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Elon Musk has cut somewhere between 0% and 3% of what he promised—and most of what was cut was not waste or fraud or abuse, but simply expenditures Mr. Musk did not personally favor for partisan reasons. DOGE is the biggest program failure in the history of American government.

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

Thatcher Happened.

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Finland the happiest country on the planet, bans for profit schools, taxes billionaires, houses the homeless. Take note.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Never forget.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Nigel Farage has said he wants to make it EASIER, to sack workers. He is no friend of the worker and he is certainly no friend of the unions.

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

On the campaign trail today, Farage told a group of voters in the North that he understood the worries of the steelworkers because he used to be “in the metals business”. That would be the London Metals Exchange in the city where he worked as a commodities trader. (h/t Tom Baldwin)

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

What a patriot! For Russia 🇷🇺, that is

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Just think of we had never privatised back in the day... Corus Group £60 million in subsidies. Tata £500 million! There were others... Poor paying the rich. #Trick_leUp

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

True story.

submitted 11 days ago • 202 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 11 days ago • 245 comments

Wait til the stock market realises that China, Canada, the EU, and Mexico all already 'retaliated' so their tariffs remain in place...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Bad news, the penguins still are subject to 10% tariffs.

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Spain has rejected a US warning that closer ties with Beijing would be “cutting your own throat.” Agriculture Minister Luis Planas says Spain aims to expand “excellent” trade relations with China.

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In Trump's America, the one thing you can count on is a potential market meltdown every 90 days. Ask yourself: what CEO, business, or trading partner in their right mind is going to ever invest in America when a psychopath tries to blow up the economy every 90 days?

submitted 13 days ago • 130 comments

Nigel Farage gets his 10th job as he becomes Sky News Australia commentator

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Now tell them you're upping the tariff on China to 125%.

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I don't see how the US can win a trade war against China - in any scenario. China isn't a democracy - there's no opposition, and it produces far more of what America needs than anything Chinese import from the USA. Their biggest import is soy beans... presumably can get elsewhere

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Economist Peter Schiff: “The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire implications than…the stock market. If these tariffs remain in place, the US could have a full-blown financial crisis by the fall that makes the 2008 Financial Crisis look like a Sunday school picnic.”

submitted 14 days ago • 104 comments

Can’t wait for the moment when Trump tells the world it’s all gone to plan and been a world beating success and that he’s made America great again if only we weren’t too stupid to see it ….

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Here we go again.

submitted 16 days ago • 350 comments

“He tried to kill his own Vice President. Do you think he cares about you?” -Barack Obama

submitted 16 days ago • 93 comments

👏

submitted 16 days ago • 135 comments

Trevor Philips, "Is the 10% tariff on the UK a benefit of Brexit?" Caroline Lucas, "Leaving the EU costs us 5% of GDP" "Trump's 10% tariff has an impact of 0.3%" "And this special relationship with the US is no better than an island with a whole load of penguins on it"

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

It's just too good.

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

Here he is today, America. Emperor Caligula Nero Trump. Golfing away in FL while tanking the economy.

submitted 18 days ago • 435 comments

Macron calls for European companies to pause their investments in the US asking why Europe should invest as the US puts tariffs on Europe

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

Right on the nose

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Donald Trump is a failed businessman who is crashing the American economy. None of these people are fit to govern.

submitted 19 days ago • 268 comments

"If anyone came up to a child and said 'you know what, you're too fat'... you see how free that speech would be. These platforms do it to thousands of kids." Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on freedom of speech and online safety. #Newsnight

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

Donald Trump has announced his support for Marine Le Pen, calling for her to be "freed". Trump said she was convicted on trumped up charges. He also said she didn't know these things were taking place. Trump clearly knows nothing about the trial and seems to believe she's been jailed.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Make America Great Again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/d...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The EU is coming for TwitterX. A fine of $1 billion is being prepared.

submitted 19 days ago • 43 comments

Rhun ap lorwerth, "Can we deal with this issue of because the tariffs on the UK are less than on the EU we should somehow be celebrating this as a Brexit dividend; where Brexit has cost us billions" #BBCQT "Now is the time to build those links again with our European partners"

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments