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Standing shoulder to shoulder with Trump might not be very popular – politicalbetting.com
Standing shoulder to shoulder with Trump might not be very popular – politicalbetting.com
Its inauguration day in the US and new polling by @IpsosUK shows 63% of Britons have an unfavourable view of incoming President Trump.https://t.co/hZebGgK8Zy pic.twitter.com/MEI2aHT3ty
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Musk went a bit mental when Trump told him that America would plant a flag on Mars.
It has cost Elon several dozen million and counting but he got what he paid for.
Maybe Microsoft are too cool for all this shit? Or maybe they are not really The Valley but Washington State which is a bit removed from all this bollocks???
But my wife's carer walked in this evening as we were watching the last few TV minutes of Trump speech at Capitol and she said - "Urhhh. He's really scary. What's going to happen to us all?"
Next.
And stop diminishing us Mexicans.
Govt is poised to:
- give public support to third runway at Heathrow
- sign off Gatwick and Luton expansions
- approve Lower Thames Crossing
- approve a Universal Studios theme park
So if you are not in London - you aren't seeing any investment.
There are no typos in the header.
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France showed in 2003 that it’s perfectly possible to be outspoken in criticism and condemnation of US policy, and not damage the long term relationship. Besides, Trump gives it so he needs to be able to take it. We don’t always have to be supine.
I think harder ones will be about US domestic policies like mass deportation or shelving net zero.
Only Reform voters give Trump a net favourable rating so while Farage can stay close to him other party leaders can't
IMHO, short term, from a western perspective Trump is going to surprise on the upside, and Reform are likely to be the UK gainers. Establishment parties are going to have to be very nimble to keep up.
Long term? No idea.
https://www.olbg.com/news/next-archbishop-canterbury-betting-odds-dr-guli-francis-dehqani-leads-betting-odds-be-first-female-archbishop-canterbury-after-1400-years
Alternatively
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
The Government has offered to align with EU laws on chemicals in the latest sign of Labour’s willingness to roll back Brexit.
If new packaging rules from Brussels force UK companies to stop supplying Northern Ireland, then Westminster will rewrite British laws to come in line with the EU’s.
Hilary Benn, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made the promise after refusing a demand from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) through the “Stormont brake” mechanism to stop the regulation from taking effect.
Northern Ireland continues to follow hundreds of EU laws which the rest of the UK does not because of the Brexit deal to prevent a hard border with Ireland.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/20/labour-offers-align-with-eu-rules-in-latest-brexit-rollback/
They need to get on and do HS2 to Manc and Leeds, NPR, build a new city in the fens, a bridge across the Irish Sea, and do a deal with Spain to lease them the Isle of Portland.
Thing is these sorts of projects would actually excite people. When Boris promised them everyone thought “yeah right”, but with this Labour leadership, they’re not exactly known for over-promising exciting things.
Try "The non-existence of God" by Nicholas Everitt.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-existence-God-Nicholas-Everitt/dp/0415301076
Grapes from Spain, asparagus from Peru etc.
The USA is in the hands of the shitocracy. Or should that be shitocrazy?
What Ho, anyway - hard to fault the world. It's been going quite well in the last few thousand years. Rum thing though that there's no betting on the main Archbish and Mullahs main event.
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https://x.com/atrupar/status/1881431018017554762
He hit it again facing away, in case anyone thinks its a fluke.
https://x.com/Imposter_Edits/status/1881436301221896306
It wasn't Jesus's conception that was immaculate.
Though still quite south, though. They're talking about altering the East-West Rail plans to cope with it, but resiting a station right by the park's boundary.
"Wait, did Musk just do a Nazi salute?"
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1881433923433169381
https://x.com/bowtiedmara/status/1880708265975431194
I blame WFH and the workshy Northerners. Probably never even spent a solid day in the conservatory putting in a solid hour writing a feature article for a broadsheet about workshy Northerners.
Italian is a good language to give an empassioned speech though.
https://news.sky.com/story/treasury-committee-question-if-new-office-for-value-for-money-is-value-for-money-13292921
Probably not but it has all gone a bit meta.
Built by a dotcom during the boom, bought for sweeties in the crash...
For an excellent book backing atheism, J.L Mackie The Miracle of Theism is first rate. (Dawkins is risible by the way). David Hume's Dialogues on Natural Religion remain the best thing of all though for undermining faith. And sometimes very funny.
Must have been right before his reputation went from being just among nerdish fanboys to alt right trolls.
"Consistently throughout the 1960s a majority of Americans did not believe Apollo was worth the cost, with the one exception to this a poll taken at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in July 1969. And consistently throughout the decade 45–60 percent of Americans believed that the government was spending too much on space, indicative of a lack of commitment to the spaceflight agenda."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964603000390
And then the official quango to oversee and report on it. Plus all the spin-off think-tanks to write reports, spawn headlines, podcasts, inquiries into where it all went wrong.
GDP up!
The Stonehenge tunnel cleared all legal appeals including the Supreme Court in the last few months and construction could have been underway literally right now.
Instead even if they do approve the Lower Thames Crossing we will then be into the endless legal charade which will take 2 to 3 years even if a Court doesn't block it or ask for some part of the process to be redone etc.
The only solution would be to put the whole thing into primary legislation to prevent the endless legal wrangling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute
Published at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, the survey of almost 5,000 chief executives from 109 countries puts the UK in second place, ahead of China, Germany and India.
That marks the highest ranking for the UK in the survey’s 28-year history – up from fourth in 2024 - and appears to belie some of the gloom that has hovered over the economy in recent months.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/20/uk-second-most-attractive-country-for-investment-survey-finds
Because/despite Brexit, because/despite Starmer and Reeves.
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