Oh, what sport!  Is it to be Green Energy Day in a field somewhere?  No, it's to be Energy Security Day in industrial Aberdeen.  Oh, n...

BTL on the last thread, Clive triggered some comments with: Renewables are rocking da house. And negative prices! So, while hydrocarbons wil...

Russia's massive oil, & particularly gas exports have always mostly been via pipeline: ice-bound sea ports speak to that.  There...

Commodities down on banking stress Here at C@W we pride ourselves on having spotted the "2008" banking crisis in the summer of 200...

There was a Labour Chancellor, Hugh Dalton, who took the view that his purpose at the Exchequer, like that of the treasurer of a club, was s...

Any signs of an Actual Strategy that we can see?  Or is that too much to expect? ND

At the very start of Putin's war, I asked: What plans does Little Volodya have for his [natural] gas weapon?   (day one, 24.02.22)  Wel...

The old troublemaker We should probably get this in quick before Kier Starmer retreats behind procedure and un-invites Sue Gray to be his ch...

A most unlikely anomaly persists in the area around Hull.  Uniquely in the UK, it evaded liberalisation of landline telecomms - a sop to Joh...

The other day I was reading something (which annoyingly I can't find now) that quoted the heroic JK Rowling as saying that the whole poi...

Earlier in the month on a thread about hydrogen, somebody raised the topic of tidal energy and I said we'd cover that in a specific post...

Here are some salient extracts from trenchant Russian nationalist milblogger Igor Strelkov's anniversary summing-up (based on MS machin...

Last night, at the behest of our good friend Sackers, I watched All Quiet on the Western Front .  Impressive stuff and, being filmed before ...

No, nothing to do with anodes and cathodes: this is to do with vehement disagreements of a pseudo-scientific nature.  Recapping (on an issue...

I really hope Sturgeon lives long to regret her ridiculous foray into woke social engineering on the trans self-ID nonsense.  Who knows, it ...

OK, hands up: this blog has been written by ever more sophisticated Predictive Text software since around 2010, culminating triumphantly in ...

One of the features of Russian military thinking is how much it is geared to fighting on broad, open plains, with water-obstacles but not mu...

There's a utopian school of thought, perhaps most neatly summarised by Thoreau: " That government is best that governs not at all ...

I am just coming to the end of almost exactly a year's worth of resolving a family probate claim, which I tackled myself - seeing as how...

Why is Germany playing silly-buggers over tanks for Ukraine?  If the answer is "no", then say so. Readers will know I have long ma...