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Finally, the big news is that inflation should now settle at 2% from April. This will be the first time this has happened since before the pandemic. This is good news and a big part of this is driven by the government's energy bill discount (which is a well targeted measure).
February 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Finally, the big news is that inflation should now settle at 2% from April. This will be the first time this has happened since before the pandemic. This is good news and a big part of this is driven by the government's energy bill discount (which is a well targeted measure).
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This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled.
Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled.
Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
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Do you remember all those articles/tweets being like:
BoND MarKET goes CRAZY over POliTical TuRMOIL?
Below is what's actually happened to the bond rate 👇
Reporting has been objectively terrible.
BoND MarKET goes CRAZY over POliTical TuRMOIL?
Below is what's actually happened to the bond rate 👇
Reporting has been objectively terrible.
February 18, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Do you remember all those articles/tweets being like:
BoND MarKET goes CRAZY over POliTical TuRMOIL?
Below is what's actually happened to the bond rate 👇
Reporting has been objectively terrible.
BoND MarKET goes CRAZY over POliTical TuRMOIL?
Below is what's actually happened to the bond rate 👇
Reporting has been objectively terrible.
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Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico.
Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico.
Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
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Fascism is here. 🇺🇸
CBS is dead. ☠️
More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀
CBS is dead. ☠️
More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Fascism is here. 🇺🇸
CBS is dead. ☠️
More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀
CBS is dead. ☠️
More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀
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Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
February 17, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
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To reiterate this point: during the Q&A Farage dismissed very arrogantly a perfectly fair question from the brilliant Anna Gross of the FT and then took the piss out of the paper. If you want to persuade people that you don’t have predilections towards bullying it was not ideal. It was grim.
One element of recent Reform press conferences seems to me to be Nigel Farage believing his own hype, as it were, being particularly bullish and, at times, glib with critical questions. This could be risky for him as it's not always 100% appealing.
February 17, 2026 at 12:33 PM
To reiterate this point: during the Q&A Farage dismissed very arrogantly a perfectly fair question from the brilliant Anna Gross of the FT and then took the piss out of the paper. If you want to persuade people that you don’t have predilections towards bullying it was not ideal. It was grim.
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This person does not understand the idea of a counterfactual. It's not true that the '4%' imagines a Britain that 'avoided every global shock, and followed a perfectly smooth pre-2016 trend forever.' It judges that on average, in all scenarios, shock or no shock, we'd eventually be 4% poorer.
A desperate Keir Starmer will argue anything to save himself including that Brexit cost us 4% and in the process will diminish our sovereignty.
I discuss it here 👇
conservativehome.com/2026/02/17/s...
I discuss it here 👇
conservativehome.com/2026/02/17/s...
Saqib Bhatti: Brexit didn’t cost us 4 per cent, but Labour will argue it did anyway | Conservative Home
Starmer’s attacks on Brexit and its impact on the economy are as predictable as they are risible. If we want an honest conversation about growth, productivity, and our place in the world we must not l...
conservativehome.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM
This person does not understand the idea of a counterfactual. It's not true that the '4%' imagines a Britain that 'avoided every global shock, and followed a perfectly smooth pre-2016 trend forever.' It judges that on average, in all scenarios, shock or no shock, we'd eventually be 4% poorer.
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Amazing, for two years the analytical community was talking about a Ukrainian manpower crisis, how Ukraine needed to draft more soldiers and send them to the front, how Ukraine might even collapse in 2025 from manpower shortage.
February 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Amazing, for two years the analytical community was talking about a Ukrainian manpower crisis, how Ukraine needed to draft more soldiers and send them to the front, how Ukraine might even collapse in 2025 from manpower shortage.
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Zelensky hinting that, once again, the US might be delaying the supply of anti air missiles to Ukraine, so as to help Russia.
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Zelensky hinting that, once again, the US might be delaying the supply of anti air missiles to Ukraine, so as to help Russia.
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All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
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They're starting to guess…
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
They're starting to guess…
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video"
Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky...
#racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate
Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky...
#racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate
Why The Internet Is Terrified of London
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video"
Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky...
#racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate
Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky...
#racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate
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The level of ignorance in replies. Including:
Athletes don't get state support - they do
Pensions are worse than all EU states - they aren't
Who cares about sport - the country when we got no medals
Other priorities - of course, which have much larger budgets
Athletes don't get state support - they do
Pensions are worse than all EU states - they aren't
Who cares about sport - the country when we got no medals
Other priorities - of course, which have much larger budgets
Wonder how many people notice that "broken Britain with a public sector that doesn't deliver" just helped us get three winter Olympic medals?
Once more for the slow crowd, a bit more delivery means nothing if everybody "knows" everything is broken. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Once more for the slow crowd, a bit more delivery means nothing if everybody "knows" everything is broken. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
GB chiefs hail greatest Winter Olympics day after super Sunday delivers two golds
Team GB chiefs have hailed Britain’s greatest day at a Winter Olympics after celebrating two gold medals in the mixed snowboard cross and mixed skeleton
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:11 AM
The level of ignorance in replies. Including:
Athletes don't get state support - they do
Pensions are worse than all EU states - they aren't
Who cares about sport - the country when we got no medals
Other priorities - of course, which have much larger budgets
Athletes don't get state support - they do
Pensions are worse than all EU states - they aren't
Who cares about sport - the country when we got no medals
Other priorities - of course, which have much larger budgets
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February 16, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.
February 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.
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It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.
February 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.
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This man is completely unhinged.
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
February 14, 2026 at 8:56 AM
This man is completely unhinged.
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This is so true and has been for 10 years. Stop taking him on one at a time and join together to do it en masse. You’ll all be better off and so will the country.
February 13, 2026 at 3:09 AM
This is so true and has been for 10 years. Stop taking him on one at a time and join together to do it en masse. You’ll all be better off and so will the country.
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I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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FT: “.. officials in the commerce department and US trade representative’s office believed the tariffs were hurting consumers by raising prices ..” 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/f2ef...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/f2ef...
February 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
FT: “.. officials in the commerce department and US trade representative’s office believed the tariffs were hurting consumers by raising prices ..” 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/f2ef...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/f2ef...
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"I have a hunch more Brits would say they prefer people, immigrants or not, who pay their taxes, rather than billionaires who bugger off to Monaco and don’t," says Emily Maitlis.
Jim Ratcliffe, she adds, is "out of his depth" with his 'colonisation' claims
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Jim Ratcliffe, she adds, is "out of his depth" with his 'colonisation' claims
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Why does a billionaire living in Monaco think the UK has been ‘colonised’ by migrants? | The News Agents
Jim Ratcliffe, believed to be the seventh-richest Brit in the world, has faced backlash for claims the UK has been “colonised” by migrants. Has this language been normalised in Britain?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
"I have a hunch more Brits would say they prefer people, immigrants or not, who pay their taxes, rather than billionaires who bugger off to Monaco and don’t," says Emily Maitlis.
Jim Ratcliffe, she adds, is "out of his depth" with his 'colonisation' claims
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Jim Ratcliffe, she adds, is "out of his depth" with his 'colonisation' claims
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...