In the news

Reddit also had a few issues. Tons of aggro and emotional manipulation /“news stories” on it today too, so I’m not bothered.

Teams and Outlook 365

If only…

First I lol’d then it became uncomfortable viewing

Absolutely.

Someone set up a gofundme to buy these heroes a drink https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/04/five-arrested-after-iain-duncan-smith-hit-over-head-with-traffic-cone

Or a Cornetto. Each.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/04/birmingham-to-become-a-super-sized-low-traffic-neighbourhood

The hgv visa scheme has so far attracted 27 drivers from Europe.
Looooooooool.

Fb seems to be back.

It’s almost as if telling people to fuck off for 5 years has consequences when you want them to come back and fix your ridiculous little island.

Bloody foreigners not coming over here and taking our jobs

One from each EU Member Nation?!

This is the important part

introducing a fleet of zero-emission cross-city buses and building additional protected cycleways

216,000 (possibly more) children abused by French Catholic Priests since 1950 came out in the news today.

How can an institution based on such rightousness possibly continue to exist in modern society with almost constant reports of such behaviour the world over?

because they answer to a higher power and their god will forgive them, obvs.

I know it is heresy not to blame everything on Brexit, but there does seem to be a global supply chain crisis and energy crisis. E.g. inbound shipping in total backlog in the US. Energy is being rationed in China. Has anyone got anything good to read on this?

Is this good?

https://fullfact.org/online/gas-prices-brexit/

Of the many shitty things caused by Brexit, gas prices seem to not be one of them.

Our (lack of) gas storage, and therefore exposure to market volatility is definitely a result of the Tories allowing us to arrive at the situation we are currently in. Not Brexit.

But Brexit is the cause of the increasing French rhetoric around cutting off our access to their electrical power in return for us locking their fishermen out of their current territories around the Channel Islands. We generate electricity mainly with wind and gas, less electricity flowing from France drives up our requirement to generate our own. Better hope it's windy!

The China energy issues is now impacting us as the state basically went and told industry, you better have secured your energy supply for the winter or we won't be impressed after the recent outages, so the Chinese major consumers went and bought all the forward supply of LNG shipments which means they won't be coming to Europe now and any that we can source will be eye watering expensive. LPG has been that way for a long time that the ships go where the price is highest and its a battle between Asia and Europe for them. A secure LNG supply chain was supposed to be some of the answer to us reducing our natural gas storage capacity.

Gas price is also being manipulated by Russia trying to force Germany to finalise commissioning of Nord Stream 2. Russia had a lot of 'maintenance' to do this summer that led to reduced imports to Europe and European storage getting depleted ahead of winter, which again created increase upward pressure on prices. Russia's kindly offered to let the gas flow if Nord Stream 2 can come on line.

Aren't monopolies and short term decision making fun.

Yeah, if my understanding is correct, the energy crisis is global, the Tories didn't listen to advice about expanding gas storage capability (in fact they shrank it) and Brexit might have put the UK in a position where there might be more price volatility compared to the EU, but I'm not entirely sure why.

I think I read somewhere that Russia has turned off a number of gas taps to Europe in recent months too. There are a lot of layers to this.

This seemed worth reading, but I don't know enough to know if the author has an angle:

https://www.ft.com/content/f2ca6690-0390-4374-a9d5-29caf2d651dd

Also, not seen much coverage of inflation in the US

https://tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=cpi+yoy&v=202109141251v20200908&h=300&w=600&ref=/united-states/inflation-cpi

Thanks for this.

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