Wow! Great thread Niall, delivered as I’m looking at SOTU. How will Pearse’s “blood sacrifice” be made to allow for birth? If the English govt hadn’t executed the “rebels”, against advice how would things have gone? Sadly I have only g/grandparents in this, tho 1 was Fenian.
UK energy bills could rise even more.
Regulator is considering a Market Stabilization Charge to guarantee corporate profits.
This would force energy companies to compensate consumers’ old suppliers for lost profits when people switch away.
What would the govt do?
Watch the Minister's reply.
This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.
So .. a Far Right Watch update after the weekend.
An 'A' List of 53 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders:
All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning.
Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night.
Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
The Warning Netanyahu Buried While Israel Slept
By Brent Molnar: A Voice of Reason
On October 1, 2023, just six days before the slaughter began, Benjamin Netanyahu sat behind closed doors with his top military brass and ordered them to stand down.
‘What underlies the sense of affront is the assumption that the “people of England” are, as it were, a settled question, that the days of large-scale movements belong to the past, or ought to.’
Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects.
The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything.
The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.
How can Andy Burnham deliver public ownership?
Force private monopolies to deliver on their statutory duties
Say no to more bill hikes
When they go bust, LET THEM
Then take them back
ITV News reported that Reform believe that, as the £500,000 offered by the US donor was never paid, they haven't broken the law. Isn't this what the offence of Conspiracy was invented for?
Good news, Dawg— there are plenty of Dems who’ll give you credit for admitting that you’re an ignorant, seditious bastard.
I’m not one of them. I give no quarter to Trump supporters, and your raging stupidity won’t mask your evil intent in having voted for him. Go fuck yourself.
ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”
The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman describes the kind of world we live in. The guilded age Trump and his Heritage backers support. Rule by the plutocrats of Musk and Bezos and the successors of Mellon.
Yes. The Carole Cadwalladr story talks all about it
It directly implicates Russian interference - including people being thrown out of windows
www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
Argentina the better team on the night. England went into their shell and gave in to the pressure. Can’t like a team where a player can fell an opponent with an elbow to the back of the neck. Once Argentina got level they cut out the fouls and played great football. Viva Espana!
Given then apparent seriousness of Farage's 'People versus the Establishment' by-election in Clacton, I expect to see equal media attention given to all candidates including the obligatory Question Time special on the BBC. Anything else would be an insult to democracy.
Yes. I see now that hurting rival teams via bad officiating in their respective matches takes them out before they even come to Argentina.
You want France to play Argentina without their star player? An Argentinian ref can get that done when they play Morocco.
www.football365.com/news/france-...
Messi isn't a hero. He's a fraud. FIFA have been match fixing, taking out his rivals, helping him defeat 2 small teams that were on the path to knocking him out. And it's a commercialization of his hero-status for the people gullible enough to buy the myth.
The greatest players don't need this.
BELGIUM scores again! It's now 4-1 against the USMNT with only a couple minutes left in stoppage time. This is the end of the road for the US in the World Cup. The Trump curse is real.
The Observer reports today that
political donors will have to sign a formal declaration confirming their contribution wasn't converted from crypto, building on the existing crypto donation moratorium.
False declarations could mean an unlimited fine or up to a year in prison.
Heinrich Himmler:
"If we lose the war, the Allies will turn every committee of the occupation into an investigative body. They will go after the Reich leadership, the cabinet, the donors, and friends."
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.
A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Lets make this viral again 👇
Meanwhile, Sky’s morning politics podcast reports that the right-wing parties in the Makerfield by-election seem to be wearing AI glasses in their doorstep canvassing, as they’re looking at voters in their own homes.
‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’
Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats