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The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
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Fare evasion is bad and Honest Bob Jenrick is a grifting pr1ck. That is all.

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is the answer “by prompting a large number of economically productive Poles to leave a miserable country in decline and head back to Poland”?

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1251 comments

According to Bloomberg, China has halted the sale of Mavic drones to Ukraine, while continuing to supply these drones to Russia. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

My explainer from a few weeks ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on how Trump was (mis)using emergency legislation for his tariff antics. Overnight this (mis)use of such legislation was ruled unlawful. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Like many a failed CEO, Musk ran away before being found out. DOGE has not saved anywhere near $170bn. Via @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/0854...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Does anyone on Instagram not reside in Bali, Dubai or Miami?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

World’s tiniest violin for self proclaimed hard man Steve Baker having to join the real world and try and find a real job. Why doesn’t he just try harder? That’s what his party keeps telling everyone else that’s un or under employed.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

very good, very clear - stablecoins are banks, from an economic perspective. their proponents will say they're narrow banks, cynics will say they're unregulated banks www.ft.com/content/625f...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Having to ask homeowners for permission to take things out of their houses would kill the theft industry.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Ultimately, this is just the standard tech bro lament: That their "vision" justifies the means. It's no different from Uber, AirBnB etc. saying regulations shouldn't apply to them. "Disruption" often just means avoiding the rules or exploiting unclosed loopholes that need to be closed.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Moving recollections of a time that deeply affected all involved. Henry Olonga & Andy Flower protested the regime of Robert Mugabe at the 2003 World Cup. Nasser Hussain had to decide whether to take his team there. Flower & Olonga’s lives changed forever www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Love this guy A man of amazing talent and great integrity, who did what so many of us struggle to do in personal sacrifice for the sake of what is right

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Immigration: @zoejardiniere.bsky.social & I debate Matt Goodwin and Nadim Zahawi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbQ...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

A brief history of US tariffs on the EU... Recent decades: Mostly low and stable April 2: 20% April 9: 10% during a 90 day pause May 23 (day 44 of the pause): 50% from June 1 May 25: Back to 10%, reinstating the original pause July 9 (end of 90 day pause): ??? Inauguration Day, 2029: ???

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

Something fishy about this sob story (1) The photos are stock shots taken in 2012 and 2014, available from Shutterstock and Alamy—links below. (2) There’s no trace of bankers Al and Alexandra Moy anywhere other than the Telegraph 🤔 www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/... www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

submitted 6 days ago • 120 comments

“I’ve known him a long time” Ain’t that the truth Donnie!

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The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

I know they were possibly a bit too “When Will I Be Famous”, but Then Jericho seem a bit underrated in retrospect

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The King’s visit isn’t about Canada supporting the monarchy, it’s about the monarchy supporting Canada. Prime Minister Carney: the King's visit "clearly underscores the sovereignty of our country" Thank you, King Charles. #CanadaStrong www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Due random internet rabbit hole, I hv been rewatching BBC’s “The Death of Yugoslavia”. If we wonder where West’s - in particular Europe’s - pusillanimity stems from then it is surely this. Milosevic and his gang should hv been stopped years before they were. /1 youtu.be/XDOrEGQtXSg?...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

The argument "I have to violate the law or my business wouldn't be profitable" should be laughed out of court, every time.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Globally resolved surface temperatures since Last Glacial Maximum More simply: 24,000 years of global mean temperature & atmospheric CO2 levels Explainer for all climate change obfuscaters, deniers, trolls and #WeirdAF RWNJs You're all wrong, bugger off

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments