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Young #Ukrainian volunteers from the Garage association have woven more than 700 camouflage nets, made hundreds of trench candles for the Ukrainian Defenders in 2yrs

Kids share they do it because they know they can save soldiers' lives

It's that point in the cycle again?

"The market did not make any sense to anybody with a sense of history. The way to participate, therefore, was to hire A Kid. A Kid would buy these stocks going up tenfold, where anyone else would be scared to death"

- George Goodman, "Supermoney" (1972)

Without them, there would be no diplomacy track at all. Glory to Ukrainian Defenders who protect Europe and the whole civilized world.

Ukrainians deserve a just and lasting peace.

Alexander Isak wants to leave Newcastle, asked not to go on pre-season tour Liverpool have previously communicated their interest in Isak and over doing a deal in the region of £120million.

🚨 Alexander Isak wants to leave Newcastle United, multiple sources privy to the situation have told The Athletic.

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Someone, who shall remain nameless, explained to
Me that generative AI starts out like a child & slowly becomes the worst possible partner you could imagine because it fully understands yours biases & will lean into them to give the answer you want to hear.

This haunts me still

Granit Xhaka tells Leverkusen he wants Sunderland transfer The 32-year-old is prioritising a move to Regis Le Bris’ men over other suitors.

🚨 Granit Xhaka has informed Bayer Leverkusen that he only wants to join Sunderland, as club-to-club talks continue over a deal for the Swiss midfielder.

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Down in one: how private equity swallowed the BrewDog Unicorn [FREE TO READ] Thanks for all the money, Punks

BrewDog shares are very likely worthless - I revisit the “Unicorn” deal that allowed the founders to cash out and raise another £67mn from small investors for their loss making business

Tariffs

The UK leads the world for share buybacks!

From my latest equity lens chartpack www.schroders.com/en-gb/uk/int...

Firstly, Dan's work shows that the alpha generated by value stocks is largely generated at the very smallest end of the market capitalisation spectrum. These are too small for institutions to access.

Very Wolf to casually drop three or four good columns’ worth of thoughts into a single para.

Martin Wolf on the British economic malaise including this line: "The Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying performance of the economy for the better. This must now be admitted. Too much of the post-Thatcher performance was unsustainable" www.ft.com/content/8a49...

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... This is not only a brilliant investigation but a vindication of the Tortoise Observer takeover - @chloehadj.bsky.social has been doing great work on the Tortoise podcast team for some time

Sadiki signs five-year deal at Sunderland Sunderland AFC is delighted to announce the signing of Noah Sadiki.

Welcome to Sunderland AFC, Noah Sadiki! ❤️🇨🇩

A very good, and rather sad, Big Read on children and reading from @emmavj.bsky.social

on.ft.com/4krOKZA How to get children reading again

Industrial revelation: a walk through England’s Great Northern Coalfield History comes to life on a hike through the woods and wagonways of County Durham, which takes in mining, trains, an award-winning museum – and corned beef and potato pie

Industrial revelation: a walk through England’s Great Northern Coalfield. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

The greatest action sequence ever committed to celluloid.

I’m no debt scold, but I do worry a little about the consequences of a left that increasingly never sees any benefit that they’d accept cutting and a right that increasingly sees no tax they wouldn’t mind cutting.

Every time a sports team or UK company does business with an oppressive regime like this, they aren't just helping legitimise these regimes, they are, quite literally, receiving stolen property - the misspent money that rightfully belongs to the citizens of these nations.

#LIKE 🆙 +9%✅ 24p✅
✅ $LIKE on the cusp of breaking out to a 2 year high sp.

CEO Tony Brewer, "It is really encouraging to see the investments made in the last four years really starting to deliver meaningful improvements in sales & subsequent profitability"

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Beamish: Open-air attraction in County Durham wins Museum of the Year Beamish in Country Durham, which recreates life from bygone eras, is named the UK's museum of the year.

Beamish, open-air 'living museum' in County Durham, scoops prestigious £120k prize. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just a total coincidence that so many prolific Scottish Independence tweeters went quiet after Israel destroyed Iranian infrastructure.

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

b/w photo of a man in late middle age/early old age, with a military sort of moustache and a monocle, his hair brylcreemed and very precisely parted

Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 85th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London

What happens when European firms go west? No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

🚨 Running a slide rule over US listings of European firms. on.ft.com/3Zx3yOU

Last time the Newcastle United owner had a journalist killed, he was surprised, drugged and then chopped up. This time, the journalist was held for seven years, tortured and then executed.

MBS remains an owner in good standing with the Premier League.

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges  - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges o...

Newcastle United's owner has a journalist executed for reporting on the dictator's family's corruption. Howay the lads.
cpj.org/2025/06/saud...

So we seem to be stuck in a death spiral of Right/Left tax populism, where the cost of big tax cuts and/or big spending cuts is always borne by Other People.

Promising something that can't be delivered is unhealthy. Perhaps even dangerous.

‘Trickle-down’ tax cuts don’t work, study says As governments decide how to plug holes in their finances, a new report adds weight to calls for higher taxes on the wealthy.

A 2021 LSE report analysed *50* years of growth, income and employment data for 18 countries that had tax cuts for the rich and found that it failed to strengthen economies and worsens inequality.

www.weforum.org/stories/2021...

Trickle down economics is one of the greatest lies ever told.