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Not that Jim O’Neill but I’m interested in Economics, though that’s not what the Andrew pays me for.
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms theonion.com/trump-u...

This👇always this👇

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Making sense of Trump's policy reminds me of trying to interpret Russia in the 90s: each ministry running its own individual foreign policy with freelancing oligarchs in the mix, but then an ailing Yeltsin could intervene, unpredictably, dramatically, and sometimes decisively.

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

Monbiot nails it: "this is direct appeasement ... these people who go on and on about sovereignty, say they are the defenders of sovereignty, when it actually comes to the crunch they will sell anyone down the river."

it's sort of incredible to me that more people haven't done what sassoon is doing here: refusing to do an illegal thing, and making a stink about it. feels like it would be popular!!

get ready to see this chart a lot

Wall Street's touching the stove moment might end up being not tariffs or debt default, but rather DOGE techbros causing a bank run by carelessly demonstrating they can now yank funds out of commercial bank accounts on a whim. A very pure distilled demonstration of no rule of law, no capitalism.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

This, FYI, is the real logic behind renaming the Gulf of Mexico It's not about trying to convince the rest of the world It's a hybrid-regime compliance test. Notionally harmless but rapidly identifies dissenters whilst simultaneously allowing them to be falsely accused of insufficient patriotism

clever campaigning by the TUC here

www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-... and yes I’ll be going to see this when it moves to London

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

Found in a clearing of an unknown Wiltshire woodland. Fae folk or clay folk- either way rather unsettling! Courtesy of Peter Underwood. 👹 #folklore

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... I would highly recommend this podcast by @snellarthur.bsky.social and consider the action of the US administration in its context. Living space and resources in Canada and Greenland and the reduction of of the global south’s population with USAIDs destruction🤢

And Jesus said: “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God". Matthew 19:24

OUCH!

A hunch I've had for a while is that a dynamic that explains much around the implosion of the global order is how when faced with populations demanding economic security and social stability the answer of so many politicians and policymakers is to proclaim the need for more disruption

Apparently it's 13 years since I made the Judge Dredd episode of Bod youtu.be/CFVq7vPtWno?...

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This👇

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

#r4today Interestingly the monarchy loving right-wing press hasn't leapt to the defence of Commonwealth allies Canada, even though they have the same Head of State as Britain. It's as if their love of the crown is mere political expediency.

I know I sound like a broken record, but we are *utterly* unprepared for what is about to unfold. Climate chaos and the resulting impacts is *not* a 2100 problem. It is a NOW problem that will escalate like nothing we have experienced before in the next 15-20 years.

I love to inspire insider threats at every intelligence agency.

Update. The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects. However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.

Does the Musk team have access to SF-86 security clearance records?

Goodnight. “Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.” Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

It's been my working assumption for a while that most of the angry white male young Tories on twitter and knocking around Tufton Street are some degree of Bell Curvers (i.e. massive race science bigots)