Trump: “Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!! President DJT”
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Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England
Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England
Surge in proposals follows Labour’s lifting of de facto ban, with about 45 plans submitted in the year to March Plans for new onshore windfarms in England have reached their highest annual level in a decade, after the government overturned the Conservatives’ de facto ban in 2015. About 45 applications for new onshore windfarms were submitted in the year to March,according to a Guardian analysis of government data. Continue reading...
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Tariff refunds were a windfall for US businesses in their most recent quarter. But for American consumers, not so much. https://cnn.it/46eSvN9
Shapiro: When he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office, making $2.2 billion off his corruption for him and his kids, it costs you money. When he sits behind that desk, he’s not thinking about how to put money in your pocket. He’s thinking about how to put money in his own pocket.
Pay very close attention to what’s happening in the bond market. Trump was asked what he’ll do after Treasury yields rose again. He said the US could use the military. “The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.” Everyone eventually answers to the bond market.
Excellent @lewisgoodall.com / @thenewsagents.co.uk piece on how the Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Edi Rama plan for luxury developments on Sazan Island and the Vjosa–Narta wetlands has birthed the anti-elite Flamingo Revolution and weeks of protests on the streets of Tirana. youtu.be/iMx1YBUoGpg?...
Special Report: The Trump hotel that could topple a government | The News Agents
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It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 15h ago💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
Badenoch says Reform defectors ‘some of the most dishonest people I have met’
Badenoch says Reform defectors ‘some of the most dishonest people I have met’
Tory leader rules out coalition with Farage’s party and says ‘drama queens’ who left will not be welcomed back Kemi Badenoch has called defectors who left for Reform “some of the most dishonest people” she has ever met, as she ruled out allowing “drama queens” to return to the party. Speaking at the Edinburgh festival fringe, the Conservative party leader again ruled out any prospect of an election deal with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, insisting there would be no coalition between the parties. Continue reading...
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😂😂😂 has she met Chris Philp? Nick Timothy? Helen Whately? Laura Trott? Victoria Atkins? Richard Holden? Mel Stride? Priti Patel? Etc etc
Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times argues that Burnham must take a tough line on immigration and on settlement. For an FT column, contains straight factual mistakes & some dubious conflations, interpretations. A defence of the policy should be better inforrmed. www.ft.com/content/acfe...
Burnham must reveal his hand on immigration
Labour MPs dislike tough proposals to limit rights to settle and collect welfare but voters’ trust has run out
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Great piece by Gill Plimmer - who has been on water companies for years giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The fight to save England’s rivers
NEW: Tracker shows Reform losing a councillor every three days. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
EXCLUSIVE: A new online tracker by campaign group Best For Britain shows 35 newly-elected Reform councillors have quit or been suspended since May as the group's chief say it would 'struggle to run a ...
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An abhorrent and racist take from a sitting Conservative MP about British citizens which I can almost guarantee they would not have made if the 'foreign born' UK citizens in question were of a different race or religion.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 15h agoTruly a fitting punishment for Fraser Nelson. Compelled by his own inner demons to try, vainly, to use facts/evidence to argue with an openly racist Conservative MP, who was probably originally radicalised by Nelson's own Spectator.
It seems the ideological distance between the Conservative MP for Windsor and Rupert Lowe is but a sparrow's fart.
Truly a fitting punishment for Fraser Nelson. Compelled by his own inner demons to try, vainly, to use facts/evidence to argue with an openly racist Conservative MP, who was probably originally radicalised by Nelson's own Spectator.
Among the many crazy things Trump has said in the last 48 hours, the threat to deploy the military to "fix" the bond market is the most worrisome. As usual, major US media has decided to simply ignore it. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Trump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’
Trump was asked by a reporter whether he had directed Bessent to intervene in the bond market and what other options were on the table.
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Russian ‘double-tap’ attack on Ukrainian shopping mall kills at least 16 ft.trib.al/jBWxBs2
Russian ‘double-tap’ attack on Ukrainian shopping mall kills at least 16
Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on allies to pile ‘real pressure’ on Moscow to end the war
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French President Emmanuel Macron said today that Paris will strengthen its support for Ukraine after Russia’s deadly attacks on a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih yesterday.
France to ramp up Ukraine support, says Macron
The French president’s comments come after Russian drones targeted a shopping mall on Friday, leaving 16 dead.
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🚨 Masterpiece klaxon!🚨 One of the finest British comedy films ever made. It still retains a bracing freshness, thanks to a sharp script, skilled direction and faultless performances. A brilliant social satire, romantic comedy of manners, inspirational character drama and clownish morality play.
Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 18h agoA #DavidLean British Classic! HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954) 4:10pm starring #CharlesLaughton #BrendaDeBanzie #JohnMills #PrunellaScales comedy-drama #TPTVsubtitles
A really miserable piece of writing, wholly based in electoral impressionism. No thought for principles or the rights of migrants, and including spurious calculations about lifetime fiscal costs and benefits that simply ignore the real costs of what would happen if these workers were absent.
Burnham must reveal his hand on immigration
Labour MPs dislike tough proposals to limit rights to settle and collect welfare but voters’ trust has run out
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This really should be published across the UK. In its entirety.
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 20h agoOne of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Ukraine has been hammering Wildberries, which controls ~50% of Russia’s e-commerce market. Today, Ozon — Russia’s #2, with ~30% — got its turn. Together, the two handle goods and services equivalent to roughly 8.5% of Russia’s GDP. Looks like Ukraine’s shopping list just got longer. 🇺🇦
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis
“And the only one who fell for it was Donald Trump.” @hunterbiden doesn’t back down as Bill Maher tries to defend Trump’s pointless, costly, deadly war on Iran (which Bill has championed since the beginning)
Bossing the bond market around never works ft.trib.al/M88VZe3 | opinion
Bossing the bond market around never works
Despite Scott Bessent’s efforts, investors worry something is up
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Canada vows to match Trump’s 50% tariffs after trade deal talks fail
Canada vows to match Trump’s 50% tariffs after trade deal talks fail
Mark Carney accuses Washington of ‘unfair’ last-minute changes to deal, as US and Canada fail to reach agreement after three-day extension of talks Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has promised to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar”, after the two sides failed to agree a trade deal by the midnight deadline. “Last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal,” Carney said in a statement. Continue reading...
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