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Today’s Russian papers on the economy: “More & more enterprises plan to cut output.” “Russia is shut off from technological advances. It’s naïve to think everything we need we can make ourselves or get from China.” #ReadingRussia
Russian paper: “More & more enterprises plan to cut output.”
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
July 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today’s Russian papers on the economy: “More & more enterprises plan to cut output.” “Russia is shut off from technological advances. It’s naïve to think everything we need we can make ourselves or get from China.” #ReadingRussia
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Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌
July 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌
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Just amazing from The Salt Path couple.
A city banker feels sorry for them so rents his Cornwall farm to them at a reduced rate.
They don't do any of the farm work.
Then they go on RICK BLOODY STEIN'S show to wax lyrical about their cider making skills. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
A city banker feels sorry for them so rents his Cornwall farm to them at a reduced rate.
They don't do any of the farm work.
Then they go on RICK BLOODY STEIN'S show to wax lyrical about their cider making skills. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
July 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Just amazing from The Salt Path couple.
A city banker feels sorry for them so rents his Cornwall farm to them at a reduced rate.
They don't do any of the farm work.
Then they go on RICK BLOODY STEIN'S show to wax lyrical about their cider making skills. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
A city banker feels sorry for them so rents his Cornwall farm to them at a reduced rate.
They don't do any of the farm work.
Then they go on RICK BLOODY STEIN'S show to wax lyrical about their cider making skills. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Hendy was an ex-busman. Tom Scanlon, the TGWU head for London (i.e. main bus driver union rep) had ALREADY contacted Hendy to stress that whatever the city needed he knew his members would give as well.
So, with the unofficial backing of the Met Police, TfL's leaders decided to ignore COBRA. /10
So, with the unofficial backing of the Met Police, TfL's leaders decided to ignore COBRA. /10
July 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Hendy was an ex-busman. Tom Scanlon, the TGWU head for London (i.e. main bus driver union rep) had ALREADY contacted Hendy to stress that whatever the city needed he knew his members would give as well.
So, with the unofficial backing of the Met Police, TfL's leaders decided to ignore COBRA. /10
So, with the unofficial backing of the Met Police, TfL's leaders decided to ignore COBRA. /10
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Interesting study around LTNs cutting deaths and injuries, with no impact to outside roads. An effective safety measure.
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Interesting study around LTNs cutting deaths and injuries, with no impact to outside roads. An effective safety measure.
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Funny thing you notice after a while is that institutions really do start to take on the personality of the person at the top. In this case, the Tory party feels deeply, viscerally unpleasant.
After a Treasury spokesperson says Rachel Reeves was upset at PMQs due to a personal matter, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells journalists that "something strange is going on" and insists the Chancellor immediately disclose what is happening in her personal life
July 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Funny thing you notice after a while is that institutions really do start to take on the personality of the person at the top. In this case, the Tory party feels deeply, viscerally unpleasant.
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You can read the unprecedented joint statement signed by 12 metro mayors to create a 3,500 mile national active travel network here
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July 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
You can read the unprecedented joint statement signed by 12 metro mayors to create a 3,500 mile national active travel network here
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At a big active travel conference in York, Chris Whitty is explaining how amazing physical activity is for health, and how it needs to be built into everyday life. Those who benefit most are those who currently do nothing, followed by those who do little, he says.
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
At a big active travel conference in York, Chris Whitty is explaining how amazing physical activity is for health, and how it needs to be built into everyday life. Those who benefit most are those who currently do nothing, followed by those who do little, he says.
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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
June 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
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Telegraph are obsessed with lying about EVs. Fires, sales figures, costs, horror stories of fictional scenarios, anything they can do to scare you into buying more rubbish harmful fossil fuel cars. It’s all patently false.
Here’s how they do it.
Here’s how they do it.
Misinformation: A Telegraph guide
1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱
2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔
3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉
4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊
5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈
1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱
2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔
3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉
4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊
5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈
May 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Telegraph are obsessed with lying about EVs. Fires, sales figures, costs, horror stories of fictional scenarios, anything they can do to scare you into buying more rubbish harmful fossil fuel cars. It’s all patently false.
Here’s how they do it.
Here’s how they do it.
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28C on Thursday... beating date records and likely station records
Quite unusual to become this warm on May 1st
Quite unusual to become this warm on May 1st
April 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
28C on Thursday... beating date records and likely station records
Quite unusual to become this warm on May 1st
Quite unusual to become this warm on May 1st
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Visit Britain - It's like Spain but with electricity
UK weather: 27C heatwave could bring hottest April weather in seven years
UK weather: 27C heatwave could bring hottest April weather in seven years
Temperatures are climbing this week with most places getting into the twenties Celsius but will it be a heatwave?
www.bbc.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Visit Britain - It's like Spain but with electricity
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Watching America reduced to the needy lapdog of this preening fascist is truly horrific.
⚡ Steve Witkoff, the US Special Envoy to the Middle East, has arrived in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin.
April 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Watching America reduced to the needy lapdog of this preening fascist is truly horrific.
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This mother is barely a year old herself. She has played a blinder keeping her babies alive.
We brought them in today. They'll never go back on the streets. 4 little lives saved forever ❤️
We brought them in today. They'll never go back on the streets. 4 little lives saved forever ❤️
April 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This mother is barely a year old herself. She has played a blinder keeping her babies alive.
