Ewan Hunter

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

Excellent & deeply accurate. This quote from Starmer is telling - what he exposes is that he's entirely unmoored from principle.
Being pragmatic isn't a problem - without being guided by clear principles, it becomes EXACTLY the mess it's been for the last 12 months.
#Scotland - we have a choice: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇳

Those with no creativity at all and even less sense of taste?

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

....and assume (under the current system) there will be Barnett consequentials too? Let's see...

@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social is looking for a defence expert to join its research team.

Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇
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Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data Announcement follows recommendation in UK government-commissioned review last year

Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data

Which is fine - indeed welcome- if it was TRULY anonymised not pseudonimised, if they didn’t use USA data-mining firms like Palantir & if the institutions really did have very robust security

www.ft.com/content/a928...

If natural changes in the sun were the main driver of recent global warming, we would expect the stratosphere to warm along with the troposphere. But the stratosphere is cooling. This is a telltale sign of an intensifying greenhouse effect. From new paper by @edhawkins.org et al.👇

Watching the aurora in Denali National Park, Alaska

Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

$9.5 trillion has now been wiped off global shares prices, Bloomberg calculates.

I've noticed the same thing here in Finland: that the right-wingers only *assume* they know about economics.

I think this one is my favorite!

Congrats again to the well-credentialed & well-connected Northeast Corridor elites who told us that Scott Bessent was a well-qualified & credible Treasury Secretary because he also had the right credentials & elite connections:

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Lucky for Starmer most people have forgotten his 10 pledges he made when running for Labour leader, given he's abandoned so many, including: free movement, higher income tax for top 5%, higher corporation tax, abolish UC, common ownership of rail/mail/energy and water, no more NHS outsourcing, etc.

"Just Following Orders" ☢️☣️

Woody Wisdom

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

No, it isnae....🙈

Sunday thought The importance of taking care of yourself

These are frightening times. Your courage and tenacity are desperately needed. They will be needed for the rest of this year and next, and the years thereafter. Which is why you must also take care of yourself. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Spotted that the guy advising Trump on all this tariff stuff is Peter Navarro. Seems he's about as accepted by mainstream economist thought as Patrick Minford was - who was the key Economist Advisor to the Leave campaign - & see how that worked out 🤔 #Brexit #Tariffs

on this; something I find disturbing is this assumption that if enough people want something then they should be able to get it - was that belief always there? understand no one wants to come across as overly patrician but if 60% of people wanted a cat as president, would we let the cat stand?

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

Global cost of Trump trade war ‘could reach $1.4tn’; Goldman Sachs cuts UK growth forecast over tariff spillovers – business live Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK business secretary warns Britain will be hit by ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

The Guardian: Global cost of Trump trade war ‘could reach $1.4tn’; Goldman Sachs cuts UK growth forecast over tariff spillovers – business live
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"

One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.