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Musk is anti-tariffs. Sees Navarro's Harvard phD in economics as a negative cause of Trump's policy! www.axios.com/2025/04/05/m...

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I'm slightly surprised by the shocked Bluesky response to briefings about globalisation from the UK government today. Just a reminder, this is Rachel Reeves' Mais Speech from last year. Is she wrong?

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Billy Wilder’s marvellous, underrated AVANTI! Is on Sky Arts at 8 pm tonight. A sun-drenched romantic comedy and a sharp (and timely) commentary on conservative America’s attitude towards Europe, with a great comic turn by the late lamented Clive Revill.

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Boris Johnson thinks reforms to academy schools/VAT on private education are a bigger issue than Andrew Tate and online influencers. Writing in the Mail, the former PM places no emphasis on the commitment or presence of fathers for bringing up sons, unlike other writers on this topic.

submitted 9 hours ago • 85 comments

If OfS is not absolished and replaced with a proper and respected planning body much of English Higher Ed canot be saved whatever. So there's no point arguing about the minutiae.

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I am going to invest in Charlton's bid for promotion. Our neighbours are season ticket holders. They look certain to be in the play-offs (3rd to 6th place)- with Birmingham City and Wrexham going straight up, it looks likely to be Wycombe, Charlton, Stockport and one other club for the last place

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Badenoch supporting a foreign government's actions against two British parliamentarians - shocking, embarrassing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fascism doesn’t just appear, writes Ben Ehrenreich. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the pro-Palestine movement did just that.

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Friends: I will be in Bologna this weekend - what products should I purchase to avoid tariffs?

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Anthony Albanese says Donald Trump's new 10% tariffs on Australian exports are 'not the act of a friend' – follow live

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STOCKS TANKING AFTER TARIFF NUMBERS REVEALED

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well ladies and gentlemen wasn't that a great display of f'ing around? I know I know thank you very much. please remain seated however as the second part of the program is about to begin.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

I think the UK “only” getting a 10 per cent tariff sums up the government’s Trump position: if your job (like mine) is assessing government performance, it’s great. But if - like me! - you actually are “in the UK economy” it’s also: who cares?

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

There's no question that today's tariff announcement will give the United States the highest tariff rates of any industrialized country. And it's not even close.

submitted 3 days ago • 95 comments

Almost expect to see Canvey Island on the list.

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“Svalbard and Jan Mayen”? “Heard and McDonald”? They’re slapping tariffs on soft rock duos from the 70s?

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We are probably all going lose our jobs and be selling our kidneys for the last bag of potatoes, but at least Ipswich won tonight

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Concrete poetry?

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The Emperor has no clothes. Who’s going to say it?

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what if liz truss but absolutely no way to get rid of her

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A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

submitted 3 days ago • 1253 comments

This is one of the most significant market decisions in years and it's clearly a bunch of crap they pulled together using Wikipedia and AI in a couple of hours. Tariffs on uninhabited islands, separare tariffs on islands that are part of other counties... it's all nonsense.

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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 3 days ago • 885 comments

Also - Reunion is France and Norfolk Island is Australia.

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BREAKING: Donald Trump will charge UK imports a tariff of 10% - equal to what he says the UK charges US imports. By contrast the EU will be charged 20% on EU imports.

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Pretty devastating news for exporters from the global south. New US tariffs set to 46% for Vietnam, 49% for Cambodia, 37% for Bangladesh, 26% for India amongst others. With asymmetry of power in these negotiations, what concessions will they need to offer to roll these duties back?

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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 6 days ago • 285 comments

Turns out you can ignore the parliamentarian after all

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

Just no words for this level of cruelty and enthusiasm for inflicting suffering on the poorest in our society

submitted 4 days ago • 284 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 5 days ago • 944 comments

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

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This article is really good.

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"The standard Labour ministerial line is that any historic act of struggle was noble and necessary – indeed, they would have manned the barricades themselves – but modern equivalents are the preserve of malcontents and malefactors who deserve a good truncheon or tasering."

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

A thought: I’d like to see those excellent @tomcalver.bsky.social graphs on tax rates by multiple of average salary over time alongside graphs on wage distribution over time. There has been a lot of wage compression!

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not a dunk on Alisdair personally but I'm getting pretty fucking tired of that quote being bandied around, to be honest! this stuff isn't a game, it's not funny to watch the Leopards voters getting their faces eaten by leopards, we have institutions and rules for a reason, it's not a free-for-all

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

what's the statute of limitations for criminal charges under the Privacy Act?

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments