Radical parties of the right and left in top two slots. Legacy parties getting only a third of the vote between them.
A whole new world.
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Radical parties of the right and left in top two slots. Legacy parties getting only a third of the vote between them.
A whole new world.
American military assets in the region and Gulf oil supplies are vulnerable to retaliation and Israel is a renewed target.
Read the FT's military briefing here: ft.trib.al/sJzNxc2
Charts showing holidays abroad from UK broadly rising but some mild dips for student-aged and pensioners
Dips in younger and older travellers but broad trend up
Not doubting there are families for whom it applies, but it’s not *broadly* supported by the data.
But vibes that everything has got harder likely proving fatal for the ill-defined Starmer project.
Inflation has been horrible, no doubt, not least for those on lower incomes.
But it’s interesting how expectations have evolved.
Hard to square “Can’t even dream of having a holiday” with a more than doubling in foreign trips in ~20 years.
one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...
Shabana Mahmood, Lisa Nandy and Wes Streeting (and dark horse contender Armed Forces Minister Al Carns, who's not in cabinet) have now all also Tweeted or voiced support for Starmer.
He's got a full house for the moment. Now to see if they all really mean it...
Pat McFadden
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As someone said to me in the constituency on Friday "tell your boss to keep going."
I did and I hope he does. 🌹
Only three cabinet ministers have not Tweeted or put out a message of support for Starmer:
Wes Streeting
Shabana Mahmood
Lisa Nandy (who is at the Winter Olympics)
This could of course change, but it's where we're at just before 3:30pm
Osborne said he could “unequivocally state that Jeffrey Epstein never invested in Hedosophia or any Hedosophia Fund”.
“The fact that I sought his opinion, along with many others, does not give him an advisory role”
He added his “association” with Epstein was one “I bitterly regret”.
Osborne initially pitched Epstein a plan to rehabilitate his image in 2011 claiming his firm could “clean up” search engine results on Epstein’s name, saying they had utilised an “excellent team of Israeli experts” for other clients.
The disgraced financier, born in 1953, originally wanted to call Hedosophia “Partnership 53”,
People close to Osborne conceded there were discussions about Epstein investing in Hedosophia — which is now a $1bn fund — but said this did not come to pass.
How Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne, a onetime PR man and adviser to David Cameron
Epstein guided him in setting up Hedosophia (now one of UK’s most important start-up backers)
and even appointed him to one of his own investment vehicles
www.ft.com/content/8b04...
EXC: US State dept is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in UK/ Europe to amplify Washington’s policy stances and challenge perceived threats to free speech
W/ @annasophiegross.bsky.social, @oilsheppard.bsky.social & Amy McKinnon
as.ft.com/r/98452b33-5...
Devil, of course, could be in the details (will it apply to all companies in India or just state backed ones etc).
But there’s real pressure being applied to Russia’s oil revenues, while crude prices are already low
If Trump has actually convinced India to stop buying Russian oil it’s potentially a very big deal.
India was buying ~40% of Russian export volumes, and now the only remaining buyer of any significance is China. And Beijing just got huge pricing power and leverage
www.ft.com/content/72f1...
Is this the end of Epstein’s “best pal”?
www.ft.com/content/608a... @pickardje.bsky.social
EXC: The multibillion-pound contract to build ‘Skynet 6’ next-gen military satellites is shaping up as key flashpoint in UK govt, as Trump’s threats to western allies are fuelling concern about London’s reliance on Washington for defence
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It’s this. Got the same
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Which might be unfair! But it’s how most people without a significant dog in the fight likely view it.
Got the same to a more extreme degree with Hearts v the Old Firm at the moment. And while a lot of my fellow Hearts fans get upset about it, I don’t personally think it’s wildly biased
Is it not as simple as ‘Man City are the strongest team on paper and have a (relatively recent but well-established) history of going on juggernaut-esque runs that crush others’ dreams’. While the (relatively recent but well-established) narrative around Arsenal is that they’ll crack at some stage?
It is, for once, all about oil.
Yeah, I was surprised when living in NYC that no one really knew it. Even stuck it on an Irish bar jukebox late one December and half the punters were asking what it was as the Brits all sang along
I did this coming the other way from Turkey circa 2009, under the wildly mistaken belief that from outside the EU it was kosher.
The pack of ~10 cartons literally had their own handle, and I was swinging it like a jaunty little suitcase when I got huckled in the ‘nothing to declare’ line
@miles-johnson.bsky.social
This could be messy. The state owned UK Atomic Energy Authority is in a joint venture with the organisation merging with Trump Media & Technology Group
www.ft.com/content/1e05... @pickardje.bsky.social @oilsheppard.bsky.social
