my therapist, rubbing his temples: the demonic composite of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch the FT made to illustrate a Janan Ganesh piece isn't real and it can't hurt you
the demonic composite of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch the FT made to illustrate a Janan Ganesh piece:
Royal Mail scandal.
2nd-class post will be delivered every other weekday, scrapped on Saturdays.
Company hasn't met any letter delivery targets since privatisation, so regulator reduces targets.
Price won't be reduced for worse service
Promise of £500m investment by ripping off customers.
Warren: "Why try to end independence of the Fed? Bc Trump's economic failures are causing him political problems, he wants the Fed to artificially juice the economy Having a sock puppet in charge of the Fed would also give the president access to the Fed's powerful authorities to enrich himself"
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
Ingmar Rentzhog:
For years, the argument has been that renewables can’t be relied on because the sun doesn’t always shine…
When you can store that energy and release it exactly when demand peaks, the whole logic of “intermittency” starts to break down.
reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteri...
Thames Water infrastructure average age is 79 yrs. 40% of assets are 100+ yrs old.
Water industry average is 56 years.
At current rate, it will take 700+ yrs to renew assets.
Since 1989 industry neglected investment, £88bn+ dividends paid, customers fleeced.
Privatisation isn't the answer.
Wait a minute, is this the same Richard Tice who repeatedly called for Angela Rayner to resign over her dubious tax shenanigans? Surely not, because that would make him look like a hypocritical wanker. Oh.
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Following backlash from critics and supporters alike, President Trump removed an AI-generated Truth Social post depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure healing a patient, which he later claimed he believed portrayed him as a doctor.
From the new Private Eye
Whatever you think of Boris Johnson, at least we know he WASN’T a liar, nor did he ever mislead Parliament.
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Next CEO pay rose from £4.9m to £7.4m, could hit £9.27m this year.
Company changed CEO pay formula because it didn't give directors enough.
Non-exec directors to get higher pay.
Most shop workers toil on/around minimum wage.
Govts preach pay restraint to workers but no curbs on fat-cattery.
They think you’ll fall for it again.
From weasel words to vanishing party names, the oldest political trick is still alive: say anything, hide everything.
Every election, parties put out glossy leaflets telling you what matters. But it’s your job to decide – not theirs.
Peter Thurlow explains
You need to read this.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.
V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.
www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...
UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies.
It is net energy importer. Imports most things, all affected by price of energy.
At home, energy companies profiteer, hike inflation, reduce people's purchasing power.
Nationalisation of energy would help, alternative is stagnation.
Raskin offers bill setting up 25th Amendment process to remove Trump from office. He wants to set up a commission yo determine whether Trump is mentally fit for office.
I hope they submit the Jesus tweets into the record. 👀
www.ms.now/news/raskin-...
The entire Republican Party has been ignoring Trump's sharp mental decline the same way they've ignored his crimes.
When Lennon quipped that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" in an interview in 1966 it nearly derailed them in America.
The KKK burned their records & merch on pyres, there were repeated death threats and it was one of the factors that led them to stop touring
Trump’s done far worse today
Hillary Clinton on Trump's increasing unhinged posts: "I read those like I think I hope the majority of Americans -- both shaking my head, and really just feeling sick at heart that we have a president who is such a disgrace."
More evidence submissions for Section 4, 25th Amendment
Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating!
10 years after Farage's Brexit lies: £350m for NHS? Gone. Economy 6-8% smaller. 63% would rejoin. Sunlit uplands? More like fog of failure. 🇬🇧 #BrexitBetrayal
Love David Byrne….hope the kids at Coachella were paying attention and appreciated the genius they were witnessing last night
"Love and Kindness are a form of resistance"
Release ALL the unredacted Epstein Files.
Arrests need to be made. Justice needs to be served.
“Angela Rayner ‘dodged’ paying the correct amount of tax.
Her position is morally indefensible.
If she had any integrity, any moral decency she would resign.”
(Dick Tice, Reform Ltd)
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.
I can’t believe it 😭
Thank you for originally posting this. Wonderful idea. 👇👇👇
