I’m surprised and disappointed to see that Mandelson’s vetting report said nothing about his Russia links, particularly his friendship with Oleg Deripaska and his directorship of Sistema, a Russian company with defence-industrial interests, which continued after Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Introduce Proportional Representation now, for the love of god
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Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.
I know it won't make any difference to his voters, who pay no attention to what's actually going on, and think foresight is for pussies and consequences can be wished away.
But if Farage was PM, we'd now be in a moronic, illegal war he demanded we join 2 days ago, and now thinks is a disaster.
Followed just based on naming your source! Thank you.
Which just means he'll hide the fact that he intends to be Trump's lapdog should he ever see the inside of No. 10.
Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.
He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
Lammy's plans smack of desperation after a jury acquitted some protestors. This isn't about justice for women. Women accused, often victims of abuse, will be denied juries too. And they may be up against a judge who lets off sex offenders for being "of good standing".
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It’s time to cut our ties with America and this not so special relationship.
‘This is Trump’s war of choice. But Britain has choices, too. 250 years after the American colonists broke free of empire, it’s time for a British Declaration of Independence.’
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I mean you can have a source but not a credible one.
Left: President Trump, "Try finding wind farms in China, there aren't too many of them"
Right: There are 10,066 wind farms in China (operating, announced, construction, and pre-construction)
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If Trump is being truthful here and Iran continues to act rationally then that just leaves Israel.
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67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti
By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%
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And if you don't believe me about his intentions, don't believe that he and the Republicans will not let some silly midterms change the course of THEIR history, then read this. And keep in mind, this is what's in the legacy mainstream media and therefore diluted.
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When asked which endpoints should ideally be used for studies in ME/CFS, Todd Davenport is absolutely clear about what’s what: FUNCAP and PAQ!
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This is good on the dangerous absurdity of some of the responses to the war. It's worth noting that 'betrayal', 'humiliation' and 'weakness' are exactly the same terms used week-in, week-out to describe how Brexit was undertaken. This is the embedded political psychology of the British right.
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Have said this several times today but my point isn't that trans people are treated worse than other groups being mistreated, but that the NHS consistently fails to discriminate in favour of coproductive healthcare models, a focus on consent in healthcare, patient centred approaches.
Sophocles never met Trump.
".. The last few years have been a steady exercise in market humility. 'Oil can’t go negative.' It did. 'Russia will always be a reliable supplier of gas to Europe.' It wasn’t. 'Hormuz is too important to actually stop.' Until it did."
- Morgan Stanley
this makes a lot of sense to me
Husband is in finance so markets are saying otherwise. We will have to wait and see. But relying on Trump to act logically and for Israel (especially) and Iran to cease all military or terroristic aggression at the same time seems like wishful-thinking.
I hope I'm wrong.
RemindMe! 2 weeks.
Al-Ma'ameer in Bahrain issued a force majure on oil production.
Even if this conflict ended today, the best case scenario is months of increased oil prices and therefore inflation and interest rate increases.
Who are people because markets aren't saying that. Yes prices would come back a bit but oil refineries have already been attacked. Ras Tanura in Saudi (12% of global production), Ras Laffan in Qatar is world's largest LNG producer, Fujairah and Mussafah in UAE, Duqm and Salalahi in Oman and
History says it could be achieved a number of ways - 1. intimidation and violence (via ICE), 2. manipulating electoral laws (requiring voters to show ID, shutting down polling stations as seen in Texas last week, continued and more aggressive gerry-mandering, failing to certify election results).
There's no reversing the inflation from the current damage of these illegal strikes by Israel and the US. Even if this war ended today, oil prices - and thus everything else - will be higher for months.
Trump isn't even on the ballot and 2024 showed an increase in split-ticketing anyway as four swing states elected Trump but elected Democratic senators.
