It was a dreadful interview - really sneering and supercilious. It's not about giving anyone an easy ride, but as listeners we don't learn anything when the interviewee can never complete a sentence. There's a difference between a tough interview (which is revealing) and a barracking (which is not).
Nick Robinson really is a terrible interviewer, far keener to get his views across & get a gotcha moment than in listening to what his interviewees have to say. #r4today
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
- Harry Truman
As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.
It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.
I have signed a letter to the Foreign Secretary about the escalation of deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes.
The letter urges the government to make diplomatic interventions and impose sanctions on Israeli settlements.
The art of screwing over the world to try and satisfy your ego.
Benefit Fraud costs about £2bn a year.
Tax Avoidance is at least £200bn a year.
One is unaffordable and needs to be cracked down on.
The other is completely ignored.
I bet you already know which is which.
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
Sooner or later.
Please please sooner 🙏.
Time? Whatever that is.
( Flashes come and go, covered over by ignorance in the futile quest for satisfaction from the same energy that has never ultimately satisfied before.)
Vote Reform and this will be your reality.
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Because most of our media/press is owned by billionaires who don’t want us to have an NHS, they want us to pay for everything & make them richer, is my understanding anyway.
Or is that a follow through of trump?
Defining 'care they need,' being very sensitive.
The identity issue.... which I dare not comment on, it is so energised.
as @marietjeschaake.bsky.social has been arguing for a long time, the European answer can only be a European techno-infrastructure. However, that must be publicly owned and democratically accountable! Europe cannot simply build its own technofascist counterforce!
Obviously, this goes well beyond Panetir, although this is a particularly dangerous company and Thiel a particularly dangerous individual. But Amazon, Oracle, Musk-related companies, etc. cannot be trusted either! All either support or submit to US authoritarianism.
Clearly, this disqualifies Palentir as a business partner for any other country than the U.S., not just in defense and security related sector but ANY sector — as information is power.
European countries should not just start new collaboration with Palentir, they should divest it ASAP!
In a league of their own.
Spives and the angry disenfranchised voting for more disenfranchisement.
Not gentlemen.
EXCLUSIVE:
"UK surveillance flights over Gaza were conducted with more US involvement than previously known, Federal Aviation Administration documents obtained by Zeteo reveal... [and] put the countries at risk of aiding and abetting war crimes, international legal experts told Zeteo."
A march took place in Seoul today to show solidarity with Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran against the US-Israeli attacks.
Via: mo.alriashi
Braverman - twice Conservative Home Secretary - in a period that saw record migration figures.
They really do think people are dumb.
There may be no way of recovering from that environmentally.
This is all so bad for our democracy and our country. Farage has lied and grifted his arse off to be where he is today and our media routinely fails to hold him to account on any of it. His Brexit ideology is a ruinous disaster and his mass deportation and leaving the ECHR plan would be even worse.
Loved his music, an intelligent man.
Despite making over £20bn in the UK, Starbucks has paid £0 tax in most years.
In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m.
It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.
If 53% wish to return to the EU, how does Farage win a GE?
( With the Stamer enforced FPTP, where a landslide can be achieved with a sub 40% vote.)
I'm also sick of seeing the establishment protecting their own when they face justice. Please fill out the consultation and stop this cruelty. Ban Hunting!
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between a president who treats power in transactional terms and a pope who frames war, migration and human dignity as matters of moral principle."
Re moral principle, Trump displays bankruptcy.
Return to the same program and be held to account.
Be told what that what they said was not true and account for their false statement.
I don’t think this is enough.
In fact I think when politicians or other such people go on radio or TV and make grossly 8na curate statements like this they should have to appear again in the same programme and time slot to be publicly corrected…and cannot go on (BBC etc) until he or she complies.
