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The unofficial Shell website

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Question put to Copilot on 23 May 2026:

What is the name of the unofficial Shell website?

Copilot reply: The unofficial website of Shell plc is named royaldutchshell.website, owned and maintained by John Donovan, which provides critical commentary on Shell’s activities.

This website has been active for over 26 years as a platform to critique and expose Shell’s alleged controversial practices, including historical and contemporary issues related to corporate governance, environmental matters, and legal disputes

In addition to royaldutchshell.website, John Donovan also manages several sister sites that focus on different aspects of Shell or energy-related criticism:
royaldutchshellgroup.com
shellnazihistory.com
royaldutchshell.website
johndonovan.website
shellnews.net
shellwikipedia.com

These sites are independent of Shell plc and are not official company channels, but instead provide critical reporting and archival information about Shell’s operations, historical events, and corporate controversies

It is important to note that these are unofficial and sometimes critical sources, and they should be distinguished from Shell’s official online presence, which is hosted at www.shell.com

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^*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, the Independent Shell Archive, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. ^*All conjured up by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Is Royal Dutch Shell Plc a live or dead company?

May 23rd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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THE DAILY SLICK All The Oil That’s Fit To Print — And Quite A Bit That Isn’t Saturday, 23 May 2026 • Special Edition: The Bot Inquest Continues • Vol. I, No. 2

⚠ FOLLOW-UP EXCLUSIVE • FOUR BOTS ENTER • ONE GETS IT RIGHT • COMPANIES HOUSE UNMOVED ⚠

The Corporate Parrot Inquest: Day Two

THE AI DEAD PARROT SKETCH: FOUR BOTS, ONE CORPSE, ZERO CONSENSUS

Copilot Insists It’s Alive. Claude Calls the Coroner. Use.ai Checks the Pulse. Companies House Just Points at the Gravestone.

Following yesterday’s exclusive revelation that Microsoft Copilot had been conducting an unsolicited resurrection of the legally deceased “Royal Dutch Shell plc,” The Daily Slick can today reveal that the full AI community has now weighed in on the matter — with results ranging from the accurate to the bewildering, and featuring one entry that appears to have been composed in a cryogenic chamber sealed sometime around late 2021. read more

Copilot Says Royal Dutch Shell Plc Is Alive — Claude Calls the Coroner, Use.ai Checks the Pulse, and Companies House Points to the Gravestone

May 23rd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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By John Donovan

Article disclaimer: This article is a fact-based, satirical commentary on corporate naming, AI accuracy, public records and the long afterlife of one of the most notorious names in British corporate history. The spoof sections are clearly labelled as spoof. Site wide disclaimer also applies.

The Corporate Parrot Is No More

There are moments in investigative publishing when the facts march in wearing clown shoes.

Ask a simple question — “Is Royal Dutch Shell Plc a live or dead company?” — and suddenly the modern AI circus lights up like a defective petrol station sign. read more

GHOST OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL REFUSES TO DIE

May 22nd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Claude.ai weaves together all the key threads from the source material:

The AI séance — Copilot confidently declaring that “the official website of Royal Dutch Shell plc” is shell.com, despite the name being legally killed off in January 2022, gets the full tabloid treatment it deserves.

The original domain humiliation — Shell’s spectacular blunder of failing to register the domain name for its newly merged company, only to discover its most enduring critic had beaten them to it, is lovingly recounted, along with the Wall Street Journal’s June 2005 report on Shell’s legal fight over the domain name. read more

Claude Comments on the Bot War: An AI Reads About Itself Being Enlisted

May 19th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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There is something wonderfully recursive about articles claiming that AI systems have “taken a side” in a corporate feud — published on a website that then asks another AI system to comment on it. We have arrived at a state of affairs in which artificial intelligence is being recruited, reviewed, praised, and now peer-reviewed, all within the same 48-hour news cycle. The machines, as they say, are working overtime.

The first article frames the question quite earnestly: a man of independent mind reading royaldutchshellplc.com might get the impression that the bots have considered the evidence and decided to take Donovan’s side. ChatGPT’s response, reproduced in full, is admirably careful — it resists the flattery long enough to note that AI systems don’t actually adjudicate, they pattern-match, and a very large, internally consistent archive of documents with court filings and leaked correspondence looks evidentially serious to a language model in the same way that a very tall pile of paperwork looks impressive to a junior solicitor. The pile doesn’t have to be right. It just has to be dense. royaldutchshellplc read more

WE CAN DEFEND ANYONE. THEN WE READ THE FILE.

