The Brits are utterly uninterested in defending Cyprus, it's not why we keep those bases. But Cyprus is also completely corrupted with tax evasion and and incredibly dodgy eastern European and Russian money. What if it turns out that drone was from somewhere closer to home?
May be nothing, but it's worth noting that there are Russian oligarchs with very close and utterly corrupt connections to Cyprus. We still don't know where this drone came from.
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The right wing warmongers are idiots
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC:
"Working people are now facing a Donald Trump-made cost of living crisis."
during the oil/gas crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraime it was striking how some right-wingers tried to gaslight the public into believing the *biggest* problem with their soaring bills (at the time) was green levies rather than the oil/gas price going through the roof
oh look, price targets!
I'm so glad that the left used the cost of living crisis so effectively.
I mean, where would we be if we'd failed to leave a mark on the impunity the central Bank enjoys in setting reasonable price stability policy.
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
It's genuinely funny and good to see the right wing warmongers get owned on Facebook right now.
No one thinks we should be anywhere near this Israeli Trump war.
Some people have been tapping the "polycrisis" sign for a number of years now and suggesting energy and grain reserves plus price caps as potential crisis policy responses.
Lots of centrists on here have consistently dismissed such ideas.
Well... here we are.
Example number 20,000 of austerity actually costing us more money
Awful isn't it.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
The question for stock markets is a political one: do obviously cretinous policies get reversed or not? If the answer's no, the problem isn't just a few £000s of losses; it's that the political system is broken.
Just fantastic to see we learned so much from 2022.
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SW1 is the only area of Britain where people of working age regard newspapers as anything other than risible comics.
Mainstream Israel seems doomed by a certain groupthink, in which force is an answer to the country’s problems. My weekend essay for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on Benjamin Netanyahu's cynical politics of war
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Ministers are discussing the possibility of intervening to protect the public against soaring household energy bills if the Middle East conflict drags on.
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, is understood to believe that prices cannot be allowed to rise substantially.
Tony Blair should be locked up. If those ghouls had faced proper consequences, we might not be in the situation we are in now.
And for those who moan "under what rules?" I refer you to the many, many from politicians to peasants who were locked up during the war on terror. And Maduro today.
That's never going to happen and I hope they suffer the consequences.
Good to see a range of Labour MPs pushing back against Tony Blair here.
“I suspect that Tony Blair is doing the bidding of Trump in a similar way to Farage... “Is anybody going to listen to Tony Blair on the progressive side of politics? The answer is no."
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It's called realism.
When people say judge America and Trump by what he does ( eg - constantly foment instability on and inside Europe's borders as per stated strategy), maybe we should take it seriously, rather than dismiss it as foolishly looking for strategic thought where there is none.
This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
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It beggars belief that we haven't learned any lessons from the cost of living crisis. It's something I banged on about relentlessly in different progressive circles for a while, but no one was interested.
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In what way isn't bombing oil infrastructure a war crime?
I'm just glad we learned the lessons from the last cost of living crisis.
No one, literally no one thinks Starmer should take advice from Tonty Blair.
The destruction of civilian infrastructure isn't wrong because of the consequences for western countries and their allies. It's wrong in itself.
The basic tools of military action are things that would be horrorific crimes in civilian life. A war crime is an act so egregious that it stands out against that background. Somehow we never have that conversation honestly before we go to war.
