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📰 Rachel Reeves will need to face up to fantasists on both sides
Read @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social's latest column in the Times 👇
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Read @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social's latest column in the Times 👇
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Rachel Reeves will need to face up to fantasists on both sides
The chancellor has to somehow reconcile tax and spending, but both her own Labour MPs and the Tory opposition are still living in a dream world
www.thetimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
📰 Rachel Reeves will need to face up to fantasists on both sides
Read @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social's latest column in the Times 👇
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Read @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social's latest column in the Times 👇
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
www.latimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:21 PM
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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The Land Registry putting up fees for finding out the true owner of a property by 133% is a proper financial hit if you're running a small investigative news outlet! (Related: I've always thought if you wanted to start a revolution in the UK, make the Land Registry free and searchable on Google.)
December 12, 2024 at 8:47 AM
The Land Registry putting up fees for finding out the true owner of a property by 133% is a proper financial hit if you're running a small investigative news outlet! (Related: I've always thought if you wanted to start a revolution in the UK, make the Land Registry free and searchable on Google.)
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The "research" linking vaccines to autism was fabricated and the researcher discredited
December 8, 2024 at 9:33 PM
The "research" linking vaccines to autism was fabricated and the researcher discredited
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The Battle for Damascus is over.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen.
Syria has been liberated.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen.
Syria has been liberated.
December 8, 2024 at 2:29 AM
The Battle for Damascus is over.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen.
Syria has been liberated.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen.
Syria has been liberated.
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🇬🇪Tbilisi. Tenth day of the battle for the European future.
December 7, 2024 at 5:42 PM
🇬🇪Tbilisi. Tenth day of the battle for the European future.
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“The combination of a declining currency and a ballooning budget deficit has led to talk of a hard landing for the Russian economy in 2025…the pace of expansion will slow sharply. The economic bill for the war is at last coming due. It could be a big one” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
www.economist.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:23 PM
“The combination of a declining currency and a ballooning budget deficit has led to talk of a hard landing for the Russian economy in 2025…the pace of expansion will slow sharply. The economic bill for the war is at last coming due. It could be a big one” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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“Russia hit critical electricity transmission facilities linked to nuclear power plants during its latest assault on Ukraine’s power grid on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported. It was the third such attack in roughly as many months”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...
Russia Moves to Cut Off Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants
Moscow has increasingly hit critical substations linked to nuclear power plants in an effort to disconnect them. At the same time, Ukraine replaced the commander of its ground forces.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:31 AM
“Russia hit critical electricity transmission facilities linked to nuclear power plants during its latest assault on Ukraine’s power grid on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported. It was the third such attack in roughly as many months”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...
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It looks like a complete collapse of regime in Aleppo and Idlib governorates
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 AM
It looks like a complete collapse of regime in Aleppo and Idlib governorates
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"Tulsi Gabbard’s longstanding association with a shadowy rightwing cult, her history of suspicious uses of campaign funds, her habitual conspiracism and advocacy for the interests of bloodthirsty dictators (including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as well as Putin) all raise a multiplicity of red flags."
Tulsi Gabbard and Trump's scheme to gut the intel agencies
It's hard to envision a less suited intelligence chief. That’s a feature, not a bug.
www.publicnotice.co
November 29, 2024 at 8:53 PM
"Tulsi Gabbard’s longstanding association with a shadowy rightwing cult, her history of suspicious uses of campaign funds, her habitual conspiracism and advocacy for the interests of bloodthirsty dictators (including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as well as Putin) all raise a multiplicity of red flags."
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An interview with Javier Milei, Argentina’s president
A transcript of his meeting with our journalist
www.economist.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?
November 27, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?
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Musk is playing with fire here. Flirting with fascist language & likely encouraging threats to life against former gov’t officials. Deeply dangerous man at heart of US gov’t. Has no official power but could well end up getting people hurt.
November 28, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Musk is playing with fire here. Flirting with fascist language & likely encouraging threats to life against former gov’t officials. Deeply dangerous man at heart of US gov’t. Has no official power but could well end up getting people hurt.
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Let’s be real: This is a subsidy. The people who hate public spending have invented a massive government subsidy for a technology that has still yet to find a broad-based practical application 15 years after its debut
Crypto leaders press Trump to create federal bitcoin reserve
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed support for the bitcoin idea, which some economists see as inflationary and costly, depending on its implementation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Let’s be real: This is a subsidy. The people who hate public spending have invented a massive government subsidy for a technology that has still yet to find a broad-based practical application 15 years after its debut
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💥London’s cycling boom continues💥
📈New data shows bike journeys in the capital are up 26% since 2019 to 1.33m every day 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🥳💚💚
We’ll keep work with boroughs to make more streets safer and enable even more Londoners to get around on 2 (or 3) wheels 🚲🙂🚲
📈New data shows bike journeys in the capital are up 26% since 2019 to 1.33m every day 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🥳💚💚
We’ll keep work with boroughs to make more streets safer and enable even more Londoners to get around on 2 (or 3) wheels 🚲🙂🚲
November 28, 2024 at 7:30 AM
💥London’s cycling boom continues💥
📈New data shows bike journeys in the capital are up 26% since 2019 to 1.33m every day 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🥳💚💚
We’ll keep work with boroughs to make more streets safer and enable even more Londoners to get around on 2 (or 3) wheels 🚲🙂🚲
📈New data shows bike journeys in the capital are up 26% since 2019 to 1.33m every day 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🥳💚💚
We’ll keep work with boroughs to make more streets safer and enable even more Londoners to get around on 2 (or 3) wheels 🚲🙂🚲
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Trump has just appointed Keith Kellogg as his envoy for Ukraine. Kellogg is hyper-partisan, vitriolic about Biden & has some strikingly Kremlin aligned views. But for all that, Ukraine will be encouraged by many of his recently published arguments on how to end the war. See my recent thread below.
Reading a recent book chapter by Trump-adjacents Keith Kellogg & FredFleitz. A really vitriolic & extreme tone towards Biden. "It was in America's best interests to maintain peace with Putin and not provoke and alienate him with aggressive globalist human rights and pro-democracy campaigns".
November 28, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Trump has just appointed Keith Kellogg as his envoy for Ukraine. Kellogg is hyper-partisan, vitriolic about Biden & has some strikingly Kremlin aligned views. But for all that, Ukraine will be encouraged by many of his recently published arguments on how to end the war. See my recent thread below.
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About time an official said it. “Russia’s acts of sabotage against western targets may eventually prompt Nato to consider invoking the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defence clause, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has warned”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Russia’s sabotage of western targets ‘could trigger Nato defence clause’
German intelligence chief warns of Russian ‘direct military confrontation’ with Nato if the Kremlin steps up warfare
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:55 AM
About time an official said it. “Russia’s acts of sabotage against western targets may eventually prompt Nato to consider invoking the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defence clause, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has warned”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
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Absolute bonanza for foreign SIGINT agencies. “In calls with foreign heads of state, Trump has cut out the State Department, its secure lines and its official interpreters.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump ignores transition rules. It’s a ‘hostile takeover,’ ally says.
Donald Trump’s transition team has begun what a close ally calls a hostile takeover of the federal government, ignoring the rules for the handover of power in the process.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Absolute bonanza for foreign SIGINT agencies. “In calls with foreign heads of state, Trump has cut out the State Department, its secure lines and its official interpreters.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.”
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris
Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM
READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.”
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...