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@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Another point about migrant hotels is the abuse of planning law. Why should central government remove hotel places from my home town Stevenage, for example, without getting planning permission? It sends the price of those rooms left through the roof. And the Labour MP?

Possibly both...

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Poland has joined a French-led attempt to block an EU free trade deal with Latin American countries that Brussels casts as essential to boosting economic ties at a time of rising global trade tensions. archive.ph/5uSvc#select...

Put simply, Trump loves trade wars but is generally scornful of military ones. archive.ph/WUH5w#select...

For the US president-elect, tariffs aren’t just trade policy as such. They are also a form of geopolitical leverage. archive.ph/4QXNG#select...

What actually threatens EV transition is that the product doesn't come up to scratch and many apartment dwellers have no economic way of charging an EV. archive.ph/H2mHh

Living abroad, I'm a bit detached from UK politics. It is extraordinary how the Tory members can pick such a dud. They have form though.

She's even more stupid than I imagined.

“All platforms in the EU . . . have to have a dedicated page on their website where it says how many users they have in the EU and where they are legally established,” said commission spokesman Thomas Regnier. archive.ph/md2Sn

Deeply embedded in Cold War memory, the ICBM carries a particularly heavy historical payload for Britons since ours was the first country to suffer the impact of these infernal machines. archive.ph/qwOM4#select...

“I didn’t know what to do,” said Rezai-Karimi, 35, an analyst manager from Catford, southeast London. “All I remember is a hand touching my skin before it grabbed my phone.” I do ... Don't wander around Catford staring at your iPhone. archive.ph/XvgzU#select...

We all need an angle grinder more than a sack of potatoes ... archive.ph/IRpQg

A guide to royal fancy dress ... archive.ph/fQyIO

This sounds like a looming South Sea Bubble to me. #crypto archive.ph/ZL7L8

En Bretagne, les maisons en carton poussent comme des champignons Murs, sols et toitures : Nicolas Le Dirach, charpentier breton, est le premier à proposer des maisons en carton en ossature bois. Une construction écologique, bien isolée, qui plaît : les clients se b...

En Bretagne? J'ai dû trop écouter l'histoire des trois petits cochons ... reporterre.net/En-Bretagne-...

Guerre au Liban : à l’est de Tyr, une église grecque-catholique détruite dans une frappe israélienne Israël a bombardé dans la nuit de mardi 9 à mercredi 10 octobre une église à Derdghaya, village chrétien dans le sud du Liban, faisant au moins huit morts dont cinq secouristes, terrorisant les déplac...

Israël a bombardé dans la nuit de mardi 9 à mercredi 10 octobre une église à Derdghaya, village chrétien dans le sud du Liban, faisant au moins huit morts dont cinq secouristes, terrorisant les déplacés réfugiés dans la paroisse. www.la-croix.com/internationa...

Among the public at large, a mere 2 per cent think that the members of the Conservative Party “seem like normal people”. As in, 98 per cent think they don’t. archive.ph/30dXo#select...

Donald Trump’s ‘God bless the USA’ Bibles are made in China Books shipped from city of Hangzhou despite former president’s anti-Beijing rhetoric

You couldn't make it up ... www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024...

Whoever the Tory members select as leader, there’s still a secret challenger ahead Kemi may be the obvious frontrunner, but polls of Conservative members are notoriously difficult to carry off accurately

So it is that a Parliamentary Party which still leans slightly Left of Conservative centre has put the most Right-wing of the available candidates into the final. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10...

Daniel Khalife visited McDonald’s after Wandsworth prison escape, court told The 23-year-old had previously absconded from his army barracks after realising he would face criminal charges

A visit to McDonald's before defecting to the Ayatollahs ... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Western diplomats say neither Iran nor Hezbollah had been looped in on the timing or scale of the plan — something publicly confirmed by a US intelligence assessment, which said Iran had no “foreknowledge” of the attack. archive.ph/zhK99#select...

Le Pen wants to reverse Macron’s decision to increase the age at which workers can claim a full state pension from 62 to 64, for instance. Her niece takes the opposite stance and is in favour of making the French work longer. archive.ph/n1bR3#select...

"If Hamas had the chance they would kill all of us. Every Jew in Israel. And if they could get to me in Pinner they would. This is so completely and terrifyingly obvious, it is bewildering and frustrating that so many can’t see it." archive.ph/0cUYx#select...

Sometimes Trump has a point, because the unpredictability of a “madman leader” can make foreign adversaries hesitate. archive.ph/yycvu#select...

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Sunak hits out at Irish plan to sue UK in ECHR for blocking Troubles probes Legal action risks reigniting Tory war over the Strasbourg court – as UK accuses Dublin of hypocrisy

Sunak hits out at Irish plan to sue UK in ECHR for blocking Troubles probes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...