For this to work, UK govt would need to specify in licenses that it retains the right to commandeer selected light+sweet etc n sea oil field crude streams for selected UK refineries?
How would this effect investment in such licenses by oilcos?
I'm v unsure any benefit, however marginal.
I remember it well :)
G.M. Hopkins - On the Nature of Beauty - and odd numbers in nature - see the central para in particular - he was such a great poet.
Valles Marineris
So much to ask on this, foremost -
- field sizes?
- field rates?
- capex/opex?
- UK build?
- tax support?
- full cycle economics?
- full cycle carbon?
- control?
- opportunity cost?
Vs
- batteries?
- green alternatives?
- a/a?
Etc
Definition of last 3 govts
Really? Equally unsurprising on reflexion.
Johnson govt no doubt
Jeez - Borthwick barely coherent - toaster goes ping
Ya reckon?
Sublime to the ridiculous today. Epic at both ends.
This is brilliant on this subject if you've not read it
History never exactly matches.
Polls in US show similar to UK, unpopular there too?
Also problem of who is perceived by the 'public' as the aggressor - Iran or US.
The issue is i) what is *really* going on and ii) how able the public is to give a properly informed 'instant' view.
In order to do - isn't it the case that you first need to decide if the Iranians are negotiating in good faith or just using negs to gain time to do what they want with no intention of signing anything that doesn't give them what they want?
What are MI6 and GCHQ views on this decision...?
Polls in the heat of the moment - I wonder what a similar poll in (say) August 1938 asking:
"What do Britons think the UK military response to the German-Czechoslovakia conflict should be?"
Alternatively, what is plausible worst case risk to the UK of leaving Iran 'as is' to continue as before...?
Yup - price spikes bc of supply shocks just cause further demand destruction - very understandably.
Value of boring stable supply >> than occasional instability due to price spikes
This is an excellent read on the long history of this subject re 'northern England' communities.
bsky.app/profile/gaby...
Whoever wins on these splits, it's a travesty - FPTP is dead and needs burying.
It seems to me there is v little understanding about this, esp risks & consequences, and even a desire not to know.
Result is binary, the v informed (you!) and v uninformed (rest of us) - I think it's past time we paid attention once more.
Or we are left with books like
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
morning Lawrence - good substack yesterday - as nuclear strategy/cock-up is a rapidly increasingly critical issue again, are you able to do a substack on what the nuc strategies are of Russia, China, Iran and N.Korea?
Or are you able to recommend a reading list?
Thank you.
"What? The curtains?"
To me this shouts of the over-riding need for speed - so likely to urgently fill a key (security) capability gap. Need for speed over-rules 'rules'.
1st payment - proof of concept
2nd - implementation
As you highlight, problem comes afterwards, contractor having captured govt architecture...
Don't spoil it - surely this 300bn is all going back overseas!
Wow - partly eroded crinoid stem. A tad unusual.
Groundhog Day chosen for Candelmas - every day's a school day :)
bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Lottery money...
The Ambassadors - National Gallery, London
Shadows? Check with Punxsutawney Phil?
But is here any more £££? Otherwise just yet more words.
