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Tonight at 8pm BBC Panorama will lift the lid on dodgy practises at Lloyds Banking Group. The programme examines claims Lloyds and its senior executives destroyed businesses and ruined lives, before covering it up.

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In conversation with Will Hutton “You mustn’t believe that capitalism is magic…it does produce wealth, it does produce innovation…but it has a propensity to inequality, a propensity to monopoly, a propensity to oppress and exclude…” @northeastbylines.co.uk

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⚡️ Kremlin panics as Russian Urals crude oil price nears crucial $50 mark. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attributed the price decline to "the US decision to introduce tariffs for most countries in the world."

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The European Commission is going to propose counter-tariffs of 25% on a range of US goods in response to Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium, Reuters reports.

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Thieves about. Hi dad my phones been stolen, please save and text me on my new number 07843 xxxxxx I'm texting you off a friends phone just to inform you. X So two numbers to report to the police. And someone I know asking me to buy a gift card for a cancer victim for which they'll pay me!

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Tech mogul Elon Musk is under fire from Turkish dissidents over moves to shut down X accounts aligned with the demonstrations and opposition against the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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No change to the idiotic, poor-targetting, fiscal rules that Reeves and Starmer insist upon The problem with keeping right on 'til the end of the road is that you eventually fall off a cliff www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Trump is threatening an additional 50% tariff on China if it doesn’t cancel tomorrow’s 34% retaliatory tariff.

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Trump just threatened to impose an additional 50 percent tariff on all imports from China. This comes as the economy crashes nationwide because of his tariffs.

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FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, I am re-upping this story @swin24.bsky.social and I wrote about the last Trump administration. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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🔴‘Elbows Up, Britain’: Canada’s Boycott of American Goods Spreads to the UK How British voters could hold the cards when it comes to resisting President Trump’s global trade war bylinetimes.com/2025/04/02/e...

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The truth 👇

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Concerning

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This is an astonishing chart - the collapse in visitors coming to the US post Trump’s border incarcerations. Bye-bye tourism industry.

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Here we go again.

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Keir Starmer, "My priority — my only priority — is the people of Britain, and what makes them better off" So why is Labour keeping the UK outside of EU Single Market?

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Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

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⚡️ Indian component found in Russian weapon for first time, HUR says. The discovery came as HUR documented nearly 200 newly identified parts across six types of Russian weaponry.

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Bloomberg: Post Trump tariff announcement sell off has wiped $9.5trn in value from global stock markets (so far).

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Ah yes the famous Sarwar Tartan. Tory blue plaid on a Tory blue background with Tory blue accents. Makes you feel all warm inside.

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I genuinely did not believe this man was this fucking stupid

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Anas Sarwar is Scots for Kemi Badenoch.

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Moron

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Britain’s obsession with trying to negotiate exemptions from Trump’s tariffs is entirely the wrong approach. The overwhelming national interest lies in working with others to stand up to Trump and try to preserve as much as possible of the global trading system. Mark Carney is showing the way

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Brexit Was an Economic Mistake. A 10% Tariff Doesn’t Change That.

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While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.

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Some defend Trump’s tariffs by claiming UK firms have an unfair edge - because the NHS spares them from paying for employee health insurance. But here’s the twist: the US raises almost the same amount of tax (as % of GDP) for government healthcare as the UK:

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This is a brilliant, in-depth investigation by @elliotlivecho.bsky.social that has taken a lot of time and effort to get over the line Vital local journalism that gives those who need it a voice www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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More Americans favor than oppose additional aid to Ukraine (a flip since January) and a not-insignificant 25% support annexing Canada and Greenland, per WSJ poll.

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It's amazing how few people in the UK realise that the last time the world went in to a massive financial tailspin, albeit one not directly caused by the President of the USA, it was Gordon Brown & the late Alistair Darling who provided the sort of international leadership desperately needed now.

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List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie

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Morning Bluesky. The FTSE plunged 6% on opening to its lowest point in a year though it has now recovered slightly. This came after a terrible night on Asian markets. One bright spot for mortgage and credit card debt holders: interest rates in the UK are expected to be slashed across the year.

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Happy #InternationalBeaverDay Beaver Trust is a registered charity dedicated to restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes. Our vision is of thriving waterways vibrant with life, where beavers are embraced as a vital part of our biodiverse landscape.

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On Trump’s tariffs, Erik F Nielsen, the chief economics adviser at UniCredit Bank, said: “It’s too early to estimate the impact of these economic weapons of mass destruction. But it’ll be bad – very bad…” Our only shelter is with the EU. Not the vengeful lunatic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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UK businesses pay the highest electricity price in the developed world, Twice the EU average, 2.6 times that of Korea, four times more than the US and China Profiteering by energy companies is destroying households and businesses. Yet govts do nothing. Nationalise energy.

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The American tech sector has a big, fat target on its back as Europe looks to respond to Washington on tariffs. If only Brussels agreed on how to hit it.

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Ukrainians will have to live with the specter of Elon Musk cutting off satellite communications keeping their hospitals, military bases and troops online, as there are no short-term alternatives that can match the tech mogul's Starlink system.

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Much of what is sold on Amazon comes from China but a cut of the profit goes to the US. You can buy the same goods directly from TEMU and other Chinese companies and get much cheaper prices. I usually get a delivery in about a week. If you want to boycott the US, this could be a start.

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I guess this something to be thankful for. But what a moron.

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The FTSE has plunged by almost 6% within minutes of markets opening this morning, in what looks like it’s going to be one of the worst openings since the pandemic.

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NEW: Ten British nationals will today be reported to the police for alleged war crimes in Gaza Britons who have served in the Israeli military are accused of committing 'atrocities' during the country’s almost relentless assault on the Palestinian territory

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Elon Musk (aka Mike Myers) returns to SNL with a new innovation: a self-vandalizing Tesla.

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🔴‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’ A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/04/04/t...

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I lived in ‘Clapham North’ - Stockwell - when this murder happened. It remains shocking to this day. RIP Jean Charles. What made it worse was the continued promotion of Cressida Dick and her wretched failure to take responsibility. And incompetence as Met boss www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Oh Jesus “In a bid to boost growth, Labour has thrown open government’s doors to controversial US tech firm Palantir. … With economic growth at a standstill, Labour has rested its hopes of becoming an “AI superpower” in Palantir’s hands.” Shudders 😱 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Thread (1/4) Just a short thread on wealth inequality, why we should care about it, what we can do about it and all the counter-arguments. 99-percent.org/why-we-cant-...

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Every bit of this is gold. Imagine being so impenetrably thick, so unremmittingly entitled, so irredeemably soured, that you dress like a giant lemon meringue and go on record, in print, forever, to complain that migrating to avoid tax has triggered your debilitating terror of orecchiette broccoli.

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