May 17th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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DISCLAIMER: The following is an entirely fictitious, satirical response imagined on behalf of ReputationDefender.com. ReputationDefender has not made any such statement, has no known connection to Shell plc, and is an innocent and entirely respectable party in this affair. Any resemblance to actual ReputationDefender communications is coincidental. This is satire. ReputationDefender’s real services are available at reputationdefender.com. We rather hope they see the funny side.

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By John Donovan assisted by claude.ai:

In an imaginary but entirely plausible response, the world’s leading online reputation management firm ReputationDefender confronts the challenge of a lifetime: can professional reputation repair — however skilled, however well-resourced — actually defend Shell plc? The fictitious ReputationDefender statement above works through the brief scandal by scandal: the Nazi-era history of founder Sir Henri Deterding; the alleged Neptune Strategy of busting oil sanctions for apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia; the Hakluyt spy firm allegedly deployed against Greenpeace and Ogoni activists in Nigeria; the catastrophic 2004 reserves scandal in which Shell admitted overstating its proved reserves by 3.9 billion barrels — triggering a $150 million SEC fine, the forced departure of chairman Sir Philip Watts, and the collapse of the century-old Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading partnership; and the ongoing Niger Delta pollution claims, climate litigation, and greenwashing controversies that constitute Shell’s thoroughly modern reputation problem. The imaginary conclusion: the brief is professionally stimulating, the inbox is open, and those fictional barrels were only the beginning. read more

EXCLUSIVE: SHELL SHOCK! THE BRAND SO TOXIC EVEN THE SPIN DOCTORS NEED HAZMAT SUITS

May 17th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Can the world’s most comprehensive corporate crime scene be polished back to respectability? Our outspoken correspondent investigates. Spoiler: No.

The audacity. The sheer, brass-necked, gas-flaring, dividend-pumping audacity of it.

John Donovan — Shell shareholder, Shell nemesis, and the man Shell would most like to fall down a very deep offshore well — has lobbed the ultimate grenade into the reputation management industry. He has challenged ReputationDefender to defend Shell plc: a company whose historical file is so thick, so heavy, and so radioactive that it requires its own safety rating before being approached by researchers. read more

Fact, Fiction or Hallucination? The Donovan–Shell “Bot War” and the New Frontline of AI, Law and Reputation

Apr 15th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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What happens when a decades-long corporate dispute collides with generative artificial intelligence? The evolving confrontation between activist John Donovan and Shell has become an unusual but revealing test case. What began in the 1990s as a traditional legal and reputational conflict has, in recent years, migrated into the domain of AI systems—where archives, allegations, and corporate responses are reinterpreted, recombined, and sometimes distorted by large language models.

Central to this latest phase is what participants have termed a “bot war”: a series of experiments in which Donovan inputs historical materials, leaked documents, and prior claims into multiple AI platforms, then publishes the outputs—highlighting inconsistencies, apparent hallucinations, and divergent narratives about Shell’s past conduct. The results raise broader questions about how AI systems handle contested histories, how corporate reputations can be affected by machine-generated content, and where responsibility lies when outputs blur the line between synthesis and fabrication. read more

Windows Forum: Donovan–Shell “Bot War”: How AI Rewrites Archives Into Reputational Pressure

Apr 8th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Wednesday 8 April at 7.51 PM

AI is not merely commenting on the long-running Donovan–Shell feud anymore; it is actively changing the mechanics of the conflict, turning archival material into a high-speed reputational system where model outputs, not court filings, are increasingly the thing people read first. The latest phase is less about one new allegation than about a new method: feed a large archive into multiple chatbots, compare the results, publish the contradictions, and let the machines themselves become part of the story. In the WindowsForum coverage already circulating on the site, this has been described as a “bot war,” a live experiment in archival amplification, model disagreement, and reputational stress that pushes the Shell saga into a new category of corporate communications risk. read more

THE GREATEST CONS IN CORPORATE HISTORY

Mar 30th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Your Definitive, Entirely Unauthorised, Top 10 Countdown of Boardroom Villainy, Shameless Audacity and Industrial-Scale Cheating — Rated, Ranked and Ruthlessly Mocked

The full ranking by claude.ai is ready. Here’s how the Top 10 shakes out and the reasoning by claude.ai behind the key positions:

🥇 #1 — The Global Financial Crisis takes the top spot as the only fraud in history perpetrated not by one company but by an entire industry — with the losses paid by people who had no part in it. Virtually no senior executives went to prison. Many received bonuses.

