Astonishingly UK gov has awarded 34 contracts worth £900m to US-based Palantir, including a 7-year £330m contract to handle NHS patient data. There are major concerns about this, given Palantir’s links to the CIA, its contracts with the IDF, and its co-founder Peter Thiel being a major Trump donor.
It is preposterous and honestly rather shameful for Starmer to act so upset over the Mandelson affair. He is basically attacking Robbins for doing precisely what he wanted him to do inews.co.uk/opinion/unbe...
Net migration went negative for the first time in 50 years. We're deporting people we need. GDP growth comes from two levers: labor force growth and productivity growth. The math doesn't care about your feelings on immigration. open.substack.com/pub/strategy...
#immigration #workforce #gdp #economy
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Nigel Farage being healed by Putin while Tice and Anderson look on.
Outrageous! Looks nothing like Richard or Lee.
Keir Starmer actually put this in a briefing to Labour MPs of 'useful questions to ask' today. The PM knew of Mandelson's relationship Epstein when he appointed him.
And yet thinks he can still exploit the grief of the victims. This is why he is not fit to be Prime Minister.
It certainly won't be repeated!
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
We don’t have a functioning FBI Director. That should terrify you. It should also make you very angry at Donald Trump, who is allowed Kash Patel to stay in his job when he is utterly unfit in every way. Thanks to @theatlantic.com for the great reporting.
Aye but the US is behind Europe and it's only April the 17th in Europe as I type this!
Odd time stamp
Same here but nevertheless the TV versions play very well in their own right. 👍👍
Harry Hole on Netflix.
The UK not being involved in the war again...
More than 1m Europeans have called for a full suspension of the EU's trade agreement with Israel.
However the EU is planning just a partial suspension, tariffs on only 40% of Israel's exports.
This not acceptable.
Full suspension of the Trade Agreement with Israel.
NOW.
They're bound to be short; one never knws when Wile E. Coyote may appear!
“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators…
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
There was no good way to organise this visit and nothing gained by sending him. A severe risk to national dignity, undertaken for no advantage whatsoever.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
@pjtheeconomist.bsky.social times column this week is an incredibly pithy (even by his standards!) summary of the issues and changes in working age welfare - including why spending on it isn't out of control.
IDF using Holocaust Memorial Day to tweet #NeverAgain while they're literally #DoingItAgain
It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).
Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004
"7 year old Aleen barely survived an Israeli air strike on her village.. her sister Taleen, who was one and a half years old, did not survive"
Their grandfather: "This is a war crime.. if a child is wounded in Israel the whole world jumps up. Are we not people?"
Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
How much do I have to pay you to ship 6 of them to the UK?! They look fabulous. Well done.
A reminder.
“There is no superior race.”
“There is no chosen people of God.”
“It is neither the United States nor Israel.”
“The chosen people of God is all of humanity.”
President of Colombia - Gustavo Petro
Starbucks UK sales and number of shops increase but appears to pay no corporation tax.
The trick is profit shifting through intragroup transactions to low/no tax jurisdictions - royalty payments, management fees, interest on intragroup loans.
Company accounts comply with UK law but are opaque.
More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast
Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com
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Perhaps Israel could explain why an 8 month old baby is somehow also a Hezbollah operative. Or maybe they no longer wish to distinguish between genuine targets and residential, civilian buildings.
