robert-w.bsky.social
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What is clear is that the Obama deal is about as good as it gets with Iran
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The average income in America looks good but the top 10% captures 50% of consumption
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Reeves is doing arithmetics in £ perhaps she could also do arithmetics in life expectancy, the conclusions would be different leading to better policy.
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Farage has for present a Trump tailwind that could turn into a headwind in the year or so ahead as the incoherences in policy start to bite
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Absorbing the public with all sorts of issues with foreign students learning at Harvard looks like a scape goat, the 20 Y Bond action just about got sold says much more about what is going on with the US incapacity to find creditors.
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X wants you to pay to play
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@keirstarmer.bsky.social is a tight rope act between the nationalists and the progressives
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What does tax cut do ? Moves savings from the middle class to the rich, nothing to see here
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@keirstarmer.bsky.social has lost it, mimicking Reform is the end of Labour as an agent of change for the good
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Reform is a symtom of weak education and poor job prospects, no critical thinking
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Nothing to see here, Reform is eating the Conservatives' lunch
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Health services are the holy grail of neocons - extorsion sold as care
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If the peace deal means putting French and British troops on the ground in Ukraine to enforce the agreement, does it matter if Ukraine is not officially part of NATO
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Perhaps the 6%fall in the share of exports since 2016 to the US is because Chinese product is assembled by third countries before being shipped to the US_Optics
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Hegseth talk begs the question what is the end game?
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Why can't the Administration find someone you expresses human values
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How do you square the circle between health for a better life versus profiting from illhealth
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Pro Brexit is Pro Poverty and increasing defense vulnerability
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Nigel and Liz use their mouth not their arm
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Whatever the issues of the origins of the invasion of Ukrain, where will Europe be 4 Years, robust peace or everlasting war with Russia?
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A coherent armed forces in Europe always made sense but the Tories needed a gun pointed to their head to get it
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The issue for the Trump Administration is China, China needs energy: trade Ukrain for Putin to drop China
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America first is a sad story for a great nation
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The British Gouvernement chose London over the UK
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The president knows what it's like to loose his job but it's not the same for government workers.
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Free Speech on the internet and intimidation are two different patterns
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Somehow moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem like naming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America would make everything work out
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'Getting wealthy' means what, buying a house?
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President Trump knows the public has no memory and exploits it
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Get the King on your side and Reeves will walk on water to join the EU
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How young Ukranians and Russians are dead or will die because of root causes?
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It's pretty frustrating on X to have to put up with Musk's philosophy for life every few tweets - if he could do what he is good at, make the DOD work that would be à sufficient contribution to MAGA.
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Like Brexit, what's wrong with a court for human rights - nothing, but there is something corrupt about people who want the UK to leave it.
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The authorities also have the choice to let Gaie check in
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Like everything depends what you measure, who are the winners and the losers - remedial health investing has a very different set of outcomes from just caring for the chronically sick
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Unless the Conservatives conciliate conserving wealth to investing in the future of the UK, rather than public funding everything, they are finished.
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If a small handfull of people in power make £ 30 B because of Brexit that is worth much more to them than a loss in GDP of £ 300 B, fix the incentives of people in power first and issues like Brrexit get resolved.