David Vincent
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David Vincent
@vin58.bsky.social
Spending time with family, friends and travelling. Always asking questions.
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There’s a lot to be said for precedented times
April 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just checking the calendar…..
UK in ‘best possible position’ to negotiate future exemptions from Trump tariffs, business secretary says – UK politics live
UK in ‘best possible position’ to negotiate future exemptions from Trump tariffs, business secretary says – UK politics live
Jonathan Reynolds says ‘we have engaged with the US on the potential for a deal’ Good morning. So much for the “unprecedented” state visit invite. The real spring statement, the one that is likely to have most impact on the UK tomorrow, is coming tomorrow, when President Trump announces global tariffs, and the government expects that the UK will not get an exemption. As Nick Robinson put it to Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, in the opening question of his Today programme interview this morning: “Sucking up to Donald Trump didn’t work, did it?” On the Today programme, and in his other interviews this morning, Reynolds’s response was essentially: Not yet. He argued that the UK still has a good chance of winning tariff exemptions, but just not tomorrow. Or that the sucking up might still pay off – not that Reynolds put it quite like that. We have engaged with the US on the potential for a deal, because that is in the UK’s national interest, and actually would be mutually beneficial to the US and the UK … Only the president will himself know exactly how the US is going to take tomorrow. And you’re right to say it might not be possible for every for any country in the world to be exempted from the initial announcements. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Great point(s) from @iandunt.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Whatever your view on assisted dying, this Commons debate has shown MPs at their best: thoughtful, measured, respectful, non-partisan. A good antidote to those who think they're all in it for themselves.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
MPs moved to tears in assisted dying debate before landmark vote
MPs recount personal experiences in lead-up to decision on whether to give some terminally ill people right to die
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 8:57 AM