Moscow has so far earned an estimated $1.3bn-$1.9bn windfall from taxes on oil exports, making it the biggest winner from the conflict in the Middle East.
What does this mean for energy markets and the Russian economy? ft.trib.al/E4zE2us
Guaranteed this is a clear sign they are panicking about time 😆 but you know ‘4D chess’ and all that…
“Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to strikes”
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Great to see some shots of mine being used to illustrate the interesting work @basecamp-research.bsky.social are doing in the aid of scientific research. A fun commission shadowing their teams in Malta last year.
Can’t believe this is not a post from the Onion…
All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Many years ago I was asked to present a TV doc on Cathy Leroy - we interviewed friends & colleagues who knew her, even visited her mother in Paris who’d preserved her childhood room complete with various awards & published work. Sadly we never got funding. Hers is a story waiting to be told.
In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
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WHY WE LOOK? Because a photographer's revealed how he checked his old contact sheets and uncovered the never-before-seen photo that shows Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's 1993 wedding.
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🚨 Russian fascists send kidnapped Ukrainian children turning 18 to the front line in Ukraine. Estimated to be in the thousands.
Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields.
These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
For the first couple day most of the AI videos were dumb but harmless. Now most of the ones I see are straight up racist.
Trump posts: "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
80 year old man: “Golden Dome!”
18 year old FPV drone operators:
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.
Just incredible. 'The URL for an article about combat medic Charles Norman Shay of the Penobscot tribe, who survived the D-Day landings in 1944, now reads “deinative-american-fought-with-distinction-in-world-war-ii-and-korea.”' www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
Highly authoritarian behaviour to deport lawful residents for saying & doing things that don’t violate the law. The same powers could be abused to target a wide range of politically dissenting voices with a chilling effect on free speech.
Last week, if SNL did a sketch about Trump hawking Tesla's on the White House lawn, people would have complained it was too absurd.
Truly shameful. This will cost Ukrainian lives. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
Trump, the self-styled 'master negotiator', has removed any leverage for Putin to come to the table. The only possible conclusions are either/some combination of a) he's actually a terrible negotiator b) he's indifferent to what happens to Ukraine c) he wants Russia to win.
Vance criticised after comments on UK-French peacekeeping plan
https://www.ft.com/content/f4ef8bdc-8534-4c3e-a82f-0af92e3d3980
