Incidentally, if you want to know why the government doesn't have any money and services are starting to fall apart, you may enjoy this graph, from this article
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"why doesn't Bluesky have its own Grok" well because the human users already bring up completely unrelated human rights atrocities in your mentions for no reason
“A family earning £100k a year will now find themselves on minimum wage after taking part in just two drug binges a week.”
A Financial Times investigative documentary has found evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not isolated incidents but are likely to be part of a broader pattern that points to a systematic policy.
Watch the full documentary here: on.ft.com/3Qs7oDW
The biggest challenge this UK government will face is handling the current foreign & defence policy environment. This will mean picking priorities, and changing its perspective. Sub-threshold action has been far too much ignored regarding the RU-UA war.
This must change.
Rt. Hon Ben Wallace @BenWallace70 on Twitter: Now is the time for the PM to show some leadership. Europe and Ukraine would welcome it. fingers crossed.
The UK is one of a few European countries with both the political will and the economic firepower to stop Europe merely coasting and actually start choosing its destiny.
Now more than ever, the PM needs an expert mission team able to deliver a total response to the conflict.
Government has been flying too close to the sun for too long. Threats up to full-terror incidents are going to rise in frequency. It has been luck that things haven't increased sooner.
***NEW VIDEO***
The Russian government gun runner logistics ship Ursa Major sank under mysterious circumstances on December 23 2024. Now Russia's specialist deep sea spy ship, Yantar, is now diving over the wreck site. #OSINT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPb...
O. M. G. Look at that track.
Danish TV2 found proof of a second Yi Peng 3 sabotage attempt, ten days earlier than the known sabotage.
3 x experts deem the bottom-track man made and not by fishing. It matches the course of YP3 and she made a suspicious AIS-track exactly at the spot.
Link below.
"We are waiting for real actions as soon as possible. No more talk. We are not only fighting against Ivanishvili - we are fighting against the hybrid war unleashed by Russia. We need new elections with your support. It's time to act, enough diplomacy," - Member of Georgian parliament, Vashadze
Quick map I threw together of the approximate situation in western #Aleppo based on confirmed footage of rebel movements and fighting today.
#Syria
The mechanics of exactly how the new Russia, Iran, North Korea, China axis of aggression functions to dismantle western democracy and collect resource rich territories while NATO sleeps.
Chinese-flagged cargo ship Yi Peng 3 crossed both submarine cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke.
She was shadowed by Danish navy for a while during night and is now in Danish Straits leaving Baltics.
No signs of boarding. AIS-caveats apply.
The argument "without Western aid to Ukraine, the war will end" is categorically false, as anyone who has ever spent time in Ukraine talking to Ukrainians could tell you.
Without Western aid, the war will continue, but thousands more Ukrainian civilians and soldiers will die.
-> @united24media.com is the official account.
Note how you can have a handle that is a domain name? That only works if it has been verified by BSky through DNS records.
There's been talk again of a royal commission on social care [cue collective groan from policy wonks]
Like many I agree a royal commission would be a waste of time. BUT I do think there could be value in an inquiry modelled on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards
Short 🧵below:
“I welcome debate... I am upset that colleagues are debating my bill”. I mean.
a brave Conservative leader would surely be urging the govt to be bold on tax reform rather than trying to freeze the tax system in aspic - the govt clearly should be considering council tax reform/ revaluation www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
It's a bug, currently affecting a lot of people.
Very good article. Wondering whether the impacts of Britain's burgeoning cash-in-hand economy also have a role role in this.
🫡 I think he's going to need a gentle drip of these posts from all of us...
I suppose there is probably something also to be said for the fact that the UK has maintained a larger pool of min-wage jobs due to comparatively low automation in logistics industries, for example. But moving away from that requires investment...
The key graf from @duncanrobinson.bsky.social. Graduate taxes on people making the minimum wage… The condition in the UK’s conditional repayment system is now simply ‘do you have a full-time job?’
The @financialtimes.com ‘s editorial board says European states have to prepare, “for a smaller American role in NATO, or even an end to the 80-year US commitment to European security.”
No surprise whatsoever but good that this is now becoming the mainstream view.
Though even that's been pushed back....
bsky.app/profile/stoc...
It was anti-politics by design, which discouraged the critical mass of high-activity users to move, and very reluctant to let you see only following, which is terrible UX for people uninterested in the detritus that is "most popular".
