Trump’s moves to bludgeon trading partners with tariffs and leave them to bear the brunt of a reckless, counterproductive war with Iran opened the door for China to present itself as a model of stability in a world of Trumpian chaos. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
In Wokingham, the Tory anti Reform message has been around good governance.
Reform have launched the former Tory leader of the Council into a Labour held ward against a Tory who was a previous UKIP parliament ary candidate and a LibDem was was elected as a Labour town cllr a few years ago.
Brilliant read. Thank you.
Ahead of the local elections, here's an easy guide of how best to assess the results as they come in, including the best metrics to use and some historical benchmarks.
It's on the longer side, but is split into sections and filled with lots of (hopefully) useful data, and completely free-to-read.
1/ I find the attacks on Starmer re Mandelson excessive. As Steve Richards has pointed out, he isn't going to lie about when he knew about the failed vetting because it would be easy to call him out (I also think he is a man of integrity). I didn't like the original appointment bc I'm not a...
AI - Internet or Sincliar C5?
GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.
Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?
How likely does that sound? 🤷♀️
Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'
Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...
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At this point it probably makes sense for the Democrats to design increasingly deranged AI images in the hope that Trump will retweet them.
I’ve been in several negotiations with Iranians. They are tough as nails. Even agreeing when to take a break, or the seating plan, is a battle. They fight everything until you reach a point where it seems a success that the meeting happened at all. That’s what they do. US is totally outmatched.
Developers will do this already- if asked. But the problem is not the buildings it is the staff go in them. That is NHS.
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China loving the prospect of counties being able to unilaterally remove freedom of navigation from international waterways.
A rare defeat for Putin in Western politics tonight. I suppose he can console himself with thoughts of Farage’s projected success next month.
“Apart from all that, Mr Vice President, how was your trip abroad?”
Its going to be Argentina and Russia.
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Has Liz Kendall's leadership bid been taken off his CV?
A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK.
We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company.
Reform have more questions to answer.
Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell:
Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad.
The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.
Some do, they really do. I have seen councillors of all parties either buck national trends or seriously over perform. Or wards where everyone knows their name.
We have a ward, Norreys in Wokingham, where the Tory is ex UKIP parliamentary candidate, the Reform is the former Tory leader of the council and the LibDem was Labour last year but now finds himself LibDem mayor.
Sitting Labour cllr defending the seat.
Cannot wait!
Viking travels in the North Atlantic probably.
What surprises me is that given the surge of membership that they have to look outside the membership.
It may be that just like in other parties, many members do not wish to be elected and do not envisage not winning or do not undersfand the concept of a paper candidate.
TACO!!!!
Exactly.
A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…
Farage getting behind war crimes.
You cannot caveat war crimes.
Boris Johnson says Trump back in White House is 'what the world needs' Ex-PM backs disgraced former US president ahead of election, saying he 'won't ditch the Ukrainians'
Never forget these arse kissing fools who cheered on the worst president in history.
I get they are trying to make themselves relevant, but they aren't.
