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Hey @vodafonegroup.bsky.social is this really the best you can do?

Is there any way we can revoke Jim Radcliffe's citizenship? After all he doesn't live here and doesn't pay taxes here. Perhaps we should be more like the US and make it a requirement of UK passport holders that they pay tax in the UK.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.

Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

Sajid Javid: why I wouldn’t let people like my parents into the UK now.

I really understand very little about the current version of reality.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

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"In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." Hannah Arendt

Presumably they're also enthused by the fact that there will be a resident, captive population of indentured workers to abuse and exploit, unlike the rest of the middle-east, who've had to import theirs from the Indian subcontinent and Asia.

So Starmer says he has held off signing up to the 'Board of Peace' because of concerns over the invitation to Putin. From that are we to infer that he is cool with the idea of Netanyahu, Orban, Milei and all the other assorted despots, extremists and autocrats who have signed up?

It's taken him 25 years, but Tony Blair has finally found a way to make people even more disgusted with him than they already were for his starting of an illegal war that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Quite an achievement

Loving the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos

At a time when the country needs a Churchill, Starmer gives us Chamberlain.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo

Rory Stewart urges public to be 'more forgiving' of Nigel Farage's school remarks in wake of antisemitism claims It comes after more than a dozen school contemporaries of the Reform UK leader claimed he made racist and antisemitic remarks while he attended prestigious private school Dulwich College

This immediately makes me wonder what Rory was like as a teenager…

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

Take the wedding rings? Gold fillings? Does this remind anyone of anything?

I couldn't carry on listening TBB

At this time, absolutely nothing is known about the perpetrator of the dreadful attack in Manchester or their motives. This doesn’t stop Sheila Fogarty @lbc.co.uk immediately pinning the blame on people protesting about a genocide rather than those actually perpetrating it. Filthy gutter journalism.

I love ChatGPT. I fed it a 56 word para that I needed shortened and made more concise and it not only proudly fed me back one that was 53 words long, but also needed 3 words added back in to make it grammatically correct! 😂

OLIVER: "Gaza is starving is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive — Gaza is being starved by Israel."

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.

I am CRINE.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker expected to leave the BBC It comes after he faced criticism for sharing a social media post about Zionism.

Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A brilliant piece of poetry from Michael Rosen, clearly directed at Starmer and the current Labour Government.

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

“A liberal has to tell a hundred stories, or a thousand. A communist has one story, which might not turn out to be true. A fascist just has to be a storyteller.” Exceptional analysis, as ever, from Timothy Snyder.