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Martha Stewart joins Snoop Dogg and Luka Modric as co-owners (investors) in Swansea City FC is an unlikely headline
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Martha Stewart joins Snoop Dogg and Luka Modric as Swansea City co-owner
The 84-year-old American businesswoman has become the latest celebrity owner of Swansea City.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Martha Stewart joins Snoop Dogg and Luka Modric as co-owners (investors) in Swansea City FC is an unlikely headline
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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“Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said yesterday he was "deeply angered" by the move and warned Washington to respect Denmark's sovereignty.”
“Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said yesterday he was "deeply angered" by the move and warned Washington to respect Denmark's sovereignty.”
Greenland hits back at Trump comments on territory
Greenland's prime minister has stressed that decisions about the autonomous territory's future would be made on the island, after US President Donald Trump reiterated that the United States needed Gre...
www.rte.ie
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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“Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said yesterday he was "deeply angered" by the move and warned Washington to respect Denmark's sovereignty.”
“Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said yesterday he was "deeply angered" by the move and warned Washington to respect Denmark's sovereignty.”
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30 year mortgage does sound awesome but it is weird transmission is so slow
The effective interest rate on all mortgage debt outstanding rose another 9bps sequentially to 4.20% in Q3, the highest since Q2 2012. From the standpoint of all mortgage debt outstanding, monetary policy continues to tighten:
December 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
30 year mortgage does sound awesome but it is weird transmission is so slow
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A hard watch, but if you want to really understand why "peaceful" ways of dealing with conflict has been so discredited
youtu.be/Vj9hPamC04U?...
youtu.be/Vj9hPamC04U?...
The European Genocide You Never Learned About
YouTube video by The Present Past
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December 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A hard watch, but if you want to really understand why "peaceful" ways of dealing with conflict has been so discredited
youtu.be/Vj9hPamC04U?...
youtu.be/Vj9hPamC04U?...
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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Big, if true
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Big, if true
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MAGA misinformation is still everywhere rewriting history, twisting facts, fueling fear. It’s on all of us to push back with truth. What’s the most ridiculous MAGA myth you’ve seen lately
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
MAGA misinformation is still everywhere rewriting history, twisting facts, fueling fear. It’s on all of us to push back with truth. What’s the most ridiculous MAGA myth you’ve seen lately
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no, but making it any bigger encourages unsafe speeding and driers who go "oh look there's a handy parking spot I can just about squeeze into"
Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see the narrow width of the cycle tracks planned on Main Street in Clonee, Co Meath. 1.5 metres isn't wide enough for cycle tracks when other options are available.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
no, but making it any bigger encourages unsafe speeding and driers who go "oh look there's a handy parking spot I can just about squeeze into"
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City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
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Doing some research on equity tokenization and the methodology for every estimate of the potential market size is literally this meme
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Doing some research on equity tokenization and the methodology for every estimate of the potential market size is literally this meme
as for the media coverage of next years upcoming RTB regulation changes - its been absolutely vile. Every single one has taken up a false narrative peddled by the IPOA and others selling the false idea its "forcing landlords out of business" when its very benign to landlords
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
as for the media coverage of next years upcoming RTB regulation changes - its been absolutely vile. Every single one has taken up a false narrative peddled by the IPOA and others selling the false idea its "forcing landlords out of business" when its very benign to landlords
askaboutmoney for example is riddled with chancers trying to find out if they can use licenses to evade RTB. If they don't live there well no, they cannot, but it doesn't stop them fishing for legal loopholes.
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
askaboutmoney for example is riddled with chancers trying to find out if they can use licenses to evade RTB. If they don't live there well no, they cannot, but it doesn't stop them fishing for legal loopholes.
part of the issue with housing activism is its overfocus on historical general issue & hyper lack of focus on easily fixable minor issues - such as the fact that "rent a room" style tax breaks should come with actual tenant rights. Also complete failure to recognise dynamics of house shares
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
part of the issue with housing activism is its overfocus on historical general issue & hyper lack of focus on easily fixable minor issues - such as the fact that "rent a room" style tax breaks should come with actual tenant rights. Also complete failure to recognise dynamics of house shares
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This is the real punchline though
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is the real punchline though
this is an excellent article & a big missing piece where renter activism is concerned
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Too many renters in Ireland have zero legal protections
People who live in digs, spare rooms, sheds or sublets fall outside every legal protection available to tenants — and they are nothing more than a cash cow to policymakers
www.irishexaminer.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
this is an excellent article & a big missing piece where renter activism is concerned
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Worth saying there's a lot of completely normal ways to put the private market into health insurance (germany uses multi payer rate setting) but all of them need govt oversight
Yet another reminder of why health insurance should not be a private, for-profit industry and we should have a single payer, publicly run system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
‘We’re at a breaking point’: Health insurance premiums just keep going up, worsening affordability crisis - The Boston Globe
Many employers’ premiums have risen by 10 percent or more, insurers and brokers say, straining families’ budgets.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Worth saying there's a lot of completely normal ways to put the private market into health insurance (germany uses multi payer rate setting) but all of them need govt oversight
Its a good example of an area which had vanished completely in Ireland while expanding elsewhere, and why Ireland so much has been the canary in the coalmine for what is a largely globally driven housing crisis driven by selective & restrictive bank lending policy & in conflict with govts policies
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Its a good example of an area which had vanished completely in Ireland while expanding elsewhere, and why Ireland so much has been the canary in the coalmine for what is a largely globally driven housing crisis driven by selective & restrictive bank lending policy & in conflict with govts policies
curiously, unlike Ireland, bridging finance actually increased in the UK after the bust, and is especially popular with BTL buyers buying properties to renovate & then let, in which case the increased valuation allows for lower LTVs for trad BTL loans
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
Brief history of the bridging finance sector – Mortgage Finance Gazette
The bridging sector has seen significant growth with new lenders coming in and changing the traditional concept of a bridging loan to cover an array of lending options. Benson Hersch, CEO of the Assoc...
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
curiously, unlike Ireland, bridging finance actually increased in the UK after the bust, and is especially popular with BTL buyers buying properties to renovate & then let, in which case the increased valuation allows for lower LTVs for trad BTL loans
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
Its actually the reason why you see the phrase "chain free" in estate agent adverts.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Its actually the reason why you see the phrase "chain free" in estate agent adverts.
and "piloting" it when its literally the most risk free type of loan Bank of Ireland can possibly offer is a publicity seeking joke
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
and "piloting" it when its literally the most risk free type of loan Bank of Ireland can possibly offer is a publicity seeking joke