The World Wants More Oil
The Amazon Is Paying For It. At a meeting in 2023, Petrobras told Indigenous leaders in the Amazon that their helicopters flew an average of two flights a day over…
We Regret to Inform You That This Is Now Normal
It’s strange how little ceremony there is when something quietly worsens. No announcement. No collective moment where someone steps forward and says, plainly, this is going to be harder now.…
The Day Abu Dhabi Told Vienna to Sling Its Hook
The UAE has just walked out of OPEC after 59 years. Here’s why it matters, why it was inevitable, and why the timing is absolutely peak 2026. Let me set…
Your Green Pension Is Gassing Up America
How sixty British local councils managed to plant their climate flags firmly in the ground… and then quietly drill underneath them Being a “Brit” means you have a kind of…
A Place To Put Your Thoughts
On Writing and Quiet Clarity It rarely announces itself as something important… the act of writing. Most people don’t sit down at a desk thinking, this will be good for…
The Work That Continues When No One Is Looking
You may find, in life, a quiet moment that happens when you stop asking what’s the news today and start asking who is still doing the work when no one…
The Strait and the Narrow
A Satirical Essay on the World’s Most Expensive Standoff Day 54 of the Middle East conflict. Somewhere in the Arabian Sea, 230 oil tankers are queuing like sad, enormous lorries…
You Have a Moral Duty to Offend Someone
Let me say something that will probably upset a few people. Good. That’s rather the point. We have arrived, somehow, at a cultural moment where the highest compliment you can…
The Case for Human Outreach
There’s a quiet shift happening in the way people reach out to one another… and like most quiet shifts, it’s easy to miss until you suddenly realise something feels off.…
Spain Turns East
Sánchez’s China Pivot and What It Actually Means While Washington was busy threatening tariffs on countries that didn’t even know they’d done anything wrong, Spain quietly flew east and signed…