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David Cole
@workersnake.bsky.social
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Outlier from North East England. "Some day you're going to realise you've been sleepwalking through it all..."
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · Nov 13
Some day you're going to realise you've been sleepwalking through it all...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 23h
Jeremy Bowen: "It is not a peace deal... it is not a peace process... it's a ceasefire and hostage agreement... that's a considerable achievement in itself" … "it's almost devoid of content" #r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 22h
Nick Robinson - patron saint of deflection interviewing and tireless guardian of the Tory establishment. Shame his beloved Conservatives are floundering in opposition. Still, there's always "From Clacton With Love" to soothe the sting...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 22h
Has anyone ever asked AI for the best way to achieve peace in the Middle East?

1) Mutual Recognition and Sovereignty
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x)
y)
z) Media Responsibility and Narrative Shifts...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 23h
Jeremy Bowen: "It is not a peace deal... it is not a peace process... it's a ceasefire and hostage agreement... that's a considerable achievement in itself" … "it's almost devoid of content" #r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
There you go - one on my timeline now. Have a great day!
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
The MAGA Dove of Peace has landed, navel-gazing inwardly, with the peace process now reliant upon its fleeting gravitational pull - struggling to see the bigger picture... #r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
I'd just deleted that post... sorry... wasn't clear that it wasn't a direct Robinson quote....
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
Our economy isn't prepared for AI, and no solution currently exists which can adequately compensate for the jobs it will replace. #r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
In a capitalist society, AI will generate wealth for the wealthy...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
Important update from Nick Robinson...
"President Trump has just gazed at his navel. The success of the peace process is now expected to revolve around its gravitational pull" … #r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 1d
Jeremy Bowen:-
"...until they find a way for both sides to be satisfied with a solution of that one, I'm afraid to say, I think the conflict, unfortunately, will continue..."
Now back to long-term, serious, selfless thinking with Trump...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 5d
Celebrity Traitors? Farage went into "the jungle" - why is he not on this show!
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 5d
One of the greatest frustrations of tax reform... is the reluctance to impose taxes on those accumulating vast amounts of assets and wealth...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 5d
MSD scraps £1bn UK research centre. AstraZeneca & Eli Lilly pull back. Nearly £2bn in pharma investment gone in less than a year.

Govt response? Make NHS pay 25% more for meds from existing budgets - then call it a ‘net gain for the Treasury’...

#r4today
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump
UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments
www.theguardian.com
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 5d
“Net gain for the Treasury"? From where?
MSD scrapped a £1bn research centre, AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly pulled back, and nearly £2bn in pharma investment has vanished this year alone - is this factored in or is it all spin?
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 5d
Great point!
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 5d
The last time Starmer negotiated a trade deal, it was with the US. Following that, he had to support the UK steel industry, saw the bio-ethanol sector outsourced, and poured millions into the car industry, which later failed to defend itself against a cyber attack...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 6d
Divisive Trump pushes for the Nobel Peace Prize while net-zero Starmer pushes for a trade deal with Russian oil guzzling India, all while the "I'll end it in 24 hours" war in the Ukraine rages on...
Who said irony was dead?
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 6d
Justin wanders into Cosmology and dissolves into the silence between stars... #r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 6d
As soon as workers realise that the EU will protect their own and that they were played like a flute by Farage on Brexit... the better - for everyone...
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 6d
Labour purged the left. Tories purged the “One Nation” centre. Reform UK didn’t fill a vacuum.
When both parties torch their roots, don’t be surprised when the populists plant flags in the ashes.
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 6d
The TCA lets UK steel into the EU - but only within quota limits. We left the room where those quotas are decided by leaving the EU, gave up our vote, and now some want a trade war to justify leaving. 80% of our steel still goes to the EU. You couldn’t script it worse.
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 6d
Labour purged the left. Tories purged the “One Nation” centre. Reform UK didn’t fill a vacuum.
When both parties torch their roots, don’t be surprised when the populists plant flags in the ashes.
#r4today
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 7d
Thatcher swung the axe. Brexit promised freedom - but now we’re outside the EU, begging Brussels for steel quotas. Why? Because 80% of UK steel exports still go to the EU. Sovereignty never looked so dependent.
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 7d
New EU tariffs on steel would be a hammer blow to our steel industry.

The EU is our main export market.

Government must act swiftly to ensure we are given appropriate quotas.

Otherwise, this could be the end of UK steel making.
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David Cole @workersnake.bsky.social · 7d
“Complicated” and an "epoch-defining challenge" said the previous Conservative government of China.
So complicated and challenging, we can’t prosecute suspected spies or define threats...
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