The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:
"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...
EU funding should be off-limits to Chinese, Russian and US companies... and those of any countries that undermine European interests.
That should also apply to local African companies with owners from those countries.
I keep seeing more articles describing Russia's extreme state of economic vulnerability, so something is up. Putin has been a fool and deserves everything that's coming.
A cruel and inhuman decision.
This is the fundamental issue. And they don't give a damn about their own people as thousands have been executed. A terrible situation for ordinary Iranians to be in.
Iran has time on its side. All it needs to do is to
sit this out until Trump hysterically capitulates before the midterms.
Perhaps the worst outcome for 🌍short of renewed war, given this is a recipe for a long stalemate and Trump and his admin are completely useless at negotiating productively. Any state not actively preparing for shortages is looking negligent
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This from the man who hasn't washed his hands in 10 years because he "thinks" bacteria are a woke invention.
That would be amazing if achievable. I still hope to see the Crimean bridge blown in to a a pile of rubble before this year is over.
I am not a fan of Meloni but she can definitely stand her own ground and hit back full force.
Doing a TACO and a TOFU at the same time.
Just don't. Trump only takes and gives nothing in return.
“Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies... [A]t least one of the vessels, which tried to exit the strait on Saturday and was hit by gunfire, was a victim of the fraud.”
The valley of Lithium in Brazil is not brining any of the promised benefits. The only ones winning here are the shareholders, not the locals who instead have to put up with rising costs, increasing pollution, poverty and noise.
Russian army morphing into one surreal tale: adding to the hyper-violent command chained structure now we have Archangel Michael blessing maimed soldiers from the sky.
An endorsement from Trump is a career death knell.
Full support to Sam Neill and the local community which is trying to stop this aberration. Nothing to do with being a nimbi and all to do with wanting to halt an open cast goldmine that will cause toxic pollution and land degradation in and outstanding natural landscape.
Israel is violating human rights at an unprecedented scale and this needs to stop. Israel is also very reliable on European markets, which gives us leverage.
Indeed. There is also another issue: secure infrastructure. The most common use of an e-bike is shopping. Supermarkets could increase their client base by offering secure locking bays including charging, while we shop. Yet, at least in the south of Europe this remains a distant dream.
We expect some positive decisions tomorrow on the €90 billion loan to Ukraine.
This would show that our support for Ukraine remains strong and that Russia cannot outlast Ukraine.
My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Agree with everything but would not call chem cheap.
The Israeli land grab is an endless horror story and the impunity must end. Israel needs to undergo the same sanctions applied to Russia.
It's toasted, not roasted.
That is the absolute worse scenario.
Another reason to decentralise.
The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
While private transport is being electrified, our train network and infrastructure has been left behind. We need the federal model of an European rail authority to mandate interoperability, set booking standards, and allocate infrastructure investment.
The expansion of the #Palantir platform is in doubt, UK ministers eye contract break: No software, no improvements and no intellectual property after spending more than £330 million www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/p...
Tim Cook's legacy will be enshittifying Apple's software, abusing their market dominance, and then playing apologist to fascism.
Under his leadership they burned billions on a car that never drove, and the only major attempt at a new product during his tenure (the Apple Vision Pro) was a total dud.
