marcusalonso

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marcusalonso

marcusalonso

@anothermarcusa

Spaniard in Sussex. Looking for inspiration. Failing to avoid the culture wars. I/me

east grinstead Inscrit le Eylül 2022
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Matthew Stadlen
Matthew Stadlen@MatthewStadlen·
This is devastatingly well put by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. It leaves nowhere to go for the antisemites: “Every minority faces discrimination – note Tory frontbencher Nick Timothy’s appalling attack on Muslim prayer this week – but next to no other diaspora community goes through this. People can’t stand Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but Russian Orthodox churches don’t require round-the-clock protection. People loathe Donald Trump and his bombing of Iran, but US-branded stores on UK high streets are not smashed and daubed. As for British businesses with investment links to the US, including to US security firms, those remain untouched. Israel and Jews are the exception.”
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Gareth
Gareth@g_f_red·
The key difference, is of course the public hosuing sector. If you have rent controls, but dont have an effective public housing programme then you can see reduced rental housing (in total). We should be aiming to shrink the private rental sector whilst expanding the public.
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Gareth
Gareth@g_f_red·
We had rent controls in Britain until 1915 to 1988 and during this time housebuilding regularly hit over 300k per year. Since they were removed, the house price to income ratio has gone from 4:1 to around 8:1, and housebuilding numbers have collapsed.
Nick Tyrone@NicholasTyrone

Rent controls are a really terrible idea, they never work as intended and just cut supply of properties available. It’s like a lot of ideas on the left these days - it runs on vibes and nothing more.

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Harry Rushworth
Harry Rushworth@Hrushworth·
I am shocked to learn that rent controls in Spain are having exactly the same outcomes as every other attempt at rent controls everywhere else.
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute

Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ

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marcusalonso
marcusalonso@anothermarcusa·
Would be great if Jacob gets fit and has a crack at the same time
CITIUS MAG@CitiusMag

🕰️ World champion Josh Kerr will attempt to break the mile world record of 3:43.13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999, at the London Diamond League on July 18, 2026. Kerr and his longtime sponsor Brooks are calling their shot publicly, dubbing the attempt “Project 222”—a reference to his goal of running the mile in 222 seconds (3:42). Kerr’s current PB, 3:45.34, is the British national record and slots him No. 6 on the all-time list. Entering the outdoor season, he’s coming off of winning his second World Indoor Championships gold medal in the 3000m, having held off a late charge from 1500m Olympic champion and 5000m World champion Cole Hocker in Toruń, Poland. Books is going all-in for Kerr, with fully personalized race-day support, including: – A custom spike—expected to comply with all World Athletics guidelines—built around Kerr’s biomechanics, featuring advanced cushioning and a tuned carbon plate system – Three aerodynamic speed suit concepts with Kerr as the sole tester – Physiological support from the Brooks Run Research Lab covering sleep, hydration, and recovery 📰 Read more here: citiusmag.com/articles/proje… 🎧 Hear Kerr talk about the attempt in a fresh episode of The CITIS MAG Podcast. ▶️ SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/6HF0NN…

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Zack Polanski
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski·
Daily Mail and journalist? Those words don't belong together with your parasitic behaviour. You try your daily nonsense - with a paper that literally backed the fascists - and the Green Party continue to rise. Together - we will win. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Nicole Lampert@nicolelampert

Daily Mail journalists aren’t going after your family (as you are aware, there is more we could write if we were). I’m a freelance journalist who spoke to your family members who are frightened by the Jew hate in your party. They are frightened by what you have given the green light to. While you once fought Jew hatred, now you indulge it because, as we both see, it is popular. Other political groups have discovered this in the past. Shame on you @ZackPolanski Shame on you.

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Claire Coutinho
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho·
Labour has been captured by the myth that all disparity is the result of discrimination. They wilfully misrepresent the Equality Act, using it to impose mad bureaucracy on businesses and justify massive market interventions. It is all part of their push for social engineering that sees us not as individuals, but as categories for comparison and competition.
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KnH
KnH@keelyhodgkinson·
The GB team will bring back more medals to that stadium than west ham have seen in their entire history 🫢🫶🏼😂
Global Athletics Hub@glblathletichub

London’s bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships is in jeopardy as West Ham United are unwilling for their stadium to be used in September, due to clashes with the football season. Rome 🇮🇹, Munich 🇩🇪 & Nairobi 🇰🇪 expected to bid. (Sean Ingle for The Guardian)

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Dr Shawn Baker 🥩
Dr Shawn Baker 🥩@SBakerMD·
Hop on a concept2 rowing machine and dial up a 500m sprint as fast as you possibly can If you hit under 1:30 that pretty solid Go sub 1:20 and now you’re getting into elite category I’ve hit 1:15 at 58 years of age and have broken multiple world records at various distances over the years Not low output stuff
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Cut My Tax
Cut My Tax@CutMyTaxUK·
North Sea operator Enquest paid an effective tax rate of 99.7% in 2025 & retained a post-tax profit of a tiny $1.6m. Without the UK windfall tax the profit would have been $125.5m. No surprise that Enquest is giving up on the UK. "At a time when the UK fiscal regime remains challenging, we also took decisive steps to accelerate our diversification into high-growth Asian markets," they said.
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rohit
rohit@krishnanrohit·
What's the underlying reason why so many people so radically prefer bad economic policies like price controls, considering we've known they're bad for decades now?
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Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting@wesstreeting·
@Councillorsuzie Yep - four ambulances with them now are on loan. We’re funding permanent replacements, too. That means that the money being donated will deliver over and above what they had before the attack: stronger, not weaker. Hate can’t win.
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Susan Hall AM
Susan Hall AM@Councillorsuzie·
Wes Streeting has just said that the Ambulances given to the Jewish community are ‘on loan’ - I thought the government had literally given them to the community! - does anyone know the facts here?
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Network Rail Scotland
Network Rail Scotland@NetworkRailSCOT·
Our engineers seized the rare opportunity of the closure of Scotland’s busiest station to deliver an extensive package of maintenance and renewals. The work done would have taken ten months using our usual overnight maintenance window. Read more 👇 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/major-eng…
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Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3·
Very few people who agree with both of these correct claims: A) The settler movement in the West Bank are modern-day fascists, and the Netanyahu government's implicit endorsement of the recent rein of terror there against Palestinians is not only morally repugnant but potentially catastrophic for the future of Israel and the region. B) The IDF did not systematically target civilians in the Gaza Strip and I still have no idea why that became consensus when it's pretty obvious to me that, even if the IDF were simply *indifferent* to civilian loss of life, they would have easily killed orders of magnitude more people than they actually did kill, and in a much shorter time frame. And it would not even really be that unusual for urban combat.
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Gavin Hales
Gavin Hales@gmhales·
Why do schools reward kids with 100% attendance as if being ill is somehow a moral failure?
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