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OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught out, then got away with it.
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Yep
- his parents
- Kruger's parents
- Braverman's parents
- Braverman's husband
- Farage's ex wife
- Farage's girlfriend
- Zahawi and his parents
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It is absolutely incredible that the president of the United States still has no idea what a trade deficit is.
If I go to the grocery store & spend $30 on vegetables, I haven't "LOST" $30. I’ve gained vegetables I’d otherwise have to grow myself. Staggering economic illiteracy.
"If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with...we would make, at least 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year." (Your explanations in the comments please)
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I can understand why ordinary voters are attracted to the racism and authoritarianism. I don’t think I’ll ever understand why they are drawn to the bullying, narcissism and sheer petty vindictiveness.
Trump on why it’s important for him to have his name the Kennedy Center: For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump Administration should have recognition. If we don’t do that, it’s going to close and get ripped down.
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MAGA economics lesson:
You give McDonald’s $10.
McDonald’s gives you lunch.
McDonald’s did not just defeat you in a $10 trade war.
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
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What is the point, ultimately, to making a trade deal with someone who threatens every 2-3 days either to "cut off trade" or increase the cost of trade over whatever issue happens to have pissed him off this morning? Talking to the EU? Tariffs. Joined the BRICS? Tariffs. Russian oil purchases? Tariffs. No access to bases? Tariffs. Didn't do X, Y, or Z? Tariffs. And now we have progressed from tariffs to "no more trade." There's just no real credibility to a policy instrument if you either overuse it, use it for anything and everything, or are just all over the place.
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Such sad news. Bonnie was one of the sharpest, most charismatic and engaging people I’ve ever met. The very best embodiment of a public intellectual. She will be greatly missed.
Writer and broadcaster Bonnie Greer has died aged 77, her husband says
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One minute Matt and his friends are telling us immigrants are all violent criminals, benefit scroungers and "Third Worlders", now he's wetting the bed because it turns out many are smart and highly aspirational for their children's future
The share of white British kids at grammar schools has fallen from 66% to 44% in just 10 years
Biggest falls:
Colchester girls 69% -> 24%
Chatham girls 78% -> 33%
Dartford girls 52% -> 7%
All consistent with Suicide of a Nation.
Source: The Times
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Donald Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had, and it's not even close.
BREAKING: Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months, more than every member of Congress combined, per Bloomberg.
The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would also leave him exempt.
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Macklemore has faced more consequences than anyone in the Epstein Files.
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This would’ve been one of the biggest scandals in US history and immediately ended any previous presidency. Just another day
Our hidden camera footage shows lobbyists pitching their services as pardon brokers to a felon who says he’s seeking a presidential pardon. cbsn.ws/4ddAHG4
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I know there are so many insane things this man does, so many ‘this is who he is’ stuff, so many ‘imagine if it was Obama’ examples he gives us, but that he is so shamelessly open about his narcissism, megalomania and indecency on this issue is just wild.
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This is one of the many perverse ironies of the Macklemore situation.
If Ed Sheeran's opening act had waved an Israeli flag and proclaimed his love of Israel -- and then a cartel of rich venue owners banned him from appearing -- we would have a two-month orgy of people screaming ANTI-SEMITISM, with Mike Johnson holding emergency House hearings featuring Jonathan Greenblatt and Dana Bash and Jake Tapper crying with Van Jones on CNN about how dangerous America has become for Jews.
Imagine if venue owners got together to ban a Jewish person from performing at their venues??? WE WOULD HAVE WW3
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Folks, you can't have it both ways. You can't say "it is antisemitic to associate British Jews with Israeli policies" and in the same breath, say that "countering Israeli policies puts British Jews at risk". You see how this associates British Jews with Israeli policies, right?
🚨 NEW: The Chief Rabbi says today is a "dark day for British Jews" after the UK sanctioned Israeli settlements in the West Bank
"The cumulative effect of such punitive policies is to further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews"
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Funny I thought it was British aircraft that shot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel. Security co-operation runs both ways. Gratitude obviously doesn’t
The British need to understand: if they punish Israel, they will no longer receive security cooperation.
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Nothing confuses a conservative Christian more than the teachings of Jesus.
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It’s worth pointing out how wild it is that Israel can close down a UK consulate in territory not part of Israel and not serving Israeli people. It simply highlights the obscene normalisation of Israel’s occupation, and the vastly overdue necessity of a British response.
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A tale of two Cambridge professors.
Jason Arday: wall-to-wall coverage, endless scrutiny and catastrophic reputational damage over serious allegations of academic misconduct.
James Orr: professor of ethics, public intellectual and former senior Reform UK political operator, filmed apparently discussing how to get around the law, yet barely a murmur about his position at Cambridge.
Funny how quickly the media’s appetite for institutional accountability can come and go.
EXCLUSIVE from @Fhamiltontimes
The Metropolitan Police will carry out a criminal investigation into allegations that Reform UK breached donation rules with potential illegal foreign funding
Detectives from the force’s special inquiry team will carry out a full inquiry after an undercover sting. Nigel Farage, Reform’s leader, suspended two of his closest political allies on Friday after the allegations were broadcast by Channel 4 News
Dan Jukes, a long-serving Farage aide, appeared to try to solicit an impermissible £500,000 donation from an undercover journalist. James Orr, the party’s head of policy, got the reporter to pay £32,500 for polling commissioned by Reform even though he appeared aware that the source of the funds was a prohibited donor.
The Met has been assessing the allegations since the broadcast on Thursday. The force is now conducting a full criminal inquiry
Reform has denied wrongdoing, saying it was the victim of a hoax. Farage said the two men had been victims of entrapment
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