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This answers questions. Why has a) Trump provoked Zelenskiyy b) Farage opposed supporting Ukraine, & c) Putin pursued Brexit? Reason: Europe is seen as Russia's sphere of influence (ie colony) in a future run by mega-powers. Expand Russia; divide the EU. That's the plan. youtube.com/shorts/BDjCb...

The Trump graphs continue to entertain.

Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... C1/

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Amazing that without even mentioning a name, EVERYONE knows exactly who it's referencing.

WHAT a cock. Meet Sebastian Gorka. Parents fled Hungary after a failed anti-Soviet uprising, spent megabucks to send him to private school in West London. He grows that investment into a 2:2 from a Jesuit uni that closes in 2019, the 1st to do so in the UK since 1265. youtube.com/shorts/K3rJB...

I've admired Monbiot in recent years for his willingness to connect the dots that join his environmentalist agenda to the politics of wealth redistribution. This is a good case in point. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Supporting both Palestinians and Ukrainians seems obvious to me. Ukraine's defeat is a foregone conclusion, and Hamas did provoke Israel, but the former point doesn't mean Putin needs waving into Donbass, and the latter doesn't mean IDF savagery is a proportionate revenge.

Tariffs still at historic high

Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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"Perhaps the rolling market chaos will become too much. Perhaps the administration will blink first. There is no guarantee [tariffs] will work [...]. But it would be a mistake to assume it cannot work." It's creepy when lefties like Meadway admire "disruptors". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fuck #capitalism fuck #wageslavery

FT data found on Adam Tooze's substack today. Looks like Trump is committing political suicide. Not for the first time I wonder if Trump 2.0 = Truss 1.0.

So this is going well.

Jones is right. Labour is technocratic pragmatism, ie govt by whatever the Treasury thinks. And it's depressing the country. Labour should stop fleecing the state and fleece the rich, because the state is pared to the bone, but the rich are rolling in blubber. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is why I'm a patriot. In Britain, irreverence - and irreverence towards the powerful - has always been sacred. youtube.com/watch?v=K2Zh...

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“The climate crisis poses a bigger existential threat to this country than Putin does or ever will, so if money can be found for the military there’s no reason why it couldn’t also be found to accelerate self-sufficiency in clean energy.That might really do something for national security”. Spot on👇

Goddamn commie AoC*! *Archbishop of Canterbury When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ULEZ works. It’s that simple. Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.

Appeal Court *very slightly* reduces sentences on some of the 16 peaceful climate protesters, jailed for total of 41 years. This isn’t justice. People desperate for climate action to save lives treated like organised criminals, while big oil & gas get away with ecocide @defendourjuries.bsky.social

Glad to see the FT saying the quiet part out loud

Sorry but this cracked me up 😆😆