Happy to render my opinions on my social media feed yes.

To clarify, the elites in this case would be those who have a say in deciding whether to adopt the euro.

@pimlicat.bsky.social breaks down the current negotiations with the EU on @lbc.co.uk.

“Our future, and our economic and defence security, lie much closer to liberal international democracies in Europe than they do with an unreliable partner.”

"But hey, at least the sunglasses part? That part works great!" ⚰️⚰️⚰️

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

He demanded Angela Rayner resign over a much smaller matter "if she had any decency" - so yes... Resign.

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Trump: "I ended 8 wars, and if we add Iran and Lebanon, that will be 10 wars ended"

One thing that I'm thinking about as a ponder how Todd Blanche put someone whose wife was investigated for foreign influence peddling on this case is that before Blanche was Trump's lawyer be was Boris Epshteyn's lawyer and before he was Epshteyn's lawyer he was Paul Manafort's lawyer.

😳

Trump: "Global warming -- we're actually cooling as a planet"

Trump's DOJ just asked for probation for someone who committed three identity thefts.

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

“In many ways fines have come to replace taxes,” he said. “What I’m trying to show here is, ‘How is enforcement failing?’" www.404media.co/google-micro...

Agree 👍

We shouldn't just pack the Court—we should double it:
bsky.app/profile/jdre...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

#ClimateActionNow

Trump's old allies ‘openly questioning his sanity’: Simon Marks' American Week YouTube video by LBC

My "American Week" is now available in a visualised version on LBC's official YouTube channel....you can watch this week's edition here:

📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdW...

Or you can be a purist and catch the radio edition...right over here:

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/889145...

MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE

Record heat continues with MINIMUMS locally >30C in SAUDI ARABIA

Hot like never before even in the Northern Highlands:
Min 24.8C at Tabuk was the April Highest Minimum ever.

Next days the heat will move East to IRAN with 40C/43C

Read the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers (Gift Article) Read 16 pages of internal deliberations from the Supreme Court that the New York Times has obtained, bringing the origins of the court’s “shadow docket” into the light.

The most striking bits of the Shadow Docket docs:

Lots of hand wringing over costs to power plants, not even a mention of the benefits of cutting CO₂ pollution.

Yes, the 5:4 SCOTUS majority doing the fossil industry's bidding, and not even trying to hide it

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Point being, I agree with the earlier poster, the bigger the company the less concern I have for shoplifting.

Not really, just highlighting the company has a shitload of money and that hand wringing over thefts when the costs are negligible in comparison.

John Swinney predicts SNP majority at Holyrood election The first minister has told BBC News that his party will return at least 65 seats at next month's vote.

I don't really understand why John Swinney is gift-wrapping an "SNP fell short" post-election narrative to his opponents when he's on course to win a fifth consecutive term in office for his party, having been drafted in to steady what looked like a sinking ship.

Gunman kills at least 1 in Kyiv, injures others as police hunt suspect The exact number of casualties is still being determined.

⚡️ At least 1 killed, child injured in Kyiv shooting as gunman remains inside supermarket.

"A special operation to apprehend the man who opened fire and is currently inside the supermarket is ongoing," Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Who are the men convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty of drugging his ex-wife, Gisèle, raping her and inviting dozens of men to abuse her.

Here's what actually happened to them:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

CNN: “It’s a blowout… not even close… Pope Leo absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”

Tehran gunboats ‘fire at tanker’ after Strait of Hormuz closed again: Live Iran had warned the strait ‘will not remain open’ if the US blockade continued and has now moved to restrict it

Further account of military exchanges surrounding oil tankers here. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Old article, profits have since tripled.

Also profits listed are after operational costs like the CEO taking a salary of £800k/yr, so £150k profit per shop is pretty great?

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting.

open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

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I think he's trying to run away from what he saw in the unredacted Epstein files. He knows what's up and can't handle it.