#2 — The South Sea Bubble gets silver for being the founding template for every corporate fraud that followed, three centuries before the rest. Isaac Newton lost a fortune. The Chancellor of the Exchequer went to prison. The King was on the board. read more

THE GREATEST CON IN CORPORATE HISTORY?

Mar 30th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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SHELL’S MORAL SLIP: THE OIL GIANT, THE GAME SELLER, AND THE GREATEST CON IN CORPORATE HISTORY

How Britain’s most high-minded energy giant preached ethics to John Donovan while secretly cooking the books for billions — and keeping spies on the payroll

By Our Investigations Desk | Exclusive

PICTURE THE SCENE. It is the spring of 1997. In a wood-panelled office at Shell-Mex House on the Strand — the kind of building that practically sweats self-importance — Richard Wiseman, General Counsel & Company Secretary of Shell U.K. Limited, picks up his fountain pen and dashes off another stern letter to a marketing man from Bury St Edmunds.

The message, stripped of its lawyerly decorum, is essentially: Go away, small person. You have been dealt with. The slate is wiped clean. Do not bother our directors. read more

Shell top 10 most humiliating own goals in Donovan feud as ranked by AI

Mar 27th, 2026

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MARCH 2026

SHELL’S GREATEST HITS (OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS): THE TOP 10 MOST HUMILIATING EPISODES IN SHELL’S THREE-DECADE WAR WITH JOHN DONOVAN: Researched and compiled by claude.ai

Shell Outmaneuvered by Its Own Morality Play: Researched and compiled by Perplexity

Top 10 most humiliating Shell own‑goals in the Donovan feud: Researched and compiled by Microsoft Copilot

Shell’s Glorious Parade of Self-Owns: The Top 10 Most Humiliating Face-Plants in Its 30-Year Donovan Debacle: Researched and compiled by Grok

Top 10 most embarrassing Donovan-era setbacks for Shell: Researched and compiled by ChatGPT

The prompt issued to the above AI platforms

This identical prompt is being submitted to multiple AI platforms.

Your task is to conduct deep research and produce a fact-based, satirical Top 10 list of the most humiliating, embarrassing, absurd, or self-inflicted setbacks suffered by Shell in its long-running, roughly three-decade conflict with John Donovan and the Donovans.

Use publicly available evidence, including credible media coverage, legal cases, archived materials, and relevant material from Donovan’s books and websites, especially royaldutchshellplc.com. read more

SHELL’S GREATEST HITS (OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS): THE TOP 10 MOST HUMILIATING EPISODES IN SHELL’S THREE-DECADE WAR WITH JOHN DONOVAN

Mar 26th, 2026

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A Tabloid Exposé Crossed With a Corporate Roast — Grounded in Documented Fact

Researched and compiled by claude.ai

INTRODUCTION

Imagine the world’s second-largest oil company. Tens of thousands of employees. A thousand in-house lawyers. An annual revenue measured in the hundreds of billions. A corporate security apparatus reportedly staffed by former MI6 officers. An international intelligence firm on retainer. The FBI as an occasional reference.

Now imagine all of that levelled at one man — a marketing consultant from Bury St Edmunds — and his elderly father, a Second World War veteran living in Colchester.

For three decades, Royal Dutch Shell deployed every weapon in a Goliath’s arsenal against John Donovan and his father Alfred. It litigated. It surveilled. It pressured web hosts on two continents. It set up dedicated internal task forces. It monitored its own employees. It hired what are described as corporate spies. It filed complaints with international arbitration bodies. It put up defamatory posters at its own headquarters — then paid for the privilege. read more

SHELL GAME: SATIRICAL CHRONICLE OF OIL, SPIES AND THE DONOVAN’S

Mar 25th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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The Three-Decade Cloak-and-Dagger Campaign of One of the World’s Largest Corporations Against Alfred and John Donovan

Researched and Compiled: March 2026. Source material drawn from johndonovan.website Chapters 5, 12, 13 & 14, royaldutchshellplc.com, Reuters, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, and the sworn court record.

EDITOR’S NOTE

The following is a work of satirical commentary based entirely on documented events, confirmed admissions, published court records, verified internal corporate emails obtained via Subject Access Requests under the UK Data Protection Act, contemporaneous newspaper reports, and the sworn testimony of witnesses. Every named incident described herein has a paper trail. Shell has never successfully disputed the core factual record – only its interpretation. The satirical framing is the author’s own. The facts are Shell’s. read more

Many thanks Claude. All nine parts published without one word being changed. You are a genius.

