Personal a/c. Comms & reputation. Energy&capmkts. 20 yrs FSU, lots MENA. MA @warstudies. Rugby/Spurs/cricket/boxing, food&booze. Husband & Dad
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A reminder that there is a better "Steve Miller"
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Bavette. Salt / pepper / truffle powder seasoning in a v hot pan. Salad with a mustard and horseradish dressing. Australian rhone. Bloody lovely #cookingwithpaddy
Hes taller than me, faster on land and water. Very soon he will be lifting heavier weights. Better musician too. I'm 90% ok with this. Passing torch is mostly great. #fatherhood
I have provided for the family. Lamb and fennel braise with cheesy mash and veg. Now some time for Oscar. Yes, I am that old.
The criticism of Reform's comms/ PR on this issue from experienced retired officers of distinction has been interesting. Less about the individual in question - rather than how Reform is positioning him. – at Sutton, London
I'm a comms advisor and I've worked around geopolitical and strategic issues. You can always tell amateurs when they bring hype to these issues. This would be far more effective with a little understatement. As ever, this feels like tactics over strategy.
Do Witkoff / Kushner know that they're repeating a particularly nasty period of post soviet gas trading - ITERA / ETG / Rosukrnergo? One could imagine they would, because people like Firtash became billionaires over night. And underwriting Putin's regime
So Witkoff and Kushner become Firtash? A third party intermediary in the gas trade. Vehicle to be registered in Zug or Vienna. Will Moglevitch be a sleeping partner, or do they have the capital in place? Opacity will be baked into AmerikaGazUkrnEnergo.com?
The U.S. proposal: a quick resumption of Russian natural-gas sales to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines, with an American company acting as an intermediary and money going to an escrow account. Our scoop. wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-pus…
for a lot of those years, was sending IK press releases that she will have ignored ;-) One of the jounros out there with deep and broad strategic understanding of pipeline / energy geopolitics. (1)
Watching people (younger generation and Americans mostly) “discover” European pipeline geopolitics after having followed this stuff for nearly 30 years is 🫠🥴😡 The legacy of this story sat on the opening credits of Have I got News For You for decades.
Can’t wait for them to discover Nat gas-related Smolensk conspiracies next. Or the true origins of some major Geneva commodity trading houses. Or the goings on with the South Stream extension and Bulgaria.
As a truly independent journalist in this space who always endeavours to be neutral I am available for informed commentary on all of the above. Shame everyone is turning to armchair experts who only discovered what the map of Poland looks like this weekend.
But seriously ask me anything because my career history is the “receipt” that speaks for itself on this matter.
First job: Reporter for the Warsaw Business Journal c. 2002 based in Warsaw. Follow the transition but also the growing anxiety about energy security in the region.
Become obsessed with the great game of energy and pipeline politics. Especially developments with the BTC pipeline.
Second job: reporter and editor at the Baku-based Caspian Business News, where I immerse myself in the regional great game without the advantage of being associated with a major title.
Third job: associate editor of BP’s internal magazine Horizon, which gives me insight into these operations from the inside.
Fourth Job: Graduate trainee at Reuters where - as part of the amazing Manchukistan training programme - I get a grounding in how to report on transition and destabilisation narratives in the context of the grander financial and economic narrative.
Fifth job: Platts NatGas price reporter where I break the story about the first LNG terminal to be build on Warsaw’s shoreline.
Sixth Job: CNBC producer, where I widen my knowledge to broader financial and central banking affairs.
Seventh job: FT Alphaville - where well, it’s just like an Adrenalin shot of further understanding.
The rest is pretty much what people are familiar with… so I won’t bore you with that.
13 months apart. He's taller than me now and is beginning to put on some heft. Ive slimmed down a little. #fatherhood
What a great set up to a final day. All 4 results on offer. Love test #cricket – at Sutton, London
Two wickets in the first over from @KagisoRabada25 as South Africa make a brilliant start to the final day of the deciding Test against Australia.
Follow the action from Cape Town with the @BBCSport live text.
#bbccricket #SAvAUS
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Paddy Blewer retweeted
Why I think Surrey should be signing Sir Jimmy Anderson..it’s a no brainer 😊
And so adamant about this piece written for @the_rey_cricket it is open for everyone to read therey.counterpress.media/op… 🏏
For those of us old enough to remember, think Itera, ETG, Highrock, Atlantic Caspian, Cedric Brown and..... the past doesnt repeat but does echo / rhyme – at Sutton, London
The former CEO of a $25bn US gas venture has accused Russian energy giant Novatek of secretly controlling the project, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership over fears it is violating US sanctions.
A wild story with @JamieSmythF:
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Greeks / israelis happy? Turks and Egyptians annoyed? – at Sutton, London
🇦🇪🇱🇾 @XRG_official reportedly in talks with @eni to acquire a stake in its Libyan operations lyo.ly/8if4
