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Londoner with a waning optimism for humanity. Can we work past the madness
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Y’all! On TikTok Chinese manufacturers are blowing the lid off luxury brands such as Hermes, pottery Barn and others. They’re giving the actual costs of making items and providing websites so you can buy directly from them. Congratulations, MAGA, your boy is hurting brands worldwide! Way to go!

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Is anyone else watching this? It's incredible. I fear for the luxury market. Oh trumpy and vancey boy... What have you done

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

At least someone is saying out loud. Serious rethink and realignment needed.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

submitted 15 days ago • 101 comments

This is crazy!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Wow... What is happening!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Just sickening abuse, day in, day out. Israel is becoming a lawless pariah state Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

Francesca Albanese: Israel, Gaza, and the United Nations (LEADING) Rory and Alastair are joined by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories to discuss: 🇮🇹Why the Mafia inspired her to become a lawyer 🇮🇱Why she thinks Netanyahu is breaking the law in the war in Gaza

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

A government so preoccupied with why it won that it hasn't thought at all about why Sunak lost:

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

2000+Jewish professors, staff, students letter on Mahmoud Khalil's arrest: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name and cynical claims of antisemitism to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." docs.google.com/document/u/1...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I take two big things from this: 1) Lockdowns etc really were not cost-free & future pandemic planning should take this into account. 2) We have to find a way to give people more (positive) social and community interactions. Isolation must be a factor in worsening mental health.

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

Our latest @nao.org.uk report finds the UK industrial strategy push is held back by poor Whitehall co-ordination. Especially the interface of DBT and DFE on skills on.ft.com/4bLxAmL (Full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Over the course of a week, the UK debate has completely changed. Just days ago, the right was still trying to use Trump to humiliate Starmer. Now, after the Zelenskyy meeting & Vance's nonsense, there's a consensus against the US administration. British Trump supporters utterly marginalised.

submitted 45 days ago • 74 comments

How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, "Imagine being us.. Constantly being described in terms of a pain, a strain on society" "When I have never taken a penny of benefits in all my life" "And all the time you have this horrible description of you as a problem"

submitted 75 days ago • 11 comments

Me, the first five days after payday every month:

submitted 63 days ago • 7 comments

Trade policy, like constitutional law, should be boring.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

So tariffs delayed huh... Oh and lots of people made a killing shorting the markets. Nothing fishy here

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a lot going on but we shouldn’t overlook the potential for this to hit lower and middle income countries, particularly if access to dollar liquidity becomes less freely available. www.ft.com/content/33ff...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

‘We have to get over the feeling that any failed pilot is a waste of money. It is not, as long as you've learned something by doing it.’ NAO chief Gareth Davies on the need for innovation in public services and how the NAO will support this www.thetimes.com/article/9e71...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

This is my current favourite show

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments