be available. The two gates operate independently. Both must open for the molecule to move. China’s logic is transparent. Hormuz disrupted global supply. Prices surged. Chinese domestic farmers face the same planting windows as everyone else. Beijing chose to protect its own agriculture by hoarding the molecule the rest of the world needs. This is the same country that is simultaneously drawing commercial crude reserves at a million barrels per day, running military exercises near Taiwan, receiving discounted Iranian oil through the permissioned strait, and restricting the phosphate exports it suspended months ago. Every decision serves one objective: China first. The rest of the world absorbs the shortage. The American farmer is now squeezed from two directions. The Gulf urea he used to buy cannot transit the strait. The Chinese urea that could have replaced it is embargoed by Beijing. Domestic US production covers roughly 75 percent of normal needs, but normal needs assumed Gulf and Chinese imports filling the gap. The gap is now unfillable on any timeline that matters for spring planting. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres. Soybeans rising to 85 million. The RFS mandate consumes 43 percent of a shrinking corn crop. The cattle herd sits at 86.2 million, a 75-year low. The protein cascade runs from corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the grocery shelf. China’s ban did not create that cascade. The Hormuz blockade created it. China’s ban removed the last exit ramp. Oman crude at $154. Brent at $102. WTI at $93. Gold at $5,000. The Fed holding at 3.50 to 3.75 with PCE revised to 2.7. Trump telling Israel to stop hitting gas fields. Iran threatening to burn the Gulf to ashes. Four countries’ energy infrastructure offline. And now the world’s largest fertiliser producer has locked its warehouse and told every farmer on Earth that the key is in Beijing, not for sale, and not available until further notice. Two gates. One molecule. No alternative. The calendar closes in four weeks. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The Russian lawyer-blogger that spent yesterday calling for Putin to be put on trial as a war criminal has already been disappeared into the Putin's dungeons to be treated for a "mental disorder".