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The disgrace is therefore ours…the backlash will be brutal I think. What catharsis will British men want for being tarred by a nonce.

06.02.2026 15:23 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

My belief is Starmer survives because the public’s pain lies more in Andy than the Mandy. Most people believe that the fault of the liar is with the liar not the victim. Even if that’s simplistic when the victim is a leader, but Andrew it was said was out their being the best of us.

06.02.2026 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Do I need to note that this is satire?

16.01.2026 16:18 👍 44 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 2

Government can’t build a railway, maintain roads or run the NHS but Lobster welfare they’re on it

22.12.2025 15:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In fairness it’s hardly the prize it was 2 years ago. Of you’re attacked the US will totally sell you weapons, maybe.

14.12.2025 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It wasn’t until I heard a strangely synthetic version of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” that I realised that we were undoubtably in the throes of an AI Bublé

09.12.2025 17:52 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The phrasing says everything, the answer is to tax people “wealthier” than me. Sigh.

20.11.2025 09:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UK inflation fell to 3.6% in October Figure strengthens case for BoE rate cut next month

UK inflation fell to 3.6% in October on.ft.com/48kEGyt

19.11.2025 07:07 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 4

Yes I was just making a bit of a cheeky joke as there is an incongruity between the perception of Buddhism and loads of jewels 💎😉

08.05.2025 15:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sotheby's postpones Buddha jewels auction after India threatens legal action The jewels are described as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern era.

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs here and I’m no Buddhism scholar but isn’t takes massive hoard of loot to the grave a bit sort of materialistic 🤔

Sotheby's halts Buddha jewels auction after India threat www.bbc.com/news/article...

08.05.2025 11:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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Take no comfort from America’s Trump backlash The revolt against him isn’t huge, and it isn’t about constitutional principle

Excellent and not much to quibble with but also can someone check in on Janan

Take no comfort from America’s Trump backlash

on.ft.com/4jINIIZ

07.05.2025 12:32 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Kingsday tomorrow in Amsterdam, things warming up nicely !

25.04.2025 19:31 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The rest of the world should play Trump down the line on trade deals. They are the only thing that can save him from his own mistake.

Without, he goes into the midterms with a recession and non of the deals he promised.

Even if he survives as a lame duck he’s gone after his term.

22.04.2025 08:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The bond market spanked Trump for posting about Powell, it’ll be interesting to see if he’s learned that lesson and how much he cares. It’s possibly the only thing that does have leverage at this point.

22.04.2025 07:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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21.04.2025 18:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The $ needs to weaken to spur reindustrialization and be strong to limit inflation passthrough from tariffs, which are supposed to spur onshoring, provide long-term revenues, and be a negotiable bargaining chip. And l/t interest rates have to be lower. The last is at least an uncomplicated desire.

21.04.2025 18:08 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
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We'll soon have in a selection of Leuchtturm 18mth diaries (01/07/25 - 31/12/26). They now do three different styles including our most popular: week on the left, lined for notes on the right. If there's a colour/style combo you'd like, do let us know
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18.04.2025 10:04 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump’s world of rival fortresses In his vision of post-liberal global disorder, the weak should always surrender to the strong

Super article

It starts with Trump as instigator however rather than seeing him as a consequence and reflecting on that.

When he won I said we now live in the time of the 3 emperors.

But he is the 3rd and in many ways a consequence of the others.

on.ft.com/4jAwxJ0

18.04.2025 06:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMG you didn’t read the article and made yourself look silly by calling everyone else dumb. Get over it and in future read first and spout later.

17.04.2025 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s an interesting headline and not a lie.

Chinese EVs will be part of the policy.

So will some other makes and models.

17.04.2025 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Financial TimesFinancial Times News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

Not as stupid as those that find a full article too many words.

“Our policies and procedures take account of the potential threats from all types of vehicle, not just those manufactured in China, and we have issued appropriate internal direction to all drivers and passengers,” he added.

17.04.2025 15:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“They’ll never decapitate a whale”, he wept…

17.04.2025 12:21 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Words were used this morning when I read this, as someone who’s solar is a net contributor and pays 100s of pounds of standing charge to give it to the grid.

16.04.2025 14:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ursula von der Leyen: "We have no bros and no oligarchs" Donald Trump's second term has brought "historic changes", says EU President Ursula von der Leyen. In our interview, she explains how Europe must respond.

Super article.

Von der Leyen’s acknowledgment that she wouldn’t have predicted where we are right now is fair, but there is an air of not seeing tomorrow.

That worries me when she dismisses the possibility that the Brexit/Trump theme could manifest in Europe.

www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

16.04.2025 10:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It sort of made me queasy this article. It struck me more like a letter from a small place.

16.04.2025 09:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain Britons are skilled at navigating the humiliation unleashed by political and market chaos — allow us to give you some tips

I suspect if our intellectual elites had been less worried about the shame of group exclusion at international economics jollies and more by the shame felt by those left behind in 2008 we wouldn’t be where we are

on.ft.com/4jd86lr Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain

16.04.2025 08:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says Regulator to consult industry on how to recover network costs via standing charge in a ‘more progressive’ way

@ofgem.bsky.social

Unbelievable….will we be able to offset solar installations against the standing charge and recoup our infrastructure investments.

I’ll just get back to powering my street.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

16.04.2025 05:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Javier Blas on China's Rare Earths Dominance Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 15/04/2025 · 31m

What THEY won’t tell you about Rare Earth Metals !! 😂

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

15.04.2025 13:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” H.L Mencken

14.04.2025 11:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I had one criticism, the final discussion on how the world might look if the financial crash of 2008 hadn’t undermined faith in the elites treats that event like a tragic act of god visited upon them and so doesn’t address what could have been done differently to ensure faith was not lost.

14.04.2025 08:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0