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A terrible idea. President Trump is completely wrong to announce tariffs on the UK over Greenland. People in both UK and US will face higher costs.These tariffs will be yet another burden for businesses across our country. The sovereignty of Greenland should only be decided by… https://t.co/r4IHO2A1oK
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Has Trump looked at a map of Alaska?
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
*2027 might be a bit late but I didn't want to ruin the continuity.
As Sarah Palin didn't say.
He won't be able to get away with ducking things like that on this or other issues forever, when he is in with a shot of being PM.
If he's lucky though it won't hurt him until after he's already in office. It took a long time for Corbyn's unchanging views on foreign affairs to have any impact at all.
🚨 BREAKING: Republicans are now openly warning Trump that if he even tries to invade Greenland, it will END his presidency.
And this isn’t coming from “RINOs.”
Murkowski. McConnell. Bacon. Even Louisiana’s John Kennedy.
When your own party is drawing a red line, you’ve gone past “America First” into “imperial meltdown.”
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2012681872598253603?s=20
It may take decades, but disentanglement with the USA as much as possible needs to happen.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/politics/us-greenland-trump-denmark-history-hnk
Partly
Not particularly, but it wouldn't be worth it for the latter.
The cost to the US in abandoning its alliances would be immense (and even greater for the rest of us), but they are mad enough to think that way.
In that scenario, seizing Greenland serves both purposes.
On nightclub fires -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czejykzg77po
According to Galea's decades of research, there have been 38 similar fires claiming about 1,200 lives since the year 2000. Fifteen involved some form of pyrotechnics and about 13 involved acoustic foam or decorative materials.
Given these precedents, some may wonder why we do not appear to be learning the lessons.
1) if you are in a bar and fire starts, leave immediately
2) Places with a stripped out overhead - bare concrete ceiling with all pipes and cables exposed - are much safer
3) indoor fireworks are for the stupid.
It requires Starmer to articulate a stronger foreign policy - if that means a closer alignment with Europe’s economic and defence apparatus then so be it - he needs to be selling that rather than half-heartedly talking about aspirations for closer relations.
Badenoch has come out quite strongly against Trump and if she’s savvy she’ll realise she can also make it a key differentiator with Reform, though her challenge is how she squares the European side of things and keeps her party happy.
Should play well with MAGA.
Only one of them (Murkowski) voted to convict the bastard when given the chance.
If they had we wouldn't be in this mess.
A very large majority of Americans oppose this idiocy. The same isn't true, though, of the Republican Party itself.
This year will determine whether both US democracy and the western alliance have any future.
It is that stark.
Convenient for Farage to miss the interview this morning though
He definitely looks rougher recently than a year or so ago. In the jungle he looked pretty good, now he seems to be dressing like an old man as well as looking a bit grim. I am sure he didn’t/doesn’t really want Jenrick on board, his welcome message was very half hearted
https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/2012519021363486926?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Presumably the doddering fool assumed Trump was done so no need to open party faultlines by convicting him, and what did that get him?
Was a clear sky this am, now this. Didn’t Florida ban spraying chemicals in our sky’s? We need to ban it nationwide. There is no way that water vapor would stay that long in the sky.
https://x.com/RepGregSteube/status/2012591439314669839
The final touch is the Ukraine/Republic of China border.
When people were being shot for leaving East Berlin, Trump seemed to be able to come and go beyond the Iron Curtain at will.
Though there's also the prolific commenter problem for Farage - he's very active and vocal, and even if he was really ill he can put out videos and the like unless it's very serious, so whenever he chooses to do the bare minimum instead it is very obvious and raises the question of why not talk about x etc.
Not a uniquely Faragian problem, that, but a moderate level of online engagement for a politician makes strategic silences less apparent.
It's truly shocking that a president ordering unilateral tariffs against an ally, for the purposes of acquiring territory that has been theirs for centuries, and beyond any legislated authority isn't immediately met by unanimous calls for impeachment from Congress.
https://x.com/michaelzlin/status/2012744014156517759
Public opinion is now strongly against Trump, but is that enough ?
