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Father, lover & business owner. Bad at two.
Were we not told EU members couldn’t lower VAT unilaterally?
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@nickabbot.bsky.social
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Dear Beelzeblob, - you insult our war dead - hit us with tariffs - threaten to annex a fellow NATO member - meddle in our politics - accuse us of limiting free speech while banning books in your own country 1/2
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Iain Mansfield
26 days ago
This is super interesting. The last one I can read fluently is 1600. I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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Fourfoot
29 days ago
“I remember the first time I saw Andy…”
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@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social
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This you
@iandunt.bsky.social
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The smallest man who ever lived.
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Twlldun
about 1 month ago
Yet again the oldest bigotry rears its ugly head as a ginger carries the can for the failures of a lesser type (a non-ginger).
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Otto English
about 1 month ago
Bang on the money: “Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.” Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'. His curse is that he won't be.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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‘A stain on our history’: outrage after Trump shares racist video about Obamas as White House attempts to brush off the post – live
Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes slams Trump for posting racist video on Truth Social; Karoline Leavitt says criticism is ‘fake outrage’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/06/trump-barack-obama-michelle-truth-social-epstein-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6985d6138f0846512868709c#block-6985d6138f0846512868709c
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These people are perpetual victims; insecure in every way.
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James O’Brien
about 2 months ago
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“Peace isn’t what you ask for when the boot is already on someone’s neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
about 2 months ago
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Jamie Schwesnedl
about 2 months ago
Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.
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The world is a region.
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Dan
about 2 months ago
Maybe there won't be any tariffs soon anyway...
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Things are going to get pretty funny/scary if SCOTUS rules Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to impose tariffs later today.
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Nick Timiraos
about 2 months ago
By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
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Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2e?st=P6rcZN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Radley Balko
2 months ago
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.
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Art. 5 of the NATO treaty has only been invoked once… by the US post 9/11. Denmark, like other NATO members, honored its obligations, sending troops to fight alongside US. As a result, Denmark lost more of its soldiers per capita than any other nation except US.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
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Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland
The US president says the countries will be charged a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t
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I came here to get away from X. I don’t need to know, or care much, if X is down.
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Ian Dunt
2 months ago
This might be the single most pathetic thing I've seen in my adult life.
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ealdwine
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Joni Askola
2 months ago
The US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants
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I am sure Europe’s leaders take great reassurance on the issue of Greenland from a man with the impeccable judgement and moral fibre of Mandelson.
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Mandelson accuses European leaders of ‘histrionic’ reaction to Trump’s Greenland stance
Article by former British ambassador to US is likely to be seen as criticism of Keir Starmer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/08/mandelson-accuses-european-leaders-of-histrionic-reaction-to-trump-greenland-stance
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Bob Mann
3 months ago
This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.
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This is not the behavior I expected from winner of the FIFA peace prize.
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I’ve watched the Sky adaptation of Amadeus. I don’t believe the semen on the cup cake to be necessary.
3 months ago
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He really is a reprehensible piece of human garbage.
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Jorge Liboreiro
3 months ago
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.
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Otto English
4 months ago
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
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Ian Dunt
10 months ago
There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑
10 months ago
Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.” Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
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Migration is the solution, not the problem.
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Who Pays for Your Pension? And Why Migration Matters More Than You Might Think
There’s a common belief — especially among older generations — that “I’ve paid in all my life, so I’m entitled to my state pension.” But that’s not quite how the system works.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robrandtoul1/p/who-pays-for-your-pension-and-why?r=3w3y29
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@iandunt.bsky.social
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#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it
Podcast Episode · 80,000 Hours Podcast · 02/05/2025 · 3h 15m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/80-000-hours-podcast/id1245002988?i=1000705853110
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Best for Britain
11 months ago
"Three Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia were present at an event to debate Brexit in a committee room in May 2016." ~AA
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Convicted Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament
Bulgarians Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova attended an event in the Palace of Westminster, the BBC finds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj4kze7kvdo
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Best for Britain
11 months ago
The quantity of UK goods exports is lower now than in 2016 or 2021. The UK is the only country in the G7 that has this record.
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Peter Thal Larsen
11 months ago
I see we've moved on to putting tariffs on services industries where the US has historically enjoyed a trade surplus with the rest of the world. Looking forward to the formula they conjur up to justify this one.
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Vance not so bothered by people being arrested for silently praying in a restricted area now, eh?
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“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” - Presidental candidate Donald J. Trump.
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US will 'move on' from Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon
The US Secretary of State's comments come as Ukraine says it took a first step towards signing a minerals deal with the US.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x5xn1g92o
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Adam Posen
12 months ago
Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America This is not a both sides have a point situation. Maury Obstfeld
@piie.com
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Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America
President Donald Trump touted his bewildering array of "Liberation Day" import tariffs as carefully calibrated to offset trade partners' tariff, nontariff, and currency barriers to US exports. However...
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/trumps-tariffs-are-designed-maximum-damage-america
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What does MAGA stand for again?
12 months ago
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Congratulations America! You’ve been liberated from low prices, falling inflation and all of your international allies. Good job!
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Gaby Hinsliff
12 months ago
Not making time to watch the actual programme everyone’s talking about but seemingly having time to absorb a twitter conspiracy about it is the most Kemi Badenoch response I ever heard
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But Hilary’s emails!
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Where are the Democrats? Rather than taking the high ground, get down in the gutter and fight. Trump is not interested in your rules. Start by calling him Vice President Trump at EVERY opportunity. Childish? Yes. Will it get under his thin skin? Definitely. The old rule book has been torn up.
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Someone should write a paper on immigrants, or children of immigrants, wanting to pull the drawbridge up behind themselves. Musk. Badenoch. Raab. Braverman. Sunak. Patel.
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Where “peace plan” equals “forcing the democracy to surrender”.
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