Rupert Read

1 week ago | resilience.org | Rupert Read

The Government has just announced its ‘Infrastructure Strategy’ for the next decade. We learn, in looking at it, that the 10 year capital allocation for flooding is just £7.9bn: this falls far short of what’s needed. The National Infrastructure Commission itself recommended an annual spend of £1.5bn a year as an absolute minimum.

3 weeks ago | edp24.co.uk | Rupert Read

Meanwhile, the rain we recently had in East Anglia has been a huge relief, but so far it’s too little too late for our farmers, and food growers at large (of whom I’m one). If we dare to look up, then we all know it: the situation is profoundly scary, out of control. It demands an effective response. The Government’s own Climate Change Committee has recently said it plain: This country is completely unprepared for the coming climate impacts.

3 weeks ago | verdur.in | Ben Cobley |Rupert Read |Fraser Myers

The idea of progress, one of the animating concepts of Western civilisation, permeates our understanding of history and shapes the way we imagine the future. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today’s identity politics, progress offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things can get better and a justification for our desires. Progress is thus a form of authority resting on confidence in a future under which ‘change’, ‘transformation’, and the ‘new’ are superior.

1 month ago | bylinetimes.com | Rupert Read

Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. The recent local elections in the UK have revealed starkly where British politics is at. There were serious forward advances for the Lib Dems and Greens. Labour and the Conservatives both fell back calamitously. And Reform, of course, was the biggest winner of all.

1 month ago | rupertsreads.substack.com | Rupert Read

Following my recent appearance on GBNews, which has gone fabulously viral, in which I called out the corruption of the fossil-fuel-owned ‘news’ outlet, I thought it best to do a deep-dive on just why UK energy bills are so high. So here goes!Firstly, the international price of gas is a primary driver of the UK energy price - so long as we still have significant dependence upon gas in our system.