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.
Same here in the UK
I had a funny feeling you'd win 😉
All power to your elbow.
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.
Seems like something we should’ve had a plan for before we started the war. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Does Matt Goodwin count?
Utterly baffling briefing just now with Kemi Badenoch’s spokesman in which he repeatedly insists that “we’re in the war” with Iran and that she supports it, while simultaneously denying she ever said she wants to join the war she thinks we're already in
Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.
Dumbest news of the week so far, and that’s saying something
Not really breaking any news here.
If Trump relied on Jared Kushner’s opinion that Iran was weeks away from a nuclear bomb when making his decision to go to war like he claims, that totally makes sense because Kushner is the most reliable source for intel on Iran nuke capabilities.
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Thinking about the six lawmakers who told the military they don’t have to obey unlawful orders.
Apparently, Kegseth hasn’t destroyed their ability to drop truth bombs.
Anyone else have the feeling that Trump has already floated the idea of the Navy escorting tankers through Hormuz (to the Navy) and they told him no, but he can’t admit that the threat is not eliminated?
Mockler: I also find it very ironic that Republicans are so welcoming to any form of bigotry but the moment that bigotry is targeted towards them, they freak the hell out
SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: 60% of Americans have concerns about election integrity
COLLINS: That's because the president spent eight years telling them the election was stolen
MARSHALL: You give the president too much credit
I'm STILL livid about this.
Anyone with a heart should be.
That's a fucking war crime.
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
Brexiter Arlene Foster who now sits in the House of Lords wants to cut welfare support and spend the money on defence instead
Brexit costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax income every year,if we didn't have Foster's Brexit we could keep supporting those in need while also ramping up defence spending
I explained a while ago that it would be impossible to say anything about Trump’s Iranian ‘adventure’ with absolute certainty. I’m sorry, I was wrong. He will *never* do anything that genuinely upsets or angers Vladimir Putin. Whether in Iran, in Ukraine or even in the USA. It is his only constant.
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Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.
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.
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
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WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”
