The fantastic fossil fuel robbery whilst consumers are penalised

In 2023 UK subsidies for fossil fuels amounted to just under £80 billion, £20 billion more than subsidies for renewals. [1] In 2022 global subsidies for oil, gas and coal were $7tn (£5.5tn), that’s$13m (£10.3m) a minute. [2] Global Witness assessed the 2022 annual profits of the five largest integrated private sector oil and gas […]

The people must pay!

Whilst ordinary people are being skinned alive because of global warming, fossil-fuel subsidies reached an all time high of $7 trillion last year (2022) [1]. That’s £13 million a minute. Where’s ours? When slavery was abolished, slave owners were richly compensated and the slaves got nothing [2]. Nothing has changed. [1] https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion [2] https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/britains-colonial-shame-slave-owners-given-huge-payouts-after-abolition/

The incalculable and essential treasure house of failure

I could caution silence. Let it be – as if the soul needs any instruction or help to err in the infinite opportunities in life for failure. It speaks for itself in rich, fertile, loamy soil, such that not another sentence need fall from this pen. However… All would be well if we understood the […]

I’ve been and gone and done it now

Originally posted on Kay Green:
Five years of frustration, trying to get “the left” to sort out the appalling ignorance of lefty MPs, activists and groups on the women’s rights issue, on what’s happening to vulnerable women and girls, and to our kids – now, finally, the problems we’ve been trying to amplify have “gone…