- Central London’s Walkie Talkie building – £1.3billion
- The Leadenhall Building, also known as the Cheesegrater – £1.5billion
- The Plough pub, where David Cameron and Chinese President Xi Jinping famously drank a pint of beer – undisclosed sum
- Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers – £45million
- Logistics company Logicor, whose 170 distribution centres are at the heart of the UK’s supply chain – £10.6billion
- Harvey Nichols, bought by Hong Kong–based Dickson Concepts in 1991 – £53.6million
- MG Rover – £67million
- Pizza Express – £900million
- The £45billion Hinkley Point C Nuclear Plant – China General Nuclear Power owns a 33.5 per cent stake.
- UK Power Networks – owned by Chinese business mogul Li Ka Shing and valued at around £5.5billion
- Greene King, owned by Li Ka Shing – £4.6 billion
- Three UK, owned by Li Ka Shing
- Northumbrian Water, owned by Li Ka–Shing – £2.41 billion
- Superdrug, Savers Health & Beauty and parent firm Kruidvat – owned by Li Ka–Shing – £829million
- Neptune Energy – CIC has a 49 per cent stake
- Heathrow Airport – CIC has a ten per cent stake
- Chiswick Business Park, London – owned by CIC – £800million
- British Steel (owned by Jingye).
- The Perfume Shop, owned by Li Ka–Shing – £221.9 million
- Clarks Shoes, Viva Capital has a 51 per cent stake – £51million
- Cineworld –Liu Zaiwang has a 3.48 per cent stake, worth around £43million
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37941379/china-bought-uk-assets-threat-britain/Selling England by the pound. Britain's newspaper of record worries about Chinese purchases of whatever is not already owned by Americans and Europeans.
The scale of the trade might surprise you, Did you know that Reagan authorised grain sales to the USSR without political preconditions? Which upset his more hardline advisors - who wanted to trade political issues. Reagan’s theory was that hungry people get desperate….
In addition, the Soviet blok adored Western currency and saw exports as a very important political affirmation of their system.
There are endless tales of the fun of dealing there. And the often clumsy approaches from the KGB to various businessmen.
The view from Taipei this evening, where building continues apace.
No one here talks about a Chinese invasion as a serious possibility. But perhaps that's a defence mechanism (no pun intended).
And I think the polarisation is so strong they would not do the former, it would be psychologicaly too hard to.
Experts told The Sun Vladimir Putin sees 2026 as his moment, fearing he'll pause, regroup and strike again
...
One location keeps surfacing: Narva, a Russian-speaking Estonian border city sitting directly on Nato’s frontline.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37944748/putin-carnage-tyrants-final-legacy/
Might be a nonsense report, but a useful one for the USA to tell Europe it won't help them in a pinch if they don't back down.
As long as we run a trade deficit we have to sell something.
‘There’s your 7 Euros, enjoy.’
https://x.com/Samantharhill/status/2012598164939854100?s=20
I hope you are not.
Can Europe defend some of its outlying territories against the US - much more difficult. Greenland if the US truly wants it and to hell with the consequences, it will have it, but consequences there will be. I hope the UK has a plan for if the US comes for the Caymans or BVI or similar, but again that probably just involves securing the money for Mr Little Dodgy Vs Mr Big Dodgy.
Iceland, let's talk about Iceland. Is it defensible by Europe - I don't know. I'm much less inclined to shrug though - what can we do for Iceland?
And how big is Europe? Can it provide a home, asylum, for what it is worth in its eternal imperfection, to what is left of the "International Rules Based Order". What is clear to me is that ultimately, the European project - not specifically the EU or any specific institution, but the wider architecture of European post-war collaboration is incomplete until the whole of the European plain falls under its scope. If we are talking a sphere of influence in which these things can be kept alive, Moscow (and as much hinterland as can be kept intact) is Europe and must, over the decades, become Europe else the thing is dangerously incomplete. It cannot be separate - Moscow is OUR sphere of influence. That may seem very far away, but it informs that our lines against current Russia must be maintained and the east of Ukraine must remain defended, however we are able.
Ultimately, this is more important to Europe than the UK is, for as long as the UK remains only semi-detached.
What that says about Machado..
Preferably a poisonous one.
The next election says otherwise...
How long before Trump tries to bin that?
