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The Lazarus Heist, from the BBC World Service was an interesting listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9/episodes/downloads

Iran apparently thinks the solution to the current civil unrest is sending a hard lesson, so is starting to execute prisoners
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-votes-execute-protesters-says-rebels-need-hard-lesson-1757931

Step up FIFA..... Oh... Hold on...

CEO of one of the worlds largest companies leaves bubble and finds out not everyone shares his worldview
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1592093508030304256

In his defence, it's a bubble in which everyone in the West appears to live, and which is otherwise barely acknowledged.

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to me, this seems like a long justification from a petrochemicals guy about how petrochemical still has a role. ‘we are going to continue to rape the environment and make profits because we humbly acknowledge the legitimacy of the voices of some of those we oppress, albeit their representatives who are equally out to make a buck’

i mean who did he actually talk with when he ventured outside of his bubble?

Sure he’s an oil exec, but attacking his argument for that alone is the genetic fallacy. His point about consulting the global south before launching the sanctions seem apt. If we had brought them on board as equal partners beforehand we might have had a lot more takers.

AP reporting and pics on Twitter of Russian missiles that went over the border into Poland killing two.

MP's versus societies views on climate change
https://twitter.com/SteveAkehurst/status/1592875550447915008

Biden now saying they're unlikely to have come from Russia, according to Reuters.

I wonder if Twitter will really just switch off? Sounds a bit dire over there.
https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593399683086327808
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593414512274653186

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First one’s a joke, no?

Yes. Parody account as stated in bio.

Dem tax rises. Spicy

Work tax rises first obviously... OK hard to feel sorry now for those that see the 45% kicking in at 125K a year, but it's still a tax on work. Not wealth.

Capital Gains and Dividends are also more taxed now..

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/capital-gains-and-dividends-tax-changes-in-the-2022-autumn-statement-ac6kT0e7yZ4X

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced the 20% VAT rate will be maintained until March 2026 despite repeated calls from the hospitality sector for a reduction.

But... this is still all aimed at individuals/small companies?

Not seeing any proper wealth tax, or ditching the price cap (which we pay for anyway) in favour of slapping more windfall taxes on the energy companies with more targeted help based in income...

Meanwhile in Gilead, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-63683667

What I don't get is effectively increasing income tax for everyone via freezing the tax free threshold, but then giving a cut on stamp duty for home buyers to "help the housing market".

Wages are stagnating and inflation is high, so who on earth does it benefit to keep house prices high, rather than let the free market correct itself?

so who on earth does it benefit to keep house prices high

Conservative voters.

According to the Grauniad
A person, who said they were a parent of one of the girls who attended the speech, wrote on social media anonymously that the students were booed inside the lecture theatre and were subjected to “racial slurs” and “generally misogynistic comments”. They said of the private school pupils: “Their behaviour was awful.” The poster also said that Eton boys had cheered Farage’s “worst comments on migrants and Covid”.
Farage said the atmosphere during his talk was “riotous”.

Who the fuck lets Farage into a school??

Who the fuck lets Farage into a school??

Cunts. Cunts do.

Eton do.

My concern was more along the lines of why the fuck are a state school sending their kids to an event he's speaking at?

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Should of gone to Eton m8.