The carve up of the Middle East was driven by a colonial thirst for oil, and the region still bears the scars.

Britain and France didn't have domestic supplies in the way the USA and USSR did, so they looked to empire.

Much more on oil, energy and empire in the full episode!

Some accidental dystopia from the @theguardian.com 🙃

Scrapping VAT on bills would be welcome, but isn't actually where I'd start (a thread) 🧵

Is Europe funding Putin's war?

Find out how companies are getting round the EU and UK sanctions on Russian Oil and Gas in our latest episode of the energy revolution podcast, with Isaac Levi of
@creacleanair.bsky.social.

linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

Has Trump doomed the world's largest offshore wind company?

New podcast episode explains how Orsted made a series of poor decisions that left them majorly exposed to the febrile politics of the US and MAGA.

Episode here: linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

(picture: Evan Vucci/AP)

Interesting to hear that it's economic competitiveness and industrial amibition driving so much interest in offshore wind around the world.