This confirms what we already knew, but what is not talked about enough.
russia, a terrorist state, is directly targeting Europe with acts intended to kill.
It is at war with us.
This will only intensify, maybe dramatically, until Moscow is completely defeated in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
From Aditya Chakrabortty: “A child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness... healthy life expectancy is now the lowest since 2011, when records began.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I think that his behaviour gives a very strong signal about how he’s going to approach the mid term elections. At some point the Republicans are going to have to face up to the monster they’ve created before it consumes them as well. Perhaps they ought to look at the French Revolution 🤔
Think there's a large element of disbelief around at what on earth the US is doing and hope that somehow Trump will just stop, because otherwise the economic outlook is pretty dire.
Have to say I find the inflation expectations that would follow a lasting oil price shock optimistic to say the least. Optimised supply chains may be resilient but rising costs of key elements can easily work through to prices.
On a similar theme.
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/6...
This is an interesting take.
Anti-nature policies are a dead end for Labour.
You don’t secure lasting growth by risking long-term harm to the ecosystems we rely on.
The public knows this.
There’s no need for the Government to pick a fight with voters on nature.
It’s bad policy and bad politics.
This is the bit that worries me. labourlist.org/2026/03/labo...
Right, OK, I’d missed that bit. The site itself doesn’t flood and it’s not increasing the risk elsewhere - is that the conclusion?
A timely warning from @davidallengreen.bsky.social
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Could somebody who understands planning law explain this to me please?
Trump is calling the shots, corporations are doing u-turns in response.
We didn't have any attitudes on 15 year routes to citizenship
when Badenoch made her proposal - because Switzerland is the outlier at 10 years, everyone else 4-8 years
So I polled it a year ago
No attitudes data on 20, 25, 30 as nobody had ever thought of that
www.britishfuture.org/fewer-than-1...
There is a remarkable process of elite radicalisation - based on a cartoonish caricature of the Great British Public
bsky.app/profile/sund...
Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch writes to the Prime Minister to say that tripling and quadrupling settlement times to 15 and 20 years "are a good start but should go further"
Settlement taking that long are very niche positions among the public - British Social Attitudes - but popular among elites
This is the other way round.
Precisely! More than that, most Brits despise Trump, and will want Starmer to resist his bullying. By contrast, Farage and co will lose support tying themselves so sycophantically to Trump. I’d call this a win-win situation!
Farage emulating ‘his hero Trump’ in deriding byelection results, says new Green MP www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
European gas stocks are, once again, at record low levels.
We keep going round this loop.
13 years ago:
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/s...
Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
Gary Marcus on why "Pause AI" and similar "Doomsday stories of AGI" are dangerous:
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/how-agi-is-nigh-doomers-own-goaled?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I'm reminded of a line from the late Colin McEvedy:
"A policy of all round aggression, however much it may influence people, wins few friends."
He was talking about 11th century Poland but Iran seems determined to follow the same path.
‘Goodwhine’.
That should become a Thing.
Stop!
And cancel the King’s visit?
The easiest way to damage a narcissist like Trump? Ignore him. Show him indifference. Not hate or anger, just enable him to feel that thing he doesn't want to feel, that he is not important. Don't tell him, that defeats the object. Let him feel it.
