How much is this about X and other social media platforms bringing these fractured groups together and then pushing certain messages?

I mean, I mean, yes, the, the kind of dystopian London, dystopian UK, uh, is incredible.

You can go onto TikTok or Twitter and see images of, of what should be outside your window that just don't match the reality.

I mean, we know that social media algorithms are designed to attune to your emotions, right? If something makes you angry, it's more likely it'll get promoted into your feed and into other people's feeds.

And that means that when you have a narrative like Britain is broken, it's collapsing, it can take on a life of its own and become quite self-sustaining and feed back into a global ecosystem, so people in other English-speaking countries will pick this up, and it will be promoted by the algorithms.

So that does create a sense that there's something real out there to be afraid of.

There's an enemy out there.

What has been the role of regulators and of mainstream political parties? Because I think that's also very interesting to sort of understand.

IBM.

For so long, the conversation has been inflected very heavily by the idea of climate concerns.

But what is really driving the shifts at a kind of macro scale is security.

So let's go back to 2022, because we mentioned it earlier.

Europe has been talking about shifting to renewable energy for a variety of reasons for some time.

Then February 2022, Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Europe is very dependent on Russian gas and suddenly has a choice to make.

And so there is going to be a, you know, a flux in the energy system in a way created by the shock that, you know, would be fun to report and observe in the years to come.