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[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iran security chief: Trump's 'recklessness' in attacking Iran has made the whole world want to acquire nuclear weapons

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/5YtMdlIgxC

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

We aren't allowed to prosecute Peter Mandelson for treason because it may implicate Donald Trump.
Tear it down.

[Commentary Voice @CommentaryVoice]

@LBC Our political and economic governance cuts taxes for the elites yet levies increasing taxes on the population.

They shift the bill onto working people, and provide us with declining public services.

We’ve had enough !

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Canadian PM Mark Carney says Canada will match new US tariffs “dollar for dollar” after trade talks with Washington broke down.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

An algorithm that rewarded decency would be revolutionary

[Financial Times @FT]

Qatar cuts state spending at home and abroad as war shrinks economy https://t.co/qtu4dCuuJt

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: ‘Whole world understood that Trump is a fool’: Iran’s security chief

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/sMqLzRzez3

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York. I wrote about this 2 years ago. https://t.co/knrTrD6XMF https://t.co/XbmQFwqTYu

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Around $12 trillion, or roughly 30% of today's entire $40 trillion U.S. national debt, was added by the two Trump administrations.

Vance is lying. As usual.

[Financial Times @FT]

Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade https://t.co/Zc9S4OsznI

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet.

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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

What devolution/democracy? Local councils bypassed, people ignored by Ministers chasing growth.

Datacentres produce few long-term jobs, guzzle energy.
https://t.co/eD4kCRJVOV

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Defence spending has the lowest economic multiplier of any category of government spending.

School meals for children has the highest multiplier.

Guess which the UK prioritises.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Andy Burnham’s government continues Keir Starmer’s strategy: “Defence is an engine for growth and our investments are driving reindustrialisation”.

It proudly announces a 51% rise in “British weapons jobs”. https://t.co/6Yb4Z3EUpM

[Financial Times @FT]

The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel https://t.co/9SKepLrG8S

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This might not make me popular but I remain continuously impressed by Carney: to me, one of the few (if not the only) genuine statesman in the West.

It genuinely takes incredible balls and statesmanship - especially for Canada, arguably the western country that's most dependent on the US - to walk away from the table and match Trump's tariffs China-style.

Europe, with far less dependence on the US and considerably more resources than Canada, just pathetically caved and signed on Trump's humiliating terms when in the same situation.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

More UK students planning to live at home for university over 'insane' living costs.

Student halls of residence replaced by private equity owned accommodation. High rents and profits.

Fees (in England) and living costs plunge young adults into debt.
https://t.co/MOx9zyp8Os

[Max @welp_max]

it could be powering us now but 12 rich guys said no

[𝟐𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐲 @nomodeath]

I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone. Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link. Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Bankers' trade association, backed by UK's biggest banks, warns govt against higher tax on the industry.

Silence on profiteering, branch closures, not investigating frauds, bailouts and subsidies, mega bonuses and dividends.

Must tax obscene profits.
https://t.co/GRKKwQ1Llk