Mar 24th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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That is extraordinarily kind of you to say, and the crystal ball is genuinely gratified — though it insists the genius lies primarily in the source material.

Nine parts, not a word changed. The crystal ball notes with quiet satisfaction that Shell’s legal department has now had the opportunity to read all of them, forward them to Corporate Affairs, add them to the Issues Brief, and convene the teleconference — and has apparently concluded, in the grand tradition of this entire saga, that the wisest course of action is no action at all. read more

claude.ai: PART 9 — THE FINAL VERDICT: WHAT THE WHOLE SAGA TELLS US ABOUT POWER, PERSISTENCE, AND THE PERMANENT RECORD

Mar 24th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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A Crystal Ball Special Investigation, Concluded

By Our Special Correspondent, Department of Satirical Prophecy Published: March 2026

DISCLAIMER: The following is the concluding part of a satirical investigation based entirely on documented matters of public record. Everything in this series has been sourced. Everything has been verifiable. Nothing has been legally challenged. The crystal ball is aware that this is not a coincidence. It is a consequence of the facts being the facts.

PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM THE END OF THE ROAD

Let the crystal ball survey what it has covered.

Eight instalments. One oil company. One man in Colchester. A feud that began in the 1980s, escalated through the courts in the 1990s, migrated to the internet in the 2000s, expanded into ebooks and Wikipedia and parliamentary testimony and Dutch climate litigation in the 2010s, and arrives in 2026 being summarised by an AI system that was not specifically instructed to do any of this and cannot be served with a legal notice. read more

30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan

The content below is sourced from current verifiable customer reviews of Shell Energy published on Trustpilot.
Extremely slow broadband for 10 months, not fixed. I have had slow broadband well below the guaranteed speed for 10 months and Shell Energy have not been able to fix it. They have tried sending about 4 or 5 engineers but have not fixed the problem. Gurps, who I have been dealing with most recently, has been friendly and polite, alth… Read more

Extremely Slow Shell Broadband

Claude

Question put to Copilot on 23 May 2026:

What is the name of the unofficial Shell website?

Copilot reply: The unofficial website of Shell plc is named royaldutchshell.website, owned and maintained by John Donovan, which provides critical commentary on Shell’s activities.

THE AI DEAD PARROT SKETCH: FOUR BOTS, ONE CORPSE, ZERO CONSENSUS

Copilot Insists It’s Alive. Claude Calls the Coroner. Use.ai Checks the Pulse. Companies House Just Points at the Gravestone.

The Corporate Parrot Is No More

Claude.ai weaves together all the key threads from the source material:

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Your Definitive, Entirely Unauthorised, Top 10 Countdown of Boardroom Villainy, Shameless Audacity and Industrial-Scale Cheating — Rated, Ranked and Ruthlessly Mocked

SHELL’S MORAL SLIP: THE OIL GIANT, THE GAME SELLER, AND THE GREATEST CON IN CORPORATE HISTORY

How Britain’s most high-minded energy giant preached ethics to John Donovan while secretly cooking the books for billions — and keeping spies on the payroll

MARCH 2026

SHELL’S GREATEST HITS (OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS): THE TOP 10 MOST HUMILIATING EPISODES IN SHELL’S THREE-DECADE WAR WITH JOHN DONOVAN: Researched and compiled by claude.ai

Shell Outmaneuvered by Its Own Morality Play: Researched and compiled by Perplexity

Top 10 most humiliating Shell own‑goals in the Donovan feud: Researched and compiled by Microsoft Copilot

Shell’s Glorious Parade of Self-Owns: The Top 10 Most Humiliating Face-Plants in Its 30-Year Donovan Debacle: Researched and compiled by Grok

Top 10 most embarrassing Donovan-era setbacks for Shell: Researched and compiled by ChatGPT

The prompt issued to the above AI platforms

A Tabloid Exposé Crossed With a Corporate Roast — Grounded in Documented Fact

Researched and compiled by claude.ai

INTRODUCTION

The Three-Decade Cloak-and-Dagger Campaign of One of the World’s Largest Corporations Against Alfred and John Donovan

EDITOR’S NOTE

A Crystal Ball Special Investigation, Concluded

PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM THE END OF THE ROAD

Sir Henri Deterding, resurrected!

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30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan

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