Dave Fernig

Personal enrichment is the only policy.

We have many excellent museums, where such objects of historical interest may be better preserved...

They will be fine, always are in such situations. Why they invest into activities essential for the public sector, like a govt bond.

Russia is a Great Place - second behind N Korea in the global slavery index, and likely pushing hard for top spot.
Ukraine and the decadent West are so far down the global slavery index that they are must be failed states.

If the generators go bankrupt, the public purse can pick them up cheaply, invest more and then use the power to decarbonise the rest of the economy.

The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown Pedro Sánchez calls his country a ‘global benchmark’ in the transition to greener energy, but prices — and profits — have plunged

I find it extremely hard to describe very low power prices and a market so competitive that returns are being squeezed in favour of consumer surplus as a 'meltdown'. Spain is growing at 2.5% a year, a figure the Chancellor would kill for.
www.ft.com/content/0894...

"Russign culture and Russian history is sort of baked into Alaska," said Brandon Boylan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has researched Alaska's role in U.S.-Russia relations. "There's a lot of remnants of the Russian American legacy."

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.

Surely Trump's main negotiator 😉

One of our Glorious Prez, @darthputinkgb.bsky.social many Trolls.
You do have a habit of flushing them out 😉

Vatnik is the technical term 😉

genuinely just keep thinking about it - we met up at 6ish, had drinks while she happily played in the playground, she came to join us on a different terrace for dinner at 8, we ate, all left at like 9pm, how is that not just ideal life for both parents and children

friend and I had drinks with her cousin and his 7yo kid in Marseille and he brought us to this pedestrian square that's basically lots of terraces with a playground in the middle so the adults can do lunch/drinks/dinner while keeping an eye on their playing kids and......why is this not everywhere

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Where on earth is @ofcom.bsky.social ???

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

A very good article on cycle lanes.
I’ve been raising the issue of cycle lane overgrowth and sand build up within the Council.
It is especially worth reading Harry Kessler’s words who is a hugely inspirational person and has been a pleasure to meet and work with on this issue.

Yalta is perhaps more apt... ...US selling out half of Europe when all that was needed was to slow the lend lease programme.
Stalin even took Austria for a while, though that was not part of the deal...

Also the contrast between posts from the right about how the Online Safety Act is an authoritarian attack on free speech vs zero mentions of what's happening re Palestine Action.

There was a time when mainstream politicians and leaders of various stripes would have called this out for what it is, far right racism

Now it’s being regularly and nonchalantly peddled my members of the shadow front bench in the House of Commons

The tone is set from the top. Keir Starmer and his team can ask why this guy has not been expelled from the conservative party, or they can not do that. The BBC can lead its broadcasts with half a dozen talking heads explaining how disgusted they are, or they can not do that.

A century after Trump sells Alaska to Putin for personal profit...

How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.

Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.

mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...

#Palestine #Israel

Slight, but important difference: in the late 1930s the UK was in not position to fight a war and Chamberlain rebuilt the military industrial complex, increasing defence spending over 3-fold to 9 %, so laying the foundation for successful defence and later offence.
Trump just want to enrich himself.

I think that's the point

This is objectively a smart policy whose only possible counterargument is "but personal freedom." Which is hopelessly weak if you think about it for even a moment. Cars are the only realm of society where routinely, lethally, breaking the law is accepted.

This is what they did in Stalinist Russia in the mid twentieth century to control the scientists and intellectuals. Here’s my 2021 article in @plosbiology.org about what’s going on, attached

Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo Protesters simultaneously unveiled signs with the same message "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" in Westminster's Parliament Square.

How absolutely ridiculous

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some @privateeyenews.bsky.social are only so-so. Others are for the ages…

Not for a very very long time in the UK - witnessed by number in livery, food banks, homeless and 1960s infrastructure.
We deign Chinese HSTs and routes, but cannot build because we don’t tax the rich - govt cannot print money without taxation

Indeed - the US is the only country to have paid off its national debt (18th maybe 18th century) which tipped it into the mother of all recessions - because Capital had no super safe investment to balance out risky investment in a portfolio. UK still pays for loans for WWI loans…