Mike Walsh #fbpe

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Dr William Shakespeare, 12.10.1927 - 12.3.1996. Never forgotten.

Oil tops $100 again despite historic release of reserves as war with Iran rages | CNN Business Oil prices surged past $100 per barrel again overnight, three days after it hit a four-year high, as the US and Israel’s war with Iran continues to have a historic impact on global fuel supplies.

And Trump, the Anti-War-Peace-Prize-Envying -I-Ended-100-Wars President has achieved what?
Death, destruction, global economic chaos, driving away US allies, emboldening US adversaries.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/e...

Europe’s plan to keep Ukraine afloat — even if Hungary keeps blocking €90B loan Kyiv was expected to run out of money at the end of this month, but an IMF lifeline and help from the Nordics and Baltics are set to keep it solvent.

🚨🚨 Europe’s plan to keep Ukraine afloat — even if #Hungary keeps blocking €90B loan. Kyiv was expected to run out of money at the end of this month, but an #IMF lifeline and help from the #Nordics and #Baltics are set to keep it solvent.🧵
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.

President Macron making the case for renewables in light of the US-Israeli attack on Iran,

"Everything we do to move towards transition is also about reducing our dependence and therefore our exposure to geopolitical risks"

LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?

TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged

LANDERS: It wasn't though

TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own AG said it

TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter

LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.

It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Photo of Anthony Albanese in the House of Representatives NEW EPISODE | FFS: fossil fuel subsidies cost Australia $30,000 a minute Listen to Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

You’re meant to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of.

Yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in subsidies for fossil fuels.

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss why on this episode of Dollars & Sense.

🎧 theaus.in/4bm3836

"Today in Chernivtsi, during the autopsy of a Ukrainian soldier’s body returned from Russia in a prisoner exchange, forensic experts discovered an unexploded grenade.

Morgue staff evacuated, bomb squad defused it."

Pure evil.

Our government is being run by idiots, there is no other way to say it. These people are incompetent and Americans are paying the price for their stupidity, literally, we’re paying more for almost everything because they’re dumb.

A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.

Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.

The would be 🔴 Tory 🤡 🫅 tells us all that it is…

party, power and his own self-interest before…

democracy, devolution and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿…

what a despicable bunch they are! 👇

Scottish Labour defend memo overruling devolution SCOTTISH Labour have defended a leaked memo which shows Keir Starmer instructing MPs to undermine devolution.

NEW: Scottish Labour have spoken up about the memo showing the UK Government want to overrule devolution regardless of what the devolved governments think

Instead of speaking up for Scotland, the party has defended the memo - choosing to attack the SNP

www.thenational.scot/news/2592760...

Parliament calls for a common defence market and action on flagship EU defence projects.

Learn more: link.europa.eu/YxMd46

Spain has kicked Israel's ambassador out.

Another win for the brilliant Spain.

Keep on winning.

Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.

Let my story stand as a warning to fresh-faced undergraduates who say they want to change the world: you find yourself at 54 with spots and liver spots.

Ukraine is scaling up missile development.

Denys Shtilerman, co-founder and chief designer of Fire Point, discussed ballistic missile production and expanding Ukraine’s defense industry in an interview with ArmyInform.

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Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

There is no place in a modern democracy for people influencing our laws due to an accident of birth. But neither should there be for people due to the politicians they pleased, or the donations they made.

Ukraine's SOF destroyed a 64N6E radar serving Russian S-300 and S-400 systems in Sevastopol, and struck a rocket and artillery arsenal in Shyroka Balka, Donetsk, triggering ongoing ammunition detonations. A drone depot in Novozlatopil and a logistics warehouse in Mariyanivka were also hit. #Ukraine

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

Keir Starmer attacks Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for “screeching u-turn” on US intervention in Iran.

“If she were Prime Minister… we would be in the war, and she would be coming back to Parliament a week later to say, oh, sorry, I got that one wrong.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Left: Nigel Farage's leaflet says Reform will cut taxes

Right: Nigel Farage says he never said he would cut taxes

🇺🇦 Fighters of the anti aircraft missile and artillery division of the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade shoot down a Shahed drone.
#Ukraine #Russia
🎥: United24

Analysis: 7 big political questions about the war with Iran | CNN Politics As the Iran war enters its second week, here are the top questions shaping US political debate and what comes next.

Apparently it is not quite clear why the US attacked Iran.
I disagree. I think it is clear:
The US elected a dangerously capricious old man President, Donald Trump, who is unpredictable, a liar, a fantasist, and is playing with America & the world like they're toys.
Oops.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/09/p...

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

Iranians deeply divided over Mojtaba Khamenei's rise to power While pro-establishment crowds celebrate Khamenei's appointment as his father's successor, others believe it signals no change to how Iran is ruled.

Why would Iranians be divided over the succession to leadership of a murderous son of a murderous leader who, father like son, sees both religion and terrorism as politics by other means?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nope.
Nor would I pay Mr. Farage a full time MP salary for doing a part time job - how is MP work measured?

Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Would you invest £125,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/09/nigel-farage-kwasi-kwarteng-bitcoin-reform-uk-crypto-stack-btc

Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel strikes, sources say The U.S. message to Israel was "WTF."

I am surprised that US sources are surprised.

www.axios.com/2026/03/08/u...