Steve Crook

With groups like @patmillsuk.bsky.social arguing the super rich could pay more tax I’m interested to know whether @teamlabouruk.bsky.social have had similars conversations rather than aiming at traditionally Tory austerity targets

No surprise

The United States of Russia

If you attack the Capitol to overturn election results and to overthrow democracy on behalf of a criminal, you’re a hero.

If you attack a Tesla dealership, we’ll throw away the key.

Land of the… free?

Increasingly, the question is becoming how democracies across Europe can navigate and endure the security threat from our west - from America turning for now into a Trumpian Rogue Superpower - as well as from Putin's Russia to the east. With the hope - but not yet an expectation - that both can pass

That ebullient mood has been rudely shattered by Trump's first weeks in office. The bewildering volatility of the president's policymaking - as tariffs are threatened, withdrawn, ratcheted up and then dialled back again - is raising corporate uncertainty, dampening sentiment, and prompting recession warnings. "At Davos all the glib bankers were saying party time, here we go, deregulation, low taxes, M&A boom, IPO boom," says the chief executive of a global investor with $200bn in assets under management. "This has completely backfired in their faces." The predicted slowdown is remarkable in that it is largely a self-inflicted wound driven by the administration's own policies, economists say, rather than the consequence of external shocks such as energy price surges, war, pandemics or banking implosions.

This sort of quote is something else man. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say other global elites see the American elite that were enthusiastic about Trump as total rubes.

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Ah, The Fanta Felon Fallacy!

A biscuit and A home guards plastic hat

I find it impressive how he hasn’t broken his neck!

Who has all the cards??

Going to be a BIG summer for the management and owners!

Not sure why she’s surprised when she’s nurtured them for so long.

The bearded Gollum really is quite the odious lickspittle.

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A reminder that this is the same administration that was last week lecturing the UK about "free speech"

It’s the speed at which all this is happening is worrying.

This is not surprising from Trump.

This year in particular is very much reminding me of the time where Wenger never bought a player to help out Fabregas.