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‘What Ukraine wants and needs is not Nato membership but the physical reassurance that Nato promises and doesn’t provide: hard security guarantees in the form of Western arms, Western troops and Western air cover.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump and Ukraine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump and Ukraine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · An Enemy to Its Friends
In a wiser and more competent – to say nothing of a better – world, the initial approach to Putin would have been...
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March 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘What Ukraine wants and needs is not Nato membership but the physical reassurance that Nato promises and doesn’t provide: hard security guarantees in the form of Western arms, Western troops and Western air cover.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump and Ukraine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump and Ukraine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This is the MOST DELICIOUSLY EMBARRASSING THING you will see all week, if not all month.
Richard Tice car crash in Scotland. He doesn't know the full names of the two Reform UK defectors or which council they are from.
It truly deserves to go viral.
Richard Tice car crash in Scotland. He doesn't know the full names of the two Reform UK defectors or which council they are from.
It truly deserves to go viral.
March 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is the MOST DELICIOUSLY EMBARRASSING THING you will see all week, if not all month.
Richard Tice car crash in Scotland. He doesn't know the full names of the two Reform UK defectors or which council they are from.
It truly deserves to go viral.
Richard Tice car crash in Scotland. He doesn't know the full names of the two Reform UK defectors or which council they are from.
It truly deserves to go viral.
Can’t be shared enough!
Love Barnsley and love this woman - more people like this and fewer racists please.
For any Americans reading this - Barnsley is a town in northern England surrounded by (ex)coal mining villages. Margaret Thatcher tried to destroy it, Reform target it - and this woman saves it!
For any Americans reading this - Barnsley is a town in northern England surrounded by (ex)coal mining villages. Margaret Thatcher tried to destroy it, Reform target it - and this woman saves it!
January 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Can’t be shared enough!
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Hi, I’m God.
Your reality is in a Groundhog Day loop of misery until you all decide to embrace a revolutionary progressive form of politics.
Lmk
Your reality is in a Groundhog Day loop of misery until you all decide to embrace a revolutionary progressive form of politics.
Lmk
January 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hi, I’m God.
Your reality is in a Groundhog Day loop of misery until you all decide to embrace a revolutionary progressive form of politics.
Lmk
Your reality is in a Groundhog Day loop of misery until you all decide to embrace a revolutionary progressive form of politics.
Lmk
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THIS should be Shared
December 27, 2024 at 1:36 AM
THIS should be Shared
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If you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this?
If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…
If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…
December 26, 2024 at 7:48 AM
If you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this?
If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…
If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…
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Castle Water bids £4bn for control of Thames Water. Private equity also interested.
This is money from A to B, not into infrastructure.
New buyer still wants high customer bills, dividends, low investment.
Only nationalisation can end profiteering, solve crisis.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/busines...
This is money from A to B, not into infrastructure.
New buyer still wants high customer bills, dividends, low investment.
Only nationalisation can end profiteering, solve crisis.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/busines...
Castle Water among bidders ahead of Thames Water deadline for equity raise
Debt-laden Thames Water, which is the UK's biggest water supplier, has asked possible investors to put forward indicative bids by the end of Thursday
www.mirror.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Castle Water bids £4bn for control of Thames Water. Private equity also interested.
This is money from A to B, not into infrastructure.
New buyer still wants high customer bills, dividends, low investment.
Only nationalisation can end profiteering, solve crisis.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/busines...
This is money from A to B, not into infrastructure.
New buyer still wants high customer bills, dividends, low investment.
Only nationalisation can end profiteering, solve crisis.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/busines...
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change