Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · last wk.

The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Waheyy! Rod Liddle's dead, and a load of cunts like him are sad 😢😂

Michael Burry (the Big Short guy) must be creaming his britches right about now with all of his Tesla shorts.

Peter Anderson@zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wall Street got it done, Tesla is under $300. Now do $200

The Genocide continues

Israel building new land barriers in Gaza and displacing families

Experts have told the BBC that the earthworks suggest Israel is planning for a long-term internal border.

bbc.co.uk

This is funny. He will win in court.

Maybe because I'm a stupid American, but I've never understood how all these investigations into MPs automatically stop when they resign, then spend a few years infecting some other domain with absurd reactionary nonsense funded by dark money and then they eventually return as a Peer

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

This ex-Labour MP quit, avoiding a sexual harassment investigation; set up an opaquely funded “anti-extremism” campaign that was all over TV and radio in a general election urging the public to vote Tory; was then given a peerage (a non-job for life in the legislature) by Tory leader Boris Johnson…

me: desperately trying to harness the small crumbs of focus I have. computer: SOFTWARE UPDATE! software: NEW FEATURES! internet: TWO FACTOR CODE! THREE FACTOR CODE! UPCOMING EVENT!

@anekak.bsky.social Why don't you have a profile pic after a year? It's bot behaviour, but then bots don't say stuff as wickedly dumb as you do.

Crucial Required Reading

it's Lazzie B! once again!! 😱@lazzieb.bsky.social · last mo.

By the way, for those of us interested in the resurgent discourse about the catastrophic failure of the 'Sex And Gender Are Different' recuperative thesis in liberalism, we can see here that this problem was very much already entrenched as early as 2015, and being weaponised against us even then. 😇

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

Mitch McConnell has released a photo and the first statement on his condition: "I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

I don’t think we can compare the terrifying AI bubble to the overheated US housing market in the 2000s. It is at least conceivable that people would be willing to pay money for a house.

Great to see how well the new report into rent controls has landed! It saves renters money and it saves Govenrment money. And some of that money should be used on building new social housing stock, too! Win/win all around! 🙌🏽

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · last mo.

Rent controls would save households up to £2,400 a year and the Government £2 billion a year. It's a no-brainer. But only the Green Party has a policy to introduce them.

I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"

I wonder what other "errors" are lurking in economic data coming out of the US.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last mo.

USDA had to revise its late June U.S. beef export numbers DOWN 90%. Quite the "error."

Made me laugh so hard I nearly popped like a balloon! 😂

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to InfoWars (summer edition). Tune in tomorrow, anywhere you want. 8/7 ct.

Finally, a manifesto we can ALL get behind!

hate to praise Massie, but this is funny

On my way, Clacton.

Nigel Farage £5 million 'gift' from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it was money laundering. The whistleblowers alerted the NCA as they were "not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds."

Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

theguardian.com

Has Farage considered resigning from life instead? I would also settle for the people of Clacton putting him in a wicker man.

In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

Farage needs to be hounded like this every day for the rest of his life. I don't care if he even retires from public life. Keep it up forever. It's the least he deserves!

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last mo.

The facade is cracking

I'm not sure that there is a single American company operating in the UK that effectively pays 25% corporation tax on their profits. Many even have negative effective tax rates. Possibly related - the UK enables most of the world's tax dodging through its Crown Dependencies/Overseas Territories.

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · last mo.

"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees

enjoy it while you can Brits because under woke 2 Wonderwall will be a violation of international law

Tap into the most powerful revenue stream you have. www.theonion.info

Going from “Getting caught setting private investigators on the Sunday Times and trying to report them as Russian stooges”, to “inexplicably pardoned then given a Times column to knife his pals and promote a new PM” and then “oh wow, uh, Head of government policy unit” is quite the career path.