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John Peters
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Unbeliever (political & religious), Wales rugby, #c4news, porridge, tea, #MEcfs 'Obvious but wrong' Also JTJ on the other place https://johnthejack.com
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4h
£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4h
Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h
I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Ingots We Trust
Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 2h
Yes, definitely a positive, thanks.
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4h
It's a mark of how profoundly silly Stephen Daisley is that, in writing about the Manchester attack, he targets people like my great-grandfather, a Jew who lived in Ancoats, Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall for fifty years and never learned English.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 4h
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Netherlands uses public corps to finance infrastructure assets. Has higher sustained level infrastructure spending, assets 1/3 higher than UK relative GDP, 15 to 20% higher productivity. Housebuilding per 1,000 people twice as high
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It’s time to go Dutch to solve Britain’s housing crisis
Using public corporations to finance infrastructure promises to revolutionise the nation’s prospects
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
There are some good stories about those calls.
Both (£)
www.thetimes.com/article/1663...

And indeed this year:
www.thetimes.com/article/7e8e...
Nobel winner had no idea: he was off-grid in the Rockies
Fred Ramsdell shares the medicine prize with Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on the immune system
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 17h
📷 Souvenir Photo of a #Kurdish Pasha's Sons, 1890
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Letter in Times today
Text: Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article “Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration” (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives’ decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult. He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place. To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles. Sir Robert Buckland KC Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
October 8 this year marks the 100th anniversary of the BBC’s first dedicated Shipping Forecast broadcast, held on October 8, 1925 (an earlier broadcast in July was combined with a farming weather forecast).
(£) www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
Storm tragedy that led to start of the BBC’s Shipping Forecast
Plus: the weather forecast where you are
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 4h
We now go live to the Labour Party's opposition research unit.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 4h
Lessons on dying well from the father of palliative care. The best way to honour Dr. Balfour Mount’s legacy is by making palliative care available to all Canadians, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Lessons on dying well from the father of palliative care
The best way to honour Dr. Balfour Mount’s legacy is by making palliative care available to all Canadians
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 4h
"Jenrick says that he is not talking about “skin colour”. But he clearly is, because he cannot tell just by looking at people during a 90-minute stay somewhere whether or not they speak English, if they participate in the labour market, and so on"
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Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office
Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4h
Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Now in eastern France, a care home has become the first in the country to open a licensed bar where people who live in nearby villages will be welcome to enjoy a pre-dinner apéritif with its residents.
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Who needs the pub? Care home in France to serve aperitifs
As bistros and tabacs serving alcohol close across the country, the French have found ways to buck the trend
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
More than 50 Nasa research projects are facing the axe under White House plans to slash Nasa’s budget by 24%, which would nearly halve yearly investment in science programmes to $3.9bn and sever one third of its 16,000 workers.
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The path to greatness?
The 50 Nasa projects facing extinction under Trump
China is poised to overtake America in the space race, scientists warn, as the White House plans to slash Nasa’s budget
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Russia celebrates Tsar Day.
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Putin has ruled Russia for almost 26 years. He will pass Stalin as Russia’s longest serving leader since Catherine the Great, if he sees out his term of office, which is due to end in 2030.
Putin’s grandchildren — and dictators — wish him happy birthday
Children in schools and nurseries were instructed to wish the Russian leader a happy 73rd birthday while Ukraine intensified drone attacks
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Gift that keeps on giving #762:

As a nation outside the EU, the UK will be treated the same as other third countries and be affected by the new quota and tariffs.
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British steel faces ‘disaster’ as EU imposes 50% tariffs
The European Union says it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump’s tariffs
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
This museum opened at the end of 2023 as a paean to French soft power — a symbolic pillar of the language, as Macron would have it. It was in this castle in 1539 that the edict to make French the national, official language of the law was signed.
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My idea of romance? A French grammar museum in Compiègne
This charming region between Paris and Rheims doesn’t just extol the rules of la langue Francaise — it’s full of historic châteaux, beautiful forests and lovely stays
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Tate Modern’s fascinating new exhibition focuses primarily on Nigerian artists advocating for creative and political freedom between 1920-90s: some members of artistic societies & schools, some working freely across western-style & pan-African artforms
(£) www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...
Nigerian Modernism, Tate Modern review — a fascinating whirlwind
Spanning art from the 1920-1990s, the exhibition will leave visitors wanting to know more
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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 14h
Sigh
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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 15h
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 17h
A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d
🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 8h
Real top of the cycle stuff imo.
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