The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

Strawberries, cherries, broccoli, peas, pumpkins, sweetcorn, cauliflower, eggs, milk, beans, cucumber, potatoes. All at risk of shortages. This is the reality of living in a climate emergency. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drought-heatwave-food-supply-risk-england-b3024535.html

The British food items at risk due to extreme drought conditions

Farmers and food supply experts have warned of supermarket shortages as British farmers tackle extreme drought condition

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Really excellent look back at the 1920’s crash and the parallels today. Brilliant from @lewisgoodall.com and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Is a financial collapse coming worse than the Wall St crash?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 31 July · 43min

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Started a Substack on what else… scam and fraud. Will be looking at the latest scams and how to avoid them, how to make smarter choices when it come to tech, look at some fascinating con artists through the ages and perhaps learn a thing or two from them that we can use. Like and Sunscribe

Scam Proof Your Life

How to avoid scams and make better choices.

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Saw the film yesterday and the first thing I wanted to do is listen to my fellow Greek @sturdyalex.bsky.social talk about it. As much as I loved the scale and vision of Nolan’s film for me it lacked the heart of the Odyssey… the Gods, the sex, the humour and some .. Greekness.

Alex Andreou's Podyssey@alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 2w ago

🆕 ODD-POD: 🐴 A Deep Dive into Chris Nolan's Odyssey 🏛️ The one you've been waiting for. Every shot. Every choice. Every moment. Every controversy. What was in. What wasn't. All the experts. A review almost as long as the film. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4WtT...

This is quite mad … and scary.

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

LAB: 28% (+8) RFM: 28% (=) CON: 18% (+1) LDM: 10% (-2) GRN: 10% (-3) Via Deltapoll UK 17-20 Jul Changes w/ 12-15 Jun

Wow. John Healey is chancellor

Argentina.

Cheers Donald. Now sit and watch as they win the trophy in your own tournament

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."

Paredes congratulating the Spanish players. #SPAARG #ESPARG

Never has a team more richly deserved to lose than Argentina.

Argentina have a World Cup Final record that will never be surpassed: zero shots in 90 minutes.

Very much this 👇

Andy H@doctorcuriosity.bsky.social · 3w ago

That’s 100% on Tuchel. The better team until we scored, at which point he directed the team to sit back and not attack, and took off every player who could hit them on the break. We got rid of Southgate because he got too defensive in big games… and replaced him with someone way more defensive!

Hope is the worst

Alexis Conran@alexisconran.com · 3w ago

I don’t think I can take half an hour of this. #ENGARG

I hope Argentina don’t take this badly and start fouling now.

I don’t think I can take half an hour of this. #ENGARG

#ENGARG

Oh …

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Farage said he would need ‘a million a year’ to stand as MP in 2024

for the next hydration break france have chosen a 2003 sancerre, let's see if that helps

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Very much worth a read this. Could this be one of the keys to fight inequality?

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.

La Marseillaise. Possibly the best anthem to go into a game with. Allez les Bleus!!!!

Oh …

Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security

The Reform leader's spokesman told The i Paper it was a downgrade on the state-funded security he had previously received

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this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement

Dear God the commentary …

Starting to look forward to… Trump having to hand the World Cup over to the winning Spanish team 😳 🍿

Switzerland put solar panels in the unused space between train tracks. They are removeable, so you can still work on the tracks. And it's working!

Switzerland has turned its train tracks into solar power plants

The patented solar panels use existing unused space to generate clean electricity — without getting in the way of a single train.

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Clacton is 95.6% white and 53% are economically inactive (ie long term sick, carers or retired). 35% of those over 16 are retirees. It's not a typical constituency (and Farage chose it carefully) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68779c...