Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 10/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/arguably...open.substack.comHow does Labour recover?Rather than chasing Reform and the Greens, the party must reclaim the radical centre 000
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 31/12/2025But you weren't actually independent until the ratification of the treaty of Paris. Untill then it was a matter of a shhocking breakdown of law and order inside the realm. Loyal subject of King Charles. 000
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Well he cant really say Russia is the problem can he. 000
Reposted by Frank RocheDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour "all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”. 932735
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 25/12/2025They are polarising, some people really like them. 000
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Denmark as lower corporation tax than the UK. Tax people not lower EBIT 100
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Have a look at services, US has a $120bn trade surplus with the EU there. Aggregate difference is $50bn in $1.6tn Tax the texh bros. 250
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 21/02/2025robertreich.substack.com?utm_source=n...robertreich.substack.comRobert Reich | SubstackDaily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused. Click to read Robert Reich, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 020
Reposted by Frank RocheErnie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Hot off the presses, @budgetlab.bsky.social just published a preliminary estimate of the economic & fiscal effects of the Trump Admin's 25/25/10 Mexico/Canada/China tariff proposal, with a special lower 10% rate on Canadian crude oil imports. Some high-level conclusions follow... 1/4 69862
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 25/11/2024www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comWithout the EU, the joke is on us if Trump gets his tariffs | William KeeganStronger ties with the single market is the only way to stop the president-elect from having the last laugh 020
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024You are tight about that, basic thermodynamics says you never get 100% recovery 010
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Storage. The hope is that you can store energy more densely so power big things that need range like trucks and ships. Also hydrogen is a potential imtermittency fix. Make hydrogen when the sun shines (or wind blows). 010
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Or we could get the demand side going by making blue hydrogen (from natural gas) and sequestering the resulting carbon dioxide by CCS. There is a danger in green politics that the unarguable need to decarbonise to lever in other political objectives to the detriment of making progress 010
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024 Then there is the question of how to build a hydrogen economy (green steel, fuel cell powered ships....) We are trying to scale up green hydrogen generation (electrolysis of water) but that technology is not available today. We could wait to start developing hydrogen driven applications 110
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Whatever you think about Starmer CCS is probably an essential technology. First cement making in which limestone is converted to lime (CaCO3->CaO+CO2) inherently releases CO2 ( and uses a lotbof energy to run the ovens which do this). Cement making is 5%+ of total global CO2 production. 010
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Whatever you think about Starmer CCS is probably an essential technology. First cement making in which limestone is converted to lime (CaCO3->CaO+CO2) inherently releases CO2 ( and uses a lotbof energy to run the ovens which do this). Cement making is 5%+ of total global CO2 000
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 06/10/2024CCS is an essential technology for someone processes (Cement making which converts limestone (calcium carbonate) into lime (calcium oxide) in an oven 000
Reposted by Frank RocheLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 29/09/2024If Badenoch gets elected as Tory leader every Labour MP is going to have to register it as a gift. 1250696
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 23/08/2024Them not succumbing to typhoid or ccholera does help in extracting the last pemmy of supplementary value. 010
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 23/08/2024Interesting www.ft.com/content/dec5...ft.comReader Q&A: Lessons from 2017, Labour’s recipe for re-election and Reform’s potential[FREE TO READ] The first part in a series tackling subscribers’ questions 010
Frank Roche @frankroche.bsky.social · 17/08/2024Interesting www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-...foreignaffairs.comChina Is in Denial About the War in UkraineWhy Chinese thinkers underestimate the costs of complicity in Russia’s aggression. 060
