Gotta love this:

Our message about who should own UK energy systems: part of an event for Estuary Festival this weekend. James Marriott and myself wrote an essay on this…small follow up to our Crude Britannia book www.plutobooks.com/978178680639...

UK energy prices are much higher than in mainland Europe even though most countries have no indigenous oil and gas: developing the UK North Sea will NOT bring lower costs.

ITN at the Cam today to talk about new river pollution evidence. Should be aired next week..

Any one else think groynes are things of beauty? These off Winchelsea, Sussex, today.

For a few seconds last night I was more transfixed by the pending fall of Thomas Cromwell than I was about the current decline of Keir Starmer.

Student protestors disrupt today’s graduation ceremony at the Senate House in Cambridge.

Gaza specialist Prof Norman Finkelstein tells audience in Cambridge that Israel has become a consumer society whose citizens don’t want to die bearing arms: instead the military has become a “remote control killing machine”.

Great atmosphere at the Palestine fundraiser at The Junction in Cambridge.
Our LeftyMenSing choir sang Children of Palestine by Jim Boyes and other songs.

RIP John Prescott: brought back a taxi ride in Brighton. We laughed all the way to the station. He had a terrific sense of humour..

Amazing the way Anglian Water is sucking local activists into tiny restoration projects by handing out “grants”. It’s ultimately brown wash as our Friends of the Cam group know: we won’t participate..