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Maybe I’m just a killjoy but one has to ask exactly what is the point in this, does a few rich kids thrills really justify the environmental damage in a flight that has no scientific purpose? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I have seen some silly analysis on the impacts of Trump tariffs but this takes the biscuit. The cost of iPhones may go up in the States but why would that impact the UK if Apple manufacture them in China? The Standard’s quality of journalism isn’t up to its title stocks.apple.com/Ad1tfAjIMTz2...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

In all the hullabaloo created by Trump’s tariffs, and the inevitable economic fallout that will result, we should acknowledge that the US shares with the UK a significant problem: that our economies have been hollowed out by multinationals choosing to offshore their activities where they can.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Our best response to Trump’s tariffs is to work with nations that still support Free Trade. That means forget Brexit, enter a Common Market with the EU and work with Commonwealth countries. Starmer is right to avoid retaliatory tariffs, instead we should look to boycott US goods where possible

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It always amazed me the irony that it was success in the EU Elections that gave Farage and UKIP airtime that they were unable to replicate in the domestic elections. Maybe they also used funding from the EU to fund their party a la Le Pen?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The one thing you can say for Musk is that he is revealing just how corrupt the whole of the US electoral system is Musk gives away $1m cheques ahead of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine the impact of Trump’s tariffs if we were inside the EU, a market of 500m guaranteeing free trade. Could you imagine anyone thinking it would be a good idea to leave with Putin and Trump seeking to carve up the world order? Maybe the Rejoin movement has more impetus than I thought possible

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Macquarie Bank is responsible for the parlous state of Thames Water having ladened it with debt. There needs to be a mechanism for holding private equity to account maybe they remain liable for up to five years post a sale. A precedent is Director’s bonuses www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Add to this a complete overhaul of the MoD, get rid of white elephant vanity projects (anyone know the date of the last successful test of our “independent” nuclear deterrence?) and our aircraft carriers that we can’t afford to lose. Spend instead on low cost armaments proven so effective in Ukraine

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

What’s missing from this Labour Govt is a radical plan to reform our tax and welfare system. Bring in a basic state income then tax the first £ of any other income. Treat all income the same in terms of tax bands. Abolish business rates and replace with sales tax to create even playing field

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

There is an inherent contradiction in Trump’s policies against his stated objectives: on one hand he wants to stop illegal migration across the Mexican border, but on the other he wants to repatriate jobs through tariffs against Mexican imports. Result? less incentive for Mexicans to stay put.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Just as we were gloating over the sheer ineptitude of the Trump administration’s handling of national security this blows down our UK streets. It simply shouldn’t happen 'Sensitive' army papers found scattered in street www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

There is a justification for tariffs to protect a nascent critically important industry or to protect industries from unfair competition, but Trump’s arguments show an economic illiteracy that would see the abandonment of all trade as taking wealth away from America www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

If the UK is unable to negotiate an exemption from these tariffs it will once and for all prove the disastrous consequences of Brexit and the fallacies of the arguments used to promote it from the snake oil salesmen of Farage, Johnson and Gove www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying:

submitted 21 days ago • 145 comments

This whole thing is so crass and shows the one dimensional approach the Trump administration has to diplomacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The gift that keeps on giving: Brexit, they said it would improve our balance of trade

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Given the Greens actual political representation as opposed to the hypothetical representation of Reform, it is amazing at the lack of coverage the former get in the British media. Reform by having constant political turmoil seem to have a winning PR formula @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

For once a good news story. Living on the fringes of Dartmoor I find that people who revel in this biodiversity desert bewildering and lacking imagination as to how it could be. We need to go further and faster but good luck to this project. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The West needs to wake up to the fact that we have a weak president in charge of the USA, one that caves in to authoritarian regimes. Imagine if Trump rather than Kennedy had been in charge during the Cuban missile crisis: the outcome of the Cold War may have been very different.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Why is Trump helping Russia to subjugate Ukraine? Russia is the aggressor and it is Russia that needs to be brought to the negotiating table. Is this great power politics where Russia and USA get to divide the spoils of war in terms of Ukraine’s mineral wealth? Europe needs to stand up to Trump.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This makes depressing reading, climate change and the consequences of industrialisation of agriculture are major contributors. The biggest declines are in the States that support Trump’s “drill baby drill” agenda. They’ll come to realise their mistake too late www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

It would appear that the owners of Royal Mail are in a rut. Continually hiking the price of stamps while cutting back on the service they provide is a sure fire way of losing further business. The no. of deliveries has fallen from 20bn to 6.6bn in just 20 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments