Ford CEO Draws Line In Sand: Keep Chinese EVs Out Of US – 'Should Not Let Them Into Our Country' Ford Motor Company paused its electric-vehicle growth efforts, but is pivoting to a major push in 2027. With lower-cost production methods and new models in development, the legacy automaker’s CEO wan...

Just checking on how the Invisible Hand of the Market is doing

Kendall says Starmer should stay in his job because no other leader would offer her a ministerial role

If this is true we desperately need to reform our political system

Is it really credible that a civil servant took this decision without referring to an elected government minister. If so, there is something seriously wrong with the civil service.

The ting about plausible deniability is that it does need to be plausible…

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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Those of us with kids or grandkids, *desperate for the jobs they were promised, shouldn’t think AI is to blame.
The core problem is our 6-8% shrinking GDP, the *Brexit shrink. Free movement inside the EU expanded life chances. Farage & Boris took them away.

Someone send this schmuck a copy of Hannah Arendt’s book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil”.

This. We have put addictive algorithms (social media and games) in pockets. But if they were only on PCs or parents would still be desperate to get their kids to do other things. I think if it like food addiction. We need to deal with the poisons being generated my vested commercial interests

what happens when they come for people on Bluesky, what's their plan for that 🤔

I a foot shorter - and agree wholeheartedly

Photograph of three copies of a Refugee Action report on a desk. The title of the report is: Locked Out and Locked Up: Experiences of asylum policy and systemic racism in the UK and northern France.

The result of a year-long, cross-border research project with people seeking safety in the UK and France, mine and Haleemah Alaydi's new report for Refugee Action is out on Monday 13th April. I'll post more here then.

I always thought it was interesting that one of the first things both Scotland and Wales did as soon as the could, was to set up a national theatre.

‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported audiences from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew

‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

NATO has been dead for months now. It died as soon as everyone knew that he’d not come to the aid of NATO partners like Estonia if Putin invades

Looks like they have reinvented feudalism..

Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...

"The titans of this industry have perfected a cradle-to-grave model of investment focused on the places we live, work, grow old, and eventually die, capturing these core services and squeezing them for profit."

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In a democracy it is perfectly acceptable for citizens to make their feelings known. It is for politicians to let us know they have heard us and to give us some reassurance that they are responding appropriately

Farage believes that Kanye West should be free to spout antisemitic hate, but would deport Bobby Vylan. Where’s the logic in that?

Fascinating to think about who gets forgiven and who doesn’t. Wonder how many lost sponsors and unsold tickets it will take for Live Nation to change this stance

Electricity currently costing -£24.71 / MWh to generate, thanks to net-zero.

As ever, the cost plummets as net-zero sources take over from the Tories' and Refukkers' beloved fossil fuels.

Shocking how they damage the UK's interests for sake of their fossil fuel funders.

Honestly, @livenationuk.bsky.social, did this booking really not raise any alarm bells? Probably time to revisit your policies. And not just because you should morally, but also because there’s a strong chance you will have upset your festival audience’s sense of identity.

Excuse to share my favourite Duncan Robinson piece from last year:
www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Is Asda still a co-op? If not, probs need to swop is and Co-op…

But hear me out, what if gender critical academics become the reason REF is abandoned, researchers can finally stop playing league table games and get on with doing good work instead?

But why is he still on X?

The academic publishing system is broken because it’s in the interests of academic publishers to keep increasing the number of publications and of academics to publish often. Peer reviewing and editing are neither paid nor prestigious. They depends on individuals feeling an obligation to their field

Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract Government is under pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems

"The Gov has begun exploring the technical process of removing Palantir from NHS systems in advance of any decision to use the original contract’s break clause in 2027"

Brilliant news, as many of us want ties with Palantir cut.

www.ft.com/content/2d2b...