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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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The amazing photography of Robin Dale 🧵

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UK approach to bank frauds. HSBC fined $1.9bn in the US for money laundering. UK Chancellor Osborne, regulators protected it. No investigation. £1bn HBOS frauds: FCA/SFO passed the buck to LLoyds Bank. Promised report in 2018. None published. No inquiry. Corporate crime facilitated by the state.

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Heh. “Some [Trump] supporters imagine that foreign students are taking places that could have gone to Americans. This could be called the lump-of-college fallacy. In fact, by paying higher fees, foreign students tend to subsidise locals.”

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THE SHINING (1980) recreated in Lego renders. The detail is incredible. Can't find who made these so please credit if you know... 1/10 - The Colorado Lounge

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If you want to really worry about what a PM Farage might do, compare the pushback that Trump is getting from courts and some other institutions, and how little of that would happen in a UK which gives huge powers to the executive.

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The lower they go in the polls, the deeper into the gutter they crawl

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NEWS! Prison-bound Andrew Tate reveals which luxury watch he'll be hiding inside his rectum

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Healthy but tired cynicism being expressed in this letter (to the i Paper). We’re all so bloody sick of the failure… of being lied to like this… of politics for simpletons who think the stuff they don’t like can be swept away with a magic wand and who have no clue how a country works.. or doesn’t.

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Elon leaving White House & DOGE having achieved his biggest cuts in Tesla sales worldwide 👌 The Eye was on this a few issues back…

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“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit. “And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

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As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.

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"Nothing is going to change until Putin sees more costs for his actions—and the president stamping his feet on social media doesn’t count." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Every sitting MP should be made to read this 👇 @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @10dowingstreet.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @rupertlowe.bsky.social

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"I have been warned repeatedly that it would cost little to silence me, and there would be no proof of the regime’s involvement. It is strange to know the exact price of one’s life," writes Jhanisse Vaca Daza. www.journalofdemocra...

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President Trump and his family are extorting billions of dollars from US companies and foreign nations. In new piece for @TheAtlantic I examine past US corruption - and conclude Trump can't be compared to anything American, only Russia or Africa. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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If only America had a proper press #TACO

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Andrew Tate and brother Tristan charged with rape in the UK www.channel4.com/news/andrew-...

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Insane temperatures for May

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Trump to consider pardon for group convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

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Liz Truss wants to raise the state pension age to a minimum of 80. This is the logic of Trussonomics. You have to be rich enough to retire & if you can't afford to retire you have to keep working til you drop. Meanwhile Liz Truss pockets £125,000 per year for 49 days as PM.

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The possible next PM with his rapist friend. Allegedly.

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From the CWS Archives. 23rd August 2024.

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Trump is going to destroy the global economy again to prove he isn't a wuss

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If this reporter goads Trump into destroying the American consumer market and nosediving his popularity (and therefore the viability of the American fascist project) they may be one of the greatest heroes in world history.

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it is your civic duty to post about the TACO trade until Trump nukes the economy

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Thinking about it, there are probably way too many dominoes in this pic...

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it is a LIE to say that i “chicken out” of tariffs. the truth, if you bother to do any research, is that i am senile and did not remember imposing the tariff in the first place. people are saying i might be the most senile president ever and i don’t know if that’s true but that’s what people are sa

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"It’s called 'TACO,' which is code for 'Trump Always Chickens Out,' and it refers to the president’s tendency to announce massive tariffs, causing the markets to plunge, only to back off days later, causing them to rise again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Reporter: Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying Trump always chickens out on tariffs… Trump: I kick out? Reporter: Chicken out.

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