We brought them in today. They'll never go back on the streets. 4 little lives saved forever ❤️
We brought them in today. They'll never go back on the streets. 4 little lives saved forever ❤️
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Trump’s repression of free speech & disappearing of foreign students from campuses push academics to look for options elsewhere.
Europe’s reaction? Come here!
UK meanwhile? Hiking fees & cutting foreign student rights to make UK less attractive cos all that matters is lower immigration numbers 🙄
Europe’s reaction? Come here!
UK meanwhile? Hiking fees & cutting foreign student rights to make UK less attractive cos all that matters is lower immigration numbers 🙄
April 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Trump’s repression of free speech & disappearing of foreign students from campuses push academics to look for options elsewhere.
Europe’s reaction? Come here!
UK meanwhile? Hiking fees & cutting foreign student rights to make UK less attractive cos all that matters is lower immigration numbers 🙄
Europe’s reaction? Come here!
UK meanwhile? Hiking fees & cutting foreign student rights to make UK less attractive cos all that matters is lower immigration numbers 🙄
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💥London bucks national trends as cycling boom continues💥
New City of London data shows biggest increase cycling since records began:
📈cycling up 57% since 2022
🚲🚲nearly 2x more bikes than cars
📈500% increase in cycling since 1999
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
New City of London data shows biggest increase cycling since records began:
📈cycling up 57% since 2022
🚲🚲nearly 2x more bikes than cars
📈500% increase in cycling since 1999
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
💥London bucks national trends as cycling boom continues💥
New City of London data shows biggest increase cycling since records began:
📈cycling up 57% since 2022
🚲🚲nearly 2x more bikes than cars
📈500% increase in cycling since 1999
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
New City of London data shows biggest increase cycling since records began:
📈cycling up 57% since 2022
🚲🚲nearly 2x more bikes than cars
📈500% increase in cycling since 1999
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
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From a later post in the thread - "Why agree to restructure your economy on a whim." More specifically, the whim of an administration which has no particular idea what it is doing.
1/Just back from 2 weeks in Asia. US engaged in the most far reaching attempt to restructure the global economy in a century and we have hit the omnishambles portion of the program: undermining US economic security and weaken US credibility in the world.
fortune.com/article/trum...
fortune.com/article/trum...
Trump had a ‘test case’ for trade negotiations with Japan. The failure to reach a deal now has analysts wondering if any will be signed
Trump’s team had hoped for some quick wins when it came to tariff negotiations. That’s looking increasingly unlikely.
fortune.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
From a later post in the thread - "Why agree to restructure your economy on a whim." More specifically, the whim of an administration which has no particular idea what it is doing.
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"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves."
From Haaretz.
archive.ph/4vam4
From Haaretz.
archive.ph/4vam4
April 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves."
From Haaretz.
archive.ph/4vam4
From Haaretz.
archive.ph/4vam4
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bizarre decision but it looks like it's already drawing more attention to this perfectly innocuous and valuable bit of public service podcasting 🤷♀️
as I'm not a BBC employee I can tell it like it is: heat pumps are great! UK needs policies & industry investment to extend the benefits to everyone
as I'm not a BBC employee I can tell it like it is: heat pumps are great! UK needs policies & industry investment to extend the benefits to everyone
Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
https://youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?si=92B9xN4zy6BiWXqK
t.co
April 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
bizarre decision but it looks like it's already drawing more attention to this perfectly innocuous and valuable bit of public service podcasting 🤷♀️
as I'm not a BBC employee I can tell it like it is: heat pumps are great! UK needs policies & industry investment to extend the benefits to everyone
as I'm not a BBC employee I can tell it like it is: heat pumps are great! UK needs policies & industry investment to extend the benefits to everyone
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Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
1/2
youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
https://youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?si=92B9xN4zy6BiWXqK
t.co
April 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
1/2
youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
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Glad this got some coverage. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast
Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Glad this got some coverage. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
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Hegseth should never have got within a million miles of running the Pentagon. He was inexperienced, unqualified & an extremist. His implosion is unsurprising. I have no expectation that his successor will be any better.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hegseth should never have got within a million miles of running the Pentagon. He was inexperienced, unqualified & an extremist. His implosion is unsurprising. I have no expectation that his successor will be any better.
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Just walked by the US Embassy pond and it's still red. Dyes often photodegrade but there's hardly any sun in London. 🥲
Blood-red dye poured into US Embassy pond in Israel arms sales protest
Demonstrators arresed after arriving on bicycles with trailers in Nine Elms, south-west London
www.standard.co.uk
April 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just walked by the US Embassy pond and it's still red. Dyes often photodegrade but there's hardly any sun in London. 🥲
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I messaged Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline about the Easter "ceasefire". Their answer: Russia is firing as usual and preparing new attacks. "For us, it’s just another day of war, with shelling and even an attempt to assault our positions," one brigade told me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Zelenskyy dismisses Putin ceasefire as ‘PR’ and says Russian attacks continue
Ukraine reports drone and artillery strikes over Easter weekend, while Moscow also claims ceasefire breaches by Kyiv
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I messaged Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline about the Easter "ceasefire". Their answer: Russia is firing as usual and preparing new attacks. "For us, it’s just another day of war, with shelling and even an attempt to assault our positions," one brigade told me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...