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@newsagents.bsky.social Pretty sure the reason more people aren't having kids is the price of housing & bills, more than attitudes to hours spent with the kids...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

submitted 2 days ago • 250 comments

Great, practical thread of things Europe can do to survive the loss of the transatlantic alliance (which is - for all practical purposes - gone for at least the next four years, given Trump's attitude to European security).

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

“Scholars are still debating whether Trump is a non-interventionist or a rule-burning unilateralist (which better describes his current moves). Either way he is in inveterate real estate developer”. Me on Trump’s regime changing first 20 days. on.ft.com/41adqhJ

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 18 days ago • 199 comments

Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump’s America. Manufactured by trade/military wars, shrinking purchasing power of low/middle income families. Will be the biggest crash ever as private equity has its claws everywhere. Ultra-rich will get a public bailout. archive.ph/F7ftX

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

UK gambling companies unlawfully target high-risk gamblers. One problem gambler bombarded with more than 1,300 marketing emails. Lives ruined to boost profits, exec pay. Puny fines don't deter. Regulator now required to promote industry growth. Who protects people?

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

The legendary Bill Browder with some words of wisdom on dealing with Russians, what Ukraine has been telling the world for 11 years. @billbrowder.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Well, except for the great sodding boulder that is membership of the single market. But no stone other than that one.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

"Abandoned dogs overwhelm UK shelters as weak regulations fuel a welfare crisis... Animal shelters and kennels are grappling with an increasingly desperate situation. Thousands of dogs... now face the harsh fate of abandonment, the uncertainty of rehoming or, in the most tragic cases, euthanasia."

submitted 64 days ago • 42 comments

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

submitted 75 days ago • 107 comments

During the pandemic 17 firms supplied £119m worth of PPE that was deemed unusable in the NHS. Since the start of 2024, they’ve made £83.6m. How is this even possible? goodlawproject.org/firms-who-su...

submitted 82 days ago • 30 comments

Important to get as many voices as possible filling in this survey -- so that it can be taken forward to politicians as evidence of public engagement with/ concern about this issue. Please do fill in and share. I sense this Bluesky community is about getting things done... so let's do it! 👇

submitted 83 days ago • 38 comments

Not cool. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s Russian papers reflect 2 very different Russias. One Russia: the military superpower threatening Ukraine & the West with Oreshnik missiles. The other Russia – where butter, increasingly expensive, is now sold in some shops in “anti-theft protective boxes.” #ReadingRussia

submitted 93 days ago • 27 comments

1000 candles mark 1000 day in front of the “motherland” monument in kyiv

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment