A week is a long time in politics and war – politicalbetting.com
A week is a long time in politics and war – politicalbetting.com
Trump 6 days ago: We don’t need the U.K.’s aircraft carriers.Trump today: “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others…will send Ships to the area” https://t.co/zeh1emFXqz pic.twitter.com/uBbaWJSJwl
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Or Ireland...
And I would not be even remotely inclined to hurry to be frank.
The email solicitation to benefit Trump’s PAC also offers donors “private national security briefings.”
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-fundraising-pitch-features-u-s-soldiers-killed-in-iran-war
❌ No. 🇫🇷 aircraft carrier and its group staying the eastern Mediterranean. Posture has not changed: defensive it is.
https://x.com/frenchresponse/status/2032887843954057364?s=46
As I know there are some people who like somewhat obscure shows kicking about, I've been rewatching this and quite enjoying it :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hine_(TV_series)
"The series stars Barrie Ingham as international arms dealer Joe Hine. Paul Eddington portrays Astor Harris, an arms manufacturer with close ties to the British government, and John Steiner plays Hine's personal assistant Jeremy Windsor"
Very much a time-capsule - but the familiar faces add a bit of colour. As does the make-up of some white actors as they play various different ethnicities. But as a little snapshot of the 'entrepreneur vs the blob' in 1971 terms - it's worth a shot. Ymmv :-)
I would love a European leader to stand up and tell him to do one. He’s done nothing but slag off Europe , hammered us with tariffs , insulted NATO troops and tried to interfere in elections , and betray Ukraine .
He cannot run again.
And then pays us $100 billion, cash, upfront.
And then forget to send them.
Penalty try.
Though Merz has got close today, and Macron is using the opportunity to show off the independent French deterrent, quite successfully.
A Reform UK government would expect to dismiss the top civil servant in every government department and replace them with people seen as more likely to implement the party’s priorities, the Guardian has learned.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/14/reform-uk-government-replace-top-civil-servants-people-aligned-policies
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sGgW3LYzEYg
Drone strike hits Kuwait International Airport radar, no casualties reported.
Still going to be a tough 40 minute watch if you are Irish....
It has been suggested for decades, eg Yes, Minister, let alone former politicians statements that the Civil Servants do instead obstruct the elected government's agenda.
Any Civil Servant who is not prepared to implement the elected Government's agenda, whichever the Government, should see their employment terminated without compensation for Gross Misconduct.
That is democracy.
https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/147071816794509312
Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz for a military exercise. Imagine what they will do with nukes?!
That said, I get you point to some extent in the STraits but I suspect they would be kept at a distance and their aircraft used as the escorts
He's made it twice now.
Is everyone just hoping he'll forget about it?
"The plan has prompted warnings that a shift towards a less stable and more politicised civil service could result in the loss of significant expertise and of institutional memory, and would make government less effective."
Yes, because the main takeaway from the last 20 years of British governance is that it's "stable", full of "significant expertise" and "memory" and notably "effective"
Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax
The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21
The deputy leader of Reform UK avoided nearly £600,000 in corporation tax after obtaining a rare legal status for his company.
Richard Tice then channelled dividends, paid by the company, into structures including an offshore trust and a string of dormant businesses. Several did not pay any tax during the relevant period.
The MP for Boston & Skegness has served as Nigel Farage’s candidate for deputy prime minister since the last general election, and is also Reform’s spokesman for business, trade and energy.
It can be revealed today that his property company paid nothing in corporation tax on its multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021. During the period, he served as leader of Reform; chairman of its forerunner, the Brexit Party; and a member of the European parliament.
He was still personally liable to pay tax on the dividends, but his company’s ownership structure — which included a trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a pension investment vehicle — further reduced his exposure to tax. In one year, four of six entities which received dividends paid no tax on them.
Dan Neidle, founder of Tax Policy Associates, said it was possible Tice was engaged in “highly aggressive tax planning”.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-deputy-leader-richard-tice-tax-5r93t6dg8
Indeed, it makes me more likely to vote for him
Do you want a businessman politician who dutifully pays the maximum amount of taxes without any attempt to legally lower them, or a cunning businessman poliitician who cleverly minimises tax, legally?
You want the latter
I get your point but the optics are terrible . If you’re rich you can afford expensive accountants . Reforms core vote might wake up eventually and realize they’re being taken for fools .
Unless you can show the same with Tice - and maybe someone can - this story is a nothing-muffin
The good news is that by and large our largest and most successful businesses do exactly that.
I’ve no idea whether Tice’s activities fall into that category, but they don’t smell entirely normal.
This 6 nations has been wild .
Reform's base is hardworking average Brits, like me. They see a man keeping his tax low - legally - they won't give a fuck. Many will admire it
Iranian General Mohsen Rezaei outlined Iran’s demands for any Trump negotiations to end the war: “The US must compensate Iran for damage caused by the bombing.
“American military bases must withdraw from the Gulf region.” (Iranian TV)
Also, what utter fuckwittery is this
"but not strayed into tax planning that runs counter to the intent of the drafters of the legislation and would be likely to fail in court"
lol. Yeah. That's how everyone thinks
Go back to yer Bacchus
https://x.com/GerryAdamsSF/status/2032912813572698317
Cmon England!!!
Oh by the way, I see you continue to talk about AI, next time you do, I shall be changing your username to Low_IQ_Leon, because you have such a low IQ you don't seem to understand simple site rules.
It's like the WW1 "stabbed in the back" myth, that Germany would have won without the shadowy cabal having sabotaged them.
Only in this case, it's a shadowy cabal that caused Cuadrilla and iGas to fail to drill a single well that encountered commercial quantities of natural gas.
And the really bizarre thing is that there actually is a good story of the UK government having fucked up its hydrocarbons strategy: it's just in the North Sea, rather than the Bowland Shale.
Restart coal mining and bring back traditional steelmaking to Wales, says Nigel Farage
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-06-09/farage-restart-coal-mining-and-bring-back-traditional-steelmaking-to-wales
A spirited defeat that the RFU will decide "shows signs of improvement" and so Borthwick and Co stay in place, and nothing ever gets won
But, a defeat. Four defeats in a row. Totally unacceptable in the 6N for a nation with the money and player pool of England
By the way, I have every sympathy with your frustrations. I want regulations to be sensible and as light as possible on all industries.
The Trump administration is considering intervening in oil markets to push down prices, despite warnings that it would risk a “biblical disaster”.
Doug Burgum, the US interior secretary, said officials had discussed trading in the so-called futures markets after war in Iran saw the price of oil end last week at $103 a barrel.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/08/oil-expected-to-surge-past-100-for-first-time-in-four-years/
If, on the other hand, the US were to try and use the futures market to drive the oil price down... well, I'm not sure that is such a smart idea. Because when you sell a future's contract, you are guaranteeing to deliver a barrel of oil to Cushing Oklahoma on a certain date. If you've sold a bunch of barrels you don't own to drive down the price, then you're going to need to find other people (at the last minute) to sell them to you.