Tom Marshall

Natural capital, such as water, forests and wetlands, is economic infrastructure. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is an investment in economic resilience, future prosperity and competitiveness, says Executive Board member Frank Elderson link.europa.eu/WRJQmg

Desperate stuff Home Secretary originally argued (very misleadingly) care workers shouldn't be allowed to settle because their wages were so low that they'd be a fiscal cost. Now she's arguing they shouldn't be allowed to settle because they'd get better paid jobs www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The 2nd National Guard Corps "Khartia" announced that the Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted an underground counteroffensive operation - "Veles," advancing more than 15 km into enemy rear areas in the Kupyansk sector. youtu.be/dmrd1IAJj-8?...

literally illegal

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide." wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Fwiw this includes me (a British citizen but born abroad), my Norwegian midwife partner, and two of my three children. Nice to know that The Times thinks we are undesirable but has watched “helplessly” as we lived in London.

The EU is pressing allies, such as the UK, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Norway to help close a €70bn shortfall in Ukraine’s funding for next year.

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

How much blood do we think is on Musk's hands at this point?

Real shame when your war of aggression doesn't work out as you hoped. Maybe Trump and Putin can compare notes.

This is the follow-up to the Susan Collins story. Interestingly, Lindsey Graham got $100K and a $5,000 bottle of Bourbon. Clyburn got $20K and a $100 fruit basket to match Graham's language in the House budget. Clyburn had part of his donation go to the University of South Carolina.

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

I'm happy to pay a licence fee surcharge to keep this case going for as long as is humanly possible

Agree w Tom. I’ll stress it’s utterly pathetic of Trump to think of Russia as a peer when it is vastly inferior. What’s worse is that this overestimation is music to Putin’s ears, prevents him from recognizing that russia has lost in Ukraine, and inspires him to dream about even bigger conquests.

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

This was partly an excuse to write about my growing conviction that Vance is the new Nixon

The initial snarky comment is that the German car makers have finally come to the rescue. The more considered version is that the UK produces far fewer cars than it sells, unlike Japan or South Korea. So this is a way to try and replace Chinese with EU cars.

“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Christ alive, that US deficit

Alf Dubs calls the comment "horrific" in the Mirror "It's against international law to endanger lives at sea, all these things are horrific." "I think this goes against all our traditions, whatever Farage thinks about these people, they're people who are fleeing for their safety in this country."

Only last month did I learn each branch of the Saudi Armed Forces reports to a different Ministry. All that money is effectively being spent on clan politics and trying to stop different branches of the family from deposing one another.

The resemblance of Jensen Huang's reply here to this passage in @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's Hiding in Plain Sight is beyond creepy.

300k tons is ~2.2m barrels, give or take. russia typically (pre ukraine exploding the refineries) exported ~1-1.1m barrels per day. excellent work president deals

The descent of the US government into filth and depravity always seems to have further to go. Even so, from live-streamed state-sponsored snuff films to bailing out Putin is a lot for just over 24 hours.

Kemi Badenoch’s new booklet ‘The Right Way’ claims Labour extended the Energy Profits Levy to 2028 and 2029. But a Conservative government made the first of these extensions, and announced the second. (Labour’s since extended it again, to 2030.)

Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:

There's something a little depressing in the fact that the British establishment stood up against Enoch Powell's racism in the 1960s than it seems to be willing to be now

They just might be sort of getting it. Although it's quite something to hear from a founder of Vote Leave that his part of the Right stands for truth.

In 1959, a sculpture was unveiled in Bethnal Green, east London. Commissioned by the local council, it was by a young Elisabeth Frink and depicted the legend of the nobleman Henry de Montfort. https://bit.ly/4jCKMAq

It is remarkable how badly the Russians treat their troops.

If the AI prompts leak, it could be awkward. Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer appear to help different kinds of people

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

Moldova’s Defense Ministry clarified that three missiles and two drones struck Moldovan territory.

The fact an MP openly supporting terrorism is seen as a non story tells you how desperate they are for the far right to win

LOTO have always got to possess a bit of PMA, but there are times during this where I just think Badenoch has not fathomed the Tory party's fight is existential right now. This did make me laugh though, she called for Britain to enter the Iran war with the US just 6 months ago before backtracking!

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

The Tompkins County DA says his office was never given the full transcript where the former Cornell student said, “I can say with 100% confidence I was raped.” Cornell says it turned over its investigation. So what exactly was sent, and why was that statement apparently missing?

“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president