BBC News - The one measure that can tell us a lot about the state of the UK economy - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c150leql9pgo?app-referrer=deep-link
It’s bad enough already to have such a small and inaccessible room set up as an entertainment venue, even before the pyrotechnics and foam ceiling are added to the mix.
I really hope anyone with teenagers has shown them those videos and made sure they understand to evacuate immediately. Most of the kids in the videos never got out.
1 - Media. Has the Sun got a new commitment to reader comments? I haven't seen them very often on a purported 'news' story.
2 - Apart from that, this is just partisan whackery from the Super Soaraway Sun, blaming the current batch of politicians ("even Labour MPs") for a Govt policy of selling off anything to whoever wants it for short term interests which has been running since 1980 or so.
3 - The main player in any populist paper is always to find a "them" to point at. At least in this case because teenage tits are no loinger quite so much of a pull in a newspaper.
4 - I'd say they are competing with the Mail and the Telegraph for the shed-dwelling demographic. Sheds have lots of planks.
More seriously:
5 - It's a tough one to decide which is the greater danger at present, the USA or China. In the short term I'd say the USA, in the longer term China, as the USA may be collapsing or becoming irrelevant at some point. At the moment the USA has more power, and is more integrated with us, and is less predictable.
6 - The way out is amongst other things a greater emphasis on national interest, without the lunatic delusions currently embedded in parts of the UK Right.
To Taiwan certainly, and perhaps some other neighbours, but not to the UK.
The staff bought out a bottle of champagne with several sparklers in it. Fortunately the ceiling was bare concrete. Because the sparks were bouncing off it…
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-young-protesters-news-nsdztp5t2?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1768691896
Trump promised a harsh U.S. response should Iran kill protestors, directly encouraged protestors to "take over your institutions" whilst promising U.S. help was "on its way" and then did nothing as the Iranian regime massacred tens of thousands of its own people.
https://x.com/JimmySecUK/status/2012841858435522797
All parties are coalitions, but this doesn't seem a natural fit in the long term. Farage knows this and its one reason that he won't criticize Trump.
Abu Dhabi alone has been doing deals at the rate of $5 billion A DAY...
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Statement from the Nobel Foundation
One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind," and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.
https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/2012826296875667648
If he's had a dose of that, and it's hardly impossible (half my acquaintances seem to have had the pleasure), I can understand exactly why he's not currently all over the media!
(and, if you've lost your voice, putting out videos isn't going to work either!).
Truss gave an anecdote in her show of the Foreign Office changing her speech without asking her. When she demanded to know why, they told her it was because they'd checked it with the State Department. Why would the US State Department get a veto over the words of the British Foreign Secretary. That is toxic and totally against democracy.
Sadly, we're so demoralised (certainly PBers seem to be) that instead of being determined to do better, and to gradually reclaim our sovereignty, we think the best thing to do in this situation is to jump straight into bed with the EU, thus giving up even MORE independence to someone ELSE. As if Europe would never choose a leader we don't like. I mean get a grip PB for the love of God.
It probably explains why there are such divergent views on the economy among age groups.
About equally good at business, mind.
We see a fair number even here.
Bank of England must plan for financial crisis sparked by aliens
A former analyst at the central bank has urged governor Andrew Bailey to put contingencies in place to prevent collapse if alien life is confirmed
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/bank-of-england-must-prepare-for-ufo-announcement-f3mh8l9vh
There’s also plenty in of cash in Dubai, Riyadh, Doha, all finding a home in the West.
China is definitely the big future threat, because they’re building up monopolies for commodity as well as technological products. As we all should have realised during the pandemic. Canada are out of their minds to drop tariffs on Chinese cars, they’ll be everywhere by next year, although ironically the biggest seller of them will probably be an American company, Tesla.
https://x.com/TSEofPB/status/2012566644493627792
I get replies like these as well.
Go live in Pakistan then bro
https://x.com/Frank6awa/status/2012661929332920536
Get fucked. I'd rather not support the Fouth Reich, you fucking Nazi
https://x.com/HashMan10600431/status/2012629647645671488
Any brit who defends and supports immigrants is a traitor.
Any brit who defends and supports immigrants is a traitor.