Ben Winkley
@benwinkley.bsky.social
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News editor cutting long stories short for Argus Media - mostly sharing stories beyond our paywall, or staring with my jaw on the floor
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never run an unattributed chyron
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The bigwigs of Riyadh, rightly, have adjusted the flood of returning oil to an ooze and priced it accordingly. The oil market is in no mood to receive another half-million barrels of feedstock in such short order but.. check in in a few or several months’ time..

Via PVM:

tpicap.com/pvm/insights...
A Ukraine, Gaza and Oil Market Grind
The euphoria seen in stock markets once again fails to migrate influence into our market and oil prices languish in the shadow of competing drivers and a resigned feeling of ‘what next?’ The stock mar...
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It’s extraordinary but not shocking that it isn’t seen as a massive story that one of the most senior politicians in Farage’s party was an active Russian agent for pay, asking questions in the European Parliament on the Kremlin’s behalf, organising pro-Russian events.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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some nice writing in there: "The Feltham fatberg fiasco"; "the vile accumulation"
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Autumn at the allotment. Not pictured: the winner, which was so engorged the judges had to go to it
3 orange pumpins and an old yellow scale
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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Novak: the situation with fuel is under control
It's Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka Baghdad Bob, the man who says everything is ok
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Saudi finance ministry projection a budget surplus this year approaching that of 2020, when oil prices were in the pits. It's a Vision thing
Chart showing Saudi budget deficit/surplus, wither actual or projected, from 2019-2028
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I'm seeing the first 9 words of this more and more often
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Nick Robinson on Today this AM was completely wrong to suggest that pumping more oil & gas from the North Sea would lower bills, something even former Tory Energy Secretaries have accepted.

We’ve burned most of the gas and export the vast majority of the oil—and oil is basically what’s left…