@labourball This doesn’t work as well as you think it does in the London context. I highly doubt the Burger King houses serve as a speculative financial asset for the world’s richest like housing in Southwark 100% does. Building the homes means fuck all if they aren’t lived in.
MORE | Israeli officials told Axios that Israel is targeting the “entire Iranian leadership,” including current and former officials.
Israel conducted numerous airstrikes targeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to Israeli and US officials speaking to Axios. Khamenei’s condition remains unclear at the time of this writing.
Israeli officials assess that the IDF killed Defense Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Pakpour, Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasir Zadeh, and the Iranian “intelligence chief.”
@RepLuna@X Then go on and fucking do it. The arrogance of you, threatening this on your so-called greatest ally because we don’t want to de facto legalise AI-generated CP. I’d rather we were poorer and lost an ally that normalised noncery, absolute state of you.
@Hazipslip@john_notabot@tomhfh Think she was more obviously talking about utilities and infrastructure, that we sold off to foreign companies who have ladened them w debt while feeding tax-funded subsidies to their boards in bonuses each year, and are now the reason nothing works. But ofc, you knew that
NEW | Certain Russian commentators are attempting to stoke schisms within the Trump administration, likely as part of a wider effort to avoid US sanctions ahead of Trump's stated August 8 deadline for peace efforts in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff in Moscow on August 6, but concrete results from the meeting remain unclear.
Trump may meet with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the coming weeks.
Actor Daniel Roche reflects on the experience of reuniting as adults to film the #Outnumbered Christmas special 🥹🎄
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@BorealBaron Recommend Nicola Guerra’s ‘Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia Ukraine Conflict’ written last year as the most informed and up to date English language book on this topic. Stephen Bale’s ‘Darkest Side of Politics, I’ has wider remit but similarly informative
@SVivalette@BorealBaron Been studying this stuff for years, and the best works out there are:
Stephen Bale’s ‘The Darkest Sides of Politics, I’ written in the 2010s, all about post-war fascist internationale
Nicola Guerra’s ‘The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict’ written 2023
'You say you're doing everything you can. You're not.'
@susannareid100 asks Boris Johnson if he is in touch with what people are experiencing amid the cost of living crisis.
Susanna asks the PM why he can't impose a windfall tax on fuel companies.
Universities Minister just defended Boris Johnson’s shameful PMQS defence to the care homes scandal that he “didn’t know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” by suggesting the evidence at the time was “patchy”
No it wasn’t! The Prime Minister lied (again) to Parliament
Simeon Powell running away with the fight in the 2nd round. Baker survives and we'll go to round 3
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A devastatingly effective, fair and fact based interview by an Irish journalist with Russian’s ambassador to Ireland. “Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter.”