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Here’s the definitive Budget feedback from the British public: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.
Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.
Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
How have Britons reacted to the 2025 Budget? | YouGov
While the government may have protected themselves by dropping their income tax plans, the public reaction to the Budget has still been negative
yougov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here’s the definitive Budget feedback from the British public: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.
Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.
Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
The Trump Ukraine long read isn’t in the weekend WSJ but is online a timing decision to address 2 different markets? That said the weekend journal has an excellent long read on Charlie Munger
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Trump Ukraine long read isn’t in the weekend WSJ but is online a timing decision to address 2 different markets? That said the weekend journal has an excellent long read on Charlie Munger
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I have changed my mind and now think a Labour leadership challenge next year is likely www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have changed my mind and now think a Labour leadership challenge next year is likely www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...
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Excellent piece by @patrickwintour.bsky.social . "Europe has vowed to get its act together so often. Inertia, not Russia, may have become its own worst enemy". Failure of EU-UK talks on including the UK in SAFE programme of European defence procurement shows Europeans still don't realise danger.
The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Excellent piece by @patrickwintour.bsky.social . "Europe has vowed to get its act together so often. Inertia, not Russia, may have become its own worst enemy". Failure of EU-UK talks on including the UK in SAFE programme of European defence procurement shows Europeans still don't realise danger.
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Just listened to the @ria.ie podcast on this with the two authors - a really illuminating listen - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just listened to the @ria.ie podcast on this with the two authors - a really illuminating listen - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Available where you get your pods: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible
The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today.
www.bloomberg.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Available where you get your pods: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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“Career officials in the office overseeing sanctions at the Treasury Department have at times learned details of Witkoff’s meetings with Moscow from their British counterparts.”
This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“Career officials in the office overseeing sanctions at the Treasury Department have at times learned details of Witkoff’s meetings with Moscow from their British counterparts.”
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For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
Here we go, or perhaps we don’t www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Says Consider Airspace Above and Around Venezuela Closed
President Donald Trump said airlines should consider airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed, in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.
www.bloomberg.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Here we go, or perhaps we don’t www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Look who’s flogging crypto
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Look who’s flogging crypto
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is just the start – Trump’s party is turning on him trib.al/e5Khxsr
Marjorie Taylor Greene is just the start - Trump's party is turning on him
More Republicans say they are planning to quit, leaving Trump in crisis mode
inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is just the start – Trump’s party is turning on him trib.al/e5Khxsr
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Guess what.
All the bright white St George flags that have gone up on Birmingham lampposts are going to look very bedraggled with the English weather by wintertime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Guess what.
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"A person hors de combat includes anyone who is wounded, sick, or shipwrecked, in the power of an adverse power, or clearly expresses their intention to surrender" redcross.ca/how-we-help/in…
https://redcross.ca/how-we-help/in…
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"A person hors de combat includes anyone who is wounded, sick, or shipwrecked, in the power of an adverse power, or clearly expresses their intention to surrender" redcross.ca/how-we-help/in…
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Post claims Hegseth ordered survivors of boat strikes - who would be hors de combat - to be killed & that the SOCOM commander followed this order on the basis that "they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Post claims Hegseth ordered survivors of boat strikes - who would be hors de combat - to be killed & that the SOCOM commander followed this order on the basis that "they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Recommended
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:
Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:
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David Coburn, former leader of UKIP Scotland & mentioned in WhatsApp messages sent between Gill and his handler answers "no" when a journalist asks him if he took money to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
David Coburn, former leader of UKIP Scotland & mentioned in WhatsApp messages sent between Gill and his handler answers "no" when a journalist asks him if he took money to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Retail expert Katie Thomas scours her local shopping mall in Pittsburgh to divine what Americans' shopping habits reveal about the economy and the nation's future.
This expert watches shoppers like a hawk. Here's her holiday forecast
Retail expert Katie Thomas scours her local shopping mall in Pittsburgh to divine what Americans' shopping habits reveal about the economy and the nation's future.
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Retail expert Katie Thomas scours her local shopping mall in Pittsburgh to divine what Americans' shopping habits reveal about the economy and the nation's future.
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Apparently the incident on JetBlue flight 1230 with a sudden uncommanded drop in altitude that seriously injured several passengers was caused by intense solar radiation, and they need to put in a software fix in over 6000 jets.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident
Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering an immediate software change on a significant number of its best-selling A320 family of jets in a move that industry sources said would involve some 6,00...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Apparently the incident on JetBlue flight 1230 with a sudden uncommanded drop in altitude that seriously injured several passengers was caused by intense solar radiation, and they need to put in a software fix in over 6000 jets.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
The reason for the A320 EASA warning 3 weeks before Christmas…
Apparently the incident on JetBlue flight 1230 with a sudden uncommanded drop in altitude that seriously injured several passengers was caused by intense solar radiation, and they need to put in a software fix in over 6000 jets.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident
Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering an immediate software change on a significant number of its best-selling A320 family of jets in a move that industry sources said would involve some 6,00...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The reason for the A320 EASA warning 3 weeks before Christmas…
The backbone of most European airlines except Mickey O’Leary’s fleet
EASA issues Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Airbus A320 family aircraft Elevator aileron computers (ELAC). ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The backbone of most European airlines except Mickey O’Leary’s fleet
Christmas with the Windsors just went up a notch Prince Edward pays peppercorn rent for 120-room Surrey mansion
www.thetimes.com/article/4953...
www.thetimes.com/article/4953...
Prince Edward pays peppercorn rent for 120-room Surrey mansion
Campaigners have questioned whether the royal family can justify Edward’s occupation of Bagshot Park, which could otherwise be leased for taxpayer benefit
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Christmas with the Windsors just went up a notch Prince Edward pays peppercorn rent for 120-room Surrey mansion
www.thetimes.com/article/4953...
www.thetimes.com/article/4953...