Chris Rivers

5. Trump's tariffs will cause major damage to the global economy but most of all to the US economy - driving up costs of inputs & thus inflation, reducing competition, choice & productivity. /4

Never had Covid, until now. Yesterday felt a bit rough with headaches & what I thought was a cold all day - not even had a cold for years! Tested this morning: positive for Covid. How I got it, who knows? Aside from the original pandemic jab I have had a booster along with flu jab every September …

“Asher, a ranch trader from Texas, has his social media filled with photos of him next to dead mountain lions and wildfowl.”

Maybe he can be displayed too.

Bobby Fischer, an American grandmaster, tastes success & attains fame at a very young age. But things change after he challenges Soviet Union's best player Boris Spassky for a world chess championship. Brilliant 2015 psychological drama. Stars Tobey Maguire as Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Spassky,

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It seems unlikely that the UK can rejoin the EU. Why? Because the UK IMO will never agree to join the Eurozone.

I am already using the euro here in Spain since 2018 so it does not bother me - but knowing how the British view ‘keep Sterling British’ (despite Blair’s efforts to join the EZ) - there would never be sufficient political support to rejoin.

Not wanting to get into all the conflicting opinions but is it the case that UK would *have* to join the euro (& Schengen)? If so, that would make it impossible to rejoin IMO because the great UK public would not accept it.

She expects the enquiry to complete within 3 years.

Jess Phillips condemns 'idiot' councils that don't believe they have grooming gang problem Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips hits out at some local authorities - and denies Elon Musk's intervention sparked a national inquiry on the issue.

Jess Phillips said: "I don't follow Musk's advice on anything although maybe I too would like to go to Mars.”

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Prison staff expose 'shambles' of early release scheme as they back new plan Officers working in jails and those who monitor the release of inmates back Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood ’s plans to bring in a Texas-style behaviour model

More than 10k people were released under the Tory End of Custody Supervised Licence scheme, of Oct 2023. Those working in jails & Probation who monitor the release of inmates back Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood ’s plans to bring in a Texas-style behaviour model.

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Some are. Spain is not.

PM kicks back at dire tax rise warning as experts find '£41billion black hole' Keir Starmer says he 'does not recognise' figures from think-tank the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), which suggested Rachel Reeves needs to raise billions in extra taxes i...

Reeves has 2 fiscal rules which she vows not to break. The "stability rule": day-to-day spending is matched by tax revenues so Government only borrows to invest, and the "investment rule" which requires Govt to reduce net financial debt as a share of the economy.

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Morning Call: Rachel Reeves’ “impossible trilemma” The scale of the tax rises the Chancellor will need to impose is becoming clearer.

New Statesman - Earlier this year Germany loosened its fiscal rules to fund higher defence spending. Some said that Reeves should do the same. But the Chancellor reminded colleagues that Germany’s debt is far lower than the UK’s. Loosening is not possible.

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I agree. Prisons are different.

Time to relocate the #UN headquarters away from USA.

A 3 year visas is a 3 year visa so plan for 3 years or less.

And after Windrush, go home vans, Brexit and the general level of debate on the immigration topic, it’s a bit disingenuous to say expectations were for a welcoming Britain.

The article itself says the £41k salary is for ‘new applicants’. Nobody already here will be deported.

But they are not being ‘backdated’. Just read the article!

The article itself says the £41k salary is for ‘new applicants’. Nobody already here will be deported.

Labour members evenly split over approach to trans rights, poll finds - LabourList Labour members are evenly split over the government’s approach to trans rights in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, a poll for LabourList has revealed.

43% of Labour members: trans women should be excluded from single-sex female spaces, 40% disagree!

Younger members are 2/3 opposed to a ban. A majority over 65 seem to think this is an enforceable ban.

Yet Trans have been using women’s loos forever. No big deal.

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Your quoted data suggests over half the population is on the right (Tory & Reform voters) - at present. The UK has long been a conservative country (small c). More Tory than Lab!

Why do you think the centre is quite far to the right, or strongly authoritarian. Do you mean more pro-law & order?

“The Spanish economy is also benefiting from immigration. The country is welcoming more people relative to its population than Germany, France, or Italy, and the latest influx is characterised by immigrants with higher levels of education & job qualifications”