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the lack of ambition with this proposal must worry GB businesses & people. A quick 🧵summarising the key points. Please brace yourself and lower any expectations of progress, positivity or pluck, significantly.

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Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them. 📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...

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Karoline Leavitt, "All foreign nationals in the US longer than 30 days must register with the gov. Or be fined, arrested, imprisoned, deported"

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This is a new group of distinctive arthropods. Ancient fossil sheds big light on evolution enigma, solving a 100-year arthropod mystery phys.org/news/2025-04... via @physorg_com I wonder if any have been found in Utah? @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

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Nigel Farage, "At least Trump is trying for peace, " suggesting that Ukraine should cede Crimea to the Russians No mention of Russia withdrawing from it's invasion of Ukraine which of course is the easiest and fastest way to end the war

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It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 hours ago • 55 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

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They're doing something about that by... exempting high-end electronic products while slapping tariffs on all the components? Thus making manufacturing in the US uneconomic for everyone? Hahahaha, the thickest, most moronic people alive.

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Took a trundle down the Northern Line to Morden Hall.

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“I am become water leopard, destroyer of penguins” Photo: Amos Nachoum

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A sublime image! That tiny dot of light is Earth, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, between the icy rings of Saturn on April 12, 2017. The Moon is also visible in a cropped, zoomed-in version of the image (go to the 2nd post). ➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia2... 🔭 🧪 #histsci 1/2

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Throttling imports of medicines, ingredients needed to make medicines and machinery needed to make medicines before you have expanded your own production capacity for medicines means you end up with whacking great shortages of medicines

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2025: Nigel Farage, "We've got the most expensive industrial electricity prices in the world" 2016: Daniel Hannan, "Outside the EU, our fuel bills will be cheaper"

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Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 26 comments

Finland gets so much right 🇫🇮

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Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

From last month.

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an early modern man walks out on a fine May morning, on his way to place an order at a goldsmiths. He enters the shop. GS: good morrow sir! EMM: good day! i'd like a wedding ring please. GS: of course sir. gold band do you? and the inscription? 1/

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"oh you're the trade guy..." "no, given I'm hearing people walking down the street talking tariffs, we're all trade specialists now..."

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Make it make sense

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Our political ethos: Anti-killing kids, anti-arresting innocents, pro-not invading other countries. Some countries gaslight and spin up ambiguity. Don’t be fooled, stay the moral course, the bill always comes due.

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@rozzthomas.bsky.social don’t know if you already follow him, but you might like to for good analysis of polling.

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Last week, Reform won almost half the votes in a local election, from a standing start. But the turn-out was only 18%. So four out of five voters were too angry or confused to vote for anybody. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

It’s time to fashion a new global trade order without the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ask MPs to support a Bill that phases out the use of Pesticides in Urban Spaces pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... Sian Berry MP's Bill was tabled in parliament in October '24. The next stage is scheduled to take place on 25th April '25. Has your MP signed? edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

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So now we know how much Nigel was handed from his Nomad Capitalist side-hustle, a company which helps the hyper wealthy with favourable tax and citizenship arrangements. First reported on by me a while back for Byline: bsky.app/profile/mc00...

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Have just turned on the TV and ex IEA chief Mark Littlewood - who now works for Liz Truss - is on the BBC talking about why Labour should revive Rwanda policy. Why is Littlewood still given airtime?

submitted 8 hours ago • 47 comments

Is it now Tory policy to force feed LibDems, like French geese?

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”Because it is the day of Palms, Carry a palm for me, Carry a palm in Santa Chiara, And I will watch the sea…” Palm Sunday, Arthur Symons Entry into Jerusalem, Fresco c. 1320 by Pietro Lorenzetti, San Francesco, Assisi #PalmSunday

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I had a joke about Narcissus, but on reflection decided to keep it to myself.

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If you have the sheer skill to bankrupt a string of casinos… Your next challenge is bankrupting a Western country.

submitted 12 hours ago • 53 comments

This is like when the Tory govt discovered Calais was important for our trade links.

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Let’s send food safety inspectors to the coal mines’

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