Wow. Despite all the “GDP doesn’t equal quality of life” rhetoric from the Europoors, this chart shows that even the richest European countries enjoy a quality of life that is less than 1/3 of that in America
Yikes
BREAKING: Iran has attacked and hit a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz southern corridor, per two senior US officials to WSJ.
This is the first attack since the MOU was signed and comes after Iran's IRGC Navy issued a warning to all vessels against using the US-backed Omani corridor without Iranian approval, with three oil tankers turning around earlier today following Iran's warnings while the Singapore-flagged vessel continued through and was attacked.
@LewDowns22 Most people have absolutely no idea what free zones are.
They were initiated by Sunak and Truss, secretly backed by Labour when they were not in power.
Labour MPs, Mayors, Councillors, Lords, and Baronesses sat on many of the freeports/SEZ boards across the UK.
All it takes for Reform to fail is the shadow tanker fleet of the BBC, right wing press, and nervous media oligarchs, to turn away from their current course, and actually report some rather inconvenient truths about political corruption around crypto and money laundering
Venezuela shakes. Britain burns. The world floods.
The fossil rich call it “natural disaster” because “corporate crime scene” sounds too honest.
The planet is not dying. It is being killed.
Parts of France are recording land surface temperatures above 55°C...approaching values commonly seen in the Sahara. The difference is that one is a desert. The other is supposed to be one of Europe's most productive agricultural regions. That's a very sobering thought.
Flint Global, the advisory firm led by James Purnell - Andy Burnham’s new chief of staff - counted BP, Amazon, Jaguar Land Rover & Uber among clients.
Burnham is facing unease within Labour over lobbying links of his longstanding friend and former cabinet minister, whose former firm’s clients also include Thames Water.
@rowenamason has been told Purnell has given up his shares, will no longer have a connection to the firm, and has no access to Flint emails or systems with immediate effect.
https://t.co/9ZRPRfRR1W
No brief for Ed Miliband, but the fact that Unite & GMB choose amidst an unprecedented heatwave to lobby to block his appointment as chancellor because he pushes for decarbonisation is the narrowest, most unthinking of what Gramsci described as ‘economic-corporate’ politics.