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Vladimir Putin's Russia is currently helping Iran to target and kill American soldiers in the Persian Gulf.

@trefeca Seems suitable

@Rubble2012 Absolutely crap representation of the decaying old **** too. They couldn’t find a decent die engraver.

250 years and here you are bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@John_ForemanCBE Why would you replace them

‘With delivery expected by 2030’

@gregbagwell This is red meat to the Quisling Right, in accordance with US strategy that calls for subversion of European governments.

@michaeljburry @elonmusk 10/10 no notes

Fixed that for you @elonmusk

@carl_thompson70 The Strangeways Hotel in the background there

Around Strangeways Manchester

@DespoticInroad This. Fighting the wrong battle at the wrong time. Desperate

The BoE will inevitably respond to an inflationary supply shock by raising interest %. Engineering a recession, making people poorer to quash demand will have ~0/negative effect on the fundamental cause of the problem – UK dependence on volatile international energy markets. Instead, BoE should halt QT, easing pressure on government borrowing costs + facilitate new bond issuance for GB Energy/NWF, focusing on a breakneck move towards UK energy independence/ abundance/ resilience through public-private investment in: 👉new N. Sea O&G extraction (the "there's none left" crowd should back themselves & lift the ban on new licenses if they actually believe their own claims – see @EdConwaySky's excellent vid.) 👉British nuclear/SMR rollout 👉British renewable tech supply chains/grid upgrades 👉Onshore shale gas exploration No Truss-style £150BN bills subsidy. Instead, a £150BN investment in the next half century of homemade energy production.

Trump is being offered trillions of dollars of deals from Putin to walk away from Ukraine, and he will

The OBR is not the arbiter here, it will be Gilt markets. If Rayner wants to expand capital spending (for social housing) she will need to show a simultaneous liberation of the supply side of the economy to avoid bond markets pricing in a higher UK inflation premium (notwithstanding the lower clearing price for more Gilt issuance) as it runs into capacity constraints. The problem she has is she is associated with policies that have made the supply side less flexible (Employee Rights Act, Renters Rights Act) - albeit her approach to migration looks more liberal. OBR scoring only holds if creditors believe it.

Iran does, in fact, get the cash. That’s why the oil is at sea.

@MalcontentmentT @Pin__Terest Also the Panavia Tornado

Correct - and it kind of sucked in its first iterations. And I love me the F-111 Aardvark. Fun fact: Originally meant for the Navy, the landing gear door/speed break combo, size, and forward visibility were issues. Some of the first production USAF planes were delivered with functional arresting hooks.

TFR was developed in the 70s before every square inch of the planet had been scanned by Airbus for Google Maps and before GPS existed.

@SkyNews Oh another ban, of course

Crossbows to be banned after series of violent attacks news.sky.com/story/crossbow…

Looks like it's going to be a great weekend

I’m convinced most officials & specialists are too immersed in the moment to realize a certain basic fact about why Iran is striking the Gulf. When Iran was fighting in Syria & Iraq, its field commanders & their proxies (and their ecosystems in countries of Iranian influence) always promised that the next battle would be in the Gulf. This was conveyed, explicitly or otherwise, by Qassem Soleimani and allies like Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, Hassan Nasrallah and the Assad regime. It was part of a doctrine guiding Iran’s regional strategy, not mere passing comments. (The same language that Israel began using against regional countries only recently. “Qatar is next” or “Turkey is the new Iran” etc. Iran has used that language for many years.) Now, Gulf countries look at Iran and wonder: Why is Iran hitting us when we tried to talk Trump out of striking it? Iran knows we tried our best. Iran’s action is understandable if it targeted the UAE and Saudi Arabia, but why mediators like Qatar? Yes we have US bases, yes we can scream at the US, but it still makes little sense, even from a basic divide-and-conquer strategy. But Iran sees this war as having begun at least a decade or so ago, and the Gulf states played a vital role in getting Iran to where it is today. The Gulf is the problem, not just Israel or the US. Strategically reckless, but that is the plain IRGC logic. This is clear if those officials had followed the rhetoric over the last 1-2 decades and the nitty-gritty behavior of Iran on a ground level outside Iran.

A study in class vs classless

Update: Ilya Remeslo is now in a psychiatric ward.

@sigourneybeaver Simple HP Streamer

Any recs for a laptop for The Boy for uni? Don't need anything fancy etc.