Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

There is no reliable data linking small boat arrivals to higher crime rates. But there is plenty of evidence that fear sells. Stephen McNair crunches the numbers.

Reform says “no” to onshore wind at 4p/kWh, and “yes” to gas at 11p and nuclear at 13p.

That’s not policy—that’s sabotage. They would ban cheap renewables. Keep you hooked on fossil fuels. Make you pay triple.

Prof Richard Murphy writes

Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump’s America.

Manufactured by trade/military wars, shrinking purchasing power of low/middle income families.

Will be the biggest crash ever as private equity has its claws everywhere.

Ultra-rich will get a public bailout.
archive.ph/F7ftX

Prediction; Trump, lauding Brexit, decides not to impose tariffs on the U.K. but does so on the EU; the objective being to break up the EU, ending its ability to control US tech companies’ anticompetitive conduct, data use & spreading of violent hate speech & misinformation. It’s all about $$$.

It is not just that Musk is attempting to 'influence' democratic politics in the UK & elsewhere. Above all, he is attempting, with success, to cause disruption & chaos: instilling a sense the game - of media; politics; truth - has changed. It has. And it accelerates faster than we can all keep up...

Hate how much we’re now talking about Elon Musk and the far right rather than how to prevent child sexual abuse and rape. It’s so very much easier to talk about the first than the second.

This sort of crap headline is deeply cynical as the morning press reviews will repeat the headline without comment or context to a much larger audience- that’s the reason the editor does this. They know what they’re doing and the BBC falls for it every time.

The headline on the online version is even worse.

To be clear, this is the opposite of what their own poll actually found

Will the British right betray their country by appeasing Musk and Trump? Piece from me in the Spectator on our new Lord Haw-Haws
www.spectator.co.uk/article/elon...

whenever I feel helpless
in this overwhelming world

I become a helper

oh, oh,
my love

on the days
when it feels like
I have no power

I serve others

you see,
whenever I wash
the world's feet

my hands
immediately
stop shaking

~ john roedel

🔴The Reform UK MPs Already Being Bankrolled by Elon Musk

Nigel Farage is already benefiting financially thanks to the billionaire owner of X

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/18/t...

💥NEW: We can reveal that alleged Chinese spy Yang Tenbo is a business partner of a major Tory donor, who has held sensitive roles advising the government on defence and tech.
goodlaw.social/9601

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.

Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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I wrote about the global rise of the “fuck you” party a week or two ago. It feels quite relevant tonight.

“Compromise is out of fashion, as is waiting – people feel that it’s been long enough, and they want solutions *now*.”

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-rise-of-...

Sixty-six thousand fake accounts and ten million fake followers were removed, just on TikTok and just for Romania’s election. The scale is shocking: we’re not talking about hundreds or thousands of posts, but millions—every single day!
#romania
#russia

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵

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