Who Actually Gets Rich From Energy? — Part 1
⚡ Oil and gas create value, but the resource alone doesn’t decide who benefits. The answer lies in ownership, control, revenue and what happens to the money next.
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Who Actually Gets Rich From Energy? — Part 2
🛢️ Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth is shaped by more than the size of its reserves. State ownership and control help determine where the value goes. ⚡
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Who Actually Gets Rich From Energy?
⚡ Same resource. Different systems. Follow the money to see who captures the wealth created by oil, gas and energy.
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You Cannot Treat the Person and Ignore Their Life
🧠 Mental health doesn’t begin and end inside somebody’s head. Rent, debt, work, housing, relationships, loneliness, discrimination and uncertainty all matter. What happens when treatment ends but life stays the same?
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The Benefits Bill Didn’t Create the Crisis. It Recorded It.
♿ Britain keeps redesigning disability benefits while ignoring the failing systems pushing more people towards them. The bill didn’t create the crisis — it recorded what decades of pressure had already produced. 📉
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This Is Why I Can’t Listen to Politicians Anymore
🛢️ Andy Burnham says North Sea oil can build the bridge to green energy. But who owns the resources? Who controls the profits? And who exactly is “we”? Political promises mean very little if nobody asks who holds the power.
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Who Is Actually Going to Do All This?
🏗️ Politicians cost the announcement but rarely the consequences. Every promise requires workers, buildings, infrastructure and connected services. Eventually somebody has to ask the obvious question: who is actually going to do all this?
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Britain Wasn’t Colonised. It Was Hollowed Out.
🇬🇧 A billionaire living in Monaco says Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants. But the country wasn’t taken by workers. It was hollowed out — through ownership, privatisation, asset sales and the transfer of economic power. 💷
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COBRA, Barbecues and the British Disease
🔥 Heat. Drought. Wildfires. COBRA. Then a request to retailers. Britain can respond to emergencies, but it struggles to build the resilience that stops predictable pressures becoming emergencies in the first place. 🇬🇧
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200 New Mental Health Centres?
🧠 200 new mental-health centres sounds transformative. But 200 becomes 159, then 100 + 59 — and “new” doesn’t necessarily mean a new building, new capacity or a genuinely new service. So what are we actually being promised?
