@roberttnewton
Pro EU Pro UK anti-Tory, (current) Worried about Trumpism/Farage /Fascism Retired engineer working in pharma ind Living in North Yorkshire Interests inc: Coastal Skipper Walking 45 m/wk Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am Keeping Merc SL350 running
Have just read this extraordinary sentence in New York Magazine
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'A ghostwriter who had a “slow year” made $164,768, most of which ($107,768) was from ghostwriting famous people’s Substacks.'
I wonder if there is any president who has more explicitly and probably broken campaign promises. Like, clear, specific promises equally clear, specific repudiations
You think I want to “buy intelligence” from someone who is this weird?
Post by Acyn. " Doocy: You just said it is a little excursion and you said it is a war, so which one is it? President Trump: Well, it's both. It's an excursion that will keep us out of war. " Below is his photo, speaking to someone.
I hope we see you soon in front of a tribunal for committing excursion crimes contrary to the Geneva Convention.
How Iran’s use of cluster munitions is challenging Israel’s air defenses
https://www.europesays.com/iran/16497/
Tel Aviv, Israel — Specks of orange light streak across the night sky as air raid sirens wail…
Maximum Destruction & Minimum Creation. That's the creed of the Republican Political Party. Their motto: Attack Attack Attack ~ Destroy Destroy Destroy. ~ Go to Twitter where their tribes of "social influencers" engineer invitations to hate all day long, hour after hour. The malevolence is obscene.
At least 175 people, mostly children, died in the Feb. 28 missile strike, Iranian officials have said.
Labour government's comms have been woeful, and they've got a lot of stuff just plain wrong. But also:
Only a profoundly sick and fucked up society would produce this - and tolerate oligarchs.
That tracks for him. 🙄 It's not his first time casually talking about killing folks.
Tech bros are another fucking plague in our country. They bought their way into our politics & policies.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
Do I have to join some sort of a movement or can I just call it common sense to say I'd like mentally unwell people out of leadership positions if the products they make or the people they oversee have the ability to kill
Karp, Musk, Trump, Hegseth... JFC, how hard is it fill positions of power?
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Isn't it disheartening - two major wars cannot end because the two brickheads who started them - cannot find a way to somewhat reasonably "declare victory" not to lose face over their stupid decisions.
UBC hosted Rachel Maddow to discuss extremism and American global collapse. She brought two decades of research on a man picking trade wars with allies, threatening Greenland, and feuding with Canada’s Prime Minister. The Chan Centre was full. The irony was fuller.
You know that's right!
£0 debt
£0 dividends
Water companies before privatisation
£60 billion debt
£85 billion dividends
Water companies after privatisation
The British public has been robbed - and our waters polluted to an extreme - and STILL Labour are refusing to renationalise water, disgraceful
You do realise that Farage's almost knee-jerk rudeness towards the media is lifted wholesale from the Trump playbook?
He's seen it work for the Republicans and fancies a bit of that here.
The barrister whose £8m lawsuit against me was struck out yesterday is now whining that he's been treated unfairly.
This (from LinkedIn) is delusional. It demonstrates the absurdity of Kamal's libel claim, and the beyond-absurdity that it cost me £146k to defend.
“And - worst than absurd - anyone who couldn't afford £146k would have had to give up. That's what our libel laws do to freedom of speech.”
The bloke (Kamal) is on video saying he gave tax advice on the scheme and what a good thing that was…yet he claims he didn’t
And as @danneidle.bsky.social says “But how absurd that a claim that's refuted by the claimant's own video costs £146k to dispose of.”
Left: Kemi Badenoch says Keir Starmer should resign for showing a catastrophic error of judgment over Mandelson
Right: Kemi Badenoch saying Iran is a threat to the UK, that we should take offensive action, and then denying saying that the UK should join the US-Israel to attack Iran
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
Portrait of familiar figure of Henry VIII in with Queen Mary sitting at his side. Behind is Will Somers the Jester holding a little dog.
I've never been that interested in courts and high politics but I often find myself thinking about how complicated, elusive and weird the figure of the fool is. Perhaps parliament and uni senate should have strangely dressed person wandering about acting and commenting on the action.
The money that could have given Americans universal healthcare here at home is being spent instead to murder schoolgirls overseas.
What if we compromised and had a badger dressed up as Winston Churchill
The Green Party's Mothin Ali on the importance of community spaces and how the Green Party has a plan to invest £5 billion to revive them #C4News
"People are angry, our country is divided. And I get it"
"One of the main reasons is the loss of our country's social infrastructure"
We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.
Good Lord
A KC relying on fake cases
Can he be stripped of KC status @jolyon.goodlawproject.org
“The court also called Kamal’s reliance on fake cases generated by AI “unacceptable” & found that he had repeatedly failed to follow court rules”
Well done @danneidle.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org
Great news!
