ENERGY giant ScottishPower will recruit at least 1000 new employees across the UK in the next year after winning a series of contracts to build wind turbines. Source

She led the fight against ISIS, and was murdered by Turkey. RIP Jiyan Tolhildan. Last Sunday, the United States Central Command extended condolences to three women fighters – members of their ‘SDF partners’ who were ‘killed in an attack near Qamishli, Syria, on July 22, 2022’. They omitted to mention that the perpetrator of the […] Source

EUROPEAN Union governments have agreed to ration natural gas this winter to protect themselves against any further supply cuts by Russia as Moscow pursues its invasion of Ukraine. Source

ENERGY regulator Ofgem was “negligent” and allowed inexperienced bosses to raise bills, a group of MPs has said. Source

Amazon is to hike the price of its Prime delivery and streaming service due to “increased inflation and operating costs”. Source

Greenpeace have launched a judicial review in the Scottish courts against the UK Government over Jackdaw Source

In Rishi Sunak’s pursuit of the leadership of a Conservative Party increasingly committed to the lunatic right fringe of politics, represented by Liz Truss and the ERG, he calculatedly chose the Thatcher shrine of Grantham to make a defining speech on his supposed responsible approach to the management of the economy; which in Conservative thought, […] Source

The efforts to shoehorn and impose a British identity onto people in Scotland, and England and Wales is a strange phenomenon. Today Keir Starmer, spluttered out an assembly of words, some of which didn’t really mean anything at all, like ‘A productive Liverpool is good for Birkenhead. A strong Dudley is good for Birmingham’, all […] Source

WITH temperatures this week reaching unprecedented levels across the UK, no one can pretend anymore that climate breakdown isn’t coming. Yet the worst is still to come – and will hit those hardest that are least responsible for the climate crisis. Source

WITH temperatures this week reaching unprecedented levels across the UK, no one can pretend anymore that climate breakdown isn’t coming. Yet the worst is still to come – and will hit those hardest that are least responsible for the climate crisis. Source

For months now this site has been under a Denial of Service attack (DoS)*. We’ve been protecting ourselves with CloudFlare, but have now moved to a dedicated enhanced server to allow us to block these attacks and continue publishing. Our technical support company (a small independent company based in Edinburgh) have been really great and […] Source

Welcome to Wonderland, with it’s capital city the Absurdist metropolis on the Thames and it’s outlying Territories to the North and West. It’s a land on fire with no coherent national plan for coping with the new climate reality, which most of its leaders, currently on a two-month permanent media-loop on all frequencies have anything […] Source

The Climate Crisis is Here. Prices are rising; wildfires are burning; disease outbreaks are becoming regular. These are all symptoms of the same illness: the extreme stress we have placed on our biosphere, the network of living beings that makes civilisation possible. It is important that we look reality squarely in the face. Our instinct […] Source