Robbins’ work on Brexit involved meeting the expectation that he would force many square pegs into round holes without complaint or reference to the absurdity of it all. I can't help thinking that the working habits Robbins formed at that time had a bearing on his approach to Mandleson’s vetting.
I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax.
Please don't share.
🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea
Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office
MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵
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Is this why we went to WAR???
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
It's Tuesday, so the markets are open.
That means today is a "Peace Day" at the White House: a day in which our sociopathic president pretends to be reasonable.
But actually he's deranged, and the markets should be going haywire. But their wishcasting—and greed—knows no bounds.
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
It has taken over five years of murderous chaos for Republican voters to start to see what was obvious all along: that Donald Trump should not be trusted with a box of matches, let alone the most powerful office on Earth. That's the power of propaganda for you.
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Farage has accepted £675,000 – a third of his income – from foreign sources since becoming an MP.
📝 @desmog.com
Tax Dodge Tice: "If anybody from any other party had been in that situation and tried to dodge paying tax.. if she (Angela Rayner) had any integrity, and moral decency, given her position... she would offer her resignation." #UKPolitics
Insider trading by Trump friends and family has been obvious for a while
Bigger question is whether Trump is deliberately causing volatility to enable this grift
All this gambling should be made illegal
No way you can argue it's efficient allocation of capital
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Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….
Iran's latest trolling of Hegseth by Drew Ponder 🤣
Absolutely brilliant stuff
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Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Let me impulsively bomb a country and kill people so I can then stop the bombing and killing in order to win a Nobel Peace Prize is quite the strategy.
“There’s no escaping this conversation. The damage Brexit has done to this country is obvious now to everyone. We wasted years of our lives pursuing a project whose only possible outcome was to mutilate and embarrass us”
This conversation cannot happen soon enough.
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Human Thumb, Joe Rogan stopped by the Oval Office to huff the fecal plumage of his lord god king.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
This really should not be a surprise to anyone. But then I wrote a post in 2024 listing Hungary's influence op as one of the things NOT being covered bc of the 1000th Joe Biden Old story.
1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.
Go home, you’re drunk.
Farage’s and Gill’s speeches to the EU Parliament were fundamentally the same. Both men were in contact with the Russian agent who paid Gill. To me, the difference between their positions appears to be that the police properly investigated only one of them.
A fact that itself requires investigation.
Let’s not forget that one of Farage’s colleagues is now in prison for taking Russian bribes.
Sir John Curtice has said that Labour should end its 'strategy of silence' on #Europe if it wants to revive its fortunes.
The majority of the public favour closer UK-EU ties: the time to act is now. #RejoinEU
Nothing says “leadership” like taking credit for fixing a crisis you helped create.
13 U.S. troops are dead. A school full of innocent girls was destroyed.
That’s not strength. That’s the cost.
Leadership matters. This isn’t it. #GA14
There are a large number of unknowns in that poll I mentioned.
They're the reason why we need a positive campaign rather than a slanging match between Eton toffs.
The 32% of never if € folks are probably dwindling daily anyway although I'd like to see age-related polling on that.
