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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1h

How the oil and gas industry bamboozled, then captured, successive UK governments with a speculative solution to carbon emissions.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 23h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1h

How the oil and gas industry bamboozled then captured the UK government. @tessakhan.bsky.social

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 23h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1h

How Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan processed $1 billion for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11h

In his call for generals to use US cities, especially ones run by “radical-left Democrats” as “training grounds” an increasingly unhinged Trump confirmed his own dreams of authoritarianism. The military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amidst the maelstrom. @kschake.bsky.social

Trump’s Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans

Military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom.

foreignpolicy.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11h

Hard to believe what's going on, or the lack of concerted pushback.

Stewart Lee was good in @thenerve.news, the new online publication founded by ex Observer journos and editors @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social @imogencarter.bsky.social

Tania Tirraoro @tanialt.bsky.social · 3d

Doublethink by Stewart Lee @thenerve.news
Mandelson lost his job for being pals with Epstein. Epstein pal Trump, got a state banquet from a King whose brother lost his job for being pals with Epstein https://www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-new-column-doublethink-does-doubletime-starmer-kimmel-trump

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

Spot the difference!

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 20h

Scrapping stamp duty will cost £11.6bn a year. But it won't house a single one of Britain's 240,000 homeless.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14h

Illinois governor JB Pritzker is essentially saying that Trump is using the military to overthrow democracy in the US.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 17h

Fill your bookshelves?!? My book Shredded: Inside RBS the Bank that Broke Britain (2024 updated edition) has shot up the Kindle charts since Amazon slashed the Kindle price to £2.89 in a limited time deal..

www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 21h

Why is the Royal Society — a world-leading academy dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity — running so scared of Elon Musk, who it foolishly made a fellow in 2018?

[the comments underneath @anjahuja.bsky.social's article are extraordinary. Are they astroturfed?]

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

www.ft.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 22h

The many and varied signs that a stock market crash may be imminent are “catnip for miserabilists” while FOMO is in full swing. @katie0martin.ft.com

Brace for a market melt-up

Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

www.ft.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

“The sheer intensity of her focus on problems supposedly caused by migrants or people from minority ethnic communities is striking, while the language is often of a sort that would until recently have been the preserve of the far-right.”

Meet Tory MP Katie Lam. By @peterwalker99.bsky.social

Next Tory leader? Rise of Katie Lam reflects rightward shift on migration

Shadow Home Office minister who tweets in language of hard-right populism is talked of as future of conservatism

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

What is it with these Goldman Sachs alumna who go into politics?

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 2d

"We can't have particular communities where there's a heavy preponderance of one group or another. That's the kind of country I want my kids to be growing up in," says Jenrick, who lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Flailing Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s latest “idea” is a Trumpian immigration hit squad, vowing to deport 150,000 a year. There’s no credible plan for where the deported people would go, how treaties would be upheld, or how overstretched institutions would cope.

The Guardian view on the Tory conference: history’s revenge on Conservatism | Editorial

Editorial: Speeches from the conference floor reveal a party out of ideas. Its leadership team is mistaking slogans for policy and nostalgia for purpose

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 2d

“Deloitte has a human intelligence problem" is a great line

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

‘Killer in the Kremlin’ author @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social touches a nerve.

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

Read John’s piece here: www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...

INSIDE THE CHURCH OF NIGEL FARAGEOLOGY

John Sweeney, our Reform UK correspondent, previews his new series reporting on every county council controlled by the party - an organisation that, as its leader proudly claims, welcomes public scrut...

www.thenerve.news

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 3d

Back in 2019, Oakeshott called the 19-year-old Edgington her “protegé”.

pressgazette.co.uk/news/pro-bre...

Brexit Party teen 'looking over shoulder' after role in leaked Sir Kim Darroch cables story

A Brexit Party strategist has claimed he obtained the leaked diplomatic memos about US President Donald Trump that were splashed in the Mail on Sunday and says he fears arrest over the story.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump’s online behaviour is becoming increasingly unhinged.

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch actively engineering the Tories’ extinction as a political force? #bbclaura

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 4d

How Storm Amy brought negative electricity prices to the UK

Storm Amy brings negative electricity prices to UK

Gusty weather drives huge amounts of wind power into the grid

www.ft.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 4d

Gyles Brandreth's daughter said, among other things, that the Chinese "don't care about reducing greenhouse gas emissions". In fact Xi Jinping is committed to cutting China's greenhouse gas emissions by 7-10% by 2035. 10% equates to 1.4bn tonnes a year, four times the UK's total annual emissions.

China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions

It is China's first firm goal to reduce emissions but falls well short of what is needed to meet global targets.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 4d

Oh right. I hadn't clicked she was Gyles' daughter

Veteran Tory Gyles Brandreth’s fatherly advice: mind those letterboxes

The thing that Gyles Brandreth likes least about canvassing has not changed in the 22 years since he last handed out leaflets saying “vote Brandreth”. It is not wet weather or angry voters or hungry d...

www.thetimes.com

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