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Developer of business models and solutions across materials and information technologies and inveterate opponent of the slide into Fascism in the UK, the EU & the US.
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When will MSM, especially BBC R4 and C4 News understand that Dr James Orr is a christo-fascist to the core and a dire apologist for JD Vance. Don't be deceived by those velvet, Oxbridge tones. He's despicable. Witness tonight's C4 interview and R4's 'Today' Podcast www.politico.eu/article/jd-v....

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Jon Stewart’s the Daily Show with a Concise History of Donald Trump’s Trade War this past week – including the clip of Donald Trump announcing his invention of the Schrödinger's Universal Tariff – both permanently fixed and at the same time primed for negotiation – www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfl...

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Call it self interest or just very human sympathy for somebody my age facing difficulties in life and especially business here in the UK, who just felt it was all too much – we must address the emotional cost to running a small UK business and here is a pressing, timely petition: chng.it/w8p9dfXXTD

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Even the “Post Truth”, “Satire Is Dead” claim that you, “You Couldn’t Write It” collapses in the light of the Ron Vara revelation. Yes, by all rights the Trump administration should now be collapsing into farce, but I’ll not hold my breath while we wait for history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbZ...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky is not one of the social media options on Squarespace's biosites.com, unlike Twitter, Facebook & Amazon. While biosites' landing page is taking off like a rocket, with e-commerce & scheduling, it's not yet reading the web about useful vs toxic. Add a request: help.unfold.com/hc/en-us/req...

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I've just listened to an interview of Ken Cuccinelli on BBC R4 #TWTW. If you think Trump is scary as fascists go, you should listen to Cucinnelli, a pin sharp lawyer with legislative experience on a journey to complete evisceration of any shred of conscience or law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cuc...

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Good grief Jeremy Hunt – that in these circumstances, suggesting we should ghost our allies as a new Singapore on Thames in the “Dirty Bomb” trade war that Donald Trump has foisted on the world trading order. We need both to stand with our allies on tariffs and jury rig our revised trading patterns.

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Good grief, you know that this is dire financial & economic news when BBC R4 #WATO calls on Stephanie Flanders to calm the waters on the broiling trade seas ahead. Worse than the protectionist moves that triggered the Depression. May feel like Hollywood, but this is the 30s disaster movie made real.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I have just signed this 38 Degrees petition urging the Government to invest in research to help those suffering from Long Covid. It affects those who can't return to full time study or work. This cannot be more timely or pressing. Please think about signing too. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...

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Key take: “One hopes that sooner rather than later even the most deluded Europeans will accept that … Trump and the MAGA movement are not on Europe’s side in the struggle against Putin any more than Charles Lindbergh and the American fascist movement were on the side of Europeans fighting Hitler.”

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

No spoiler… listen to it all for the devastating private equity link!

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For those wondering what the hell happened to our century & more alliance with the US it is alive and well with the America that General Ben Hodges respresents, just not the aberration that is the Trump administration in Washington. Channel 4 News interview tonight. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hod...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

BBC R4 #Today – Competitive Authoritarianism – Dr. Brian Klaas, Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London defining 21st Century Fascism as it relates to Orban in Hungary, but more importantly, his heroes Putin and Putin's new allies MAGA Trump + Mini Trump, J D Vance.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Understandably difficult to listen to Starmer listing those young men, some still teenagers, who died in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting alongside our allies from multiple democratic nations. The difference now is that Trump & Vance are aligning with dictators and may no longer fight alongside us.

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Ridiculous commentary from the BBC World Service Team describing notices being put up by Democrats that Trump is lying endless as "Flagrant opposition”. Firstly Trump is demonstrably lying and secondly, in a democracy, the opposition’s essential job is to call out the lies. Career ending commentary?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s address to the joint houses of Congress redefining the meaning of both “Shameful” and “Demaguogery”.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

If you're enjoying readings from "My Dear Kabul" on BBC R4, remember that Trump did this. The 'great negotiator' tied Biden's hands by giving away a timeline for withdrawal and and the departure of US technicians meant the Afghans could not service US weapons' software. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

We have enough Fascist legislation enacted by the Tories that we need to root out. We certainly don't need to pander to Trump's brand of it so I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments