Damien Meadows

Electric vehicles reach tipping point in China, surge to 51% market share Electric vehicles have reached a tipping point in China. They now represent the majority of the new car market, surging...

Chinese auto market reaches 51% EVs. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2025/08/29/e...

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

It’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hyde I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Brilliant, incensed piece by Marina Hyde on all those powerful men who helped a wealthy paedophile despite his sickening crimes against young women www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

here's tonight's FT splash, fresh from the Epstein files

Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.7 Billion of U.S. Income in 2025 Tesla enjoyed almost $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025 but paid $0 in federal income tax. Over the past three years, the Elon Musk-led company reported $12.5 billion of U.S. income on which its curr...

Thanks to new tax disclosure requirements, we know this about Tesla: "the corporate tax laws, as modified by Congress and the Trump administration last summer, have allowed a hugely profitable corporate to avoid paying even a dime of federal income tax on their 2025 US profits"

In case we thought that ecological disasters were a special talent of modernity, let’s talk about how the 13th-century peat trade of Norfolk made it permanently vulnerable to flooding, including 3 catastrophic floods just since 2013.

#medievalstorytime

Great explainer, thanks a lot!

We finalised by speaking about fairness and standards. Letta, through his keynote, and then @estherlynch.bsky.social reminded us that Europe’s strength lies in its social model. High standards on labour, consumer and environmental protection are not a weakness.

🚨 BREAKING: One of the European Commission’s senior officials, Henrik Hololei, breached its rules, an internal investigation has found.

Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Zelenskyy: Today, Russia struck a passenger train in the Kharkiv region with attack drones. In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be regarded in the same way – purely as an act of terrorism

So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact

New ECJ ruling that “Under the principle of sincere cooperation, Member States are required to facilitate the achievement of the EuropeanUnion’s tasks ... By disassociating itself from the common strategy established within the Council, [a Member State]
weakens the EU’s negotiating power.”

Yet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening.
Bad news for our climate future.
More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use.
As fast as we can.

NYT EDITORIAL BOARD:

“.. When the government kills, it has an obligation to demonstrate that it has acted in the public interest. Instead, the Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.”

@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.

economist.com/united-state...

Oggi Matteo Salvini ha ricevuto nel suo ufficio Tommy Robinson

Robinson è uno dei principali leader neofascisti britannici

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“Every species lost is a page torn from the book of life. But there’s still time to write a different ending. Let this story move us. Let it motivate us. Because we can still make a difference — if we choose to act.”

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.

He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Scott Bessent says that "the US projects strength."

The reality is US growth is at a historically low level, productivity gains are sluggish & the net foreign debt surging.

And this is only sticking to macro: I will discuss inequality in a future thread.

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I’m sure that they never talked about it

There are written documents too, this one related to both Greenland and Little Saint James’ Island.

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.

The dark truth of CEO silence on Trump’s climate retreat Failing to speak out about the US president’s ever more egregious actions is more dangerous than it appears

The dark truth of CEO silence on Trump’s climate retreat ft.trib.al/8XHHEl5 | opinion

Tariffs would undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. Europe will remain united, coordinated, and committed to upholding its sovereignty.

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.

Diplomacy should be the path for solving disputes between allies. The EU has been and continues to be a partner seeking dialogue rather than confrontation. The same Unfortunately cannot be said for the US (3/3)

Macron says Trump tariff threat over Greenland unacceptable France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that the threat of tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland was unacceptable and that if they were confirmed Europe would respond in a coordinated manner.

Macron says Trump tariff threat over Greenland unacceptable reut.rs/4qofePh

Massive crowds have taken to the streets of Nuuk to protest the Trump administration with one message: Greenland is not for sale. It is not negotiable.